Senior Mental Health Practitioner / Senior Mental Health Nurse

Are you a qualified Mental Health Nurse, Occupational Therapist or Social Worker looking for your next step or a change of direction?

Are you passionate about making a difference to the lives of children and young people through the use of cutting-edge and new models of practice?

Do you want to hear about how our bespoke CAMHS trainings can help you develop therapeutic skills working with children and young people?

If this applies to you then keep reading.

We are looking for Senior Mental Health Practitioners to join our Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) across Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire. We have 5 multi-disciplinary teams located in:

• Keynsham
• Salisbury
• Melksham
• Marlborough
• Swindon

You don’t need any previous experience working in CAMHS, as long as you have the relevant professional registration in place we can support you with our excellent training and development packages.

We are hugely committed to investing in our staff. Part of this commitment is our unique training strategy. By joining our team you will be able to access our comprehensive CAMHS training programme over 2 years, with training ranging from CAMHS specific Trauma, Gender and Formulation training.

We will work with you to identify any learning and development needs you have and to ensure you receive adequate time to attend training, as well facilitate your access to high quality supervision to maintain your clinical skills gained from this training. This will equip you to be the best you can be in your role, whilst also helping you to focus on your future and career development.

You will have the opportunity to make an active and meaningful contribution to our exciting service modernisation and redesign that is based on the i-Thrive model, ensuring children and young people get the right support, at the right time, in the right place, from individuals with the right skills. Liaison, advice and consultation with wider CAMHS, colleagues in Children Services and a range of external agencies such as Children’s Social Care, Education, Youth Offending Services and Police is central to the role.

We can offer flexible shift patterns that can work around you. Our team provides cover for a core day of 8am-8pm Monday-Friday and 10am-6pm Saturday–Sunday and Bank Holidays. These hours will allow you to work flexibly and enable you to have days off during the week, whilst attracting enhancement payments. There is a requirement to participate in covering the service’s 24 hour on call service on a rota basis, and further remuneration will be offered to support this. The frequency of evening/weekend shifts and cover of the on call rota is subject to change, dependent upon the needs of the service, though would typically involve working an evening shift each week, up to two weekend days per month and covering the on call rota for up to four weeks in a year.

Our teams work together to provide support, treatment, advice and signposting to their patients, including the facilitation of short term interventions up to long term interventions and crisis care. You will be working alongside psychiatrists, nurses, social workers, occupational therapists, psychotherapists and children’s wellbeing practitioners.

More about some of our CAMHS teams:

Our Swindon Team
We offer a number of different functions including specialist Eating Disorder Services (TEDS), Neurodevelopmental Assessments, Hospital Liaison, Family Therapy, Crisis and Home Treatment (CAHTS), LD CAMHS and Outreach services (OSCA).

We offer staff flexible job plans to allow them to develop skills and in different areas and contribute to different functions within the service depending on individual skills and interests.

Our Salisbury Team
We are located at Salisbury District Hospital and have access to an onsite leisure centre with a swimming pool, as well as lunchtime and after work exercise classes at staff rates. There is also an onsite day nursery, shops and two restaurants serving discounted hot and cold food for our staff.

The hospital is easily accessible by public transport – with nearby trains and buses. With easy access to both the rural countryside and city life you get the best of both worlds in Salisbury.

We are a social team who enjoy wellbeing activities such as local quizzes and social events.

Our Bath & North East Somerset (BaNES) Team
Situated near the vibrant City of Bristol and historic Bath, working as part of BaNES CAMHS is the place to be.

The BaNES CAMHS team are creative, innovative, forward thinking and inspirational. Our culture is founded on teamwork, support and staff well-being, which enables us to work together to deliver the best service possible for Children, Young People and families who live in BaNES.

Job Types: Full-time, Part-time, Permanent

Salary: £33,706.00-£40,588.00 per year

Benefits:

• Additional leave
• Bereavement leave
• Canteen
• Childcare
• Company pension
• Cycle to work scheme
• Discounted or free food
• Employee discount
• Enhanced maternity leave
• Flexitime
• Free flu jabs
• Free parking
• On-site gym
• On-site parking
• Referral programme
• Sick pay
• Store discount
• Wellness programme

Schedule:

• Day shift
• Flexitime
• Overtime
• Weekend availability

Licence/Certification:

• registration with NMC / RCOT / BASW? (required)

Work authorisation:

• United Kingdom (required)

Work Location: In person