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Band 6 CAMHS Mental Health Practitioner - South Glos

Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust

Bristol, BS15 4DA

Salary

£39,959 to £48,117

Contract

Permanent

Hours

Not specified

Closing date

7 September 2026

6 days left

Job description

We are looking for motivated clinician to work 5 days (37.5 hours per week) in South Gloucestershire CAMHS locality team, based in Kingswood and Patch...

To work within a highly experienced multi-disciplinary team to provide assessment and treatment of children and young people with serious and complex mental health difficulties.

To work with and support the system around the child or young person including family and wider professional network.To contribute to the rota/duty system providing telephone support and advice to young people, carers and professionals who are open to South Gloucestershire CAMHS.

Where required, contribute to the CAMHS Getting Advice team to support in triaging referrals made to the wider CAMHS service.

This post is open to newly qualified social workers. In line with AWP trust policy all newly qualified social workers (NQSW) will be recruited initially at Band 5 level, regardless of advertised role banding. All NQSW's are expected to successfully complete their ASYE within 2 years of employment, unless there are exceptional circumstances in which case it may be extended for a further 2 years.

If you have been appointed to an advertised Band 6 role this will be an automatic progression, following confirmation of your successful ASYE completion. If you have been appointed to a Band 5 post you will then be eligible to apply for a subsequent Band 6 vacancy upon successful ASYE completion.

We are the lead provider of healthcare for people with serious mental illness, learning disabilities and autism across Bath and North East Somerset (BaNES), Swindon and Wiltshire, and Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire.

We aim to provide High Quality, Compassionate Care everywhere, every day. This means our services will be safe, clinically effective and provide a positive all round experience for our patients, families and carers. And we believe passionately in treating everyone with kindness, respect and empathy.

Key to this is providing a supportive and safe environment for our 4,000 staff where we all feel welcome and able to do the best we can for those we support. Our staff and teams work incredibly hard delivering services across more than 90 locations, covering 2,200miles, to more than 1.8million people.

At AWP we actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds; we are particularly keen to encourage applications from people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities and from the LGBTQ+ community. We want people to bring their unique blend of experiences, backgrounds, perspectives and knowledge to AWP, as diversity makes us stronger.

Qualifications/ registration

Essential

  • Relevant professional qualification (eg clinical psychology, mental health nursing, social work, family therapy)
  • Maintenance of appropriate professional registration (ie HCPC, UKCP, NMC)

Desirable

  • Additional post qualification training in assessment and therapeutic approaches in a specialist area relevant to CAMHS.

Knowledge

Essential

  • Experience of delivering evidence based therapeutic interventions preferably with children and adolescents
  • Experience of risk assessment and management preferably with children and young people. Including those who are suicidal and present a risk to self and/or others.
  • Knowledge of working together arrangements in particular, Children in Need assessments Clinical Risk assessment and Child Protection guidelines
  • Theoretical and practical knowledge in the specialism including knowledge of child and adolescent development and mental health. Ability to use this.

Skills

Essential

  • Able to work collaboratively with partner agencies and maintain good working relationships.
  • Ability to work with children, young people and families from a wide range of social, cultural and minority ethnic backgrounds

How to apply

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Provenance

Source

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First seen

24 August 2026

Last checked

26 August 2026

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About the employer

AWM
Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust

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