Band 8a Clinical Therapeutic Lead - Bristol

Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust; Bristol; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job description

We are looking for a passionate clinician to join our service and lead our CAMHS Intensive Outreach Team as Clinical Lead.

You will ensure excellent standards are upheld and maintained within the team, and ensure the best use of available resources by delivering positive outcomes for individual service users and their families.

We are looking for an experienced Psychologist, Systemic Psychotherapist, or Registered Psychotherapist to join our team and work alongside management to continue to support the development of the service across Bristol, South Gloucestershire, and North Somerset.

The CIOT team is a welcoming, sociable team working from a largely DBT, Systemic, and trauma-informed approach who foreground anti-oppressive practice in their work with young people as well as in our team culture.

If this sounds like your area of expertise and you're looking for a new challenge where you can make a difference in the delivery of mental health services, we would love to hear from you!

Key Responsibilities:

1. Provide a highly specialist clinical assessment/treatment and consultation service to children and young people with emotional and behavioural difficulties and their families who are referred to the CAMHS Intensive Outreach Team.
2. Work with a shared caseload of young people who are at risk of admission to CAMHS inpatient units, unable to engage in community CAMHS interventions, stepping down from a CAMHS Inpatient Unit, or need intensive support with their mental health (e.g., OCD).
3. Bring skills relating to DBT, CBT, or systemic approaches to Attachment/Trauma.
4. Supervise staff from a range of professional backgrounds.
5. Offer in-house training and staff development.
6. Provide formulation and consultation to our network partners: Children's Social Care, Bristol Children's Hospital, Bristol Royal Infirmary, and Southmead Hospital.
7. Join to offer specialist input to complex cases.
8. Supervise our well-established Family Therapy Clinic (if systemically trained) or contribute to the running of our newly established DBT Service and supervise trainee psychologists/APs if psychology.
9. Support the leadership team to think about service development.