Band 7 Senior Mental Health Practitioner CAMHS - North Somerset

Job summary

North Somerset child and adolescent mental health team is a well-established multi-disciplinary team, which is, continuing to grow due to new investment. (CAMHS). The team currently offers a range of innovative and informed approaches, supports CPD opportunities with a comprehensive in-house training programme.

We offer flexible working patterns and have the benefit of working across 2 sites in Weston-super-Mare & Clevedon.

The team also provides Eating Disorder & Learning Disability Services and so have the potential to offer development opportunities.

The successful candidate will be part of a stimulating and supportive multidisciplinary, working as part of the leadership team to provide assessment, treatments for children, adolescents & their families with complex mental health needs.

We particularly welcome applications from accredited CBT/EMDR/Family Therapist or those who are coming up to accreditation.

We welcome calls/visits from prospective candidate to discuss in more detail, this opportunity, & what the team can offer.

WSM & Clevedon are thriving seaside towns within commuting distance to Bristol and Taunton. The M5 motorway within easy access.

WSM is a growing multi-cultural area with numerous amenities and has access to the beautiful coastline & also the Mendip Hills.

The area is ideal for those who like an active lifestyle but also who want to be within reach of Bristol and Taunton.

Main duties of the job

To carry out assessments and provide treatment for young people presenting with significant mental health difficulties in the community.

To be highly skilled in clinical risk assessment and management in relation to children and young people including experience of managing self-injurious behaviour. To be able to develop and to implement and review risk management and safety plans collaboratively.

To be able to offer evidence based interventions to children, young people and families according to NICE guidance and local pathways of care.

To hold and to manage a case load and using resources creatively to provide excellent intervention for children, young people and families; uniquely tailoring therapeutic interventions to meet the needs of service users.

To be able to work as an autonomous practitioner as well as with the wider team and partner agencies within the North Somerset Team and the wider systems within a collaborative care model approach.

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

To work with the team and the wider care system to deliver care which can positively impact on the welfare of the child.

About us

We are AWP (Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust): a diverse organisation with over 5,000 dedicated staff providing inpatient and community-based mental health care.

We provide services from a range of locations to approximately 1.8 million people living in Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES), Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Swindon, across the county of Wiltshire and in parts of Dorset.

Our outstanding people promote mental health and wellbeing. The expertise and resources within AWP are dedicated to a person-centred approach for those who use our services and for all employees. We recognise that happy and fulfilled employees give better care.

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.

Details

Date posted

23 February 2026

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£47,810 to £54,710 a year pro rata, (pay award pending)

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

342-CAMHS009-0226

Job locations

Long Fox Unit

Grange Road, Uphill

Weston Super Mare

BS23 4TS