About this role
Job summary
We are looking for a Band 7 Clinical Practitioner to join the AWP CAMHS Eating Disorder Hub. The post is a fixed term contract for 12 months to cover maternity leave, commencing in January 2027. We would be happy to consider expressions of interest for a secondment. This is an exciting opportunity to join a small, dynamic and motivated team of individuals, who are passionate about supporting Children & Young People (CYP) and their families in recovering from eating disorders.
The successful candidate will be expected to offer consultation and work alongside the eating disorder lead to ensure assessment and treatment is equitable across BNSSG.
You will be working across Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire alongside CAMHS community teams. This post may entail travelling to meet the requirements of the role, therefore a driving license and access to a car / ability to confidently travel across the region is essential.
If you wish to discuss further please call: Louise Cooper 07785538440
Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for further details
Main duties of the job
To work as a member of the ED HUB and provide additional clinical expertise to the locality ED teams.
To provide evidence based interventions including family based work, parent support group work and multi-family therapy.
To provide clinical supervision and consultation to teams.
To support and engage in research and audits for service development.
About us
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.
Job description Job responsibilities
Clinical
1. To provide a specialist clinical service including assessment and treatment within the various Eating Disorder teams across BNSSG, using advanced levels of skill, for families and groups.2. To advise teams in relation to service users complex needs and the range of interventions available. 3. To carry out assessments and consultation to inform and enable comprehensive information gathering to establish treatment plans for service users who present with complex mental health difficulties alongside their eating disorder. 4. Regularly review and evaluate the therapy including levels of risk as part of the CPA process. 5. To co-facilitate parents groups and Multi Family Therapy Groups.6. Communicate with empathy and sensitivity with service users and their carers, with an awareness and understanding of their problems and, often complex, issues. 7. To be responsible for own specialist caseload working within Trust policies, protocols and guidelines. 8. To record service users progress in Iaptus patient records, write reports and input statistical date. 9. To engage in reflective practice and clinical supervision and to offer clinical supervision to junior colleagues, as required. To arrange and attend professional, team and specialist clinical supervision as appropriate to caseload. 10. To support clinical lead in ensuring the Eating Disorder pathway is equitable and standadrised across BNSSG.
Professional 9 Communicate effectively with members of clinical teams, managers and other professional colleagues, representing the Eating Disorders Hub. 10 Work with Managers and Locality leads to ensure the provision of an adequate, appropriate and safe therapeutic environment in which to practice. 11 To work within professional codes of practice standards. To work using the best and evidence based practice. 12 To work effectively as a team member
Training and Staff Development
13. To maintain high standards of practice, demonstrate ongoing personal development through active participation in internal and external development and training opportunities, recordinglearning outcomes in a CPD portfolio to fulfil professional registration standards.14. To engage in the appraisal process and own CPD and appraisal and CPD of junior/unqualified staff where appropriate. To ensure continuous engagement in ones own clinical practice, according to the relevant professional standards.15 To educate other professionals re. eating disorders and provide specialist advice. This may include presentations. 16 To engage in ongoing statutory and mandatory training.
Service and Policy Development18. To keep service Managers /ED Lead and locality teams informed about local service developments, requirements, shortfalls and gaps in the service and input into team service development plans. Trust wide strategy and audit. To be responsible for contributing to relevant policy and procedures.19. To input and make proposals for the development of protocols and guidelines and input into the development of the provision of eating disorder interventions. . To input into the Trust policy and procedures within the work area with particular reference to therapeutic issues.
Health and Safety.20. To be responsible for ensuring safe use of materials and equipment and work within health and safety policies and guidelines. Identify training needs for self and other staff where applicable.21. To undertake specific training, keep records and be responsible for monitoring and maintaining health and safety and security of self and others in own work area. Ensure regular health and safety training and updating for self and any junior/unqualified staff for which responsible.22. To carry out or participate in research audits surveys and clinical outcomes assessment to ensure best and evidenced based practice; to evaluate relevant current research, integrate into practice and disseminate to others.24. To collaborate with other specialist staff in designated area to extend the range of specialist psychological and group interventions available across the Area.
Person Specification
Registration/Experience/Knowledge Essential
Post graduate qualification in a registered profession (for example: Nursing/ Social Work/ Family Therapy) Registered with the NMC, Health Care Professions Council (HCPC), the UK Council for Counselling Psychotherapy (UKCP) or equivalent Knowledge and experience of working with young people with eating disorders and associated serious and complex Mental Health difficulties Knowledge and Experience of working as part of a team
Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details Employer name Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust
Address Kingswood Hub
Kingswood
BS15 4EJ
United Kingdom
Employer's website http://www.awp.nhs.uk/about-us/working-for-us/ (Opens in a new tab)