Band 8a Primary Mental Health Specialist Lead-Bristol
Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS TrustBristol, South West
Overview
This is a NHS role (permanent) with Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust based in Bristol. The advertised salary is £57,528 to £64,750. Applications close on 18 November 2026. GovJobs has indexed this vacancy from its official source — use the apply button to view the full advert and apply directly.
Job description
We are looking for an experienced, collaborative and inclusive registered practitioner to step into the Primary Mental Health Specialist Lead role, ba...
Improve the emotional wellbeing and mental health outcomes of children and young people open to Family Help & Social Care.
Support families and professionals to understand and respond to mental health needs.
Promote early intervention and timely access to appropriate support.
Strengthen partnership working between CAMHS, Family Help, Social Care, Education and community services.
Embed trauma-informed, psychologically informed and strengths-based approaches across safeguarding services.
Ensure children, young people and families are at the centre of decision-making and service development.
Provide clinical leadership, supervision, consultation and training to professionals working with children and families.
To provide highly specialist mental health assessment and intervention to patients and carers as appropriate to the service.
To provide highly specialist advice and consultation on clients' formulation and psychological management to non-CAMHS colleagues.
To use highly specialist mental health knowledge and skills to contribute to the more effective management of patients by the various teams in the area.
To clinically supervise/line manage other professionals.
To contribute to audit, research, policy and service development within the areas served by CAMHS.
To develop and deliver training in mental health for multidisciplinary staff.
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 provideHigh Quality, Compassionate Careeverywhere, 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 2,200 miles, to more than 1.8 million 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.
Essential: - Appropriate qualification and registration; - Evidence of ongoing CPD; - Clinical leadership experience
Desirable: - Formal leadership training or qualification
Essential: - Experience of working in a multi-Disciplinary team; - Significant experience of working therapeutically with young people with mental health difficulties; - Detailed knowledge of child and adolescent development and child and adolescent mental health; - Experience of working CAMHS; - Experience of carrying out mental health and risk assessments appropriate to children and young adults; - Experience of delivering consultations to external professionals; - Experience of delivering supervision; - Experience of delivering training
Essential: - Ability to assess mental health need and risks in children and young adults to develop, implement and evaluate therapeutic interventions; - Ability to work independently and manage own caseload; - Ability to work in community settings; - Skills in individual and family therapeutic work; - Skills in working across agencies or teams; - Skills in delivering change
How this role compares
We hold 835 NHS vacancies in South West that publish a salary, and their median advertised starting figure is £32,073. This role pays more than about 81% of them.
There are 11,887 NHS roles open across the UK on GovJobs right now, 1,273 of them in South West.
You have 12 days left to apply. NHS adverts we hold typically run for around 33 days, so this is a shorter window than usual.
Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust has 37 other vacancies open on GovJobs, with a breakdown of what they pay and the kinds of roles they recruit for.
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How to apply
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