Main area: Learning Disabilities, Grade Band 3
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Part time - 22.5 hours per week (Wednesday, Thursday & Friday)
Job ref: 342-CAMHS045-0425
Employer: Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Kingswood Hub
Town: Bristol
Salary: £24,625 - £25,674 per annum, pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 07/05/2025 23:59
Band 3 CAMHS-LD Support Worker - Bristol
Job overview
Are you passionate about supporting children and young people with learning disabilities and their families? This role with Bristol CAMHS-LD could be perfect for you. This post requires you to work with young people up to the age of 19 years who have a moderate to profound learning disability, behaviours which challenge and/or emotional and/or mental health difficulties. The role will involve working in a variety of settings with children/young people and their families along with working collaboratively with the skilled clinicians within the multidisciplinary team and the wider multiagency Network. The post holder will assist in the delivery of specialist support for children and young people who have a learning disability.
The post holder will be required to work across a variety of settings (e.g. family homes, educational settings and respite units) to support children and young people and their families ensuring that they receive structured support. Resources to support remote working are provided, such as laptop and mobile phone.
Main duties of the job
We are looking for a support worker who has a passion and experience for working with young people with additional and complex emotional, behavioural and mental health needs. A kind, caring, compassionate and patient approach is essential, along with having a creative and adaptable mindset to meet the varying needs of our service users.
You will be required to travel around the county to carry out direct work, so the ability to travel is essential.
Working for our organisation
The South Gloucestershire CAMHS-LD service prides itself on multi-disciplinary working. We are a multi-disciplinary service primarily made up of Psychiatry, Learning Disability Nurses, Clinical Psychologists, and Support workers. We follow national and local guidance to promote person-centred, holistic support to improve quality of life, along with improving mental well-being for young people and their families.
We strive towards a gold standard practice, through the use of National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) with a particular aim of following positive behaviour support (PBS) practice to support young people who present with autism and moderate to profound learning disabilities and behaviours which challenge.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further details around the role responsibilities and personal requirements, please see job description and person specification.
Person specification
Essential knowledge, skills and experience
* Good standard of education GCSE or equivalent
* NVQ3 in direct care/child care or equivalent levels of experience
* Significant experience of working professionally with children and/or learning disabilities
* Excellent communication skills including face-to-face, telephone, and written communication
* Experience working in a multidisciplinary team
* Awareness of Child Protection policies and procedures
* Mobile for travel to meet requirements of the post
* Demonstrate an enthusiastic, flexible, and creative approach to work
* Be passionate about service user involvement
We are proud to be fostering a diverse workforce that reflects our communities. A key commitment to this is improving staff representation from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities, those from the LGBTQ+ communities, people with ‘lived-experience’ of mental health conditions and people living with disabilities.
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service users.
Please apply to join us, we would love to hear from you. Any personal details you supply to us are kept safe in line with the General Data Protection Regulations.
Adverts normally close for application a few minutes before midnight on the closing date and we will let you know if we are offering you an interview by email via our recruitment system ‘TRAC’. We contact all applicants within 4 weeks after the closing date, so please check your emails regularly once you have submitted your application.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Application numbers
This vacancy may close early if it receives a high number of applications. Please complete and submit your application in good time to avoid disappointment.
Name: Chris Lloyd
Job title: CAMHS-LD Team Manager
Email address: christopher.lloyd9@nhs.net
Telephone number: 01173546801
Additional information: Catherine Robinson - Lead Nurse (Advanced Nurse Practitioner)
Telephone: 0117 3546801
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