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Job overview
We are excited to be recruiting into NHS Children and Young People Gender Service (South West) CYPGS SW as part of the continued growth and development of the new service. We are looking for a thoughtful, compassionate Mental Health Practitioner (MHP) to join our committed and supportive multi-disciplinary team.
CYPGS SW sits within the wider Psychological Health Services. It is provided by a large multi-disciplinary team (MDT). As part of this team the MHP will provide specialist assessments, deliver and evaluate interventions and be part of the evolving evidence base for the field of gender care. All staff working in the CYPGS SW are very well supported through multi-disciplinary working, individual supervision, drop in case discussion, Academy of Royal Colleges specialist children’s and young people’s gender service training programme. We value the provision of evidence-based care delivered by highly skilled compassionate clinicians.
Our service has purpose-built accommodation with high quality clinical space for face to face and remote appointments. We offer outreach clinics in Devon and Cardiff. The opportunity for hybrid working would make this post suitable for clinicians from outside the Bristol area.
Main duties of the job
- To work as part of a highly specialist team to contribute to the holistic assessment of children and young people
- To offer support and clinical interventions from evidence-based models used with children and young people and their families eg CBT, Family Therapy, ACT
- To be the responsible clinician within the service during these episodes of care using appropriate service support procedure like supervision and safeguarding.
- To deliver these services in out-patient and for non CYPGS ward based settings as needed.
- Provision of psychological advice, consultation, training, and support for other professionals in the team and in other agencies like education.
- To support research and audit relevant to care pathways.
- To attend and contribute by presenting cases and entering case discussion in mult disciplinary team meetings
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For a more detailed job description and main responsibilities, please refer to the job description document attached to this vacancy
Person specification
Skills
Essential
- Able to assess within a biopsychosocial model the needs of patients and families
- Able to work with the team to formulate cases and provide appropriate therapeutic interventions from established therapy and developmental models.
- To be able to work with wider systems including education, health and social care systems
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to provide and receive complex, sensitive and often contentious information in a developmentally and culturally appropriate manner and in highly emotive situations
- Able to evidence a mature and considered approach to complex clinical work
- Ability to communicate complex information children, families and staff in an accessible manner (written, verbal, electronic)
- Able to record and provide information and data pertaining to clinical work, activity and outcomes (written, electronic)
- Able to demonstrate successful use of strategies to prioritise and manage time when there are conflicting demands
- Able to demonstrate examples of successful commitment to team working
- Able to demonstrate a realistic awareness of the potential for work related stress and distress in this type of clinical work plus strategies to manage this
- Able to travel to regional and outreach clinics across the South West Peninsula and Wales as required (E) therefore ability to drive is highly desirable
Desirable
- Able to teach multi-professional teams on matters of mental health
Experience
Essential
- Evidence of ongoing professional development appropriate to registration requirements
- Extensive experience of assessment and therapeutic work with children, young people and their families to be serve as a foundation for rapidly developing specialist skills and knowledge required for work in a children and young people’s gender service
- Expertise in assessing risk and risk management
- Experience of biopsychosocial assessment
- High level experience and training in safeguarding appropriate to registration
- Experience of presenting mental health understanding, to multi-professional teams
- Experience of work within a Health, CAMHS or Education setting as a therapist
- Knowledge of Mental Health Act, Children’s Act and Cass Review
- Extensive experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team and able to contribute professionally to challenging and complex case discussions
Desirable
- Experience in running group interventions for children, young people and / or parents
- Experience of formal teaching/training to health and other professionals
Qualifications
Essential
- To hold a professional qualification and registered with Health and Care Professions Council or Nursing and Midwifery Council
- Qualification as a Mental Health Nurse, Occupational therapist, Social Worker, Clinical Psychologist: eligible for registration by the HCPC, MNC or other relevant professional registration body
- To hold a qualification in a recognised psychological therapy eg CBT, Family Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy via degree, post graduate diploma specialist training, or short courses to Masters equivalent level (
- Additional training equivalent to Masters level in a related therapy
Public Sector Language Competency
Essential
- Be able to speak fluent English to an appropriate standard
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This advert is for Paediatric Mental Health Practitioner - CYPGS with University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust in Bristol, South West, England. It is listed as a Band 7 Nurse practitioner role. The advertised salary is £49,387 - £56,515 per annum (pro rata for part-time). The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 26 Jul 2026.
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