Band 7 FIND Senior Practitioner - Bristol
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 14/09/2026
- Closes
- 28/09/2026
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Role summary
This role is for a Senior Practitioner to join the Forensic Intellectual, Neuropsychiatric & Developmental Disorders (FIND) Team within AWP Secure Services. The post-holder will provide clinical leadership, manage a complex caseload, and ensure high-quality care for service users with learning disabilities and autism in forensic settings. They will work closely with multidisciplinary teams and external stakeholders, upholding professional standards and contributing to service development.
Key responsibilities
- Lead the FIND Team to deliver a high-quality, safe and effective service.
- Develop and sustain strong, collaborative working relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
- Provide clinical leadership, motivating and supporting staff to deliver high-quality care.
- Manage an appropriately sized caseload of complex service users and provide clinical supervision to Band 6 staff.
- Ensure compliance with professional, legal, Trust, and National standards.
- Undertake specialist risk assessments such as HCR-20 and Dundrum.
Essential criteria
- A registered qualification and professional registration
- Demonstrates an interest in and understanding of Learning Disability and Autsim, how they present across care services and appropriate interventions at different points on the pathway.
- Experience of working alongside multidisciplinary colleagues.
- Experience of risk assessment and management
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 7 at £46,148 – £52,809 a year, across England.
This advert: £49,387 – £56,515 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust
Band 7 FIND Senior Practitioner - Bristol
The closing date is 28 September 2026
Job summary
This post is open to someone with appropriate professional registration and with substantial experience working in forensic settings with adults with learning disabilities and or Autism to join the FIND Team within AWP Secure Services.
The post-holder will work closely with the Team Manager and Senior Practitioners to ensure that excellent professional nursing standards are consistently upheld across the team.
The Forensic Intellectual, Neuropsychiatric & Developmental Disorders (FIND) team sits within AWP Secure Services at Fromeside Hospital, and includes providing consultation to other services, completing access assessments where someone may require admission to secure, and providing CCO to those discharged from Secure up to 12 months post discharge.
Effective caseload management and clinical supervision will be supported by robust and efficient individual and team supervision processes, all within the overarching framework of Personal Wellbeing Plans, and maintaining CPA standards of which have been set nationally for Secure services
Main duties of the job
The post-holder will play a key role in leading the FIND Team to deliver a high-quality, safe and effective service for service users and carers. Working i
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