CAMHS Outreach Registered Practitioner - Band 6

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a forward thinking and dynamic qualified mental health professional to join CAMHS Outreach in Gloucestershire.

CAMHS Outreach is a countywide service offering intensive home treatment provision seven-days a week for children and young people experiencing an acute mental health crisis.

Our service focuses on admission avoidance, home treatment and supporting safe discharge from a Tier 4 in-patient Unit.  We have a fantastic success rate of supporting children and young people in their recovery at home to ensure they receive the treatment they need.  

As a Band 6 in the service the role includes triaging, carrying out clinical assessments, developing risk management plans, formulation and offering brief evidence-based mental health interventions for children and young people in the community. The post holder will work closely with parents/carers alongside the existing network of professionals such as schools, Children Social Care and Core CAMHS for a joint understanding and management of risk to ensure the child or young person’s safety.

We are a 7 day a week service, including bank holidays, and are looking to further extend the out of hours offer to the evenings, this comes with the perk of additional pay enhancements.  In return we will be offering our candidates the flexibility to cover late shifts and weekend working, allowing them time off during core working hours.

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We are seeking the following:

The successful candidate should be able to demonstrate specialist clinical skills and expertise in the following areas:  

• Conducting mental health and risk assessments to formulate risk management plans with specialist tailored interventions to reduce escalation in the young person’s mental health presentation.
• Experience of working within a community CAMHs and/ or AMH, or Tier 4 inpatient services.
• Managing a clinical case load
• Supervision of junior members of the team
• Clinical experience of working alongside multi-agency networks to achieve best possible outcomes for children and families.
• Are committed and passionate about ensuring the Voice of the Child is central within care planning and clinical risk management.

Working for our organisation

At Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust, we are supportive of the people we care for in the community and aim to provide a fully responsive service to everyone who needs it. This is the same approach we take for our employees. We look to value the skills and experiences of those we work with, whether they are service users, carers, families or those looking to work with us.

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust is part of the NHS. We treat NHS patients according to NHS principles and standards. The difference is the Trust is accountable to local people, rather than to Government, and so we are able to work closely with our community to develop services in the way that best suits the needs of local people.

Our Staff Survey results showed people at our Trust feel they are engaged, part of a team and work for a compassionate and inclusive organisation.

Our overall scores were better than average in eight of nine themes and level in one - the best overall results for a community, mental health and learning disabilities Trust in the south west and first equal amongst all sector NHS providers within the region too.