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Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust
About
At Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust (GHC), we provide joined-up mental health, physical health and learning disability services to people of all ages across Gloucestershire. We run community hospitals and provide care and support in people’s own homes and in a range of other locations across the county.
CAMHS Outreach Registered Practitioner
Accepting applications until: 25-Jun-2025 23:59
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 25-Jun-2025 23:59
Key details
Location
- Site
- Acorn House
- Address
- Horton Road
- Town
- Gloucester
- Postcode
- GL1 3PX
- Major / Minor Region
- Gloucestershire
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- 37.5 hours per week (Our full-time shift pattern typically involves 2 days per week 9am-5pm and 2 days per week 9am-9:15pm with 3 days off (in a 7-day period).)
Salary
- Salary
- £37,338 - £44,962 Per Annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (Band 6)
Specialty
- Main area
- Community mental health intensive home treatment team for children and young people.
We love what we do and we think you will, too!
At Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust (GHC), we provide joined-up mental health, physical health and learning disability services to people of all ages across Gloucestershire. We run community hospitals and provide care and support in people’s own homes and in a range of other locations across the county.
We are on a mission to enable people to live the best life they can and we have a vision to work together to provide outstanding care. We put people at the heart of our services, focusing on personalised care by asking ‘what matters to you’.
We’re passionate about making sure that everyone can contribute to achieving our mission and we are continually working to support healthy and happy high-quality teams in all areas of the Trust.
Our application process aims to understand each candidates knowledge, skills and experience. We have found that candidates that use AI to generate their answers can lack specificity and fail to address key criteria outlined in the job description.
It is really important to personalise your application to convey your individual skills, knowledge, and experiences effectively and for us to understand why you are applying for this role with GHC. We discourage over reliance on AI-generated applications as it will lessen your chances of success in securing an interview with us .
Job overview
We are looking for two Band 6 Registered Practitioners (Occupational Therapist, Social Worker or Mental Health Nurse) to join our expanding multi-disciplinary CAMHS Outreach Team in Gloucestershire.
About the team:
The CAMHS Outreach Team is a countywide service providing a 9am-9pm service, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. We offer an intensive home treatment provision for children and young people under 18 years, experiencing a period of acute mental health crisis. Our service focuses on admission avoidance, through home treatment and safety planning. Following an admission, we work to support safe and timely discharge back to the community. We have a fantastic success rate supporting children and young people in their recovery at home ensuring they receive the support and treatment they need.
We are a supportive, experienced team of clinicians from a variety of professional backgrounds with a wide range of practice experience across both adults and children’s services. We have a strong commitment and passion for ensuring the voice of the child is central to all of our care planning and clinical risk management.
As a team we encourage clinicians to be reflective and curious in their practice, alongside developing their clinical experience and knowledge – we support this through regular clinical supervision, providing a variety of reflective group spaces and training opportunities.
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As a Band 6 Registered Practitioner the role includes:
- Screening and triaging referrals into service
- Offering advice and consultation to professionals
- Managing a clinical case load; building strong therapeutic relationships to deliver brief, intensive, evidence-based mental health interventions
- Visiting young people in their homes, community settings, tier 4 units and paediatric wards
- Carrying out clinical assessments
Working collaboratively with young people, parents/carers and multi-agency partners to develop a shared understanding of the young person’s story
- Developing safety plans with young people, parents and carers
Working closely with networks of professionals such as Children’s Social Care, CAMHS and education providers to ensure the appropriate level of support is in place
Providing supervision and leadership to junior members of the team
Shift patterns:
The role involves evening, weekend and bank holiday working. Our full-time shift pattern typically involves 2 days per week 9am-5pm and 2 days per week 9am-9:15pm with 3 days off (in a 7-day period).
We are open to considering alternative shift patterns provided they allow us to continue meeting the needs of the service. We are open to applications from individuals who would prefer part-time hours. Enhanced payments for un-social hours apply on Saturday, Sunday, Bank Holiday and any for any hours worked after 8pm
Working for our organisation
We have a skilled and dedicated workforce of over 5000 colleagues working in a diverse range of services over 55 sites and within people’s homes. We strive to enable a welcoming workplace culture that builds and celebrates civility, inclusivity and diversity, while providing a sense of belonging and trust.
Annual staff surveys, regular Pulse surveys and other engagement opportunities provide our people with lots of opportunity to tell us about their experiences of working with us. In the latest staff survey, 61% of colleagues gave us their views. It was great to hear that:
- 72% of colleagues would recommend the Trust as a place to work, ranking us 1st for Provider Trusts in the South West region on this question.
- 76% would recommend the standard of care provided in our services if a friend or relative needed treatment, also ranking us 1st in the South West region.
- 81% said that care of patients and service users is the Trust’s priority, compared with an average in comparable NHS Trusts in England of 64%.
This high-level overview shows we are in a healthy position, with higher scores than average for comparable organisations, alongside a great response rate, indicating good staff engagement. However, we also know we have plenty of room for improvement in many areas. To that end, we continue to prioritise and invest in our commitment to genuinely becoming a Great Place to Work with consistent top-quartile performance in the annual staff survey and Pulse surveys.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Core key responsibilities will be agreed within personal job plans and will reflect the expected clinical and operational functions of the team
• Provide a range of specialist CAMHS assessment and treatment interventions for children and young people (0-18yrs) as well as their families/carers who present with emotional and mental health difficulties as well as those children and young people who have learning disabilities.
• Undertake clinical responsibility and be able to work independently in managing a clinical caseload. This will include meeting all clinical and operational requirements expected of a CAMHS Care Coordinator in line with the Care Programme Approach (CPA) as well as current evidence based or best practice. This will include collaboratively working and liaising with Trust and multi-agency partners across Gloucestershire as required.
• Provide CAMHS specialist clinical risk assessments and risk management plans as part of routine clinical work ensuring that all aspects of clinical caseload work adheres to current Trust safeguarding as well as risk assessment and management best practice procedures. This will include undertaking specialist Self Harm risk assessments of children and young people.
• Provide formal clinical supervision to junior staff (as requested), including facilitating the development and consolidation of CAMHS core skills and competencies.
• Offer regular student/trainee placements as requested, including meeting all teaching, assessing and preceptorship needs.
• Ensure regular attendance at service wide and other CAMHS CPD/core competency training events.
• Provide CAMHS clinical interventions within a multidisciplinary team where expected roles, responsibilities and activity/performance expectations are outlined within a personal (team based) job plan. This job plan will be reviewed on a quarterly basis and may be adjusted to meet team or service led requirements.
• As agreed within personal job plan, to provide profession-based interventions within specific CAMHS care pathways or clinics.
• Provide specialist clinical reasoning as well as CAMHS specific consultation, training and advice to professionals working within a range of children’s services within Gloucestershire on a routine basis.
• Work flexibly to provide CAMHS interventions within a range of clinical and community settings dependent on client and service need. Situations may demand an unpredictable work pattern and difficult situations as well as the need to balance a range of complex and high risk clinical needs and presentations.
• Ensure local lone working arrangements are considered and adhered to when delivering interventions within a community setting.
• Demonstrate commitment to the CAMHS Children and Young People’s Charter by ensuring routine clinical work reflects proactive involvement and collaborative working with children, young people and their parents/carers. Demonstrate commitment to ensuring the “voice” of the child is central to developing personalised care planning for all children and young people.
• Demonstrate commitment to working effectively with team colleagues to develop a strong multidisciplinary ethos and focus to delivering high quality clinical services.
• Contribute to service wide clinical rotas as requested (i.e referral management, responding to same day urgent referrals, CAMHS Practitioner Advice Line).
• Provide high quality written clinical/professional reports and other means of effective communication as part of routine clinical responsibilities.
• Implement routine outcome measures (i.e. ROMS/HEF) as part of CAMHS Care Coordinator responsibilities.
• Be accountable for maintaining own professional actions guided by the profession specific standards and Code of Conduct. This includes carrying out continuous professional development (CPD) activity to maintain knowledge of legislation, national, local policies and issues in relation to both specific client group and wider clinical practice. This includes maintaining a professional Continuing Professional Development (CPD) log to meet professional expectations and requirements.
• Contribute to delivery of the current CAMHS Service Plan as well as considering new/innovative ways of delivering clinical care to the CAMHS population
• Contribute to providing out of hours CAMHS services if requested by CAMHS Management
Applicant requirements
Person specification
QUALIFICATIONS
Essential criteria
- Professional Health qualification: RNLD, RMHN, OT,MHSW
- Demonstrate current registration with a regulated professional body/ organisation: NMC, HCPC, SWE
- Evidence of formal post-graduate registration learning equivalent to diploma level
Desirable criteria
- Profession specific additional qualifications (i.e. LD, nurse prescriber, DBT, CBT, AMHP, family therapy or systemic practice)
- Clinical supervisor qualification/training/ accreditation
LENGTH AND / OR NATURE OF EXPERIENCE
Essential criteria
- Significant clinical experience of delivering evidence based/best practice clinical interventions within CAMHS or related services and/or adult mental health settings.
- Significant clinical experience of specialist care planning & case management/care coordination (including complex clinical risk assessment & management) within a mental health setting.
- Significant experience of CAMHS related multiagency collaborative working and joint care planning,
- Experience of identifying and managing complex safeguarding concerns, including using formal processes to escalate safeguarding issues
Desirable criteria
- Experience of providing clinical supervision
- Experience of providing specialist consultation/support to partner agencies
PROFESSIONAL / MANAGERIAL / SPECIALIST KNOWLEDGE
Essential criteria
- Expertise in undertaking complex risk assessment and developing effective risk management plans. This includes working knowledge of positive clinical risk management approaches
- Demonstrate profession based clinical reasoning, knowledge, skills and competencies regarding a range of CAMHS therapeutic interventions, including current best practice
- Comprehensive knowledge and experience of working with complex mental health/learning disability issues and applying clinical appropriate assessment and interventions within a personalised care planning approach
Desirable criteria
- Sound knowledge base of issues related to equality, diversity and anti-discriminatory practice
- Working knowledge of using routine outcome measurements within daily clinical practice, including ability to evaluate service experience and expected clinical outcomes
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Sarah Denley-Dufton
- Job title
- Team manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07929 365986
- Additional information
Alternative contact:
Lucy Brazener (Operational Lead) – [email protected]
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