About this role
Job summary
Do you have a passion for working with children, young people and their families in order to facilitate positive change? Do you have the skills and experience to be a calm and grounding presence in times of crisis?
We are looking for a Band 6 Registered Practitioner to join our multi-disciplinary CAMHS Outreach Team in Gloucestershire.
The CAMHS Outreach Team is a countywide service in Gloucester 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 safety management.
Main duties of the job
As a Band 6 Registered Practitioner your role will be varied and would include:
- 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 and mental state examinations
- 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
About us
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.
Job description Job responsibilities
Please see attached in documents the Job description with key role responsibilities and person specification
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
Professional Health qualification: RNLD, RMHN, OT, SWE Demonstrate current registration with a regulated professional body/ organisation: NMC, HCPC, SWE
Desirable
Post graduate training within a relevant CAMHS field or skill Clinical supervisor qualification/training/ accreditation
LENGTH AND / OR NATURE OF EXPERIENCE Essential
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 safety assessment & management) within a mental health setting Experience of identifying and managing complex safeguarding concerns, including using formal processes to escalate safeguarding issues
Desirable
Experience of providing specialist consultation/support to partner agencies
PROFESSIONAL / MANAGERIAL / SPECIALIST KNOWLEDGE Essential
Expertise in undertaking complex safety assessment and developing effective safety management plans. This includes working knowledge of positive clinical safety management approaches Demonstrate profession based clinical reasoning, knowledge, skills and competencies regarding a range of CAMHS therapeutic interventions, including current best practice Commitment to developing the Participation agenda within the service by working collaboratively with children and young people to help ensure their "voice" is heard at all levels of service delivery Comprehensive knowledge of relevant legislation and national policies/guidance in relation to mental health issues & learning disability needs with children and young people
Desirable
Working knowledge of using routine outcome measurements within daily clinical practice, including ability to evaluate service experience and expected clinical outcomes Sound knowledge base of issues related to equality, diversity and anti-discriminatory practice
Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details Employer name Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust
Address Acorn House
Horton Road
Gloucester
GL1 3PX
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.ghc.nhs.uk/who-we-are/jobs/ (Opens in a new tab)