Gloucestershire CAMHS is growing thanks to additional investment and a process of service transformation. We are therefore seeking to recruit enthusiastic, skilled and supportive individuals to our teams. These posts will be flexible and offer training and development through the various clinical pathways. This could include work at the 'Front Door' or within our treatment teams.

We are a supportive, experienced and progressive multi-disciplinary team. You will have the opportunity to develop skills assessing children, young people and families and ensuring they receive evidence based and effective interventions. We offer individual, family and group interventions which may be time limited or longer-term therapies according to need.

If you are a Nurse, Social Worker, Occupational Therapist or other registered mental health professional working within an adult setting, we would welcome your interest as you are likely to have excellent transferrable skills and competencies to join our child mental health workforce within Gloucestershire.

Main duties of the job

Key elements of the role:

• Screening referrals, triage and advice line, liaising with multiagency partners and skills at the initial assessment stage
• Provide a range of specialist CAMHS assessment and treatment interventions for children and young people as well as their families/carers who present with emotional and mental health difficulties
• Provide Care Coordinator responsibilities for a caseload of children and young people presenting with mental health issues.
• Undertake clinical risk assessments, mental state examinations, clinical formulations, and develop robust clinical risk management plans.
• Involvement in multi-agency discussions and liaison with other statutory and community services.
• Ensure the Voice of the Child is embedded within personalised care planning

About us

What we can offer you?

• The opportunity to develop knowledge, experience and skills with a leading CAMHS provider
• A strong leadership team who are passionate about CAMHS and supporting the workforce
• Clear workload supervision and caseload management, to ensure that staff have realistic case loads that can be flexible according to acuity and need
• The challenge of complex and varied work, including group work
• We have clinical pathways that allow our staff to support and learn from each other to reduce the feelings of working in isolation and improve the continuity of treatments provided
• Comprehensive induction package
• Staff wellbeing focus group and wellbeing services
• Robust clinical supervision
• Flexible working opportunities
• Staff parking across all sites
• Continuing Professional Development for career progression supported by local links to universities for nursing, psychology, psychotherapy
• A variety of competitive employee benefits including access to a range of salary sacrifice schemes and discounts

The Trust aims to recruit and retain the best possible staff who, through the application of their skills, qualification and experience, will make a positive contribution to our business of providing quality health care services. It is the Trust's view that the costs associated with moving house in order to take up a post with us should not restrict our ability to recruit the excellent people we need; therefore, we support staff to relocate with our relocation policy.

Job description Job responsibilities

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.

The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.

Person Specification Qualifications and Experience Essential

• Professional Health or Social Care qualification: RNLD, RMHN, OT, MHSW
• Demonstrate current registration with a regulated professional body/ organisation: NMC, HCPC

Desirable

• Post graduate training within a relevant CAMHS field or skill

Specialist knowledge and personal skills Essential

• Working knowledge of therapeutic use and application of CAMHS specific interventions, i.e CBT, DBT
• Demonstrate profession based clinical reasoning, knowledge, skills and competencies regarding a range of CAMHS therapeutic interventions, including current best practice

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