Job summary
Do you want to make a difference to the mental health of children and young people and shape early intervention services?
Gloucestershire Health and Care Trust has four established Young Minds Matter Mental Health Support Teams to work with schools. The aim of the team is to enable earlier and more effective mental health support for children, young people, their families and carers and increase resilience within school communities in managing mental health issues.
We are now expanding our team and we are seeking to recruit enthusiastic and committed mental health clinicians who enjoy working within multi agency settings to join the Mental Health Support Teams (MHST's).
Main duties of the job
Provide a range of specialist CAMHS assessment and treatment interventions with emotional and mental health difficulties
Undertake clinical responsibility and be able to work independently in managing a clinical caseload. 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.
Provide formal clinical supervision to 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.
The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.
About us
We have in excess of 5000 staff working over 50 sites, providing a diverse range of services. We strive to support an organisational culture that is welcoming, builds and celebrates inclusivity and diversity and provides a sense of belonging and trust.
The annual NHS Staff Survey gives our people the opportunity to tell us about their experience working at the Trust. For the 2023 survey just over 2800 colleagues gave us their views (58.5%). It was great to see from the results that colleagues are saying that:
- 89.7% believe they are making a positive difference to patients/service users;
- 73.3% would recommend the organisation as a place to work;
- 82.4% agree that care of patients and service users is the organisations priority;
- 76.7% would be happy with the standard of care for a friend or relative
Our results put us as 5th nationally as a Community, Mental Health and Learning Disabilities NHS Employer of Choice and 1st equal amongst all NHS Provider Trusts in the South West. However, we know we have more to do and will continue to drive forward our commitment to making GHC a Great Place to Work.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Work as a CAMHS Registered Practitioner within a community team which accepts referrals from a wide range of multi-agency partners as well as providing an effective and timely response to urgent referrals.
Offer formal clinical supervision to junior staff as requested.
Contribute to cross county CAMHS Clinics regarding specific disorders as required.
Ensure regular attendance at service wide and other CPD/core competency training events.
Contribute to ongoing service improvement initiatives (including implementing learning from continuous improvement cycles) which are in line with the current CYPS Service Plan or other service priorities. This may include undertaking clinical case reviews, routine audit, reviewing outcome measures and other research methodology.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
Desirable
- Experience, qualifications
Application form & Interview
Desirable
- Qualifications and experience
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.
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 .
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 .
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website .
Employer details
Employer name
Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Young Minds Matter,
Rikenel
Gloucester
GL11LY