Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust

CAMHS Outreach Registered Practitioner

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Job summary

CAMHS Outreach is a countywide service offering intensive home treatment provision for children and young people aged under 18 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 and have received additional funding for service expansion.

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.

Main duties of the job

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.
Work collaboratively with the young person and parents/carers to develop a formulation
Facilitate a range of brief evidence-based mental health interventions for children and young people in the community.
Managing a clinical case load
Supervision of junior members of the team
Are committed and passionate about ensuring the Voice of the Child is central within care planning and clinical risk management.

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.

Date posted

12 March 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£37,338 to £44,962 a year Per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

327-25-096-A

Job locations

Acorn House, CAMHS

Horton Road.

Gloucester

GL1 3PX

Job description

Job responsibilities

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 childrens 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 Peoples 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

Change work base as requested by the CAMHS Service Director