Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust

Young Adults Service Mental Health Specialist Practitioner

The closing date is 11 August 2025

Job summary

Our service provides individualised support to young people who need support with their mental health aged 16-25 years within the community

We are seeking to recruit an experienced mental health professional to work with young people with significant mental health needs in a dynamic way. The role includes offering clinical assessments, formulation of risk management plans and offering evidence-based mental health interventions for young people in the community. The post holder will work closely with parents/carers alongside the existing network of professionals and with our partner agency Young Gloucestershire.

Main duties of the job

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
Provide specialist clinical consultation and advice to professionals
Extensive experience of working within a community CAMHS and/ or Adult Mental Health Services
Managing own individual clinical case load
Extensive clinical experience of working alongside multi-agency networks to achieve best possible outcomes for young people
Are committed and passionate about personalised care and ensuring it is central within care planning and clinical risk management.

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

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

18 July 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£47,810 to £54,710 a year Per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

327-25-609

Job locations

The Old Dock Office

Commercial Road

Gloucester

GL1 2EB

Job description

Job 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 assessment and treatment interventions for young people (16-25yrs) as well as their families/carers who present with emotional and mental health difficulties. Provision will be in accordance to the application of a range of profession specific models of clinical practice.

Provide clinical leadership within the team alongside undertaking clinical responsibility for a caseload involving complex and high risk clinical formulation and decision making, adhering to risk management and care planning processes in line with Care Programme Approach (CPA) and liaising with Trust and multi-agency partners across Gloucestershire as required. There will be a specific focus upon providing specialist clinical assessment, formulation and treatment for those highly vulnerable young people who have high clinical risk and other complex/multi agency needs. For Clinical Psychology: to provide a direct service for complex psychological issues

Provide specialist clinical risk assessments and complex 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.

Demonstrate enhanced competency regarding complex clinical decision making and clinical formulation. For Clinical Psychology: Exercise autonomous professional responsibility for assessment and case management through psychologically based care plans.

Provide formal clinical supervision to junior staff on a routine basis to facilitate the development and consolidation of CAMHS/AMHS core skills and competencies within the workforce (not applicable for Clinical Psychology).

Ensure high quality, accurate and contemporaneous clinical record keeping is maintained in line with current Trust policies

Ensure regular attendance at service wide and other CAMHS CPD/core competency training

Provide specialist 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 specialist, profession-based interventions within specific care pathways or locations/clinics.

Provide high quality and specialist clinical reasoning, consultation, signposting and support to young people and their families as well as professionals/workers within GHC and universal and targeted settings (e.g. Primary Care, GCC, voluntary sector).

Provide high quality and specialist profession based clinical reasoning, knowledge, skills and competencies regarding a range of therapeutic interventions.

Provide specialist professional consultancy regarding service delivery of evidence based generic and professional practice to CAMHS and AMHS colleagues and those workers in universal settings in line with the annual CAMHS Service Plan.

Provide specialist clinical reasoning as well as specific consultation, training and advice to professionals working within a range of childrens and adults services within Gloucestershire on a routine basis.

Participate in the recruitment and selection of new staff, including overseeing local induction when required.

Work flexibly to provide 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 clinical leadership and commitment to working with team colleagues to develop a strong multidisciplinary ethos and focus to delivering high quality clinical services. This includes commitment to the CAMHS Children and Young Peoples Charter by ensuring routine clinical work reflects proactive involvement and collaborative working with young people and their families/carers.

Demonstrate clinical leadership and commitment to ensuring the voice of the young person is central to developing personalised care planning.

Demonstrate commitment to working effectively with team colleagues to develop a strong multidisciplinary ethos and focus to delivering high quality clinical services.

Offer regular student/trainee placements, including meeting all teaching, assessing and preceptorship needs on a routine basis. For Clinical Psychology and Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy: this will be in line with experience.

Provide high quality and specialist written clinical/professional reports and other means of effective communication as part of routine clinical responsibilities.

Implement and evaluate routine outcome measures (i.e. ROMS/HEF) as part of 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.

Demonstrate clinical leadership and actively contribute to delivery of the current CAMHS Service Plan as well as considering new/innovative ways of delivering clinical care to the CAMHS and AMHS population

Change work base as requested by the CAMHS Deputy Service Director

As part of a clinical leadership role, to deputise for the Operational Lead as requested by CAMHS Management.