CAMHS Outreach Registered Practitioner

NHS; Gloucester; On-site; GBP 37,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

NHS is seeking two Band 6 Registered Practitioners to join the CAMHS Outreach Team in Gloucestershire. This role offers an opportunity to work with children facing acute mental health challenges, providing intensive support through various interventions. We are committed to fostering a collaborative and reflective professional environment, with a focus on children's needs and community reintegration.

Qualifications

• Experience in CAMHS or related mental health settings required.
• Significant clinical experience in evidence-based interventions.
• Ability to manage complex clinical cases independently.

Responsibilities

• Screen and triage referrals; manage a clinical case load.
• Develop safety plans and conduct clinical assessments.
• Provide supervision and leadership to junior team members.

Skills

Clinical risk assessment

Mental health interventions

Team collaboration

Education

Professional Health qualification: RNLD, RMHN, OT, MHSW

Current registration with professional body (NMC, HCPC, SWE)

Evidence of formal post-graduate registration learning

Job description

Job summary

We are looking fortwo Band 6 Registered Practitioners (Occupational Therapist, Social Worker or Mental Health Nurse) to join our expanding multi-disciplinary CAMHS Outreach Team in Gloucestershire.

About the team:

The CAMHS Outreach Team is a countywide service 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 risk management.

As a team we encourage clinicians to be reflective and curious in their practice, alongside developing their clinical experience and knowledge - we support this through regular clinical supervision, providing a variety of reflective group spaces and training opportunities.

Main duties of the job

As a Band 6 Registered Practitioner the role includes:

- 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

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

Shift patterns:

The role involves evening, weekend and bank holiday working. Our full-time shift pattern typically involves 2 days per week 9am-5pm and 2 days per week 9am-9:15pm with 3 days off (in a 7-day period).

We are open to considering alternative shift patterns provided they allow us to continue meeting the needs of the service. We are open to applications from individuals who would prefer part-time hours. Enhanced payments for un-social hours apply on Saturday, Sunday, Bank Holiday and any for any hours worked after 8pm

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.

Details Date posted

03 June 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

327-25-447

Job locations

Acorn House

Horton Road

Gloucester

GL1 3PX

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 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

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 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

Person Specification QUALIFICATIONS Essential

• Professional Health qualification: RNLD, RMHN, OT,MHSW
• Demonstrate current registration with a regulated professional body/ organisation: NMC, HCPC, SWE
• Evidence of formal post-graduate registration learning equivalent to diploma level

Desirable

• Profession specific additional qualifications (i.e. LD, nurse prescriber, DBT, CBT, AMHP, family therapy or systemic practice)
• 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 risk assessment & management) within a mental health setting.
• Significant experience of CAMHS related multiagency collaborative working and joint care planning,
• Experience of identifying and managing complex safeguarding concerns, including using formal processes to escalate safeguarding issues

Desirable

• Experience of providing clinical supervision
• Experience of providing specialist consultation/support to partner agencies

PROFESSIONAL / MANAGERIAL / SPECIALIST KNOWLEDGE Essential

• Expertise in undertaking complex risk assessment and developing effective risk management plans. This includes working knowledge of positive clinical risk management approaches
• Demonstrate profession based clinical reasoning, knowledge, skills and competencies regarding a range of CAMHS therapeutic interventions, including current best practice
• Comprehensive knowledge and experience of working with complex mental health/learning disability issues and applying clinical appropriate assessment and interventions within a personalised care planning approach

Desirable

• Sound knowledge base of issues related to equality, diversity and anti-discriminatory practice
• Working knowledge of using routine outcome measurements within daily clinical practice, including ability to evaluate service experience and expected clinical outcomes

Person Specification QUALIFICATIONS Essential

• Professional Health qualification: RNLD, RMHN, OT,MHSW
• Demonstrate current registration with a regulated professional body/ organisation: NMC, HCPC, SWE
• Evidence of formal post-graduate registration learning equivalent to diploma level

Desirable

• Profession specific additional qualifications (i.e. LD, nurse prescriber, DBT, CBT, AMHP, family therapy or systemic practice)
• 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 risk assessment & management) within a mental health setting.
• Significant experience of CAMHS related multiagency collaborative working and joint care planning,
• Experience of identifying and managing complex safeguarding concerns, including using formal processes to escalate safeguarding issues

Desirable

• Experience of providing clinical supervision
• Experience of providing specialist consultation/support to partner agencies

PROFESSIONAL / MANAGERIAL / SPECIALIST KNOWLEDGE Essential

• Expertise in undertaking complex risk assessment and developing effective risk management plans. This includes working knowledge of positive clinical risk management approaches
• Demonstrate profession based clinical reasoning, knowledge, skills and competencies regarding a range of CAMHS therapeutic interventions, including current best practice
• Comprehensive knowledge and experience of working with complex mental health/learning disability issues and applying clinical appropriate assessment and interventions within a personalised care planning approach

Desirable

• Sound knowledge base of issues related to equality, diversity and anti-discriminatory practice
• Working knowledge of using routine outcome measurements within daily clinical practice, including ability to evaluate service experience and expected clinical outcomes

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).

Additional information 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

Employer's website

https://www.ghc.nhs.uk/who-we-are/jobs/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details Employer name

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Acorn House

Horton Road

Gloucester

GL1 3PX

Employer's website

https://www.ghc.nhs.uk/who-we-are/jobs/ (Opens in a new tab)