CAMHS Outreach Registered Practitioner

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust; Gloucester; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 37,000; Full time

Job summary

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust is hiring two Band 6 Registered Practitioners to enhance their multi-disciplinary CAMHS Outreach Team. This role involves direct work with young clients experiencing mental health crises, ensuring they receive necessary home treatment and support through intense case management. A supportive team culture encourages continuous professional development, making it a rewarding place to work.

Qualifications

• Experience as Occupational Therapist, Social Worker, or Mental Health Nurse.
• Ability to manage a clinical case load.
• Skills in providing supervision and leadership to junior members.

Responsibilities

• Manage clinical case load by visiting clients in various settings.
• Develop safety plans collaboratively with clients and families.
• Provide supervision and leadership to junior colleagues.

Skills

Screening and triaging referrals

Building therapeutic relationships

Clinical assessments

Developing safety plans

Education

Registered Practitioner qualification

Job description

We are looking for two 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.

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

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.

About

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.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Sarah Denley-Dufton Job title: Team manager Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 07929 365986

Alternative Contact

Lucy Brazener (Operational Lead) – [e-mail]