CAMHS Registered Practitioner

NHS; Gloucester; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in the UK is seeking a CAMHS Registered Practitioner for a full-time, permanent role in Gloucester. This position involves offering mental health assessments and interventions for children and their families in a multi-disciplinary team. The ideal candidate will have substantial clinical experience and relevant professional qualifications. Competitive employee benefits and opportunities for professional development are included.

Benefits

Access to salary sacrifice schemes

Competitive employee benefits

Training and development opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience delivering evidence-based clinical interventions within CAMHS.
• Experience in specialist Self Harm assessments.
• Experience in clinical supervision and care coordination.

Responsibilities

• Offer assessments for children and families.
• Create formulations to understand children's needs.
• Provide individual, family, and group interventions.

Skills

Clinical experience in CAMHS

Team collaboration

Evidence-based interventions

Clinical supervision

Education

Professional Health or Social Care qualification: RNLD, RMHN, OT, MHSW

Evidence of formal post-registration learning

Postgraduate training in CAMHS

Job description

CAMHS Registered Practitioner

The closing date is 16 February 2026

This role is offered on a permanent basis. The hours are full time 37.5 per week.

We are looking for an experienced Band 6 to join our Core Child and Adolescent mental health service (CAMHS) teams.

Within Core CAMHS we offer assessments and interventions for the children and young people who are accepted into our service.

We pride ourselves on working within a strong multi‑disciplinary team (MDT) including:

• Nurses
• Occupational Therapists
• Creative therapists
• Psychotherapists

Currently we are looking for a registered practitioner (mental health or LD nurse, OT, or social worker) to ensure we have a robust MDT.

We are looking for someone who has clinical experience of working within a MDT and also supporting the wider network for the child and their family.

CAMHS continue to deliver high quality specialist mental health services to children and young people up to their 18th birthday.

We are a supportive, experienced and progressive multi‑disciplinary team.

Main duties of the job

You will have the opportunity to;

• Offer assessments for children, young people and families
• Create formulations to aid an understanding of the child's needs
• Utilise evidence based, goal focused and effective interventions which lead to a positive discharge from our service.
• Provide individual, family and group interventions which may be time limited or longer‑term therapies according to need.
• Complete clinical assessments including sound clinical formulations and clinical risk assessments.
• Demonstrate experience in providing evidence based mental health treatment interventions.

Key elements of the job

• Provide a range of specialist CAMHS assessment and treatment interventions for children and young people as well as their families/careers who present with emotional and mental health difficulties.
• Providing Care Coordinator responsibilities for a caseload of children and young people presenting with complex and high‑risk mental health issues, with a specific focus upon providing specialist clinical assessment, formulation and treatment, including Self Harm assessments where the Voice of the Child is embedded within personalised care planning.
• 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.

Job responsibilities

What we can offer you:

• Opportunities to develop your clinical skills through training, profession specific support and development supervision and personal coaching initiatives.
• The opportunity to develop specialist knowledge, experience and skills with a leading CAMHS provider.
• The challenge of complex and varied work through a manageable caseload.
• A variety of competitive employee benefits including access to a range of salary sacrifice schemes and discounts.

The successful applicant must have the necessary professional qualification, including current registration with NMC.

All CAMHS Registered Practitioners hold a generic job description, however specialist skills and responsibilities related to this role will be reflected within a personalised job plan.

We aim to recruit and retain the best possible staff who, through the application of their skills, qualification and experience, will make a positive contribution to our business of providing quality health care services. It is the Trust's view that the costs associated with moving house in order to take up a post with us should not restrict our ability to recruit the excellent people we need; therefore, we support staff to relocate with our relocation policy.

The Trust is required to work in line with the Governments UK Visa and Immigration Rules and Regulations. For more information about sponsorship for certain roles, please visit https://www.gov.uk/browse/visas-immigration/work-visas.

Person Specification

Experience

• Significant clinical experience of delivering evidence based/best practice clinical interventions within CAMHS or related services and/or adult mental health settings.
• Experience of undertaking specialist Self Harm assessments of children and young people.
• Significant clinical experience of specialist care planning & case management/care coordination (including complex clinical risk assessment & management) within a mental health or learning disability setting.
• Experience of providing clinical supervision.

Qualifications

• Professional Health or Social Care qualification: RNLD, RMHN, OT, MHSW.
• Evidence of formal post registration learning.
• Post graduate training within a relevant CAMHS field or skill.
• Profession specific additional qualifications (i.e LD, nurse prescriber, DBT, CBT, AMHP, family therapy or systemic practice).

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.

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust