CAMHS Registered Practitioner - Youth Justice Team

NHS; Cheltenham; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a CAMHS Registered Practitioner for their Youth Justice Team. This role involves working with vulnerable children, providing specialist assessments and treatment interventions, and requires significant clinical experience in mental health settings. Ideal candidates will have the necessary professional qualifications and experience in multi-agency collaboration.

Qualifications

• Registered clinician with relevant professional body (NMC, HCPC, Social Work England).
• Post registration formal learning and qualifications in CAMHS are essential.

Responsibilities

• Provide CAMHS assessments and treatment interventions for children and young people.
• Manage a clinical caseload independently, collaborating with multi-agency partners as needed.

Skills

Clinical assessment

Risk management

Collaboration

Education

RNLD, RMHN, OT, MHSW

Post graduate training in CAMHS

Job description

Go back Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust

CAMHS Registered Practitioner - Youth Justice Team

The closing date is 23 July 2025

We are looking for an experienced Band 6 clinician (OT, Nurse, Social Worker) to join our small Youth Support/Youth Justice Team (YST). This team sit alongside the Health Team within GCC and CAMHS and is based within the Vulnerable Children Service (VCS) in CAMHS. The post holder will hold a caseload of vulnerable children and work across the county of Gloucestershire. The team work with young people who have come into contact with one (or more) of the following; Youth Justice, Liaison and Diversion, NEET, Exploitation, Missing and Substance Misuse.

Main duties of the job

Provide a range of specialist CAMHS assessment and treatment interventions for children and young people (2-18yrs, mainly secondary school age)

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.

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.

Provide specialist clinical reasoning as well as CAMHS specific consultation, training and advice to professionals working within a range of children's 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.

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

Please see Job Description for full details

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.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Professional Health or Social Care qualification: RNLD, RMHN, OT, MHSW
• Demonstrate current registration with a regulated professional body/ organisation: NMC, HCPC, Social Work England
• 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)

Length and/or Nature of 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 within a mental health or learning disability setting.
• Significant experience of CAMHS related multi-agency collaborative working and joint care planning,
• Experience of identifying and managing complex safeguarding concerns, including using formal processes to escalate safeguarding issues
• Experience of providing clinical supervision

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