CAMHS Youth Justice Specialist Practitioner

NHS; Cheltenham; On-site; GBP 53,000 - 61,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider is seeking a highly skilled Nurse, Social Worker, or Occupational Therapist to lead the Youth Justice team. This role involves developing mental health services for young people with dual needs, ensuring high-quality clinical delivery, and collaborating with multi-agency teams to improve outcomes. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in CAMHS and a strong background in clinical leadership.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience working with young people engaging in offending behaviours.
• Advanced training in therapeutic modalities relevant to young people.

Responsibilities

• Lead on developing early intervention pathways for youth justice.
• Provide high-quality clinical/professional reports.
• Act autonomously in complex clinical decision-making.

Skills

Leadership

Clinical Decision Making

Risk Assessment

Cultural Competency

Education

Degree in Health and Social Care

Post Graduate Diploma or Masters Level

Job description

Job summary

We are are looking for a highly skilled Nurse, Social Worker or Occupational Therapist to lead our Youth Justice/offending team.

This postholder will also lead on the complex, missing and exploitation (CME) pathway and Not in Education, Employment or Training pathway (NEET). The postholder will work as part of the multi-agency Youth Support Health Team, as lead practitioner with responsibility for the development and clinical delivery for mental health services and intervention for those young people who present with dual mental health and offending needs across CAMHS and Youth Support Team (YST)

Work closely and in collaboration with Operational Lead for Vulnerable Children Service (VCS)

Lead on developing the 'early intervention' pathway for young people coming into contact with the youth justice system by implementing, reviewing, and evaluating best practice to improve access and outcomes for young people.

Lead the Youth Justice and Youth Support pathways within CAMHS/YST, with responsibility for quality and outcomes of the pathway, clinically supervising junior members of the team.

This postholder will be part of the YST Health Team, alongside the Health Team Manager, Dual Diagnosis Specialist Practitioner, Substance Misuse Workers, Speech and Language Therapy, Sexual Health Nursing and Physical health Nursing.

Main duties of the job

Act autonomously to provide a high level of competency regarding complex clinical decision making, the assessment and management of clinical need, including high clinical risk cases for young people known to the Youth Support Team (YST) who engage in offending behaviours

Demonstrate enhanced skills to lead clinical processes including the triage of referrals (and associated outcomes), interventions offered, discharges, complex risk management, and expert consultation to other agencies.

Undertake clinical responsibility for a caseload within YST involving working with young people who have youth offending issues alongside other engagement/vulnerability factors such as risk of offending, in contact with the youth justice system, engagement in risk taking behaviours, NEET or child sexual exploitation.

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

Demonstrate enhanced competency to use complex and multi-stranded assessment information to arrive at a clinical judgement and provider expert opinion to the young person and their families, YST, multiagency partners and/or CAMHS clinicians.

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

22 April 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8a

Salary

£53,755 to £60,504 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

327-25-313

Job locations

Evergreen House

Charlton Lane

Cheltenham

GL53 9DZ

Job description Job responsibilities

Please see full job description

Maintain a high degree of professionalism and clinical competency at all times, acting as a CAMHS ambassador in all multiagency/Trust settings.

Practice in a culturally competent and non-discriminatory manner, respecting the variety of beliefs and cultural practices of individuals and groups as well as promoting the development of a health culture that promotes equality and values diversity.

Job description Job responsibilities

Please see full job description

Maintain a high degree of professionalism and clinical competency at all times, acting as a CAMHS ambassador in all multiagency/Trust settings.

Practice in a culturally competent and non-discriminatory manner, respecting the variety of beliefs and cultural practices of individuals and groups as well as promoting the development of a health culture that promotes equality and values diversity.

Person Specification Qualifications Essential

• Degree in health and social care qualification e.g. RMN, OT, MHSW
• Post Graduate diploma or further specialist training to a Masters level or equivalent level (Level 7)
• Post graduate training and experience in evidence based interventions for offending behaviour
• Demonstrate current registration with professional body/organisation
• Demonstrable post qualification experience in CAMHS or CAMHS related services.
• Advanced training in a therapeutic modality relevant to young people e.g. CBT, DBT, NVR, Motivational Interviewing
• Advanced training in risk assessment e.g. SAPROF, SAVRY, JSOAP-II
• Formal training in supervision

Desirable

• Dual nurse qualification/Registered

Length and Nature of Experience Essential

• Extensive experience and expertise regarding working with children/young people engaging in offending behaviours with moderate/severe emotional or mental health problems
• Advanced experience of mental health assessment, formulation and treatment intervention of children with a range of psychological needs of a complex nature
• Considerable prior experience working as a senior practitioner within the speciality
• Demonstrate expertise regarding multiagency therapeutic working including consultation and safeguarding
• Prior leadership experience, and experience of service development

Professional, Managerial, specialist knowledge Essential

• Expert knowledge of evidenced based professional interventions as part of partnership working
• Demonstrate expert professional consultancy and clinical leadership regarding service delivery of CAMHS practice
• Specialist expertise regarding a range of CAMHS related therapeutic techniques/models e.g. behavioural, cognitive, dynamic and systemic
• Specialist expertise regarding complex mental health issues and therapeutic approaches within childhood, especially working within multiagency settings

Person Specification Qualifications Essential

• Degree in health and social care qualification e.g. RMN, OT, MHSW
• Post Graduate diploma or further specialist training to a Masters level or equivalent level (Level 7)
• Post graduate training and experience in evidence based interventions for offending behaviour
• Demonstrate current registration with professional body/organisation
• Demonstrable post qualification experience in CAMHS or CAMHS related services.
• Advanced training in a therapeutic modality relevant to young people e.g. CBT, DBT, NVR, Motivational Interviewing
• Advanced training in risk assessment e.g. SAPROF, SAVRY, JSOAP-II
• Formal training in supervision

Desirable

• Dual nurse qualification/Registered

Length and Nature of Experience Essential

• Extensive experience and expertise regarding working with children/young people engaging in offending behaviours with moderate/severe emotional or mental health problems
• Advanced experience of mental health assessment, formulation and treatment intervention of children with a range of psychological needs of a complex nature
• Considerable prior experience working as a senior practitioner within the speciality
• Demonstrate expertise regarding multiagency therapeutic working including consultation and safeguarding
• Prior leadership experience, and experience of service development

Professional, Managerial, specialist knowledge Essential

• Expert knowledge of evidenced based professional interventions as part of partnership working
• Demonstrate expert professional consultancy and clinical leadership regarding service delivery of CAMHS practice
• Specialist expertise regarding a range of CAMHS related therapeutic techniques/models e.g. behavioural, cognitive, dynamic and systemic
• Specialist expertise regarding complex mental health issues and therapeutic approaches within childhood, especially working within multiagency settings

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

Evergreen House

Charlton Lane

Cheltenham

GL53 9DZ

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

Evergreen House

Charlton Lane

Cheltenham

GL53 9DZ

Employer's website

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