CAMHS Registered Practitioner in Gloucester

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, social workers, creative therapists, psychologists and 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.
• We offer individual, family and group interventions which may be time limited or longer-term therapies according to need.
• The successful candidates will have the necessary clinical skills and knowledge to complete clinical assessments including sound clinical formulations and clinical risk assessments.
• You will be expected to 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/carers 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.
• There will be 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.

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.

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.

Person Specification

Essential 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.

Desirable Experience:

• Experience of providing clinical supervision.
• Post graduate training within a relevant CAMHS field or skill.
• Profession specific additional qualifications (e.g LD, nurse prescriber, DBT, CBT, AMHP, family therapy or systemic practice).

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.

Applicants must have current UK professional registration.