Camhs Senior Mental Health Practitioner - Gloucester, United Kingdom - Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust
Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust
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Gloucester, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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This is an exciting opportunity for a fulltime CAMHS clinician to join our Gloucestershire CAMHS teams and DBT team we are looking for an individual who is passionate about working with children, young people and their families.


You will be joining the DBT team within CAMHS either with an existing DBT qualification or with an expectation that you will undertake DBT training to support the provision of the DBT service.

British Ilse DBT foundation training will be provided as part of this post.

We are looking for a clinician with significant experience of working in mental health and managing risk. CAMHS experience is desirable but not essential.


You will work in our Core CAMHs team and as part of the DBT Team - both of these are county wide teams and travelling between bases will be required.

In Gloucestershire we currently offer a family based DBT programme including, DBT consult, Group and individual sessions. This is an exciting time to join the expanding DBT team.

Main duties of the job


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/ career's 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

Demonstrating a commitment to ensuring routine outcome measures are embedded within clinical practice to demonstrate clinical based improvements for children, young people and parents/carers.


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 qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.

We have in excess of 5000 staff working over 50 sites, providing a divers e range of services.

We strive to support an organisational culture that is welcoming, builds and celebrates inclusivity and diversity and provides a sense of belonging and trust.


The annual NHS S taff S urvey gi ves our people the opportunity to tell us about their experience working at the Trust.

For the 2023 survey just over 2800 colleagues g ave us their views (58.5%).

It was great to see from the results that colleagues are saying that:
89.7% believe they are making a positive difference to patients/service users;
73.3% would recommend the organisation as a place to work;
82.4% agree that care of patients and service users is the organisations priority;
76.7% would be happy with the standard of care for a friend or relative


Our results put us as 5th nationally as a Community, Mental Health and Learning Disabilities NHS Employer of Choice and 1st equal amongst all NHS Provider Trusts in the South West.

However, we know we have more to do and will continue to drive forward our commitment to making GHC a Great Place to Work.

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.


Provide formal clinical supervision to junior staff (as requested), including facilitating the development and consolidation of CAMHS core skills and competencies.

Offer regular student/trainee placements as requested, including meeting all teaching, assessing
and preceptorship needs.

Ensure regular attendance at service wide and other CAMHS CPD/core competency training
events
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