Camhs Youth Offending Team Registered Practitioner - Cheltenham, 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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Cheltenham, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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The Youth Offending CAMHS team are seeking a skilled and confident registered practitioner to join us. The CAMHS YO team offers outreach assessment and intervention within Youth Offending and Youth Support in Gloucestershire. The post sits within a small team with 3 CAMHS colleagues.

There is close interagency working with the Youth Support Team and the small CAMHS YO team shares office space and joins in a weekly MDT with other CAMHS teams that come together to form the CAMHS Vulnerable Children Service (VCS).

This gives fantastic opportunities for joined up working while retaining the benefit of MDT support and thinking.


It is essential that applicants are comfortable working with young people who may at times present as distressed and with associated behaviours that are challenging, in a range of community based settings including within family homes.

The post also requires high levels of lone working and driving county wide.

Whilst a significant amount of time can be spent lone working autonomously, there is a strong, positive and supportive team culture within the CAMHS VCS and the YST team.


  • Provide a range of specialist CAMHS assessment and treatment interventions for children and young people (018yrs) 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 for a caseload, adhering to risk management and care planning processes in line with Care Programme Approach (CPA) and liaising with Trust and multiagency partners across Gloucestershire as required.
  • Provide CAMHS specialist clinical risk assessments (including Self Harm assessments) and complex risk management plans as part of routine clinical work.
  • Provide clinical interventions within a multidisciplinary team. This job plan will be reviewed on a quarterly basis and may be adjusted to meet team or service led requirements.
  • Ensure high quality, accurate and contemporaneous clinical record keeping is maintained in line with current Trust policies.
  • Provide CAMHS consultation, training and advice to professionals
  • Provide clinical supervision to junior staff
  • Provide professional based clinical reasoning, knowledge, skills and competencies regarding a range of CAMHS therapeutic interventions.
  • Demonstrate commitment to working with team colleagues


This post requires the post holder to be able to undertake all statutory and mandatory training and post holders must be able to undertake physical interventions.

Fitness for physical intervention will be assessed by Occupational Health.

A valid UK driving licence plus the use of own transport for business purposes is essential.

For qualifying staff the Trust has a Lease Car Scheme in place and also offers a popular Salary Sacrifice Car Scheme with our partner Tusker.

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