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Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a forward thinking and dynamic qualified mental health professional to join CAMHS Outreach in Gloucestershire. 

CAMHS Outreach is a countywide service offering intensive home treatment provision  for children and young people experiencing an acute mental health crisis.

Our service focuses on admission avoidance, home treatment and supporting safe discharge from a Tier 4 in-patient Unit. The team have a fantastic success rate of supporting children and young people in their recovery at home to ensure they receive the treatment they need. As a result, our small multi-disciplinary team has gained additional investment to expand the service.  

A Band 6 clinical role in Outreach includes triaging, carrying out clinical assessments, developing risk management plans, formulation and offering brief evidence-based mental health interventions. The post holder will also work closely with parents/carers alongside the existing network of professionals such as schools, Children Social Care and Core CAMHS  in managing  risk to ensure the child or young person’s safety. 

We are a 7 day a week service, including bank holidays, and are looking to further extend the out of hours offer to the evenings, this comes with the perk of additional pay enhancements.  In return we will be offering our candidates the flexibility to cover late shifts and weekend working, allowing them time off during core working hours. 

If you'd like to hear more information about the role and our team, please express an interest in joining our online event on 20th June via our Facebook page:

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Main duties of the job

We are seeking the following:

The successful candidate should be able to demonstrate specialist clinical skills and expertise in the following areas:  

• Conducting mental health and risk assessments to formulate risk management plans with specialist tailored interventions to reduce escalation in the young person’s mental health presentation.
• Experience of working within a community CAMHs and/ or AMH, or Tier 4 inpatient services.
• Managing a clinical case load
•  Supervision of junior members of the team
• Clinical experience of working alongside multi-agency networks to achieve best possible outcomes for children and families.
• Are committed and passionate about ensuring the Voice of the Child is central within care planning and clinical risk management. 

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

Working for our organisation

We have in excess of 5000 staff working over 50 sites, providing a diverse 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 Staff Survey  gives our people the opportunity to tell us about their experience working at the Trust.  For the 2023 survey just over 2800 colleagues gave 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.