Camhs Mental Health Specialist Practitioner

1 day ago


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

Fixed Term contract/secondment opportunity for 12 months to cover maternity leave.

Internal applicants who wish to be considered for a secondment opportunity should discuss with their line manager the suitability of a possible secondment

Our service provides intensive individualised support to young people within the community to prevent the need for hospital admission and to respond to urgent situations. Our service has an excellent success rate in supporting children and young people in a mental health crisis.

We are seeking to recruit an experienced mental health professional to work with young people with complex and high-risk mental health and social care needs. The role includes offering clinical assessments, formulation of risk management plans and offering evidence-based mental health interventions for young people in the community. The post holder will work closely with parents/carers alongside the existing network of professionals such as schools, Children Social Care and Core CAMHS for a joint understanding and management of risk to ensure the young person’s safety.
- 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.
- Provide specialist clinical consultation and advice to professionals working within a range of children’s services within Gloucestershire as required.
- Extensive experience of working within a community CAMHs and/ or AMH, or Tier 4 inpatient services.
- Managing own individual clinical case load
- Extensive 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.

**In addition, CAMHS offers**:

- A strong multi-disciplinary ethos within all aspects of clinical delivery as well as robust clinical supervision, workload management and Continuing Professional Development structures in place
- Opportunities to develop your highly specialist clinical skills through training, profession specific support and development supervision.
- The challenge of complex and varied work within an integrated multi agency team
- A variety of competitive employee benefits including access to a range of salary sacrifice schemes and discounts.

At Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust, we are supportive of the people we care for in the community and aim to provide a fully responsive service to everyone who needs it. This is the same approach we take for our employees. We look to value the skills and experiences of those we work with, whether they are service users, carers, families or those looking to work with us.

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust is part of the NHS. We treat NHS patients according to NHS principles and standards. The difference is the Trust is accountable to local people, rather than to Government, and so we are able to work closely with our community to develop services in the way that best suits the needs of local people.

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



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