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At Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust (GHC), we provide joined-up mental health, physical health and learning disability services to people of all ages across Gloucestershire. We run community hospitals and provide care and support in people’s own homes and in a range of other locations across the county.
We are on a mission to enable people to live the best life they can and we have a vision to work together to provide outstanding care. We put people at the heart of our services, focusing on personalised care by asking ‘what matters to you’.
We’re passionate about making sure that everyone can contribute to achieving our mission and we are continually working to support healthy and happy high-quality teams in all areas of the Trust.
Job overview
CAMHS Outreach is a countywide service offering intensive home treatment provision for children and young people aged under 18 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. We have a fantastic success rate of supporting children and young people in their recovery at home to ensure they receive the treatment they need and have received additional funding for service expansion.
As a Band 6 in the service, the role includes triaging, carrying out clinical assessments, developing risk management plans, formulation, and offering brief evidence-based mental health interventions for children and 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 child or young person’s safety.
Main duties of the job
We are seeking the following:
* 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.
* Work collaboratively with the young person and parents/carers to develop a formulation.
* Facilitate a range of brief evidence-based mental health interventions for children and young people in the community.
* Managing a clinical case load.
* Supervision of junior members of the team.
* Are committed and passionate about ensuring the Voice of the Child is central within care planning and clinical risk management.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
•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.
•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.
•Provide formal clinical supervision to junior staff (as requested), including facilitating the development and consolidation of CAMHS core skills and competencies.
•Work flexibly to provide CAMHS interventions within a range of clinical and community settings dependent on client and service need. Situations may demand an unpredictable work pattern and difficult situations as well as the need to balance a range of complex and high-risk clinical needs and presentations.
•Demonstrate commitment to the CAMHS Children and Young People’s Charter by ensuring routine clinical work reflects proactive involvement and collaborative working with children, young people and their parents/carers.
•Demonstrate commitment to working effectively with team colleagues to develop a strong multidisciplinary ethos and focus to delivering high quality clinical services.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Demonstrate current registration with a regulated professional body/organisation: NMC, HCPC.
* Evidence of formal post-registration learning.
* Postgraduate training within a relevant CAMHS field or skill.
LENGTH AND / OR NATURE OF EXPERIENCE
* Significant clinical experience of delivering evidence-based/best practice clinical interventions within CAMHS or related services and/or adult mental health settings.
* Significant clinical experience of specialist care planning & case management/care coordination (including complex clinical risk assessment & management) within a mental health setting.
OTHER REQUIREMENTS
* Able to attend and participate in all mandatory and statutory training events.
* This is a community-based post and therefore a valid UK driving licence plus the use of own transport for business purposes is essential.
Applicants are advised to apply early as if a large number of applications are received for this post, we reserve the right to close the vacancy prior to the advertised date. Good luck with your application.
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