Job overview

Are you looking to make a real difference to children, young people and their families during times of mental health crisis?

Do you have the clinical leadership skills and experience to be a calm and grounding presence in times of crisis?

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a dynamic and motivated Advanced Practitioner (AP) to join our multi-disciplinary CAMHS Outreach Team in Gloucestershire. 

The post holder will understand the challenges and opportunities of working with children and young people with significant safety concerns and their families.

About the team:

CAMHS Outreach is a countywide service in Gloucester providing a 9am-9pm service, 7 days a week, 365 days a year offering an intensive home treatment provision for children and young people under 18 years, experiencing a period of acute mental health crisis.  Our service focuses on admission avoidance, through home treatment and safety planning.  Following an admission, to an acute general hospital or a Tier 4 in-patient unit, we work to support a safe and timely discharge back to the community. We have a fantastic success rate supporting children and young people in their recovery at home ensuring they receive the support and treatment they need.

We have a strong commitment and passion for ensuring the voice of the child is central to all of our care planning and safety management. 

Main duties of the job

As a Band 8a AP in the team the role would include: 

-       Leading clinical decision-making within a multidisciplinary team.

-       Carries clinical responsibility for a complex caseload

-       Physical health screening

-       Providing advanced assessment and treatment planning

-       provide specialist advice to colleagues across the multidisciplinary team.

-       Prescribing medication where appropriate, and within the scope of practice as an Independent Non-Medical Prescriber.

-       Monitor and improve standards through supervision, evidence-based practice, clinical audit, research and education.

-       Contributes to service development, staff training, and integrated working across health, education and children social care partners.

Shift patterns:

The role would involve working 9am – 5 pm Monday-Friday and there maybe some occasional evening working. 

We are open to considering alternative shift patterns provided they allow us to continue meeting the needs of the service. 

Working for our organisation

We have a skilled and dedicated workforce of over 5000 colleagues working in a diverse range of services over 55 sites and within people’s homes. We strive to enable a welcoming workplace culture that builds and celebrates civility, inclusivity and diversity, while providing a sense of belonging and trust.

Annual staff surveys, regular Pulse surveys and other engagement opportunities provide our people with lots of opportunity to tell us about their experiences of working with us.  In the latest staff survey, 61% of colleagues gave us their views.  It was great to hear that:

• 72% of colleagues would recommend the Trust as a place to work, ranking us 1st for Provider Trusts in the South West region on this question.
• 76% would recommend the standard of care provided in our services if a friend or relative needed treatment, also ranking us 1st in the South West region.
• 81% said that care of patients and service users is the Trust’s priority, compared with an average in comparable NHS Trusts in England of 64%.

This high-level overview shows we are in a healthy position, with higher scores than average for comparable organisations, alongside a great response rate, indicating good staff engagement.  However, we also know we have plenty of room for improvement in many areas. To that end, we continue to prioritise and invest in our commitment to genuinely becoming a Great Place to Work with consistent top-quartile performance in the annual staff survey and Pulse surveys.