Job overview

Gloucestershire Core CAMHS are seeking to recruit an enthusiastic, skilled and supportive individual to provide additional team manager capacity to our core CAMHS teams.

Core CAMHS provide a breadth of Mental Health Service to the children and young people (0 to 18) of Gloucestershire. The service is provided by a strong Multi-Disciplinary Team of professionals offering a range of assessment and intervention for example; Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy, emotional coping skills and Family Therapy.

We are looking for someone who can nurture and develop our teams as we and our service continues to offer a high standard of assessment and treatment for young people and families.  We have been working hard to reduce our waiting times which we have made significant progress with.  Therefore we believe this is an exciting time to join the team to help us focus on developing our service.

Main duties of the job

As a Team Manager, you are expected to have the necessary clinical skills and knowledge to complete CAMHS clinical assessments and clinical risk assessments where required.  In addition, you will be expected to demonstrate knowledge and experience in providing CAMHS based mental health interventions. The successful applicant must have a current registered professional qualification, for example, psychology, mental health nursing, social work, occupational therapy as outlined in the person specification. 

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.