Job overview

This is an exciting opportunity for a Band 4 Assistant Psychologist to join the Gloucestershire CAMHS Outreach Service, working with children and young people, under the age of 18, presenting with complex mental health and social care needs.

Our service provides short-term, intensive and individualised care to young people within the community to prevent the need for hospital admission and to support families in managing mental health crises at home. We have a fantastic success rate of supporting young people to remain at home and receive the treatment they need. As a result, our multi-disciplinary team (MDT) has gained additional investment and is now expanding in size and remit. You will join us at an exciting time of service development.

The Trust reserves the right to close this vacancy when sufficient applications have been received.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will be contributing to the clinical assessment and formulation of safety plans and evidence-based treatments of children and young people, under the supervision of a Clinical Psychologist. There will also be further opportunities for individual case work, group work, audit and research. The post holder will work closely with parents/carers alongside the existing network of professionals such as schools, Children’s Social Care (CSC) and Core CAMHS for shared understanding and management of mental health related needs and risks to ensure the young person’s safety.

You will be enthusiastic, motivated, able to manage your time effectively, and passionate about ensuring the voice of the child is central within care planning and clinical risk management. 

We operate an ‘out of hours’ service from 9:00-21:00, seven days a week, 365 days a year. This necessitates a shift pattern comprising four working days a week, and three days off. This will come 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

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.