Job overview

The CAMHS Outreach Team is a countywide service, co-located at Acorn House (9am - 5pm) and Pullman Place (5pm - 9.15pm) in Gloucester providing a 9am-9pm service, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. 

We offer 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, we work to support 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 are a supportive, experienced team of clinicians from a variety of professional backgrounds with a wide range of practice experience across both adults and children’s services. We have a strong commitment and passion for ensuring the voice of the child is central to all of our care planning and clinical risk management. 

As a team we encourage clinicians to be reflective and curious in their practice, alongside developing their clinical experience and knowledge – we support this through regular clinical supervision, providing a variety of reflective group spaces and training opportunities.

Main duties of the job

We are seeking a Band 7 Specialist Registered Practitioner who is able to demonstrate specialist clinical skills, expertise and experience in the following areas: 

•     -  Leadership; working alongside senior practitioners and supporting junior colleagues to promote and develop excellent high-quality safe crisis care
•  Supporting the professional development of others through clinical appraisal, supervision and training, fostering a positive learning environment in the team
• Screening and triaging referrals into service
• Offering advice and consultation to professionals, helping them to understand risk and safety plan appropriately.
• Managing a clinical case load; building strong therapeutic relationships to deliver brief, intensive, evidence-based mental health interventions
• Visiting young people in their homes, community settings, tier 4 units and paediatric wards
•  Carrying out clinical mental health and risk assessments
• Working collaboratively with young people, parents/carers and multi-agency partners to develop a shared understanding of the young person’s story
• Developing safety plans with young people, parents and carers

• -        Working closely with networks of professionals such as Children’s Social Care, CAMHS and education providers to ensure the appropriate level of support is in place

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.