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CAMHS Registered Practitioner - (Creative Therapist)
The closing date is 24 August 2025
We are a supportive, experienced and progressive multi-disciplinary team. You will have the opportunity to develop skills assessing children, young people and families and ensuring they receive evidence based and effective interventions. We offer individual, family and group interventions which may be time limited or longer-term therapies according to need.
We are specifically looking for a creative therapist to join our team in Cheltenham, and work within our established MDT
Main duties of the job
Key elements of the role:
* Provide treatment interventions for children and young people as well as their families/carers who present with emotional and mental health difficulties
* Provide Care Coordinator responsibilities for a caseload of children and young people presenting with mental health issues.
* Undertake clinical risk assessments, mental state examinations, clinical formulations, and develop robust clinical risk management plans.
* Involvement in multi-agency discussions and liaison with other statutory and community services.
* Ensure the Voice of the Child is embedded within personalised care planning
The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.
About us
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.
Job responsibilities
Core key responsibilities will be agreed within personal job plans and will reflect the expected clinical and operational functions of the team
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. This will include collaboratively working and liaising with Trust and multi-agency partners across Gloucestershire as required.
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. This will include undertaking specialist Self Harm risk assessments of children and young people.
Provide formal clinical supervision to junior staff (as requested), including facilitating the development and consolidation of CAMHS core skills and competencies.
Offer regular student/trainee placements as requested, including meeting all teaching, assessing and preceptorship needs.
Ensure regular attendance at service wide and other CAMHS CPD/core competency training events.
Provide CAMHS clinical interventions within a multidisciplinary team where expected roles, responsibilities and activity/performance expectations are outlined within a personal (team based) job plan. This job plan will be reviewed on a quarterly basis and may be adjusted to meet team or service led requirements.
As agreed within personal job plan, to provide profession based interventions within specific CAMHS care pathways or clinics.
Provide specialist clinical reasoning as well as CAMHS specific consultation, training and advice to professionals working within a range of childrens services within Gloucestershire on a routine basis.
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.
Ensure local lone working arrangements are considered and adhered to when delivering interventions within a community setting.
Demonstrate commitment to the CAMHS Children and Young Peoples Charter by ensuring routine clinical work reflects proactive involvement and collaborative working with children, young people and their parents/carers. Demonstrate commitment to ensuring the voice of the child is central to developing personalised care planning for all children and young people.
Demonstrate commitment to working effectively with team colleagues to develop a strong multidisciplinary ethos and focus to delivering high quality clinical services.
Contribute to service wide clinical rotas as requested (i.e referral management, responding to same day urgent referrals, CAMHS Practitioner Advice Line).
Provide high quality written clinical/professional reports and other means of effective communication as part of routine clinical responsibilities.
Implement routine outcome measures (i.e. ROMS/HEF) as part of CAMHS Care Coordinator responsibilities.
Be accountable for maintaining own professional actions guided by the profession specific standards and Code of Conduct. This includes carrying out continuous professional development (CPD) activity to maintain knowledge of legislation, national, local policies and issues in relation to both specific client group and wider clinical practice. This includes maintaining a professional Continuing Professional Development (CPD) log to meet professional expectations and requirements.
Contribute to delivery of the current CAMHS Service Plan as well as considering new/innovative ways of delivering clinical care to the CAMHS population
Contribute to providing out of hours CAMHS services if requested by CAMHS Management
Person Specification
Qualifications and Experience
* Professional Health or Social Care qualification: RNLD, RMHN, OT, MHSW,
* Demonstrate current registration with a regulated professional body/ organisation: NMC, HCPC, BACP
* Significant clinical experience of delivering evidence based/best practice clinical interventions within CAMHS or child related services
* Post graduate training within a relevant CAMHS field or skill
* Profession specific additional qualifications (i.e LD, nurse prescriber, DBT, CBT, AMHP, family therapy or systemic practice)
* Experience of providing clinical supervision
Specialist knowledge and personal skills
* Demonstrate profession based clinical reasoning, knowledge, skills and competencies regarding a range of CAMHS therapeutic interventions, including current best practice
* This is a community based post and therefore a valid UK driving licence plus the use of own transport for business purposes is essential.
* Evidence of attending evidence based/best practice clinical courses / training events related to CAMHS
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust
£38,682 to £46,580 a yearper annum (pro rata)
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