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Job overview

Gloucestershire CAMHS provides high quality specialist mental health service to children and young people up to their 18th birthday and has locality bases in Stroud, Cheltenham and Gloucester.

This is an excellent opportunity to work in the children’s Learning Disability Service. We are seeking a highly motivated and committed individual to join our team.   The post holders will be based in Cheltenham but allocated a locality patch within Gloucestershire, therefore your own transport is essential.  

We work with Children and young people who attend a special school, we see them at home, in clinic or in school to deliver evidence based interventions.

The role involves holding a clinical caseload of children and young people with moderate-severe Learning Disabilities. To offer assessment and interventions to children experiencing, mental health difficulties and or challenging behaviour, including sleep difficulties. We adopt a PBS (positive behaviour support) approach throughout our work.

We deliver a range of courses to families around parenting and behaviour management.  We undertake clinical risk assessment as part of routine care coordinator responsibilities, clinical formulations and robust risk management plans.

This role involves extensive multi agency working. 

Main duties of the job

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. 

The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.

Working for our organisation

We have in excess of 5000 staff working over 50 sites, providing a diverse range of services. We strive to support an organisational culture that is welcoming, builds and celebrates inclusivity and diversity and provides a sense of belonging and trust. 

The annual NHS Staff Survey  gives our people the opportunity to tell us about their experience working at the Trust.  For the 2023 survey just over 2800 colleagues gave us their views (58.5%).   It was great to see from the results that colleagues are saying that:

• 89.7% believe they are making a positive difference to patients/service users; 
• 73.3% would recommend the organisation as a place to work; 
• 82.4% agree that care of patients and service users is the organisations priority;
• 76.7% would be happy with the standard of care for a friend or relative     

Our results put us as 5th nationally as a Community, Mental Health and Learning Disabilities NHS Employer of Choice and 1st equal amongst all NHS Provider Trusts in the South West. However, we know we have more to do and will continue to drive forward our commitment to making GHC a Great Place to Work.