Job summary
Employer heading
CAMHS Learning Disability Nurse
Band 6
We love what we do and we think you will, too!
At Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust (GHC), we provide joined-up mental health, physical health and learning disability services to people of all ages across Gloucestershire. We run community hospitals and provide care and support in people’s own homes and in a range of other locations across the county.
We are on a mission to enable people to live the best life they can and we have a vision to work together to provide outstanding care. We put people at the heart of our services, focusing on personalised care by asking ‘what matters to you’.
We’re passionate about making sure that everyone can contribute to achieving our mission and we are continually working to support healthy and happy high-quality teams in all areas of the Trust.
Our application process aims to understand each candidates knowledge, skills and experience. We have found that candidates that use AI to generate their answers can lack specificity and fail to address key criteria outlined in the job description.
It is really important to personalise your application to convey your individual skills, knowledge, and experiences effectively and for us to understand why you are applying for this role with GHC. We discourage over reliance on AI-generated as it will lessen your chances of success in securing an interview with us .
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Undertake clinical responsibility for a caseload, adhering to risk management and care planning processes in line with Care Programme Approach (CPA) and liaising with Trust and multi agency partners across Gloucestershire as required.
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.
Person specification
Education
Essential criteria
- RNLD
Knowledge
Desirable criteria
- Positive Behaviour Support
Experience
Essential criteria
- Learning Disability Experience
Desirable criteria
- Working with children
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Sally Powell
- Job title
- Operational Lead, Learning Disability Team
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0300 421 4224
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