Job summary
We have an exciting opportunity within the CAMHS Turn Around for Children Service (TACS) for a CAMHS TACS Mental Health Practitioner Band 6 to join the Clinical team.
This post will suit a highly motivated individual who enjoys the challenges and rewards of a multi-agency environment. The role involves acting as expert witness in the court arena and providing high quality reports within court guidelines and timescales, as well as contributing to the assessment and care management of working-age adults with complex dual diagnoses.
The Turnaround for Children Service (TACS) is the multi-agency, multi-disciplinary community team that supports the Family Drug and Alcohol Court (FDAC) in Gloucestershire. A branch of the family court, FDAC offers an innovative, problem-solving alternative to care proceedings for families where parental substance misuse, trauma history and mental health issues may be impacting on parenting capacity and the child's outcomes.
Within TACS, CAMHS practitioners assert the voice of the child, while supporting parents in their recovery journey. Our service exists to:
- Help parents achieve and sustain abstinence from substance use
- Support mental health recovery and whole-family well-being
- Shorten care proceedings, with improved outcomes for children
- Provide highly specialised assessment, interventions and liaison with other agencies.
Main duties of the job
We are seeking an enthusiastic, team-minded and flexible Band 6 registered practitioner to work alongside clinical and multi-agency colleagues delivering mental health and substance misuse interventions in the context of dual diagnosis presentation.
The role also requires
- acting as expert witness in the court arena
- providing high quality written reports within court guidelines and timescales
- enhanced competence in complex decision-making and management of complex cases.
As part of your role, you will be expected to learn to conduct intensive, co-ordinated assessments and to design and deliver evidence-based interventions and drug/alcohol testing regimes. These form part of a range of clinical interventions supporting the recovery and reunification of highly vulnerable families.
About us
TACS Clinicians are part of Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust's Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS). The TACS team is a close multi-agency partnership of colleagues in health and social care working together to deliver a county-wide, Monday to Friday service in the community.
The successful applicant must have the necessary professional qualifications and experience, including current registration as outlined in the Person Specification. Specialist skills and clinical responsibilities related to working within CAMHS /TACS will be clearly reflected in a personalised job plan.
You will be encouraged to develop your specialist clinical skills through training, supervision and personal coaching. As a service we are proud of our strong multidisciplinary ethos and we have robust clinical supervision, workload management and Continuing Professional Development structures in place.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the Additional Information attachment before submitting your application
The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.
Closing date: Monday 27th March 2023
For further details or an informal chat about the role please contact Jo Rowbotham, TACS Clinical Team Manager on jo.rowbotham@gch.nhs.uk or 07970 198631, Helen Farren, TACS Substance Misuse Lead on helen.farren@gch.nhs.uk or 07970 198896 or Jane Marriott, TACS Service Manager on jane.marriott@gloucestershire.gov.uk or 01452 328356. We welcome the opportunity to talk about our work!
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the Additional Information attachment before submitting your application
The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.
Closing date: Monday 27th March 2023
For further details or an informal chat about the role please contact Jo Rowbotham, TACS Clinical Team Manager on jo.rowbotham@gch.nhs.uk or 07970 198631, Helen Farren, TACS Substance Misuse Lead on helen.farren@gch.nhs.uk or 07970 198896 or Jane Marriott, TACS Service Manager on jane.marriott@gloucestershire.gov.uk or 01452 328356. We welcome the opportunity to talk about our work!
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Professional Health or Social Care qualification (RNLD, RMN, OT, SW)
- Demonstrate current registration with a regulated professional body/ organisation (NMC, HCPC)
- Evidence of continued professional development
Desirable
- Post graduate training within a relevant CYPD/CAMHS field
- Evidence of formal, relevant post registration/graduate learning
- Profession specific additional qualifications (i.e. DBT, CBT, NVR, family therapy or systemic practice)
LENGTH / NATURE OF EXPERIENCE
Essential
- Significant clinical experience of delivering evidence based/best practice clinical interventions within CAMHS or related services and/or adult mental health settings
- Significant clinical experience of specialist care planning & case management/care coordination (including complex clinical risk assessment & management)
- Significant experience of CYP related multi-agency collaborative working and joint care planning
- Experience of identifying and managing complex safeguarding concerns, including using formal processes to escalate safeguarding
- Significant experience of delivering profession specific/evidence based interventions within a clinical/therapeutic setting
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office packages, e.g. Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Publisher and Outlook
Desirable
- Experience of collaboration working with other agencies including the voluntary sector
- Experience of providing specialist consultation/training and advice to partner agencies
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Professional Health or Social Care qualification (RNLD, RMN, OT, SW)
- Demonstrate current registration with a regulated professional body/ organisation (NMC, HCPC)
- Evidence of continued professional development
Desirable
- Post graduate training within a relevant CYPD/CAMHS field
- Evidence of formal, relevant post registration/graduate learning
- Profession specific additional qualifications (i.e. DBT, CBT, NVR, family therapy or systemic practice)
LENGTH / NATURE OF EXPERIENCE
Essential
- Significant clinical experience of delivering evidence based/best practice clinical interventions within CAMHS or related services and/or adult mental health settings
- Significant clinical experience of specialist care planning & case management/care coordination (including complex clinical risk assessment & management)
- Significant experience of CYP related multi-agency collaborative working and joint care planning
- Experience of identifying and managing complex safeguarding concerns, including using formal processes to escalate safeguarding
- Significant experience of delivering profession specific/evidence based interventions within a clinical/therapeutic setting
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office packages, e.g. Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Publisher and Outlook
Desirable
- Experience of collaboration working with other agencies including the voluntary sector
- Experience of providing specialist consultation/training and advice to partner agencies
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
