CBT Assistant CAMHS

Job description
Within Gloucestershire Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) services with have a well established Cognitive and Behavioural Psychotherapy Team and we are seeking an individual to help with the smooth running of the service. You will support the qualified therapists in therapy interventions as well as help with communication and liaison with the family and professional networks around the young people we work with. This will be a varied role and will provide opportunity to develop a broad range of skills.

You will be line managed by one of the Team Managers within Core CAMHS and will have regular clinical supervision from within the CBT Team. You will work across the CBT Clinic joint working and holding cases, under the direction of the wider team. You will have a varied role, depending on the requirements of the Team, but this might range from helping set up and run CBT groups, networking and attending multi-disciplinary meetings, checking in with young people that we work with or doing discrete pieces of clinical work under the supervision and guidance of the CBT team.

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

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.

About

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:
• 8+.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.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Steve Branagan Job title: CBT Lead Gloucestershire CAMHS Email address: steve.branagan@ghc.nhs.uk Telephone number: 0300 42148++