Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust
Mental Health Practitioner, CAMHS/TurnAroundForChildren Service (TACS)
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Job Opportunity: Registered Practitioner for Turn Around for Children Service (TACS)
This role is offered on a permanent basis. The hours are part-time, 30 hours per week.
We have an exciting opportunity within CAMHS (working with Adults) for a highly motivated individual who enjoys the challenges and rewards of a multi-agency environment, to join the Turn Around for Children Service (TACS) as a Band 6 Registered Practitioner.
About the Role
The Turn Around for Children Service (TACS) is the multi-agency, multi-disciplinary community team that delivers programmes for the Family Drug and Alcohol Court (FDAC) in Gloucestershire. FDAC is an innovative, specialist family court within the Family Court system. It offers a joined-up, problem-solving alternative to care proceedings for families where difficulties of parental substance misuse, domestic abuse and mental health 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 With
- Achieving and sustaining abstinence from substance use
- Mental health recovery and improved whole-family well-being
- Shorter care proceedings with improved outcomes for children
We are seeking an enthusiastic and flexible CAMHS Band 6 registered practitioner committed to supporting the mental health, recovery and reunification of highly vulnerable families.
Applications from Occupational Therapists are particularly welcomed for this role.
About Us
We are part of Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust and work in close partnership with our colleagues in health and social care to deliver this county-wide service. We operate a Monday to Friday service.
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Role Responsibilities
As part of your role, you will be expected to deliver intensive, co-ordinated assessments and support using evidence-based interventions. You will also contribute to court reports and drug/alcohol testing regimes.
The successful applicant must have the necessary professional qualification, including current registration (applications from OTs welcomed). All CAMHS Registered Practitioners hold a generic job description.
You will be encouraged to develop your specialist clinical skills through training, supervision and personal coaching, within the framework of a personalised job plan.
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.
The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.
Interview
Interview date: 03/09/2026
About Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust
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.
Staff Engagement
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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.
Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
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Name: Jo Rowbotham
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Job title: TACS Clinical Team Manager
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Email address: jo.rowbotham@ghc.nhs.uk
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Telephone number: 07970 198631
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Name: Jane Marriott
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Job title: TACS Service Manager
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Email address: jane.marriott@gloucestershire.gov.uk
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Telephone number: 01452 328356
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