CAMHS Link Worker

Job title: CAMHS Link Worker                

Hours: Full time, 37 hours per week, or 2.5 day per week job-share arrangement would be considered for the right candidates.

Salary: OTR Band C, starting at £28,656 (FTE for part-time roles)

Accountable to: Lead Link Worker

Based at: BANES Community CAMHS Team, Keynsham, BS31 1HA (with Off The Record, Manvers Street, Bath, BA1 1JW, as a secondary base)

Contract type: Permanent (funded until August 2028)

Who we are

Off The Record Bath & North East Somerset (OTR BANES) is a mental health and wellbeing charity that gives local young people a safe space to be heard and be themselves. We provide a range of free services for young people, including counselling, listening support, youth participation, advocacy, social prescribing, and LGBTQ+ support.

Equity, diversity, and inclusion are at the heart of what we value as an organisation. OTR is committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, disability or any other status protected by law. We particularly welcome applications from Black and ethnic minority groups who are underrepresented in this sector.

Purpose of the role

You’ll be joining an exciting 1-year-old project working creatively alongside BANES CAMHS (the local NHS Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service) to offer non-clinical support that ensures an excellent experience for children and young people accessing mental health support across BANES.

As our CAMHS Link Worker, you’ll be embedded within the CAHMS team, working alongside a wide range clinicians to build trusted relationships with young people and provide:

• 1:1 support for wellbeing
• Social prescribing
• Community and school-based support
• Advice and guidance, including self-help
• Group support (future aspiration for the role)

You’ll support children and young people who are: accessing CAMHS support for the first time, already receiving CAMHS support, and those who are moving towards being discharged from CAMHS.

You’ll have an average caseload size of 10 children and young people and work with them for an average of 8-12 weeks.

You’ll work to tackle inequalities that disadvantaged groups may face when accessing CAHMS, including Looked After Children and Care Leavers, those with SEND (Special Educational Needs and Disabilities), young people out of school, and other groups who are hard to reach and/or hard to engage.

Your attributes

We are looking for a candidate who has excellent listening skills and the ability to form positive relationships with young people. You need to be able to carefully manage caseloads and understand the need to work in person-centred way.

Your enthusiasm and personality are as important to us as your experience. If you can’t tick off every point in the person specification below but feel that you have the right transferable skills to succeed in the post, please do still apply.

If you would like an informal, confidential conversation about the role before applying, please email us to arrange a time for a chat with our Lead Link Worker.

Key duties

Establishing Links:

• Develop and maintain effective relationships with children and young people, their families, and relevant external agencies to facilitate access to the right support at the right time.
• Help to maintain a directory of local community groups and support networks to enable effective social prescribing.

Assessment and Support:

• Work closely with children and young people to help them identify their support needs and goals.
• Collaborate with the CAMHS multi-disciplinary team, including taking notes during Initial Assessments.
• Hold a caseload of children and young people providing social prescribing.

Advocacy and Guidance:

• Advocate for the rights and needs of children and young people within the CAMHS system.
• Offer guidance to children, young people and families on navigating the mental health support landscape, including available services and pathways to care.

Collaborative Working:

• Work closely with teams within OTR and CAMHS to co-ordinate holistic care for children and young people.
• Participate in team meetings, case conferences, and relevant training to enhance service delivery.

Documentation and Reporting:

• Maintain accurate records of interactions, assessments, and support plans in accordance with OTR and CAMHS guidelines.
• Maintain accurate and up to date outcomes and feedback records.

General duties

• Participate in the day-to-day work of OTR – such as helping answer the phone when at the OTR office, and attending team and other meetings as required
• Be an ambassador for OTR, actively promoting our vision and work
• Ensure the effective implementation of OTR’s policies and overall organisational objectives, including Health & Safety policies and procedures, taking responsibility for their own personal health, safety and welfare in the workplace.
• Follow safeguarding policies and procedures in all aspects of the work with children and young people.
• Actively promoting good equal opportunities practices across all aspects of work and taking positive steps to counter discrimination however and wherever it occurs.
• Participate constructively in supervision and staff development opportunities including training and team building initiatives.
• Contribute to co-operative working across all the services within OTR.
• Promote and enable active involvement of young people in planning, improving and making decisions about OTR services.
• Ensure effective and accessible communication with staff, service users and the public.
• Contribute to maintaining and developing effective professional relationships both internally and with outside agencies.
• Undertake any other reasonable duties consistent with the skills and duties needed for this role, as required.

Working pattern and location

This role is based at BANES Community CAMHS, Temple House, Temple Street, Keynsham, BS31 1HA. As part of the OTR team, we also welcome you to work from our Bath office, where possible. In our central Bath office, you’ll have access to meeting rooms and colleagues from across our services.

The post-holder will be expected to be able to travel throughout the county to meet service users and professionals, and to attend meetings and training activities associated with the position. Applicants must have the ability to travel within (and occasionally beyond) the county, including to areas where there is no public transport. Mileage allowance will be payable for any travel you make by car.

The role is full time, or we will consider job share requests for the right candidates, with a minimum requirement of 2.5 days per week.

The job will require working outside of core office hours, including some weekday evenings, with the potential for occasional weekend work. The majority of the work will be within 9am – 5pm office hours and a typical working month might involve working one evening a week (for example to settle a child or young person into an early evening music group).

How to apply:

If you think you would be a good fit for this role, we would love to hear from you. Please visit our website to download the application form, and send the completed version, together with our Equal Opportunities monitoring form.

Please make it clear in your application if you are interested in a full-time or job-share working arrangement.

The closing date for this position is 9am on Monday 8^th of December 2025. Interviews will take place in the week commencing 15^th of December 2025, day and time tbc.

Terms and Conditions

• Contract: Permanent (project funded until August 2028), with a probationary period of 6 months
• Paid leave entitlement: 25 days plus 2 discretionary days and all English public holidays, plus up to 5 extra days to recognise continuous service (FTE)
• Two days of paid volunteering leave to enable you to support causes that matter to you (FTE)
• Death-in-service benefit
• Training and development opportunities for all our staff

Appointments will be subject to satisfactory references and an Enhanced level DBS check.

This job description is a general outline of the role: duties and responsibilities may be amended as the project develops. The post-holder might also be required to undertake other duties as may be reasonably required from time to time.