The Mental Wellbeing of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) Workers in England: A Cross-Sectional Descriptive Study Reporting Levels of Burnout, Wellbeing and Job Satisfaction

Mareva, Silvana; Chapman, Beth; Hardwick, Rebecca; Hewlett, Charlotte; Mitchell, Siobhan; Sanders, Amy; Hayes, Rachel

doi:10.3390/healthcare12040430

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The Mental Wellbeing of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) Workers in England: A Cross-Sectional Descriptive Study Reporting Levels of Burnout, Wellbeing and Job Satisfaction

by

Silvana Mareva

¹

,

Beth Chapman

¹,

Rebecca Hardwick

²,

Charlotte Hewlett

¹,

Siobhan Mitchell

¹,

Amy Sanders

¹ and

Rachel Hayes

^1,*

¹

Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter EX1 2LU, UK

²

Peninsula Medical School, Faculty of Health, University of Plymouth, Plymouth PL6 8BH, UK

^*

Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.

Healthcare 2024, 12(4), 430; https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare12040430

Submission received: 21 December 2023 / Revised: 25 January 2024 / Accepted: 4 February 2024 / Published: 7 February 2024

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Job Satisfaction and Mental Health of Workers)

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In the UK, there has been a notable increase in referrals to specialist children’s mental health services. This, coupled with shortages of qualified staff, has raised concerns about the escalating occupational stress experienced by staff in this sector. In this brief report, we present cross-sectional quantitative data from 97 staff members working in one Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) in the UK during spring 2023, reporting on their wellbeing, job satisfaction, and burnout. Our findings reveal that over a third of CAMHS staff experienced moderate or high levels of work-related burnout; 39% reported moderate or high levels of personal burnout, but levels of client-related burnout were much lower (13%). Both work- and client-related burnout showed a robust negative relationship with job satisfaction, with higher burnout predicting lower levels of job satisfaction. Only a small proportion of respondents reported high levels of wellbeing, with about a quarter experiencing levels of wellbeing that can be considered indicative of mild or clinical depressive symptoms. Whilst these results are from a small sample in one area of the UK, they present an important snapshot of CAMHS staff wellbeing and are discussed in the context of similar trends reported in the wider NHS sector.

Keywords: mental health; job satisfaction; burnout; wellbeing; healthcare

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Mareva, S.; Chapman, B.; Hardwick, R.; Hewlett, C.; Mitchell, S.; Sanders, A.; Hayes, R. The Mental Wellbeing of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) Workers in England: A Cross-Sectional Descriptive Study Reporting Levels of Burnout, Wellbeing and Job Satisfaction. Healthcare 2024, 12, 430. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare12040430

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Mareva S, Chapman B, Hardwick R, Hewlett C, Mitchell S, Sanders A, Hayes R. The Mental Wellbeing of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) Workers in England: A Cross-Sectional Descriptive Study Reporting Levels of Burnout, Wellbeing and Job Satisfaction. Healthcare. 2024; 12(4):430. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare12040430

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Mareva, Silvana, Beth Chapman, Rebecca Hardwick, Charlotte Hewlett, Siobhan Mitchell, Amy Sanders, and Rachel Hayes. 2024. "The Mental Wellbeing of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) Workers in England: A Cross-Sectional Descriptive Study Reporting Levels of Burnout, Wellbeing and Job Satisfaction" Healthcare 12, no. 4: 430. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare12040430

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Mareva, S., Chapman, B., Hardwick, R., Hewlett, C., Mitchell, S., Sanders, A., & Hayes, R. (2024). The Mental Wellbeing of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) Workers in England: A Cross-Sectional Descriptive Study Reporting Levels of Burnout, Wellbeing and Job Satisfaction. Healthcare, 12(4), 430. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare12040430

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