Job summary
- Main area
- Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Term time hours - 16.64 hours per week
- Job ref
- 267-OC6407306
- Employer
- Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Raglan House
- Town
- Oxford
- Salary
- £35,392 - £42,618 per annum/pro-rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 25/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Mental Health Practitioner - Oxford
Band 6
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust has been rated as Good by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
We are a responsive and innovative Foundation Trust that places our values of Caring, Safe and Excellent at the heart of everything we do. We take great pride in our staff and believe that investing in you is key to us achieving our vision of outstanding care delivered by outstanding people.
We work with a wide range of partner organisations to deliver care and support to people in their own homes and from a number of hospitals and community bases. We focus on delivering care as close to home as possible for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset.
Job overview
Would you like to play a key role in early intervention and support for young people experiencing emotional distress or emerging mental health issues?
This autonomous role requires creativity, flexibility and “outside the box” thinking to provide a useful and meaningful service to the schools and young people we support.
Main duties of the job
You will work as the main contact for a number of schools in Oxfordshire, building a good relationship with key staff and working with them to assess what the school needs in order to support their students best.
This may involve facilitating therapeutic groups in the school, running parent awareness sessions, or providing formal teaching around a variety of mental health subjects.
There is sometimes the need to support other team members with larger school interventions such as carousel days, or support schools or organisations with policy development around well-being. Training (online and face-to-face) is a key part of the role and you will be trained via the PPEPCare train-the-trainer programme and will be supported by our small friendly SIR team.
Working for our organisation
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust provides physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset.
Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics and people’s homes, delivering care as close to home as possible
Our vision is that no matter who you are or where you are, you will tell us that you receive: “Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team”
Our values are: “Caring, safe and excellent”
At Oxford Health we offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include:
- Excellent opportunities for career progression
- Access to tailored individual and Trust wide learning and development
- 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
- NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers
- Competitive pension scheme
- Lease car scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Mental Health First Aiders
- Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists may apply)
- Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- To contribute to the development of evidence based services and specialist programmes for the care group, specifically in relation to delivering the in reach programme in schools which they will have a key responsibility for
- To integrate the MH agenda and community resilience within the schools identified per worker and within the remit of the CAMHS contract. This includes delivering training, supervision, consultation,
support, in schools to which the worker is the key link, and to develop a robust approach to building community resilience regarding mental wellbeing/early identification of mental health concerns.
Person specification
Professional Qualification
Essential criteria
- Mental Health or equivalent professional health qualification- e.g. Occupational Therapist, Nurse or Social Worker
Desirable criteria
- Clinically relevant knowledge acquired through post qualifying training
Skills
Essential criteria
- Knowledge and understanding of safeguarding risk assessment
- To have ability to organise own time and manage work load and that of junior staff / learners, in relation to service needs and priorities
Desirable criteria
- To work autonomously within the team
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working with children and young people who have mental health difficulties.
Desirable criteria
- Post qualification experience in a mental health setting, working with young people or adults with mental health difficulties
- Experience of facilitating group work/training
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Annie Hurst
- Job title
- Clinical Team Manager
- Telephone number
- 07920 576611
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