Job summary
- Main area
- Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
- Grade
- Band 5/Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 267-OC6231255-A
- Employer
- Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Raglan House
- Town
- Oxford
- Salary
- £28,407 - £42,618 per annum/pro-rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 31/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Mental Health Practitioner - Oxford [Developmental role]
Band 5/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
*Newly Qualified applicants encouraged to apply*
An exciting opportunity has arisen in the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) Outreach service for a Senior Mental Health Practitioner. The Outreach service is based at Raglan House in Cowley, however provides support county wide within Oxfordshire, meaning there is an expectation to be able to travel to children and families' homes and other clinic bases.
You will have the opportunity to work with children and their families who require intensive community support and find it difficult to engage with generic CAMHS services.
You might be a Nurse, Social Worker or OT. We'll need you to be flexible, adaptable and creative in your approach to working with children and families, as well as multi-agency working, to deliver excellent, holistic care. There will be opportunities to learn from an experienced, well established, multi-disciplinary team, meaning this is an excellent role for someone wishing to develop their knowledge and understanding of working in children's mental health.
There will be opportunities to be part of assessments and delivering evidence-based interventions for children with complex mental health needs. Regular individual (clinical and management) and peer/team supervision is offered to support continual professional development.
We can offer this role as a Band 6 opportunity, or as a Band 5 developmental role.
Main duties of the job
The CAMHS Outreach team provides a community-based service to children and young people and their carers who are experiencing serious mental health disorders; In this role the post holder will contribute to the treatment of patient’s and their recovery at the key stages of their journey through mental health services. The Outreach team has two strands of the workforce.
Outreach: a part of the service which support young people, who are hard to engage with mental health disorders, which impact them accessing support and therapy from a standard CAMHS service, patient care can occur in a variety of settings such as patient home, school or community.
DBT dialectical behaviour therapy; to practice this strand of the post, the applicant will have completed the DBT foundation training, However CAMHS Outreach team can support the successful applicant to build on these competencies including signing off of the homework requirement.
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
You will be working within a small MDT made up of Social Workers, Occupational Therapists, Nurses, Family Therapists, Psychologists and Consultants.
The team strive for the best outcomes for the young people and families we work with, offering excellent patient-centered care.
We pride ourselves at having exceptional supervision and reflective spaces that are utilized by clinicians to enhance the work they are offering to young people as well as supporting their own wellbeing and professional development.
In this role, you will be responsible for:
- Provision of high quality assessments and treatment for young people and their families referred to the service. Utilising knowledge and skills for interpretation and analysis of patients’ needs.
- Patient care; formulating programs of care and as appropriate undertaking care coordinator role for a small complex case load.
- Provision of appropriate interventions such as family work, cognitive therapy, Dialectical Behavioural Therapy, behavioural management, individual counselling and group work with supervision as required. Ability to use an integration of theoretical frameworks to formulate practice.
- Consultation and joint working with other agencies/professionals to provide early interventions in and prevention of mental health problems in young people.
- Flexibility in delivery of care i.e. able to work within other environments in the primary care sector to maximize contact with clients and other agencies.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- A recognized relevant professional qualification in a mental health related field. (RMN, RNLD, OT or SW)
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of emotional and mental health problems that affect children and young people.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working with either: children and adolescents with psychiatric, emotional and behavioural problems or community mental health clients
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
- Excellent communication skills and ability to work meaningfully across agencies
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
- Emma Thompson
- Job title
- Team Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01865 902961
- Additional information
Carly Stewart, Deputy Team Manager 01865 902961
At Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust we want to employ people not just with experience, but with the aptitude and motivation to succeed and whose values resonate with our own.
Therefore, if you don’t meet all the requirements of the role and are unsure about applying but are excited about the opportunity, please do get in touch. We will be happy to discuss the requirements in more detail ahead of making a written application.
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