Band 6
Main area: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services - Crisis/Home Treatment Team
Grade: Band 6
Contract: Permanent
Hours: 37.5 hours per week (You will be required to participate in a flexible working pattern within the multi-disciplinary team to provide cover for a core day 8am-8pm Monday-Friday and 10am-6pm Saturday –Sunday and Bank Holidays. You will also participate in covering the service’s 24 hour on call service on a rota basis.)
Job ref: 267-OC6175253-N
Site: Swindon Community CAMHS
Town: Swindon
Salary: £37,338 - £44,962 per annum/pro-rata (plus incentive premium of £3,500)
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 02/12/2024 23:59
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.
Job overview
Are you dedicated to improving the lives of children and young people?
Do you thrive in environments where you can help to deliver impactful, short-term interventions?
We, the Crisis and Home Treatment Service (CAHTS), embedded within the Bath, North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire (BSW) Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS), are looking for a Mental Health Practitioner to join us, based in Swindon.
In this role, you would be responsible for initial assessments and delivery of time limited, short term interventions to address emotional and mental health needs of young people in crisis, with the aim of reducing longer term mental health problems.
Main duties of the job
In CAHTS, we’re committed to deliver a high quality, comprehensive mental health services for children, young people and their families who are experiencing additional mental health needs.
You might support CYP and their families with psycho-social education or provide practical support, drawing upon evidence-based interventions.
Liaison, advice and consultation with wider CAMHS, colleagues in Children Services and a range of external agencies such as Children’s Social Care, Education and many more.
Person specification
Qualification
* RMN/Social Worker/OT/other relevant professional qualification
* Registered to practice in the UK
* Knowledge of DBT and CBT
Experience
* Caseload management/complex conditions & cases
* Experience of care coordination/lead professional
* Experience of working with children and/or young people with mental health difficulties
Professional & Personal Skills
* Effective communicator with patients, carers & staff
* Good team work skills
* Organisational skills for own & others workload
* Reflective in approach
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.
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