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Clinical Lead - BSW CAMHS (Swindon), Swindon
Client: Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
Location: Swindon, United Kingdom
Job Category: Other
EU work permit required: Yes
Job Reference: 5b68d14ed114
Job Views: 3
Posted: 16.03.2025
Expiry Date: 30.04.2025
Job Description:
Job overview
We are excited to announce two new roles within our Swindon Integrated Pathway for Complex Trauma. These positions are designed to support children and young people in care, as well as foster carers, connected carers, and social work teams. You will play a key role in delivering multi-agency consultation and support to meet the unique needs of this vulnerable group.
The Inreach Trauma Specialists will work in a strengths-based, trauma-informed environment, building positive partnerships with key adults and networks to improve outcomes for children and young people in care.
The Roles:
* One role focuses on supporting children we care for, directly working with young people to help them overcome complex trauma.
* The other role supports foster carers, connected carers, and social work teams, ensuring they receive consultation, guidance, and resources to provide the best care.
These roles address the challenges faced by this group in accessing timely support and will help shape this vital service. You will influence the development of the pathway, ensuring that it is grounded in a trauma-informed, strengths-based approach. We are seeking professionals from the following backgrounds:
* Registered Mental Health Nurse
* Occupational Therapist
* Social Worker
* Clinical Psychologist
* Family and Systemic Therapist
* Psychotherapist
We welcome applicants who are passionate about working with children, young people, and families from diverse social, cultural, and ethnic backgrounds.
Main duties of the job
You will provide specialist multi-agency consultation to social workers and other professionals to understand the needs of children and young people who are or have previously been in the care of the local authority. These young people may have experienced complex trauma and/or have moderate to severe mental health needs. You will employ research-based models to formulate and implement plans with individuals, families, and carers.
You may offer highly specialist assessment and treatment alongside the Getting More Help Trauma Specialists and other clinicians within CAMHS. You will also work closely with the Children We Care For teams within the Swindon Local Authority, offering consultation, reflective practice, and training to the social workers and support workers.
This role will work within a multi-disciplinary Inreach team of specialist practitioners who work directly with Children Social Services Teams within the local authority. You will work alongside a range of professionals such as Clinical Psychologists, Systemic and Family Therapists, Nurses, Occupational Therapists, and Social Workers and Child and Adolescent Psychotherapists.
This role requires you to demonstrate evidence of an anti-oppressive approach at the heart of your practice and to challenge, when needed, oppressive and/or discriminatory issues that are relevant to the children, young people, and families we work with, as well as within the system, or that impact on colleagues.
Working for our organisation
Oxford Health is a great place to work and to be able to showcase the best of yourself when making an application you are encouraged to read the “candidate guide to making an application” which is attached to all roles. Please include details around qualifications (including years these were gained particularly if we need to assess for clinical roles that these are still valid) and ensure that the supporting statement is tailored to the role you are applying for and addresses the essential criteria found in the JD.
As a Trust we provide 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
* Individual and Trust wide learning and development
* 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
* NHS Discount
* Lease car scheme
* Employee Assistance Programme
* Mental Health First Aiders
* Staff accommodation (waiting lists may apply)
* Staff networking and support groups
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will work autonomously in ways which are sensitive to the needs of CYP and families from a wide range of racial, cultural, and religious backgrounds.
This role will:
• Provide clinical, evidence-based care and treatment, according to expertise.
• Offer direct clinical work and alongside this consultation and supervision to support the work of other staff.
• Work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures.
• Utilise research skills for audit, and contribute to research and training within the areas served by the teams and service.
• Be involved in service developments.
• Work closely with the other Specialist Trauma Therapists and In-reach Clinical Specialists across BSW to achieve timely access to appropriate consultation and intervention for this group of CYP.
We are hugely committed to investing in our staff. Part of this commitment is our unique BSW training strategy. You will be able to access our comprehensive CAMHS training programmes, specifically adapted to you and your role.
We will work with you to identify any learning and development needs, as well facilitate your access to high quality management supervision to maintain your skills gained from this training. This will equip you to be the best you can be in your role, whilst also helping you to focus on your future and career development.
Person specification
Knowledge
* Experience/skills of working with young people who have experienced complex trauma and present with complex needs
* Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialized therapies with CYP who have experienced complex trauma and are presenting with complex clinical presentations
Experience
* Evidence of contribution to policy, protocols, and patient care pathway development
* At least two years’ experience of working in CAMHS or equivalent setting
Qualifications
* Registered RMN, OT, Social Worker, or Psychological Therapist
* Specialist training and experience of delivering an evidence-based or evidence-informed trauma intervention e.g. VIG, EMDR, Psychotherapy, Family Therapy, TF-CBT, NET, MBT, Specialist Sensory Training etc
Qualities
* Ability to problem-solve complex situations
* Highly developed interpersonal skills for delivering key messages to a range of stakeholders
* All new starters have a thorough induction process, both local and Trust wide, which aims to create a positive supportive working environment allowing new employees to learn key elements of their role over a reasonable timescale.
* Appointment to this post is subject to the trust receiving satisfactory references covering 3 years of employment or study. Please ask your referees to respond promptly to reference requests.
* We’re advocates of flexible working and many of our roles offer a range of employment options to help you balance your work and personal life.
* Employees are expected to undertake mandatory and statutory training related to their role.
* We are ambitious in our pursuit of excellence, driven by the belief that a fair, just and fully inclusive organisational culture enables our teams to deliver the best quality of care and services possible and we work hard to ensure that our diverse workforce reflects the communities that we serve.
* We welcome applications from all sections of the community, are an Equal Opportunities employer with a number of internal networking groups to support our employees and where possible will always look to make reasonable adjustments in order that you can fulfil the role to recognise your full potential. All our employees are committed to demonstrating through their behaviour our core values – safe, caring and excellent.
* We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults, we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
* Oxford is a world-renowned centre of excellence for research. Oxford Health works closely with the University of Oxford department of Psychiatry and the Department of Primary care, has a Biomedical Research Centre dedicated to improving mental health and the NIHR Clinical Research Facility at the Warneford site. The Trust also hosts the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) which carries out applied research that directly impacts patient health and wellbeing.
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