Main area: Occupational Therapist CAMHS Getting More Help Team
Grade Band: 5
Contract: Permanent
Hours: 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 267-OC6952788-1A
Site: Orchard Health Centre
Town: Banbury
Salary: £29,970 - £36,483 Per annum, pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 12/03/2025 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. 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.
We actively support anti-racism, equality, diversity, and inclusion. If you’re excited about this job opportunity and you meet our Trust values, but feel unsure about applying, please get in touch, and we will be happy to have a conversation with you.
We are also committed to increasing diversity in the workforce; that is why we actively encourage applications from those groups of people who are currently under-represented, which include, among others: people with disabilities; men from all socio-economic backgrounds; people from diverse ethnic backgrounds; and people from the LGBTQIA+ community.
Good luck, and we hope to hear from you.
Job overview
The Oxfordshire North CAMHS Getting More Help Service is delighted to be offering the opportunity to employ an Occupational Therapist (OT) within our service. If you are passionate about working in the community with children and young people with moderate to severe mental health needs to enhance their quality of life and health and reduce their vulnerabilities, then we are the team for you.
We would love to hear from any Occupational Therapists who have the compassion, skills, and knowledge to help us holistically assess our young people and deliver person-centred interventions that impact daily activities and functioning and improve mental health and behaviours that challenge.
We're a friendly, supportive, well-established, and knowledgeable community multi-disciplinary team with good links across the CAMHS directorate (including to other OTs within CAMHS). You will receive quality individual, safeguarding, and reflective practice supervision.
The CAMHS North Getting More Help Team serves the community of Witney, Bicester, Banbury, and parts of Oxford, providing a service that operates Monday - Friday 9 am - 5 pm.
Main duties of the job
This role would suit someone who thrives conducting initial and specific assessments and can communicate this effectively within the MDT and family but also externally to key organisations, such as social care and education. You will also have responsibility for and be supported with managing risk changes and supporting young people and families with this.
You'll hold a clinical caseload of children and young people open to our service, taking on the role of Key worker and delivering OT-based assessments and interventions.
We'll also need you to take part in the duty rota and work with the duty lead within the team. This entails the clinician responding and supporting plans for children and young people who are presenting with an element of risk and are open to our service.
Working for our organisation
The GMH North team is a supportive team with a particular focus on clinicians' wellbeing. We understand that working in CAMHS can be challenging and therefore strive to ensure that clinicians are well supported. Team managers work alongside clinicians to ensure that individual job plans are created to support clinicians in managing the capacity of caseloads.
We ensure that we celebrate our successes and acknowledge the hard work we do to support children and young people. There is a strong sense of teamwork and supporting one another.
There will be opportunities to develop clinical skills through ongoing training. Mandatory training will be provided, as well as ongoing training to undertake the role, such as CBT/DBT informed training. In-house training by CAMHS specialist teams occurs regularly and on an ad hoc basis.
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
The post holder will work in assessment clinics to lead new assessments under the supervision of and as part of the multi-disciplinary team (MDT). Additionally, you will deliver OT-specific assessments within the service, working closely with our OT lead. You will hold a caseload or be a keyworker for cases, with responsibility for ensuring up-to-date care plans and risk assessments are in place.
You will take part in the team’s Duty rota. You will crucially provide consultation, advice, training, and support to partnership agencies and members of the multidisciplinary team, from an OT perspective.
You will be a vital member of the MDT helping the wider internal and external systems to understand the complete identity and needs of the young people we support, including neurodivergence and mental health.
Person specification
Qualification
* Registered Occupational Therapist - including registration with HCPC
* A qualification in Sensory Integration or sensory-informed practice.
Personal Qualities
* Commitment to client-centred, non-discriminatory practice.
* Ability to reflect on and critically appraise the performance of self.
* Passionate to work with young people who have a learning disability.
* Ability and skill to support others.
* Ability to speak up.
* Experience of working with children and young people who have psychiatric, emotional, and behavioural problems.
* Experience of training and supporting others.
* Experience of supervising others.
Knowledge and skill
* To have an awareness of Occupational Therapy models and an understanding of how they may relate in practice.
* To have the ability to assess client need, including mental health, physical health, education, and social needs.
* Understanding and experience of Positive Behaviour Support.
* Knowledge of emotional and mental health problems that affect children and young people.
* Knowledge and understanding of Learning Disability and Autistic Spectrum Disorder.
* 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.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Name: Sharleigh Hills
Job title: Team Manager
Email address: sharleigh.hills@oxfordhealth.nhs.uk
Telephone number: 01865 904105
We would welcome a call about this role and even come and visit us.
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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