Are you a hard-working, experienced clinician?
Are you looking for a new challenge?
Do you want to develop your leadership skills?
We are looking for a Deputy Team Manager for North Oxon Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS). You could be a Registered Mental Health Nurse, Social Worker, Occupational Therapist, Clinical Psychologist, Family Therapist, or Psychotherapist; you would be supporting the Clinical Team Manager by undertaking both clinical and operational duties to ensure that we continue to deliver a high quality service to our children and young people.
We're an established team, growing with new investment into new roles. We are currently developing our service to improve the accessibility, responsiveness, and excellent care that we provide to children, young people, and their families.
You will be part of a dynamic local leadership team that meets frequently and works closely together; we're a supportive team with regular managers meetings and opportunities for coaching or mentoring.
Main duties of the job:
In this role, you'll undertake mental health and risk assessments of children and young people within the Getting More Help Team. Depending on the needs of the child or young person (CYP), this could either be on an urgent or routine basis. Working collaboratively with CYP families and other agencies, you will develop holistic plans of care that are evidence-based.
You'll also hold a small clinical caseload which consists of key working and providing evidence-based support. At present, we are achieving this on a hybrid basis, with a mixture of office working and working from home.
Another key component of this role is taking part in the duty rota. This entails the clinician responding and supporting plans for children and young people who are presenting with an element of risk and are waiting for our service.
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
* 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:
If you're a hardworking team player, you think outside the box, and are a keen problem solver, this is the role for you. We're looking for someone who has a keen interest in service development to build on and improve the outcomes for our children and young people.
Person specification:
Training and qualifications:
* A recorded/registered qualification in one of the following - nursing, social work, occupational therapy, or a psychological therapy
* Evidence of continuing professional development and maintenance of relevant professional qualification
* Professional knowledge acquired through degree/diploma; a recorded/registered doctoral level qualification in clinical or counselling psychology with current HCPC registration
* Leadership training
Experience:
* Significant post qualification experience in a mental health setting, working with young people with mental illness
* Experience of mentoring and clinical supervision of others
* Experience and understanding of working within the education setting
* Experience of working with children and young people who have serious mental illness and their families and carers in the community
Knowledge and skills:
* Ability to manage a caseload and experience of acting as care coordinator for clients on a case list
* Ability to function as part of a multi-disciplinary team and liaise with external agencies i.e., primary care, education, social and health care
* Ability to assess client need, both mental health, health, and social needs
* Understanding of principles and methods of clinical audit, research, and service evaluation
* Ability to maintain professional standards and follow codes of practice
* 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.
* 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.
* Oxford Health is 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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