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Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
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Posted:
16.03.2025
Expiry Date:
30.04.2025
Job Description:
Job overview
Are you looking to make a real difference in the lives of children, young people, and vulnerable adults?
As the In-Patient Liaison Lead, you will play a crucial role across Buckinghamshire, managing cases of young people with the most complex needs and ensuring they receive the multi-agency support they require. You will also oversee out-of-area inpatients, providing vital oversight and care.
This role is part of the crisis team within OSCA (Outreach Service for Children and Adolescents), a specialised component of our integrated service model within the Child & Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS). You will collaborate with various specialised teams from across the Trust.
If you are looking for a role where you can provide expert clinical care, leadership, and support across multiple teams, this is the perfect opportunity for you.
Join us and be part of a dynamic team dedicated to making a positive impact on the community!
Main duties of the job
* Provide expert clinical care, including skilled assessment, treatment, and consultation within CAMHS, and manage a caseload of crisis patients.
* Develop and review risk management plans, offering specialist advice and support to other professionals and contributing to young people's assessment and treatment.
* Support and inspire colleagues, set and improve standards, and provide expert advice and guidance across the organisation and beyond.
* Contribute to the education, training, and development of clinical staff and partner agencies, helping to integrate theory and practice.
* Work at the forefront of practice innovation, generating and evaluating practice protocols, and participating in national professional networks.
Please refer to the job description attached for a comprehensive list of duties.
Applicants must have a full valid driving licence and have access to a vehicle for work. Adjustments can be considered in line with the Equality Act 2010 where required.
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 please read the “candidate guide to making an application” and ensure your supporting statement is tailored to the role you are applying for and addresses any essential criteria.
As a Trust we provide physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and Northeast 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”
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 apply)
* Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
We hope that the advert has given you a clear understanding of the skills we are seeking and the opportunity at hand. You will need to use the “supporting statement” element of your application form to demonstrate your suitability for this role and you should refer to the job description, person specification and the guidance notes attached to this role to help you tailor your application. The essential and desirable criteria will be used to shortlist for interview and you should ensure that you refer to these within your application to increase your chances of being selected for interview.
We spoke with the team and here's what they said about working in CAMHS:
"I cannot speak highly enough of the team I work with. Getting more help is full of compassionate, kind, hardworking people who are an absolute pleasure to work with. Best team I have ever worked in by far!"
"I am incredibly proud to work for our Trust and to work with so many people who are so committed to helping to support young people and their families. CAMHS feels like one big family, and it is a great place to be where everyone works collaboratively and helps supports each other in the quest to trying to provide the best care to our patients."
Person specification
Qualifications
* Professional Qualification and registration in Social Work, Mental Health Nursing or Occupational Therapy.
Skills
* Knowledge and experience of risk assessment and management in different settings
Experience
* Experience of working with children and young people who have complex mental illness and their families and carers or experience of working within Child maltreatment and abuse and parenting services
* Experience of working within a Child & Adolescent inpatient setting
* 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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