Duty Lead Clinician - Nurse - Oxford South - Abingdon
Are you a clinician, ready to develop your leadership skills?
We're looking for a Duty Lead within the Oxford South Community Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) team, who will be responsible for duty requests on behalf of the CAMHS Getting More Help service. With many changes to duties, this is an exciting time for South CAMHS. The duty lead is essential to implementing these changes, which directly enhance the experience of service users.
The duty rota is made up of other qualified CAMHS Clinicians who work regularly alongside you as the Duty Lead. These Clinicians are rostered in as part of their core responsibilities within the Community team.
Main duties of the job
As the Duty Lead, you will be responsible for overseeing duty, responding to calls and participating in the urgent assessments of young people that are undertaken each day. You will organise duty assessments according to the individual Clinician's experience and clinical need of the patient.
This opportunity is for an experienced Clinician to develop their clinical leadership skills and support the Clinical Team Manager by overseeing duty and identifying patients that need to be seen sooner or to use their clinical expertise to help resolve a situation before the point of crisis.
As the post holder, you will work closely with all Oxford South CAMHS Getting Help and Getting More Help staff and the Oxfordshire Crisis Response and Home Treatment Team (CRHTT).
About us
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"
Job responsibilities
Oxford South CAMHS is made up of a multi-disciplinary team including Nurses, Psychologists, Psychiatrists, Social Workers, Family Therapists, Psychotherapists, Occupational Therapists, and Administrators.
We have good structures of both Clinical and Managerial Supervision as well as Peer Supervision and Reflective Practice Groups. We also are keen to support staff in their professional development in both formal training opportunities as well as more informal team training.
Person Specification
Knowledge
* Strong knowledge and skills in assessing risk and developing safety/management plans.
* Knowledge of safeguarding vulnerable children and adults.
* Highly developed specialist knowledge in the range of mental health disorders in children and adolescents and current treatments, underpinned by theory and experience.
* Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies with children and adolescents with a range of Mental Health diagnosis.
Qualifications
* Qualification in Mental Health Nursing, Social work or Occupational Therapy.
* Registration with a professional governing body such as NMC or HCPC.
* Evidence of post qualifying education such as MSc level 7 modules.
* To hold an advanced professional/clinical qualification such as CBT or DBT or similar.
Experience
* Extensive experience as a qualified mental health practitioner, working across different settings, which must include experience of working in a community mental health setting.
* Previous substantial experience of working in CAMHS or a Crisis setting.
* Experience with Looked after and Adopted children.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Clinical Team Manager - Oxford South CAMHS
£46,148 to £52,809 a year per annum/pro-rata
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