The Oxfordshire North CAMHS Getting More Help Service are 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 to deliver person centred interventions which impact daily activities and functioning and improve mental health and behaviours that challenge.
We're a friendly and supportive, well-established, and knowledgeable community multi-disciplinary team with good links across the CAMHS directorate (including to other OT's 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 9am-5pm.
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 YP open to our service, taking on the role as 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 to respond and support plans for children and young people who are presenting with an element of risk and are open to our service.
About us
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 capacity of caseloads.
We ensure that we celebrate our successes and acknowledge the hard work we do to support children and YP. 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
Job 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 YP who have an LD
* 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 skills
* To have an awareness of Occupational Therapy models and an understanding of how they may relate in practice.
* To have 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.
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.
£29,970 to £36,483 a year Per annum, pro rata
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