Person specification
Knowledge Requirements
Essential criteria
1. Professional knowledge acquired through degree/diploma
2. Understanding of the legal and social policy issues influencing the work environment
3. Knowledge of eating disorder services
4. Knowledge of latest healthcare policy e.g. NHS Long Term Plan
Qualification- Accademic/Skills/Professional
Essential criteria
5. Profession Health or Social Care Qualification
6. Current professional registration with appropriate professional body e.g. NMC, HCPC
7. Post qualification Management or leadership qualification and/or willingness to work toward this
Desirable criteria
8. Teaching/mentoring qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
9. highly extensive experience in experience in a mental health setting, working with adults or young people with mental illness and / or learning disabilities
10. Experience of leading a development or change within a service setting
11. Post qualification experience in a mental health setting, or Eating Disorder setting (Inpatient or Community)
12. Understanding of evidence-based practice and the ability to demonstrate how this influences clinical practice
13. Experience of Management supervision and case management in a clinical setting.
14. Experience of audit process at service level and a contribute to wider Trust audit
Desirable criteria
15. Experience of developing practice (nursing, social work, occupational therapy, psychological therapies)
16. 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.
17. 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.
18. 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.
19. Employees are expected to undertake mandatory and statutory training related to their role.
20. 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.
21. 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.
22. We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults, we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
23. 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