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Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
Location:
Salisbury, United Kingdom
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Yes
Job Reference:
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Job Views:
4
Posted:
18.04.2025
Expiry Date:
02.06.2025
Job Description:
Job overview
Do you want to develop your leadership skills and support clinicians to offer an excellent service to children and young people?
If you're a Mental Health Nurse, Occupational Therapist, Clinical Psychologist, Psychotherapist or Social Worker, we're looking for you to join our Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service team based in Salisbury Community CAMHS.
With a big national focus on improving services for children and young people’s mental health and wellbeing, there has never been a better time to join Oxford Health CAMHS and make a positive difference to children and young people’s life chances.
As the Clinical Specialist Mental Health Liaison Practitioner, you will help to lead the liaison service at Salisbury District Hospital. Working alongside Liaison Lead colleagues, you will participate in the delivery and ongoing development of the CAMHS Liaison Service across Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire (BSW). As the identified lead, you will provide day-to-day leadership, coordination and clinical support for the Mental Health Liaison Service, ensuring a consistent, responsive, high quality and user-friendly service is delivered.
You will have the opportunity to make an active and meaningful contribution to our exciting service modernisation and redesign that is based on the Thrive model, ensuring children and young people get the right support, at the right time, in the right place, from individuals with the right skills.
Main duties of the job
* Undertake comprehensive assessments of young people with mental health needs who present to the acute District General Hospital in Salisbury.
* Contribute to the clinical leadership of the team and provide supervision for other team members.
* Participate in a comprehensive induction programme, including a range of shadowing opportunities, ongoing in-house training, and opportunities to attend external trainings.
* Provide day support and consultation to hospital staff where a mental health need is identified.
* Identify and provide CAMHS training (this may involve other CAMHS colleagues).
* Provide primary link to CAMHS within the acute District General Hospital.
Person specification
Knowledge Requirements
* Knowledge of mental health and community care legislation and policy.
Qualifications – Academic/Skills/Professional
* RMN/OT/Social Worker with mental health training.
* Current registration with relevant professional body; NMC, HCPC.
* Leadership Training/Experience.
Experience
* Experience as a Band 6, or equivalent, Mental Health professional.
* Understanding and experience of working with children and young people with a wide range of mental health needs.
* Experience of care coordination/role of Lead Professional.
* Ability to carry out assessments and psycho-social interventions.
We welcome applications from all sections of the community, are an Equal Opportunities employer, and are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults.
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