Main area: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
Grade Band: 7
Contract: Permanent
Hours: 22.5 hours per week (Part time, Flexible working)
Within the team, we work on a flexible working pattern within the multi-disciplinary team to provide cover for a core day 8am-8pm Monday-Friday and 10am-6pm Saturday – Sunday and Bank Holidays. The flexible working patterns allow team members to work hours flexibly and for days off during the week. The post holder will be required to participate in covering the service’s 24-hour on-call service on a rota basis.
Job ref: 267-OC6952586
Employer: Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Salisbury Community CAMHS
Town: Salisbury
Salary: £46,148 - £52,809 per annum/pro-rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 27/02/2025 23:59
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.
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 and ensure 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
* Assessment of deliberate self-harm
* Support to patients admitted with an eating disorder
* Contribute a psycho-social perspective to patients admitted
* 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.
This is a varied and rewarding role within a highly supportive team.
Person specification
Knowledge Requirements
* Knowledge of mental health and community care legislation and policy
* Knowledge of Recovery Focused Practice
* Knowledge of Safeguarding policy and procedures
* Knowledge and experience of a range of motivational interviewing, solution focused therapy and a psychological therapy (i.e. CBT/DBT)
Qualifications – Academic/Skills/Professional
* RMN/OT/Social Worker with mental health training
* Current registration with relevant professional body; NMC, HCPC
* Evidence of continuous professional development
* 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 or relevant Mental Health experience
* Experience of and commitment to working in a multi-agency setting working in partnership with a range of health, social care and education professionals
* Experience of working with young adults or young people or experience of working in a community setting
* Experience of care coordination/role of Lead Professional
* Ability to carry out assessments and psycho-social interventions
* Experience of providing clinical supervision
* Experience of working with young people with an Eating Disorder
* Experience of providing training/supervision for junior staff and students on placement
* Experience of contributing to the leadership/management of a clinic, project, aspect of clinical work
For more information or to arrange an informal visit please contact Terry Pearce on Clinical Team Manager Terry.Pearce@oxfordhealth.nhs.uk.
You must have appropriate UK professional registration. This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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