Job overview
Please note that this is an internal only role and therefore only current employees of Oxford Health are eligible to apply
Calling all Mental Health Nurses, Social Workers, Occupational Therapists, Psychologist or PWPs (Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners)!
Are you looking for a service that puts staff wellbeing and patient care at the heart of everything they do? If so, the Buckinghamshire Talking Therapies has a great opportunity for you!
We are looking for a Referral Co-Ordinator for the Psychological Therapies Pathway Single Point of Access (PTPSPA) team within our nationally recognised, high-performing, and innovative NHS Talking Therapies for anxiety and depression service.
If you are a clinician with a strong background in mental health interested in joining our dedicated PTPSPA team, this could be the role for you!
Main duties of the job
You will join a well-established and successful Single Point of Access Team who screen referrals coming in to all 3 steps of the Buckinghamshire Psychological Therapies Referral Pathway for Adults and Older Adults.
You will assist with the coordination and successful day-to-day management of incoming referrals, ensuring the provision of a responsive, high-quality service to patients with common mental health problems.
Part of the role will also involve offering clinical supervision/advice to clinicians who are carrying out Brief Screening Assessments as well as completing assessments yourself.
You will also support clinicians to step clients up and out of the service and will liaise, on behalf of clinicians if necessary, with GPs, referrers, and other statutory and non-statutory services in the Trust to ensure clients are signposted to the best service.
We are committed to providing ongoing, high quality Continuing Professional Development (CPD), and in addition to in-house training you will have an annual CPD budget for relevant external courses.
Working for our organisation
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”
At Oxford Health we offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include:
1. Excellent opportunities for career progression
2. Access to tailored individual and Trust wide learning and development
3. 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
4. NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers
5. Competitive pension scheme
6. Lease car scheme
7. Cycle to work scheme
8. Employee Assistance Programme
9. Mental Health First Aiders
10. Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists may apply)
11. Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The Buckinghamshire Talking Therapies team follows a hybrid working pattern of working at home and in office across the week.
We have two main bases, in Aylesbury and High Wycombe, with additional clinic space around the county. Ability and willingness to travel for business purposes is essential.
We expect our staff to share and demonstrate our values and be caring, safe and excellent in everything we do, constantly striving to improve the quality of care we provide and the experience that patients can expect.
For further information, please read the attached Job Description and Person Specification.
Visit our website to find out how we support over 12,000 adults each year to manage their common mental health difficulties.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
12. A post graduate diploma with experience in delivering evidenced-based psychological treatment (PWP Training) or a core mental health qualification in mental health nursing, social work, or occupational therapy.
Experience
Essential criteria
13. Commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. mental health difficulties
14. Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course with presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity
15. Effective team working, including liaison with other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
Skills
Essential criteria
16. High degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems
17. Good organisational and time management skills - ability to plan and prioritise own workload
18. Effective communication - written and verbal
19. All new starters have a 6 month probationary period. This, together with the induction process, aims to create a positive supportive working environment allowing new employees to learn key elements of their role over a reasonable timescale
20. Candidates not currently employed by the Trust who attend an interview for non-qualified Band 1-5 posts are required to undertake numeracy and literacy assessments.
21. 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.
22. Employees are expected to undertake mandatory and statutory training related to their role.
23. 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.
24. 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.
25. Oxford Health is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults, we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
26. 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