Job overview
Are you caring? Motivated? Passionate about supporting children's mental health?
In our North Oxfordshire Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) Getting Help Team, we are proud to be developing a needs-led, responsive and accessible service based on the Thrive model.
We're looking for you to join our team as a Senior Mental Health Practitioner - you might be a Registered Mental Health Nurse, Social Worker or Occupational Therapist and have a range of experience.
You will be working as part of a multi-disciplinary team, consisting of Nurses, Social Workers, Occupational Therapists to support children and young people experiencing mental health difficulties. We work closely with our Getting More Help colleagues who are Family Therapists, Psychologists, Psychotherapists and Consultant Psychiatrists when indicated.
We'll support you with access to supervision and training according to your needs as a clinician.
Main duties of the job
In this role, you'll deliver generic mental health assessments and risk assessments for children and young people (CYP) open to the Getting Help Team. Working collaboratively with CYP families/other agencies you will develop holistic plans of care which are evidence based.
You'll hold a clinical caseload which consists of providing evidence based therapies and working with other professionals to meet the needs of children and young people with mental health needs. At present we are achieving this on a hybrid basis at present with a mixture of office working and working from home.
We have a duty rota which we'll need you to partake in: this involves the clinician to respond and support plans for children and young people who are waiting for our service.
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
Our North team is a supportive team: we know that delivering the best care means we need to make sure we are looking after you, so we 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 team working 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 practices. In house training by CAMHS specialist teams occur regularly and on an ad hoc basis.
The CAMHS North Getting Help Team serves the community of Witney, Bicester, Banbury and parts of Oxford providing a service that operates Monday - Friday 9am-5pm.
This post is full time but we would welcome conversations about flexibility and part time working. We also continue to deliver some of our services via a digital platform with a mix of office based work (which can be achieved via satellite bases in these areas) and working from home - and we'll give you the necessary equipment to undertake the role.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
12. Mental Health or equivalent professional health qualification- e.g. OT, RMN Nurse, Social Worker
Desirable criteria
13. Professional knowledge acquired through degree/diploma
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
14. Ability to reflect on and critically appraise the performance of self and others
15. Ability to organise own time and diary and that of junior staff and learners
16. Commitment to client centred, non-discriminatory practice
17. Commitment to lifelong learning
18. Willingness to be flexible
19. To be I.T competent
Desirable criteria
20. Skills in spreadsheets and other office applications
Experience
Essential criteria
21. Experience of working with children and young people who have serious mental illness and their families and carers in the community
22. Experience of mentoring and clinical supervision of others
Desirable criteria
23. To have experience of supervising student placements
24. 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.
25. 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.
26. Employees are expected to undertake mandatory and statutory training related to their role.
27. 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.
28. 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.
29. 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.
30. 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