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Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
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Oxford, United Kingdom
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Job Reference:
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7
Posted:
09.02.2025
Expiry Date:
26.03.2025
Job Description:
Job overview
Are you a Mental Health Nurse, Occupational Therapist or Social Worker interested in joining our Eating Disorders Service based in Oxfordshire?
With a 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 Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) and make a positive difference to children and young people’s life chances.
You will deliver a high-quality, comprehensive service for children, young people, and their families who have an Eating Disorder.
This is a varied and rewarding role within a highly supportive team - we have a strong ethos around staff well-being - where clinical supervision and CPD are priorities for the service. We offer robust clinical and caseload supervision to facilitate a supportive working environment.
Main duties of the job
As a Senior Mental Health Practitioner, you will be responsible for initial assessments, delivery and evaluation of care, and providing psycho-educational advice and practical support to young people and their families by drawing on evidence-based interventions and using collaborative, recovery-focused approaches.
Risk assessment and management, including the need for positive risk-taking, is an important part of the role. You will contribute to the clinical leadership of the team, providing supervision for other team members and participating in the team service development and evaluation.
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:
* Excellent opportunities for career progression
* Access to tailored individual and Trust-wide learning and development
* 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
* NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants, and retailers
* Lease car scheme
* Cycle to work scheme
* Employee Assistance Programme
* Mental Health First Aiders
* Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists may apply)
* Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
We know how important a work-life balance is, so we are happy to consider arranging part-time hours.
Person specification
Qualification
* Current registration with relevant professional body: NMC, HCPC
* Evidence of continuous professional development
Experience
* Post qualification experience in a mental health setting, working with young people or adults with mental illness.
* Experience of mentoring.
* Experience of working with children and young people who have serious mental illness and their families and carers in the community.
Knowledge and further training/skills
* Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
* Ability to manage a caseload and act as care coordinator for clients on the caseload.
* Ability to work as part of a team and independently.
* A positive approach to working with children, adolescents, and families.
* Experience of working within a multicultural framework.
* 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.
* 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.
* Employees are expected to undertake mandatory and statutory training related to their role.
* 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. We work hard to ensure that our diverse workforce reflects the communities that we serve.
* Oxford Health is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults, and we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
* 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.
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