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Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
Location:
Salisbury, United Kingdom
Job Category:
Other
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Yes
Job Reference:
47279e11588f
Job Views:
4
Posted:
16.02.2025
Expiry Date:
02.04.2025
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.
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.
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. You will participate in covering the service’s 24-hour on-call service on a rota basis. There is a robust system of support available from on-call colleagues including the manager, consultant psychiatrist, and senior manager on call.
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
We’re advocates of flexible working, offering in many roles a range of employment options to help you balance your work and personal life.
* 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.
* 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.
* We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults, we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
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