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Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
About
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. We focus on delivering care as close to home as possible.
Deputy Clinical Team Manager - Oxford
Closed for applications on: 8-Jul-2024 00:01
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 8-Jul-2024 00:01
Key details
Location
- Site
- The Slade,
- Address
- Horspath Driftway
- Town
- Oxford
- Postcode
- OX3 7JH
- Major / Minor Region
- Oxfordshire
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time
- Flexible working
Salary
- Salary
- £43,742 - £50,056 pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (Band 7)
Specialty
- Main area
- Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services - Learning Disability
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust has been rated as Good by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
We are a responsive and innovative Foundation Trust that places our values of Caring, Safe and Excellent at the heart of everything we do. We take great pride in our staff and believe that investing in you is key to us achieving our vision of outstanding care delivered by outstanding people.
We work with a wide range of partner organisations to deliver care and support to people in their own homes and from a number of hospitals and community bases. We focus on delivering care as close to home as possible for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset.
Job overview
The Oxfordshire Learning Disability CAMHS service has an opportunity for the new position of Deputy Clinical Team Manager. Together with the Clinical Team Manager you will work to provide safe and effective leadership for the community team.
The LD CAMHS service delivers care, consultation and support to the community and multiagency services. The service provides support and treatment for young people aged under 18 years old, who are registered with an Oxfordshire GP, who have a profile of a moderate or more severe learning disability.
A Learning or Intellectual Disability affects several different areas of a young person’s life. This would often include difficulties with learning, communicating, self-care, play or socialising, developing independence and keeping themselves safe from harm. We support young people who, along with their Learning Disability, experience some mental health difficulties and/or behaviours that challenge.
Some examples include:
- Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD)
- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
- Anxiety
- Depression or low mood
- Psychosis
- Our treatment pathways include;
- Trauma informed care
- Challenging Behaviours of sufficient severity to destabilise placements, including physical and verbal aggression and self-injurious behaviours.
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- To work alongside the Clinical Team Manager in the management and further development of the LD CAMHS team working to an agreed model, developing clinical structures, recruiting staff and implementing the service.
- To deputize for the Clinical Team Manager when required and provide a safe, effective and therapeutic clinical team ensuring the delivery of assessment and intervention.
- To support the CAMHS Learning Disability (LD) Clinical Team Manager in the delivery of specialist assessment and treatment.
- In conjunction with the Clinical Team Manager the post holder is expected to contribute in the development and implementation of a robust performance management system for the team.
- Together with the Clinical Team Manager to be responsible for the line management, case supervision and appraisal of team colleagues and to take a key role in ensuring effective joint working with statutory and voluntary agencies to ensure responsive and appropriate service delivery to children, young people and their families / carers.
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
- Competitive pension scheme
- 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
The Deputy Clinical Team Manager will work closely with the Clinical Team Manager and the rest of the LD CAMHS team.
A typical day will include reviewing referrals, offering supervision to team members, then liaising with one of the stakeholder agencies, joining a team member for a professionals meeting, managing your own caseload, supporting a service improvement project and having a coffee with your colleagues.
This role is varied and provides job satisfaction. The team are compassionate, kind and strive to deliver the best care possible.
Please see the Job Description and Person Specification for full details.
- 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
- 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.
- 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 and we work hard to ensure that our diverse workforce reflects the communities that we serve.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
Applicant requirements
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.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- A recorded/registered qualification in one of the following - nursing, or occupational therapy
- Evidence of continuing professional development and maintenance of relevant professional qualification
Desirable criteria
- Teaching/mentoring qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant post qualification experience in a mental health setting, working with young people with mental illness
- Experience of working with people who have a Learning Disability – Children and Young People or Adults
- Experience of mentoring and clinical supervision of others
- Experience of working in a community setting.
Knowledge, Skills and Ability
Essential criteria
- To have ability to manage case load and experience of acting as care coordinator/key worker for clients on a case list
- To be able to function as part of multi-disciplinary team and liaise with external agencies i.e. primary care, education, social and health care.
- To have ability to assess client need, both mental health, health and social needs
- Ability to reflect on and critically appraise the performance of self and others
- Ability to organise own time and diary and that of junior staff and learners
- Understanding of evidence-based practice and the ability to demonstrate how this influences clinical practice
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dawn Bagell-Cox
- Job title
- Clinical Team Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07768 615020
- Additional information
At Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust we want to employ people not just with experience, but with the aptitude and motivation to succeed and whose values resonate with our own.
Therefore, if you don’t meet all the requirements of the role and are unsure about applying but are excited about the opportunity, please do get in touch. We will be happy to discuss the requirements in more detail ahead of making a written application.
Kelly Garside
Service Manager
07768040608
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