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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.
Clinical Specialist -Crisis/Home Service - Social Worker - Marlborough
Closed for applications on: 4-Jul-2024 00:00
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 4-Jul-2024 00:00
Key details
Location
- Site
- BaNES
- Address
- Temple House
- Town
- Keynsham
- Postcode
- BS31 1HA
- Major / Minor Region
- Oxfordshire
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
Salary
- Salary
- £43,742 - £50,056 per annum/pro-rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (Band 7)
Specialty
- Main area
- Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
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.
We know Job Descriptions and Specifications can sometimes be long which can be off-putting for some people, and we don’t want to let that deter you from applying.
We actively support anti-racism, equality, diversity, and inclusion so, if you’re excited about this job opportunity and you meet our Trust values, but feel unsure about applying, then please get in touch and we will be happy to have a conversation with you.
We are also committed to increasing diversity in the workforce, that is why we actively encourage applications from those groups of people who are currently under-represented, which include amongst others: people with disabilities; men from all socio-economic backgrounds; people from diverse ethnic backgrounds; and people from the LGBTQI+ community.
Good luck and we hope to hear from you!
Job overview
Are you dedicated to improving the lives of children and young people?
Do you want to develop your leadership skills and be part of a new service?
Do you want to work for a team built on best practice guidelines?
In our BSW (Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire) Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services we are proud to be developing a needs led, responsive and accessible service based on the i-Thrive model.
We are looking for an experienced and enthusiastic Registered Mental Health Nurse, Social Worker or Occupational Therapist who would be interested in this role as the senior clinician for the Crisis and Home Treatment Service (CAHTS) in Marlborough.
You will be located in the well established and compassionate Marlborough CAMHS team , this is a multi-disciplinary team and we pride ourselves on the service we provide you young people and their families, staff wellbeing and development opportunities.
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We have had great feedback from staff about our model of having CAHTS staff embedded in the local CAMHS teams, such that they feel part of the team and work closely together.
In this role, you would be the lead for CAHTS staff in this CAMHS base and working closely with the BSW wide CAHTS clinical leadership team to support our staff and to offer a brilliant service to children and young people.
We're looking for you to help develop our evidence based clinical pathways and offer consultation and supervision to CAHTS staff.
Working for our organisation
We'll offer you training in Positive Behaviour Support, AMBIT, Motivational Interviewing and DBT informed Coping Skills. There will also be the opportunity for further training based around individual learning needs. We have good professional support in our service and regular professional regional meetings.
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
There is scope for you to build into this role, if desired, options of clinical sessions working in: our CAMHS eating disorder service; our neurodevelopmental assessment clinic; our family therapy clinic; our DBT service; our short term therapeutic interventions pathway; or our longer term MDT interventions pathway.
Although this role is funded for full time hours, we really understand and appreciate the need for a healthy work/life balance, so if part times hours work better for you, please get in touch with us and we can discuss!
If you have any questions about the role, the hours or the team, please do get in contact with Clare Fry, Consultant Mental Health Practitioner, on [email protected] or 07785 663323.
- 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
- Mental Health professional qualification to degree level or equivalent
Desirable criteria
- Post graduate qualification relevant to specialism
- Experience of offering qualified staff supervision
- Knowledge of DBT and Leadership/management qualification/training
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Considerable post qualifying experience in mental health
- Able to manage a caseload of children and young people with complex conditions & cases
- Experience of working with service users with mental health difficulties
Desirable criteria
- Experience of being a Care coordinator or managing a case load
- Experience of working with children and/or young people with mental health difficulties
Skills
Essential criteria
- Effective communicator with patients, carers & staff
- Organisational skills for own & others workload
- Good time management skills
- Good teamwork skills
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Clare Fry
- Job title
- Consultant Mental Health Practitioner
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07785 663323
- Additional information
Please get in touch prior to making an application should you wish to discuss the role in more detail.
No longer accepting applications
Sorry, this vacancy is no longer accepting applications.
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