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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.
Contact
- Address
- Trust Headquarters
- Warneford Hospital
- Warneford Lane
- Headington
- Oxford
- Oxfordshire
- OX3 7JX
- Contact Number
- 01865 901000
Senior Mental Health Practitioner - Nurse/OT/Social Worker
Closed for applications on: 11-Oct-2024 00:02
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 11-Oct-2024 00:02
Key details
Location
- Site
- The Clockhouse
- Address
- 22-26 Ock Street
- Town
- Abingdon
- Postcode
- OX14 5SW
- Major / Minor Region
- Oxfordshire
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
Salary
- Salary
- £37,338 - £44,962 per annum/pro-rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (Band 6)
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 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 LGBTQIA+ community.
Good luck and we hope to hear from you.
Job overview
In our South Oxon CAMHS Getting Help Team we are proud to be developing a needs-led, responsive and accessible service based on the Thrive model.
We are looking for an enthusiastic Registered Mental Health Nurse, Social Worker or Occupational Therapist to work within our integrated CAMHS team. You will be working as part of a multi-disciplinary team with access to supervision and training to support you in this role. We are interested to hear from clinician's with a range of experience. This is an exciting time to be joining the Getting Help Team in South Oxfordshire as we move forward with developing our Early Intervention and Targeted services in line with the Thrive model.
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The appointed clinician will work alongside our multi-disciplinary team consisting of Nurses, Social Workers, Occupational Therapists, and will work closely with other teams within Early Intervention as well as colleagues in Getting More Help CAMHS and other CAMHS Pathways.
You will be expected to deliver generic mental health assessments and risk assessments of children and young people 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 will be expected to hold a clinical caseload which consists of providing time-limited evidence based interventions with Young People and Families according to the needs of the Young Person. At present we are achieving this on a hybrid basis with a mixture of office working and working from home.
You will be expected to partake in the duty rota. This entails the clinician to respond and support plans for children and young people who are presenting with an element of risk.
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 GH South team is a supportive team with a particular focus on clinicians wellbeing. We understand that working in CAMHS can be challenging and therefore strive to ensure that clinicians are well supported. Teams 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. In house training by CAMHS specialist teams occur regularly and on an ad hoc basis.
The CAMHS South Getting Help Team serves the communities of Abingdon, Henley-on-Thames, Thame and Faringdon as well as parts of Oxford providing a service that operates Monday - Friday 9am-5pm. This post is full time but we would welcome conversations about flexibility.
- 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’re advocates of flexible working and many of our roles offer a range of employment options to help you balance your work and personal life.
- 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.
- We are 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
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- RMN or RN with additional Mental Health Qualification; or Occupational Therapist with HCPC Registration or Social Worker with HCPC registration
Desirable criteria
- Professional knowledge acquired through degree/diploma
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
- 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
- Commitment to client centred, non-discriminatory practice
- Commitment to lifelong learning
- Willingness to be flexible
- To be I.T. competent
Desirable criteria
- Skills in spreadsheets and other office applications
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working with children and young people who have serious mental illness and their families and carers in the community
- Experience of mentoring and clinical supervision of others
Desirable criteria
- To have experience of supervising student placements
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Rachel Matthews
- Job title
- Deputy Clinical Team Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01865 904700
- 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.
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