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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

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Ref: 267-OC7427935 Vacancy ID: 7427935

Consultant Mental Health Practitioner

Accepting applications until: 21-Oct-2025 23:59

Vacancy status: Open

Accepting applications until: 21-Oct-2025 23:59

Location

Site: Forensic CAMHS South West (North)
Town: Keynsham
Postcode: BS31 1HA
Major / Minor Region: Oxfordshire

Contract type & working pattern

Contract: Fixed term: 23 months (YEF Funded)
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week

Salary

Salary: £55,690 - £62,682 Per annum | Pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Grade: (Band 8a)

Specialty

Main area: Forensic CAMHS

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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

· Provide expert care to patients on their caseload. Providing skilled assessment, treatment, supervision and consultation within Forensic CAMHS.

· Provide expertise and specialist advice, supervision, guidance and consultation to other professionals

· Make decisions where precedents do not exist, where appropriate without recourse to others, and to advise and support colleagues where standard protocols do not apply.

· Draw on advanced knowledge and exercise professional skills of the highest order, some of which are likely to be highly specialist, acquired only after lengthy training, supervision and practice.

· Build on and maintain working relationships between the Youth Offending Services, Children's Social Care and wider CAMHS Teams.

For more information please see the attached Job Description.

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

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

Registered RMN, OT, Social Worker or Psychological Therapist
Educated to degree level or equivalent plus masters degree or willing to work towards
Advanced clinical skills in acute mental health presentations and risk management

Desirable criteria

Masters degree directly related to specialism

Knowledge

Essential criteria

In depth understanding of the NHS and/or public services
Advanced clinical skills in acute mental health presentations and risk management

Desirable criteria

Trained/knowledge of Forensic assessments eg SAPROV

Experience

Essential criteria

Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups within CAMHS and / or the criminal justice system
Experience of working as a highly specialist clinician with young people and families.
Experience of mentoring and clinical supervision of others

Desirable criteria

Previous experience of working with high-risk young people in a range of residential, criminal justice and / or mental health settings.
Previous experience of working with Young Offenders and their families.

Documents

Further details / informal visits contact

Name: John-Mark Poppleston
Job title: Clinical Team Manager FCAMHS
Telephone number: 01865 903038
Additional information: We hope that the advert has given you a clear understanding of the skills we are seeking and the opportunity at hand. You will need to use the “supporting statement” element of your application form to demonstrate your suitability for this role and you should refer to the job description, person specification and the guidance notes attached to this role to help you tailor your application.