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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-OC8156034 Vacancy ID: 8156034

Senior Mental Health Practitioner - Mental Health Nurse

Accepting applications until: 10-Aug-2026 23:59

Vacancy status: Open

Accepting applications until: 10-Aug-2026 23:59

Location

Site: Raglan House
Address: Between Towns Road
Town: Oxford
Postcode: OX4 3LX
Major / Minor Region: Oxfordshire

Contract type & working pattern

Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week

Salary

Salary: £39,959 - £48,117 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Grade: (Band 6)

Specialty

Main area: 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

The CAMHS Outreach team provides a community-based service to children and young people and their carers who are experiencing chronic pervasive mental health disorders; In this role the post holder will contribute to the treatment of patient’s and their recovery at the key stages of their journey through mental health services.

You will hold a clinical caseload, acting as key worker, completing assessments, developing care plans, delivering evidence-based interventions, and maintaining accurate clinical records. The role requires close multidisciplinary working to ensure coordinated, high-quality care throughout the young person’s journey in mental health services.

You will be trained in Dialectical Behaviour Therapy and contribute to the team’s Dialectical Behaviour Therapy for Adolescence provision, including participation in DBT-A skills groups, treatment planning, and phone-coaching on a rota basis, which may include early evening hours.

The role involves collaboration with families, schools, Social Care, and other CAMHS teams to ensure integrated and effective support - strong partnership working is essential.

The post also includes involvement in service development, clinical governance, audit, and supervision of junior staff or students on placement.

Ongoing professional development, supervision, and adherence to safeguarding, data protection, health and safety, and professional standards are required.

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

Mental Health Nurse qualification with a valid registration

Desirable criteria

Professional knowledge acquired through degree/diploma. Additional post qualifying training in a relevant field (DBT, CBT or any other psychological therapies) Teaching/mentoring qualification

Knowledge

Essential criteria

Evidence of continuing professional development

Desirable criteria

To be able contribute to the audit process

Experience

Essential criteria

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
Understanding of evidencebased practice and the ability to demonstrate how this influences clinical practice.