Senior Support Worker - Crisis and Home Treatment - BaNES - Keynsham

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

Do you want to be part of a new service that offers intensive, personally tailored mental health support for children and young people?

We are looking for enthusiastic, caring individuals with a passion for working with young people with mental health difficulties to join our exciting new CAMHS Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Service (CAHTS). Following new investment, we are proud to be developing a needs led service based on the i-Thrive model.

This will be a service consistent with the nationally defined Crisis Resolution Home Treatment Team clinical model. Accessibility, responsiveness and excellence in care, with the highest regard for service experience will be at the heart of the service.

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Main duties of the job

Based in Keynsham, you would be part of a thriving multidisciplinary team who work closely together and support each other. We would welcome applications from clinicians with some experience of working with children or adults with mental health difficulties.

You will support and enhance the clinical care of patients and their parents/carers within the CAMHS Crisis and Home Treatment Service. You will also support the mental health assessments and interventions led by qualified clinicians for children and young people in crisis, waiting to enter or leaving inpatient adolescent care and those who require intensive home treatment.

Saturday –Sunday and Bank Holidays.

previous applicants need not apply.

Working for our organisation

You will be offered a variety of training including Positive Behaviour Support, AMBIT, DBT coping skills, and Family Based Therapy for Eating Disorders. There will also be the opportunity for further training based around individual learning needs.

Benefits of working for Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust include:

• Excellent opportunities for career progression
• 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, with an increase to 33 days with continuous service
• NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers
• Staff accommodation
• Competitive pension scheme
• Lease car scheme
• Cycle to work scheme

• To provide meal supports for children and young people with an eating disorder, under the direction of the eating disorder service care coordinator.
• To prepare psychoeducational material for children, young people and their families, and for use of other agencies’ staff, under the supervision of a qualified clinician in the team.
• To prepare and organise materials for therapeutic input, under the supervision of a qualified clinician in the team.

Please see attached job description for further information.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Five GCSE’s at grade C/level 5

• CPD in the area of children and young people’s mental health.

Knowledge

• An understanding of the needs and difficulties of people with mental health problems.

• Knowledge of the developmenKnowledge of the developmental emotional challenges for children and young people. tal emotional challenges for children and young people.

experience

• Experience of working with service users with mental health difficulties.

• Experience of working as a support worker or an assistant psychologist.
• Experience of working with children and adolescents.
• 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