Deputy Team Manager - South Getting More Help (Abingdon)

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

Are you a hard-working, experienced clinician?

Are you looking for a new challenge?

Do you want to develop your leadership skills?

We are looking for a Deputy Team Manager for South Oxon Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS). You could be a Registered Mental Health Nurse, Social Worker, Occupational Therapist, Clinical Psychologist, Family Therapist or Psychotherapist; you will be supporting the Clinical Team Manager by undertaking both clinical and operational duties to ensure that we continue to deliver a high quality service to our children and young people.

We're an established team, growing with new investment into new roles. We are currently developing our service to improve the accessibility, responsiveness and excellent care that we provide to children, young people and their families.

You will be part of a dynamic local leadership team that meet frequently and work closely together; we're a supportive team with regular managers meetings and opportunities for coaching or mentoring.

Main duties of the job

In this role, you'll be expected to undertake mental health and risk assessments of children and young people within the Getting More Help Team.

You'll be working collaboratively with CYP families/other agencies and develop holistic plans of care which are evidence based.

You'll also hold a small clinical caseload which consists of key working and providing evidence based support. At present, we are achieving this on a hybrid basis, with a mixture of office working and working from home.

Another key component of this role, is to support the clinical team manager with operational duties, which includes deputising in their absence, undertake staff supervision, and case management, and support with ongoing service development - from the creation to implementation.

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 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

If you're a hardworking team player, you think outside the box and are a keen problem solver, this is the role for you. We're looking for someone who has a keen interest in service development, to build on and improve the outcomes for our children and young people.

For more details please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification or get in touch with Maria Bourbon, Service Manager, on [email protected].

Person specification

training and qualifications

• A recorded/registered qualification in one of the following - nursing, social work, occupational therapy or a psychological therapy
• Evidence of continuing professional development and maintenance of relevant professional qualification

• Professional knowledge acquired through degree/diploma A recorded/registered doctoral level qualification in clinical or counselling psychology with current HCPC registration
• Teaching/mentoring qualification
• Leadership training

Experiance

• Significant post qualification experience in a mental health setting, working with young people with mental illness
• Experience of mentoring and clinical supervision of others

• Experience and understanding of working within the education setting
• Experience of working with children and young people who have serious mental illness and their families and carers in the community

Knowledge and skills

• To have ability to manage case load and experience of acting as care coordinator for clients on a case list
• 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 principles and methods of clinical audit, research and service evaluation
• Can maintain professional standards and follow codes of practice
• 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