Senior Mental Health Practitioner - Banbury

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 caring? Motivated? Passionate about supporting children's mental health?

In our North Oxfordshire Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) Getting Help Team, we are proud to be developing a needs-led, responsive and accessible service based on the Thrive model.

We're looking for you to join our team as a Senior Mental Health Practitioner - you might be a Registered Mental Health Nurse, Social Worker or Occupational Therapist and have a range of experience.

You will be working as part of a multi-disciplinary team, consisting of Nurses, Social Workers, Occupational Therapists to support children and young people experiencing mental health difficulties. We work closely with our Getting More Help colleagues who are Family Therapists, Psychologists, Psychotherapists and Consultant Psychiatrists when indicated.

We'll support you with access to supervision and training according to your needs as a clinician.

Main duties of the job

In this role, you'll deliver generic mental health assessments and risk assessments for children and young people (CYP) 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'll hold a clinical caseload which consists of providing evidence based therapies and working with other professionals to meet the needs of children and young people with mental health needs. At present we are achieving this on a hybrid basis at present with a mixture of office working and working from home.

We have a duty rota which we'll need you to partake in: this involves the clinician to respond and support plans for children and young people who are waiting for our service.

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

Team 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 informed practices. In house training by CAMHS specialist teams occur regularly and on an ad hoc basis.

The CAMHS North Getting Help Team serves the community of Witney, Bicester, Banbury and parts of Oxford providing a service that operates Monday - Friday 9am-5pm.

This post is full time but we would welcome conversations about flexibility and part time working. We also continue to deliver some of our services via a digital platform with a mix of office based work (which can be achieved via satellite bases in these areas) and working from home - and we'll give you the necessary equipment to undertake the role.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Mental Health or equivalent professional health qualification- e.g. OT, RMN Nurse, Social Worker

• Professional knowledge acquired through degree/diploma

Personal Qualities

• 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

• Skills in spreadsheets and other office applications

Experience

• 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

• To have experience of supervising student placements
• 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.
• 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.
• Oxford Health is 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