BSW CAMHS In Reach- Clinical Lead Specialist (FASS)
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
We are looking for a Lead Clinical Specialist to join our CAMHS BSW In Reach Team within the (Family Assessment and Safeguarding Service ) FASS pathway.
You will join a small, dedicated and enthusiastic multi-disciplinary team committed to developing the highest standards of clinical assessment and treatment for the most vulnerable infants, children and parents. The post will involve travelling throughout Wiltshire and B&NES and working across a number of clinical bases and clients homes.
We would welcome applications from individuals who have a professional background with clinical expertise, knowledge and interest in the delivery of specialist assessment and provision of therapeutic interventions to families where there are complex mental health and safeguarding presentations.The role will involve offering consultations, assessing parents and parent-infant/child relationships, using formulation skills to guide and inform evidence-based treatment for parents and families.
As a service we offer Mentalization Based Treatment interventions. We utilise the AMBIT (adaptive mentalization based integrative treatment) approach when providing professional network support.
Within this post there will be ample opportunity to apply a wide range of core clinical skills within this post including: teaching, training, external and internal consultation, supervision, audit, service evaluation and research.
Main duties of the job
We are a small, specialist multidisciplinary service within Oxford Health CAMHS providing consultation, child and parenting assessments and psycho-therapeutic interventions to families where there is a high risk of severe parenting breakdown, maltreatment and/ or neglect and where there are major parent/child relationship difficulties and/or attachment disorder.
WHO WE WORK WITH
FASS works with families with children in their care, from birth (or expectant parents) until the child is aged 18 years old and where there are current and severe risks in relation to parenting problems leading to child abuse and/or neglect.
A requirement is that the family are stepping up to, or subject to, Child Protection Planning and are open to a Local Authority safeguarding team.
One or more of the following issues are usually present within any one case and must be linked to severe relational breakdown between parent(s)/carer(s) and child(ren):
- parent(s)/carer(s) mental health difficulties, personality problems, and/or mild learning disability
- parent(s)/carer(s) with unresolved childhood maltreatment and trauma
- families with a child(ren) who has unresolved severe trauma
- parent(s)/carer(s) with a history of substance misuse
- parent(s)/carer(s) with a history of/current relationship difficulties
- history of severe parenting breakdown
Working for our organisation
Oxford Health is a great place to work and to be able to showcase the best of yourself when making an application you are encouraged to read the “candidate guide to making an application” which is attached to all roles. Please include details around qualifications (including years these were gained particularly if we need to assess for clinical roles that these are still valid) and ensure that the supporting statement is tailored to the role you are applying for and addresses the essential criteria found in the JD.
As a Trust we provide 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 vision is that no matter who you are or where you are, you will tell us that you receive: “Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team”
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
- Individual and Trust wide learning and development
- 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
- NHS Discount
- Pension scheme
- Lease car scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Mental Health First Aiders
- Staff accommodation (waiting lists may apply)
- Staff networking and support groups
- To provide a high-quality specialist therapy service to children, young people and their carers identified known to Children’s Social Care.
- To provide consultation and support to team members across Children’s Social Care who deliver assessments, care and interventions.
- To provide training to a range of staff in Children’s social care.
- To attend strategy and multi-agency meetings for young people identified open to the BaNES In- Reach team to contribute to the multi-agency planning and response.
- To work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures.
- To utilise research skills for audit and contribute to research and training within the areas served by the teams and service.
- To be involved in the development of this new service as appropriate.
Please note provisional interview date for this post March 18th, 2025
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria- Registered RMN, OT, Social Worker or Psychological Therapist
- Educated to PhD level, Non- medical prescribing qualification
Experience
Essential criteria- Experience of providing specialist assessments, formulation and interventions to CYP presenting with complex presentations
Experience
Essential criteria- Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialized therapies with CYP presenting with complex clinical presentations
Skills
Essential criteria- Evidence of involvement in strategic level decision-making
Experience
Essential criteria- Experience of mentoring and clinical supervision of others
- 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