Job summary
Do you want to develop your leadership skills and support clinicians to offer an excellent service to children and young people?
Do you want to be part of a new service?
Do you want to work for a team built on best practice guidelines, to offer an excellent crisis and home treatment service to young people?
In our BSW (Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire) CAMHS service we are proud to be developing a needs led, responsive and accessible service based on the i-Thrive model.
You will be located in the well established and compassionate Melksham CAMHs team , this is a multi-disciplinary team and we pride ourselves on the service we provide you young people and their families, staff wellbeing and development opportunities.
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Main duties of the job
We are looking for an experienced and enthusiastic Registered Mental Health Nurse, Social Worker or Occupational Therapist who would be interested in this role as the senior clinician for the Crisis and Home Treatment Service (CAHTS) in Melksham CAMHS.
We have had great feedback from staff about our model of having CAHTS staff embedded in the local CAMHS teams, such that they feel part of the team and work closely together.
In this role, you would be the lead for CAHTS staff in this CAMHS base and working closely with the BSW wide CAHTS clinical leadership team to support our staff and to offer a brilliant service to children and young people.
We're looking for you to help develop our evidence based clinical pathways and offer consultation and supervision to CAHTS staff.
About us
You will be offered training in Positive Behaviour Support, AMBIT, Motivational Interviewing and DBT informed Coping Skills. There will also be the opportunity for further training based around individual learning needs. We have good professional support in our service and regular professional regional meetings.
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 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
- 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
Job description
Job responsibilities
There is scope for you to build into this role, if desired, options of clinical sessions working in: our CAMHS eating disorder service; our neurodevelopmental assessment clinic; our family therapy clinic; our DBT service; our short term therapeutic interventions pathway; or our longer term MDT interventions pathway.
Although this role is funded for full time hours, we are motivated to find excellent staff and are open to negotiate part times hours as we know the important of healthy work-life balance.
If you have any questions about the role, the hours or the team, please do get in contact with Clare Fry, Consultant Mental Health Practitioner, onclare.fry@oxfordhealth.nhs.ukor 07785 663323.
Job description
Job responsibilities
There is scope for you to build into this role, if desired, options of clinical sessions working in: our CAMHS eating disorder service; our neurodevelopmental assessment clinic; our family therapy clinic; our DBT service; our short term therapeutic interventions pathway; or our longer term MDT interventions pathway.
Although this role is funded for full time hours, we are motivated to find excellent staff and are open to negotiate part times hours as we know the important of healthy work-life balance.
If you have any questions about the role, the hours or the team, please do get in contact with Clare Fry, Consultant Mental Health Practitioner, onclare.fry@oxfordhealth.nhs.ukor 07785 663323.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Mental Health professional qualification to degree level or equivalent
Desirable
- Post graduate qualification relevant to specialism
- Experience of offering qualified staff supervision
- Knowledge of DBT and Leadership/management qualification/training
Knowledge
Essential
- Considerable post qualifying experience in mental health
- Able to manage a caseload of children and young people with complex conditions & cases
- Experience of working with service users with mental health difficulties
Desirable
- Experience of being a Care coordinator or managing a case load
- Experience of working with children and/or young people with mental health difficulties
Skills
Essential
- Effective communicator with patients, carers & staff
- Organisational skills for own & others workload
- Good time management skills
- Good teamwork skills
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Mental Health professional qualification to degree level or equivalent
Desirable
- Post graduate qualification relevant to specialism
- Experience of offering qualified staff supervision
- Knowledge of DBT and Leadership/management qualification/training
Knowledge
Essential
- Considerable post qualifying experience in mental health
- Able to manage a caseload of children and young people with complex conditions & cases
- Experience of working with service users with mental health difficulties
Desirable
- Experience of being a Care coordinator or managing a case load
- Experience of working with children and/or young people with mental health difficulties
Skills
Essential
- Effective communicator with patients, carers & staff
- Organisational skills for own & others workload
- Good time management skills
- Good teamwork skills
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
