Job summary
Are you looking to develop your skills in working with Children and Adults in mental health, within an Mentalisation Based Therapy (MBT) specialism?
We are looking for a candidate who is interested in working on attachment between parent and child within Family Assessment Safeguarding Service (FASS). FASS is a small, supportive multidisciplinary team, who work alongside other professionals to support young people and families with significant risk of harm. We offer consultation to the wider professional team and have capacity to see a small number of families for intensive therapy, normally working directly with the parents
You will have opportunities to enhance your safeguarding knowledge due to working alongside social care
Main duties of the job
There is no doubt that working in mental health can be challenging and hugely rewarding, and a particularly fulfilling experience. We work hard to ensure high quality patient centred care is in place and that our staff are supported in their roles and encouraged to develop.
As a team member you will receive ongoing support and development to enhance the care that you provide. Expertise gained through these experiences will enhance your professional and personal growth.
Based at Maple House, and covering Oxfordshire, we'll need you to deliver high-quality specialist advice, consultation and therapeutic intervention to children, families and professionals accessing the FASS Service.
You'll work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team's policies and procedures. We'll need you to utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service.
About us
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
We are embedded within Specialist Services, so you will have unique opportunities to explore a career within Forensic CAMHS, as well as the wider CAMHS Teams. Across all these services and teams, you will be exposed to a range of professionals, such as Clinical Psychologists, Psychiatrists, Social Workers, Occupational Therapists and Mental Health Nurses who will be willing to share their knowledge with you and develop your expertise.
We understand just how important a healthy work-life balance is, so we have opportunities for flexible working; including hybrid working methods, flexible hours, and sometimes also offer you the chance to work compressed hours too!
If you have any questions about the role, or would like to find out more about the team, please contact Elizabeth Grocutt on Elizabeth.grocutt@oxfordhealth.nhs.uk or 01865 902418.
Job description
Job responsibilities
We are embedded within Specialist Services, so you will have unique opportunities to explore a career within Forensic CAMHS, as well as the wider CAMHS Teams. Across all these services and teams, you will be exposed to a range of professionals, such as Clinical Psychologists, Psychiatrists, Social Workers, Occupational Therapists and Mental Health Nurses who will be willing to share their knowledge with you and develop your expertise.
We understand just how important a healthy work-life balance is, so we have opportunities for flexible working; including hybrid working methods, flexible hours, and sometimes also offer you the chance to work compressed hours too!
If you have any questions about the role, or would like to find out more about the team, please contact Elizabeth Grocutt on Elizabeth.grocutt@oxfordhealth.nhs.uk or 01865 902418.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree in relevant profession
- Current professional registration
Experience
Essential
- Experience of specialist assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, day services and in patient settings.
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and threat of physical abuse
Skills/Qualities
Essential
- Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
- Flexible and resourceful in coping under pressure and with conflicting demands
- Ability to work as part of a team and independently
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree in relevant profession
- Current professional registration
Experience
Essential
- Experience of specialist assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, day services and in patient settings.
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and threat of physical abuse
Skills/Qualities
Essential
- Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
- Flexible and resourceful in coping under pressure and with conflicting demands
- Ability to work as part of a team and independently
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration
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.
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
