Senior Mental Health Practitioner- Camhs Crisis

3 weeks ago

Aylesbury, United Kingdom Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust Full time

The Outreach team aims to support and engage children, young people and families with complex needs by means of individualised home and community treatment packages.

The post holder will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team that offers a whole systems approach to the short and long term management of mental illness that works across the whole CAMH service with the OSCA team picking up the highest levels of need. Service aims include:

- Reducing children and young people’s vulnerability to mental health crisis
- Maximising children and young people’s resilience
- Enabling children and young people with high levels of mental health need to be supported in their own homes or placements
- Offering choice to children, young people and their families and carers
- Avoiding inpatient admissions
- Reducing inpatient days
- Offering advice, support and supervision to systems supporting young people, such as addiction, adoption, Children’s Care and youth offending services.

The post holder will participate in a flexible working pattern within the Multi-Disciplinary Team to provide cover for a core day 8am-8pm 7 days a week to young people across Buckinghamshire with high levels of need. The post holder will participate in covering the services 24 hour on-call rota across Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire. Payment enhancements are offered for this.

The Outreach team aims to support and engage children, young people and families with complex needs by means of individualised home and community treatment packages.

The post holder will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team that offers a whole systems approach to the short and long term management of mental illness that works across the whole CAMH service with the OSCA team picking up the highest levels of need. Service aims include:

- Reducing children and young people’s vulnerability to mental health crisis
- Maximising children and young people’s resilience
- Enabling children and young people with high levels of mental health need to be supported in their own homes or placements
- Offering choice to children, young people and their families and carers
- Avoiding inpatient admissions
- Reducing inpatient days
- Offering advice, support and supervision to systems supporting young people, such as addiction, adoption, Children’s Care and youth offending services.

Benefits of working for Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust include:

- Excellent opportunities for career progression
- 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, with an increase to 33 days with continuous service
- NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers
- Staff accommodation
- Competitive pension scheme
- Lease car scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
- New starters have a 6 month probationary period. This, together with the induction process aims to create a positive supportive working environment allowing new employees to learn key elements of their role over a reasonable timescale.
- Provide a quality needs-led service as part of the multi-disciplinary team, which will include working flexibly across a 7-day week on a shift rota between 8am and 8pm, and participating in the on call cover as noted above. Responding promptly to urgent and emergency requests for assessments, and meeting young people wherever they may feel most comfortable.
- Provide prompt and efficient psychosocial assessment and treatment for children and adolescents who need additional short term support on top of community or crisis packages by offering an alternative pathway to avoid hospital admission, therefore treating the young person closer to home and within the least restrictive environment.
- Contribute to the development of processes and systems within the service to accommodate emergency and crisis situations, using flexible approaches that adapt to individual needs.
- The post holder will have Clinical Care Coordinator responsibility for an agreed case load of patients, undertaking CPA, including crisis and risk management.
- Responsible for implementing and co-coordinating a range of evidence based interventions for young people and their families/carers, which will support the young person’s recovery.
- To work closely with developing networks with a range of agencies including the Children, Young People and Families Directorate, police, Addiction Services, Adoption Services, YOS and voluntary sector providers as well as other pathways including Learning Disability Services, and other specialist services within Oxford Health Foundation Trust.
- Contribute to multi agency care packages, assessing high risk young people and families who are traditionally difficult to access and manage.
- Demonstrates clear, effective, up to date and accurate record keeping.
- Actively engages in reflection on own practice as an ongoing process and through regular clinical supervision.
- To participate in meetings relevant to service provision.
- To liaise regularly with the Operational Lead and Dep

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