Band 6 Senior Mental Health Practitioner
6 months ago
**Job Title: Band 6 Senior Mental Health Practitioner**
**Trust Location**: Melksham community hospital
**Pay Rates**: Day £21.80 per hour
Sat/Nights £28.33 per hour
Sun/Bank £28.33 per hour
**Contract length**: On going - full time
**Working hours**:
Working days e.g. Mon-Fri or flexible across 7 days. Virtual working would be considered.
37.5 no less than 22.5hr
**About the Trust - Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust**
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust provides physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and Northeast Somerset.
Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics, and people’s homes. We focus on delivering care as close to home as possible.
Our aim is to improve the health and wellbeing of all our patients and families.
We work in partnership with a range of other organisations in Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Wiltshire, Swindon, and Bath.
These include:
- The University of Oxford to promote innovation in healthcare, support research and to train doctors and psychologists.
- Oxford Brookes University and the University of Bedfordshire to train nurses and allied health professionals.
- Local authorities and voluntary organisations
- GPs across all the locations we serve to provide joined-up care.
**As a member, you’ll have fantastic benefits**:
- Competitive pay rates - work this week, get paid next week
- Manage your shifts and timesheets on the go - access your “My Bank” shift portal anywhere, anytime online or through your smartphone
- Essential support when you need it - 24/7 365 days - Call us anytime
- Multi-locational - work across neighbouring Trusts
- First choice of shifts or placements at your Trust - access before they are made available to agency
- Varied working options to suit your lifestyle - access to the Bank gives you options of ad hoc shifts or fixed term placements
- Training and development opportunities
- Build holiday allowance for every shift you work
- Stakeholder pension scheme available
**What you’ll be responsible for**:
- The post holder will work across brief and longer-term work, delivering the iThrive model working closely with colleagues within other parts of the CAMHS service.
- They will liaise with wider CAMHS and a range of external agencies such as Children’s Social Care, Education, Youth Offending Services, Police, young people’s substance misuse services, GP’s, and adult mental health services and attend to meetings as necessary.
- The post holder will offer initial assessments and brief interventions of up to 6 sessions to a range of children, adolescents and their families where there are mild to moderate mental health problems for the young person and carry a caseload of more complex cases.
- Additional enhancement is paid for staff shifts worked for the on-call duty rota.
**Core duties will include**:
- Initial assessment of children and adolescents where there is suspected mild to moderate mental illness.
- Responsible for implementing and coordinating a range of evidence-based interventions, of up to 6 sessions, which will support the young person’s recovery.
- Liaison with partner agency colleagues providing mental health expertise, pre
- referral consultation and training.
- Expert signposting to other appropriate resource within the community
- Recognition of cases needing other specialist services within CAMHS.
- The post holder will have clinical responsibility for ensuring CPA metrics are up to date and throughput of the caseload, working with case management in conjunction with the Clinical Team Manager and their clinical supervisor.
- Work collaboratively with parents/families/carers to promote the emotional and physical wellbeing of the young person.
- Ensure that all assessments, planning and treatments are sensitive to the cultural, religious and gender identity needs of the population served.
- Work collaboratively with the young person’s school and any other agencies involved in supporting the emotional and physical wellbeing of the young person.
- Participate in clinical meetings, case conferences, reviews, strategy meetings, CETRs and other professional meetings as appropriate.
- Generate and maintain accurate assessment and treatment records for individual patients using the Trust wide electronic patient record system.
- Responsible for updating information to reflect an accurate up to date record of patient’s presentation and current needs and compile written reports as required.
- To work closely with a range of agencies including the Children, Young people and Families Directorate, Police, Schools, Addiction Services, Adoption Services, YOT and voluntary sector providers as well as primary and specialist CAMHS Community Mental Health Teams, Learning Disability Services and other specialist services within Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
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