Camhs - Specialist Mental Health Practitioner

5 months ago


Keynsham, United Kingdom Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust Full time

With a big national focus on improving services for children and young people’s mental health and wellbeing, there has never been a better time to join Oxford Health CAMHS and make a positive difference to children and young people’s life chances.

If you're a Mental Health Nurse, Occupational Therapists or Social Worker, we're looking for you to join our Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service team based in Keynsham, Bath and North East Somerset.

As the Liaison Lead you will participate in the delivery and on-going development of the CAMHS Liaison Service across Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire (BSW). As the identified lead, you will provide day-to-day leadership, coordination and clinical support for the Mental Health Liaison Service and ensure a consistent, responsive, high quality and user-friendly service is delivered.

In this role, you will sit within the OSCA (Outreach Service for Children and Adolescents) Risk Support team based in BaNES Community CAMHS and undertake comprehensive assessments of young people with mental health needs who present to the District General Hospital in Bath. Risk assessment and management including the need for positive risk taking is an important part of the role. You will contribute to the clinical leadership of the team and provide supervision for other team members.

You will have the opportunity to make an active and meaningful contribution to our exciting service modernisation and redesign that is based on the i-Thrive model, ensuring children and young people get the right support, at the right time, in the right place, from individuals with the right skills. Liaison, advice and consultation with wider CAMHS, colleagues in Children Services and a range of external agencies such as Children’s Social Care, Education, Youth Offending Services and Police is an important part of the role.

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

Within the team, we work on a flexible working pattern within the multi-disciplinary team to provide cover for a core day 8am-8pm Monday-Friday and 10am-6pm Saturday -Sunday and Bank Holidays. The flexible working patterns allows team members to work hours flexibly and for days off during the week. We'll need you to participate in covering the service’s 24 hour on call service on a rota basis.

**Please note**:

- 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.
- Employees are expected to undertake mandatory and statutory training related to their role.
- Oxford Health is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults, we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.



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