Mental Health Liaison Practitioner

1 week ago

Swindon, United Kingdom Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Do you want to develop your leadership skills and support clinicians to offer an excellent service to children and young people?

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 Swindon Community CAMHS, Swindon.

As the Clinical Specialist
- Mental Health Liaison Practitioner you will act in a lead role for the liaison service at the acute district general hospital in Swindon, Great Western Hospital. Alongside Liaison Lead colleagues 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.

You will have the opportunity to make an active and meaningful contribution to our exciting service modernisation and redesign that is based on the 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.

In this role, you will sit within Swindon Community CAMHS and undertake comprehensive assessments of young people with mental health needs who present to the acute District General Hospital in Swindon.

Swindon Community CAMHS is a supportive multidisciplinary team who offer assessment, treatment, and consultation either in the clinic base or out in the community.

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 can expect a comprehensive induction programme, including a range of shadowing opportunities to fully support the post holder in the role, ongoing in-house training and opportunities to attend external trainings. The team fully supports and delivers regular managerial, professional, peer, clinical, and safeguarding supervision to build upon confidence, competence, and commitment to developing self and the role.

You can start getting to know about us by having a look at our recruitment video:
BSW RECRUITMENT - YouTube

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
- Assessment of deliberate self-harm
- Support to patients admitted with an eating disorder
- Contribute a psycho-social perspective to patients admitted
- Provide day support and consultation to hospital staff where a mental health need is identified
- Identify and provide CAMHS training (this may involve other CAMHS colleagues)
- Provide primary link to CAMHS within the acute District General Hospital.

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. You will participate in covering the service’s 24 hour on call service on a rota basis. There is a robust system of support available from on call colleagues including the manager, consultant psychiatrist and senior manager on call.

This is a varied and rewarding role within a highly supportive team.

For more information or to arrange an informal visit please contact us.

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