Senior Mental Health Practitioner

If you would like to find more enjoyment, development, and flexibility at work, we could be the team you’re looking for.

We are looking for an enthusiastic Registered Mental Health Nurse, Social Worker or Occupational Therapist to work in our Community CAMHS Team. This role involves working with young people experiencing a wide variety of mental health difficulties sometimes with complex social situations and neurodevelopmental challenges.

The role will include undertaking the assessment of the young person's mental health needs, collaborative formulation and providing the treatment plan drawing on a variety of interventions that may involve multi-agency networking where necessary. This role will have a primary focus on our core CAMHS services, but you will also have opportunities to contribute to our Hospital Liaison services and also our Outreach Services.

You will be offered in house training in a number of evidence-based interventions. There will also be the opportunity for further training based on individual learning needs. We have good professional support in our service and regular professional regional meetings, including regular team safeguarding supervision.

In everything we do, we strive to be caring, safe and excellent. We expect our staff to share and demonstrate these values as we work to constantly improve the quality of care we provide. This ensures that we have the right workforce to deliver effective team-working and excellent patient care and experience.

We embody the importance of staff wellbeing in our practice, and this is why we are interested to get to know you as a person and hear what you would like from your job. We are open to conversations about flexible working and including some home working where appropriate to the role.

We have a number of specialist clinics such as The Eating Disorder Service, Neurodevelopmental Clinic and Family Therapy clinic and we like to work with staff to help them gain experience and skills and to work in these clinical areas to give variety to their job role.

You will be supported by excellent team knowledge and experience on a formal/informal basis. Clinical and managerial supervision are augmented with profession specific supervision. We are investing heavily in training and preceptorships to develop staff skills. We have a thorough induction process, and you will be paired with other new starters as you begin to find your feet.

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
- Competitive pension scheme
- Lease car scheme
- Cycle to work scheme

**The Main duties of the job are**:

- Comprehensive assessment of children and young people presenting to the service.
- Shared formulation and care planning
- Multi agency working
- Delivery and/or oversight of collaborative treatment plan using evidence-based interventions
- Collaborative risk management
- Support and supervision of colleagues
- Being part of the on-call rota covering out of hours contact from professionals.

**Responsible for**:

- Compliance with professional registration practice
- Safe practice in accordance with Trust policies and procedures
- Addressing safeguarding concerns

**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.