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Senior Mental Health Practitioner

3 months ago


Aylesbury, United Kingdom Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Job overview

A unique opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic, motivated and reliable Senior Mental Health Practitioner (SMHP) to join the Buckinghamshire CAMHS ACE (Adopted and Care Experienced) Team. We require a clinician from any of the following backgrounds: 

Social Work Occupational Therapy  Mental Health Nursing 

The successful applicant will work within a Specialist team to identify and address the mental health needs of Looked after children and young people.

This is an exciting time to join the team as we are currently reviewing how we deliver the service, and you will have the opportunity to help us shape the service going forwards. 

Main duties of the job

· You will provide an experienced and senior level of expertise to children, young people and their carers referred to the Adopted & Care Experienced Service within Buckinghamshire CAMHS.

· You will carry out assessments of children, young people and their carers referred to the service as part of our multidisciplinary team. This will include risk assessments, assessments of the child’s emotional well-being and general functioning, mental health assessments, and assessments of the quality of the child’s relationship with their carer.

· In this exciting role you will provide a range of interventions and evidence-based treatments to our clients and their carers. This will include co-facilitating a carers group for foster-carers and adoptive parents. The post entails taking Care Co-ordinator responsibility for an agreed case load of patients and there is a balanced and varied workload.

· You will offer advice and consultation on clients’ care to professionals including social workers and CAMHS clinicians, and to other, non-professional carers to include foster-carers and adoptive parents.

Working for our organisation

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

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

If you have a passion for identifying and meeting the mental health needs of vulnerable children and young people, supporting their carers and have the relevant experience and transferable skills, we would love to hear from you.

Access to a car for work, or willingness to seek alternative transport is essential due to the community aspect of this role.

Please see job description for full details.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

Has relevant professional qualification - Psychology OR RMN/OT/SW

Desirable criteria

Has relevant training in trauma/attachment therapies/interventions

Experience

Essential criteria

Has post qualifying experience working with vulnerable people Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision.

Desirable criteria

Has experience working with LAAC or people with a history of trauma

Knowledge

Essential criteria

Ability to assess children and family’s needs and develop effective care plans Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological/psychosocial assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.

Desirable criteria

Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies with children and adolescents with attachment difficulties. Knowledge of therapeutic interventions for Children who are Looked After. All 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 Candidates not currently employed by the Trust who attend an interview for non-qualified Band 1-5 posts are required to undertake numeracy and literacy assessments. Appointment to this post is subject to the trust receiving satisfactory references covering 3 years of employment or study. Please ask your referees to respond promptly to reference requests. Employees are expected to undertake mandatory and statutory training related to their role. We are ambitious in our pursuit of excellence, driven by the belief that a fair, just and fully inclusive organisational culture enables our teams to deliver the best quality of care and services possible and we work hard to ensure that our diverse workforce reflects the communities that we serve.  We welcome applications from all sections of the community, are an Equal Opportunities employer with a number of internal networking groups to support our employees and where possible will always look to make reasonable adjustments in order that you can fulfil the role to recognise your full potential. All our employees are committed to demonstrating through their behaviour our core values – safe, caring and excellent. 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. Oxford is a world-renowned centre of excellence for research. Oxford Health works closely with the University of Oxford department of Psychiatry and the Department of Primary care, has a Biomedical Research Centre dedicated to improving mental health and the NIHR Clinical Research Facility at the Warneford site. The Trust also hosts the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) which carries out applied research that directly impacts patient health and wellbeing