Senior Mental Health Practitioner Learning Disability CAMHS SW
1 month ago
Job overview
Are you enthusiastic, pro-active and an excellent communicator?
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 Learning Disability Nurse, Mental Health Nurse, Occupational Therapist or Social Worker , with experience of working with children and or adults with a learning disability, interested in expanding their career by joining our Learning Disability CAMHS (Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service), based at Swindon CAMHS.
This role involves working with young people experiencing a wide variety of mental health difficulties and a learning disability, sometimes with complex social situations and neurodevelopmental challenges, so there's a real opportunity for you to make a difference.
In this role, you'll be undertaking the assessment of the young person's mental health needs, collaborative formulation and providing the treatment plan drawing on a variety of interventions and involving multi-agency networking.
We'll offer you 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.
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Main duties of the job
In this role, you'll be contributing to the triaging process for children and young people with an established learning difficulty, experiencing mental health needs. You'll be assessing the mental health component of their experience and delivering evidence based interventions.
We work closely with families to build care plans and there's a lot of multi-agency networking involved, as you'll be in contact with schools. the local authority, play organisations and charities.
We'll need you to participate in duty cover and liaison cover as well - please get in touch with us if you'd like more information about this.
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
Working for our organisation
Oxford Health is a great place to work and to be able to showcase the best of yourself when making an application you are encouraged to read the “candidate guide to making an application” which is attached to all roles. Please include details around qualifications (including years these were gained particularly if we need to assess for clinical roles that these are still valid) and ensure that the supporting statement is tailored to the role you are applying for and addresses the essential criteria found in the JD.
As a Trust we provide 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 Individual and Trust wide learning and development 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service NHS Discount Pension scheme Lease car scheme Employee Assistance Programme Mental Health First Aiders Staff accommodation (waiting lists may apply) Staff networking and support groups
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The main duties of the job include:
Comprehensive assessment Shared formulation Delivery and/or oversight of collaborative treatment plan using evidence-based interventions Collaborative risk management Support and supervision of colleagues Multi-agency workingYou will be responsible for:
Compliance with professional registration practice Safe practice in accordance with Trust policies and procedures Addressing safeguarding concerns were appropriate or necessaryYou will be supported by excellent team knowledge and experience on a formal/informal basis. Clinical and managerial supervision are augmented with profession specific supervision as required with systemic/psychodynamic opportunities.
We are investing heavily in training, 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.
For further details / informal visits please contact us.
Person specification
Qualifications – Academic/Professional
Essential criteria
Registered Nurse (Mental Health), Registered Nurse (Learning Disability), Occupational Therapist or Social Worker. Registration with relevant professional body.
Desirable criteria
Evidence of continuing professional development. Teaching, mentoring or leadership training
Knowledge Requirements
Essential criteria
Knowledge of Mental Health, Neurodevelopmental conditions and Learning Disabilities. To have ability to assess client need, both mental health, health and social needs.
Desirable criteria
To have knowledge and understanding of the research process. To have a working knowledge of the SEND reforms, and health contribution, The Children Act, The Mental Health Act and other associated systems
Experie
Essential criteria
Experience of working with children and young people with neuro developmental and/or Learning Disability and their families and carers. Experience of planning and providing intervention of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and inpatient settings. Experience of supervision of staff. To have the ability to complete clinical risk assessments.
Desirable criteria
Experience of working as a qualified clinician within CAMHS. Knowledge, skills and experience of working with a Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) Framework. To be able to part of medication management process (RMN, RN LD). All new starters have a thorough induction process, both local and Trust wide, which aims to create a positive supportive working environment allowing new employees to learn key elements of their role over a reasonable timescale. 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-
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