Do you want to develop your leadership skills and support clinicians to offer an excellent service to children and young people?
If you're a Mental Health Nurse, Occupational Therapist, Clinical Psychologist, Psychotherapist or Social Worker, we're looking for you to join our Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service team based in Salisbury Community CAMHS.
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.
As the Clinical Specialist Mental Health Liaison Practitioner, you will help to lead the liaison service at Salisbury District Hospital working 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.
Main duties of the job
In this role, you will sit within Salisbury Community CAMHS and undertake comprehensive assessments of young people with mental health needs who present to the acute District General Hospital in Salisbury .
Salisbury 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.
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
Job description and responsibilities
- 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 Terry Pearce
Person specification
Knowledge Requirements
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of mental health and community care legislation and policy
Qualifications – Academic/Skills/Professional
Essential criteria
- RMN/OT/Social Worker with mental health training
- Current registration with relevant professional body; NMC, HCPC
Desirable criteria
- Non-Medical Prescribing qualification
- Leadership Training/ Experience
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience as a Band 6, or equivalent, Mental Health professional
- Understanding and experience of working with children and young people with a wide range of mental health needs or relevant Mental Health experience
- Experience of and commitment to working in a multi-agency setting working in partnership with a range of health, social care and education professionals
- Experience of care coordination/role of Lead Professional
- Ability to carry out assessments and psycho-social interventions
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.
We’re advocates of flexible working and many of our roles offer a range of employment options to help you balance your work and personal life.
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.
We are 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
