Mental Health Practitioner (SW) - Crisis/Home Treatment - Salisbury

at  Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust

Are you dedicated to improving the lives of children and young people?
Do you thrive in environments where you can help to deliver impactful, short-term interventions?
We, the Crisis and Home Treatment Service (CAHTS), embedded within the Bath, North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire (BSW) Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS), are looking for a Mental Health Practitioner to join us.
We work closely alongside and liaise with the Getting More Help Teams on supporting children, young people (CYP) and their families experiencing complex mental health needs.
Our CYP might be at risk of inpatient hospital admission or transitioning out of inpatient care; our role is to provide intensive, short-term support within the community. No two days are the same, with plenty of variety in this role and lots of opportunities for learning.
We can offer bespoke training, including specialised Crisis training as well as access to our in-house Master’s Programmes.
We can offer this as a developmental role for a newly qualified practitioner, or a support you as a registered practitioner returning to practice after a break.
This is a great opportunity for you to explore and experience working in Mental Health and can be a solid stepping stone in your long-term career plans.
We welcome applications from Social Workers, Occupational Therapists or Mental Health Nurses.
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This role carries an incentive premium of £3,500 which will be paid in instalments over an 18 th month period. Please note that this scheme is not open to existing employees of Oxford Health and is subject to a claw back clause. Further information will be provided.
In CAHTS, we’re committed to deliver a high quality, comprehensive mental health services for children, young people and their families who are experiencing additional mental health needs.
As one of our Mental Health Practitioners, you’ll be responsible for undertaking initial assessments and delivering short term interventions to support CYP in crisis with their mental health, by visiting them in schools, at home, or within the wider community.
You might support CYP and their families with psycho-social education or provide practical support, drawing upon evidence-based interventions.
Risk assessment and management, including the need for positive risk assessment is also key in this role.
The team operates Monday to Friday 9am – 5pm and 10am – 6pm on Saturdays. The service development plan will encompass working 8am -8pm Monday to Friday on a rota system, and Saturday and Sunday 10am – 6pm, again, on a rota system.
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
You will have the opportunity to make an active and meaningful contribution to our exciting service modernisation and redesign that is based on the i-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. Liaison, advice, and consultation with wider CAMHS, colleagues in Children Services and a range of external agencies such as Children’s Social Care, Education and many more.
This is an exciting opportunity to join a very supportive team. Clinical supervision and professional development are priorities for the service and preceptorship is supported.
This is a varied and exciting role, an example of some typical duties are:
Undertake a lead role for children and young people open to the team and work collaboratively with young people, their families and GMH Keyworker in addition to a wider care team in the context of their environment.
Providing effective assessment, planning and review of care needs using the CPA process.
Establishing, maintaining and ending purposeful, therapeutic relationships with children and young people experiencing severe mental health difficulties. Practice will be creative and underpinned by specialist knowledge of, and skills in, evidence based and psychosocial interventions.
Supporting the delivery of the Liaison Service by working closely with the CAMHS Liaison Practitioner.
Supporting the delivery of the Community Model for Eating Disorders, including mealtime supports within the home or school.
Using knowledge of psychological therapies, for example CBT, DBT and Solution Focused approaches.

Providing time-limited intervention, often during periods of increased need related to crisis or deterioration in mental health in order to provide intensive community support as an alternative to inpatient care. Identifying appropriate discharge goals and working positively with risk using own professional judgment and team processes.

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