Senior Mental Health Practitioner - Banbury

at  Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust

Are you caring? Motivated? Passionate about supporting children’s mental health?
In our North Oxfordshire Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) Getting Help Team, we are proud to be developing a needs-led, responsive and accessible service based on the Thrive model.
We’re looking for you to join our team as a Senior Mental Health Practitioner - you might be a Registered Mental Health Nurse, Social Worker or Occupational Therapist and have a range of experience.
You will be working as part of a multi-disciplinary team, consisting of Nurses, Social Workers, Occupational Therapists to support children and young people experiencing mental health difficulties. We work closely with our Getting More Help colleagues who are Family Therapists, Psychologists, Psychotherapists and Consultant Psychiatrists when indicated.
We’ll support you with access to supervision and training according to your needs as a clinician.
In this role, you’ll deliver generic mental health assessments and risk assessments for children and young people (CYP) open to the Getting Help Team. Working collaboratively with CYP families/other agencies you will develop holistic plans of care which are evidence based.
You’ll hold a clinical caseload which consists of providing evidence based therapies and working with other professionals to meet the needs of children and young people with mental health needs. At present we are achieving this on a hybrid basis at present with a mixture of office working and working from home.
We have a duty rota which we’ll need you to partake in: this involves the clinician to respond and support plans for children and young people who are waiting for our service.
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
Our North team is a supportive team: we know that delivering the best care means we need to make sure we are looking after you, so we focus on clinicians’ wellbeing. We understand that working in CAMHS can be challenging and therefore strive to ensure that clinicians are well supported. Team managers work alongside clinicians to ensure that individual job plans are created to support clinicians in managing capacity of caseloads.
We ensure that we celebrate our successes and acknowledge the hard work we do to support children and YP. There is a strong sense of team working and supporting one another.
There will be opportunities to develop clinical skills through ongoing training. Mandatory training will be provided as well as ongoing training to undertake the role such as CBT/DBT informed practices. In house training by CAMHS specialist teams occur regularly and on an ad hoc basis.
The CAMHS North Getting Help Team serves the community of Witney, Bicester, Banbury and parts of Oxford providing a service that operates Monday - Friday 9am-5pm.
This post is full time but we would welcome conversations about flexibility and part time working. We also continue to deliver some of our services via a digital platform with a mix of office based work (which can be achieved via satellite bases in these areas) and working from home - and we’ll give you the necessary equipment to undertake the role

Please refer the Job description for details