Case Manager - CAMHS

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust; Oxford; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading health organization is seeking a Specialised Mental Health Case Manager to oversee care pathways and assure quality in specialized services. This role involves significant collaboration within a broad network, enhancing patient care across a vast geographical area in the Thames Valley region.

Benefits

27 days annual leave, rising to 33 days with continuous service

NHS Discount across multiple venues

Competitive pension scheme

Cycle to work scheme

Employee Assistance Programme

Staff networking and support groups

Qualifications

• Registered Mental Health Nurse with postgraduate training or equivalent experience.
• Willing to engage and learn from peers and other professionals.

Responsibilities

• Oversee and assure quality of care within the Thames Valley CAMHS.
• Monitor patient pathways to ensure high-quality outcomes.

Skills

Case management skills

Therapeutic alliance development

Knowledge of mental health legislation

Education

Registered Mental Health Nurse

Relevant master's level qualification

Job description

We are seeking a Specialised Mental Health Case Manager with mental health clinical and practice background to be part of our Thames Valley CAMHS Provider Collaborative.

The Thames Valley CAMHS Provider Collaborative brings together inpatient and community providers to improve clinical care across a defined geographical region and to ensure that patients receive inpatient treatment as close to their home as possible. This is an innovative network of partners across a large geography covering Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset and Gloucestershire.

The partnership brings together clinical expertise, experience, and innovation, aiming to improve quality, use resources most effectively, and deliver best practice consistently to all patients.

You will actively be working in partnership to innovate to improve patient provisions and outcomes.

About the location:

Office space is available in Oxford & Swindon.

Main duties of the job

• To provide clinical assurance of the quality of the care provided by services / providers within the Thames Valley region, and for those patients placed in out of area placements.
• Support the team in the assurance of specialised services compliance to applicable specification and guidance including Transforming Care.
• Provide the link with Integrated Care Boards (ICB) and their commissioned services within the network to ensure there is a coordinated approach to care and discharge planning, which results in robust and effective care packages.
• Monitoring and overseeing individual patient pathways to ensure high quality services and care planning outcomes are achieved.
• Have oversight of the overall patient pathway, supporting strong multiagency involvement to ensure patients are receiving care in the least restrictive environment and barriers to discharge are expediently addressed.

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

Ensuring safe and effective care pathways are in place, overseeing robust access assessments, for all patients within the CAMHS Provider Collaborative, within the NHS and Independent Sector.

Please see attached JD/PS for details.

Person specification

Knowledge and Experience

Essential criteria

• Detailed knowledge of legal issues pertaining to specialised mental health services, including MHA 1983, S117 after care, DOLS, MCA, safeguarding and child protection legislation.
• Detailed operational knowledge of specialist area, acquired through post graduate training or equivalent experience, plus further specialist knowledge or experience to master’s level equivalent.
• Willing to engage with and learn from peers, other professionals and colleagues in the desire to provide or support the most appropriate interventions.

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Registered Mental Health Nurse or other registered health or social care professional
• Relevant additional professional qualification (e.g. master’s level) or equivalent experience of working at a senior level in specialist area

Technical Expertise/ Competence

Essential criteria

• Development and maintenance of therapeutic alliance with patients and their families / carers.
• Case management skills, focusing on the needs of the individual and the context of their care pathway in relation to all clinical and legal processes.

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