Children and Young Person's Mental Health Nurse (+£3,500 bonus)

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Job summary

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Children and Young Person's Mental Health Nurse based in Aylesbury. This role involves providing care to young people facing mental health difficulties, leading clinical initiatives, and ensuring effective triage of referrals. As part of a dedicated team, the successful candidate will benefit from ongoing development and a supportive work environment, embodying the Trust's values of caring, safe, and excellent.

Benefits

27 days annual leave plus bank holidays

NHS discount across a wide range of shops

Cycle to work scheme

Employee Assistance Programme

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse, Social Worker or Occupational Therapist qualifications required.
• Evidence of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) portfolio.
• Experience in mental health and CAMHS preferred.

Responsibilities

• Screen and triage referrals into SPA.
• Act as shift lead, coordinating SPA staff.
• Involved in delivering training to external professionals.

Skills

Assessment of client need

Understanding of evidence-based practice

Clinical audit and service evaluation

Education

Registered Nurse

Qualification in Mental Health

Job description

Employer Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Sue Nicholls Centre Town Aylesbury Salary £46,148 - £52,809 Per annum | Pro rata plus £3,500 incentive Salary period Yearly Closing 03/07/2025 23:59

Children and Young Person's Mental Health Nurse (+£3,500 bonus)

Band 7

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust has been rated as Good by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).

We are a responsive and innovative Foundation Trust that places our values of Caring, Safe and Excellent at the heart of everything we do. We take great pride in our staff and believe that investing in you is key to us achieving our vision of outstanding care delivered by outstanding people.

We work with a wide range of partner organisations to deliver care and support to people in their own homes and from a number of hospitals and community bases. We focus on delivering care as close to home as possible for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset.

We actively support anti-racism, equality, diversity, and inclusion so, if you’re excited about this job opportunity and you meet our Trust values, but feel unsure about applying, then please get in touch and we will be happy to have a conversation with you.

We are also committed to increasing diversity in the workforce, that is why we actively encourage applications from those groups of people who are currently under-represented, which include amongst others: people with disabilities; men from all socio-economic backgrounds; people from diverse ethnic backgrounds; and people from the LGBTQIA+ community.

Good luck and we hope to hear from you.

Job overview

Are you a Registered Nurse interested in supporting children, young people and their families who are experiencing mental health difficulties? Would you like to further your career with Children and Young People?

The Single Point of Access serves as the "front door" to Buckinghamshire CAMHS. We are a team of nurturing, experienced clinicians and support staff who are passionate about providing equitable access to mental health care, early intervention in children's mental health and ongoing staff development.

Within Children & Adolescent Mental Health Services in Buckinghamshire we are looking for motivated qualified nurses who are looking to work in a great team alongside nurses, occupational therapists and social workers, all of whom are dedicated to improving services for young people. You may be a band 6 ready for the next step in their career, or an experienced band 7 nurse who wants to gain exposure in a new area. Either way, we have a career path ready for you.

The team works to screen and triage new referrals into Buckinghamshire CAMHS, and make decisions for the ongoing care of these children. We also provide advice, guidance and consultation to young people and their families, healthcare professionals and schools.

This role carries an incentive premium of £3,500 which will be paid in instalments over an 18-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.

Main duties of the job

• You will screen and triage referrals and other contacts into SPA, and provide expert advice and guidance, onward referrals and signposting.
• You will also act as shift lead, coordinating SPA staff on a shift to ensure that risk is managed, and cases are triaged effectively. You will gain valuable skills in clinical leadership.
• You will also have the chance to be involved in the delivery of accredited training to external professionals in schools and from the local authority, by attending a 3 day train-the-trainer programme delivered by the University of Reading.
• You will receive individualised support as a clinician and professional to enable you to grow as a valued member of our team. All staff receive management, clinical (where appropriate) and safeguarding supervision as standard.Within SPA, we also have regular reflective practice and opportunities to share learning.

The ability to travel independently between sites within the Trust is essential for this role. Please note the role is based in the Sue Nichols Centre in Aylesbury, with some scope for home working as service needs allow.

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
• 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

We hope that the advert has given you a clear understanding of the skills we are seeking and the opportunity at hand. You will need to use the “supporting statement” element of your application form to demonstrate your suitability for this role and you should refer to the job description, person specification and the guidance notes attached to this role to help you tailor your application. The essential and desirable criteria will be used to shortlist for interview and you should ensure that you refer to these within your application to increase your chances of being selected for interview.

Person specification

Education and Training

• Registered Nurse, Social Worker or Occupational Therapist
• Evidence of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) portfolio
• Qualification in Mental Health or Neurodiversity

Experience

• Previous mental health experience
• Previous CAMHS experience
• Previous leadership experience

Skills

• Ability to assess client need; mental health, social, health
• Understanding of evidence based practice
• Understanding of principles and methods of clinical audit, research and service evaluation
• 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

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.