Lead Crisis Clinician

Oxford Health NHS Trust; Oxford; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in Oxfordshire seeks an experienced Lead Clinician for their CAMHS Crisis and Home Treatment Team. This role involves working in a dynamic and multidisciplinary environment, delivering high-quality care to children and adolescents in crisis. Candidates should hold a relevant qualification and demonstrate professional experience in community mental health. The position offers opportunities for training and career progression within a supportive team.

Benefits

Career progression opportunities

NHS discounts

Competitive pension scheme

27 days annual leave

Staff networking and support groups

Qualifications

• Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by professional governing body.
• Experience in psychological assessment and treatment of clients in various care settings.
• Ability to manage and supervise clinical staff.

Responsibilities

• Deliver and evaluate intensive community treatment for children and young people in crisis.
• Lead the team in areas of service development, requiring proactive thinking.
• Hold a caseload to support the delivery of evidence-based interventions.

Skills

Psychological assessment skills

Consultation skills

Organisational skills

Communication skills

Ability to work under pressure

Education

Qualified Mental Health Nurse, Social Worker, or Occupational Therapist

Job description

Do you have a core qualification in Mental Health Nursing, Occupational Therapy, or Social Work, and a passion for mental health?

Would you like to join an experienced and highly motivated CAMHS Crisis and Home Treatment Team?

We are seeking a Lead Clinician to join our fast-paced and dynamic CAMHS Crisis and Home Treatment Team. We are looking for an enthusiastic, caring individual with significant post-qualification experience of working with children and adolescents in a community mental health setting.

The CAMHS Crisis and Home Treatment Team works closely with other Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services within Oxfordshire and is part of the urgent care pathway provision, all of which is provided by Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust.

Working as part of an experienced multidisciplinary team, you will deliver high-quality care and contribute to clinical pathway developments, as well as to the assessment and treatment of young people who present to the CAMHS Crisis and Home Treatment Team.

There will also be opportunities to receive further training and frequent high-quality supervision.

This post covers the whole of the Oxfordshire area, and applicants must have the ability to travel independently.

Main duties of the job

• Work as part of a highly skilled multidisciplinary team, delivering and evaluating intensive community treatment for children and young people in Oxfordshire, experiencing a mental health crisis.
• The role will involve leading the team, in agreed areas of service development and will require proactive thinking and initiative.
• This will involve holding your own caseload of patients to support the delivery of evidenced based interventions for wide range of presenting difficulties.

Clinicians will receive internal and external training and frequent high-quality supervision.

About us

Oxford Health is a great place to work and to be able to showcase the best of yourself when making an application please read the "candidate guide to making an application" and ensure your supporting statement is tailored to the role you are applying for and addresses any essential criteria.

As a Trust we provide physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and Northeast 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"

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 apply)
• Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team

Job 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

Knowledge

• Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by professional governing body
• Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
• Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
• Good organisational and time management skills, ability to plan and prioritise own workload
• Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies with children and adolescents with a wide range of mental health difficulties.

Qualifications Academic/Skills/Professional experience

• Qualified Mental Health Nurse Or Qualified Social worker Or Qualified occupational Therapist, with current membership to regulatory body
• Completed further training in specific fields of mental, including but not limited to DBT and / Or CBT or other evidence-based therapy or mentoring / Leadership courses / nurse prescriber.
• Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, day services and in patient settings.
• Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and threat of physical abuse.
• Have the ability to manage, supervise and appraise clinical staff in CAMHS in areas of clinical supervision, case-management.
• Flexible and resourceful in coping under pressure and with conflicting demands
• Ability to communicate/listen formally and informally, verbally and in writing. Confident and articulate.
• Excellent time management skills and ability to organise diary, Ability to work as part of a team and independently.

Contractual Requirements or Other requirements

• Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings
• Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
• Ability to trave independently between bases and within the community as required for the post

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.