Mental Health Hub Clinician

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust; Aylesbury; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a dedicated Mental Health Hub Clinician to join their innovative team. This role involves conducting thorough mental health assessments and delivering tailored interventions to adults facing serious mental health challenges. The ideal candidate will be passionate about partnership approaches, eager to engage in training, and committed to improving access to mental health support within the community. Join a forward-thinking organization that prioritizes holistic care and offers excellent opportunities for career progression and personal development.

Benefits

27 days annual leave

NHS Discount

Competitive pension scheme

Lease car scheme

Cycle to work scheme

Employee Assistance Programme

Mental Health First Aiders

Staff accommodation

Career progression opportunities

Tailored learning and development

Qualifications

• Current professional registration as a Registered Mental Health Nurse or Occupational Therapist.
• Experience in community mental health services for adults with severe mental illness.

Responsibilities

• Conduct comprehensive mental health assessments for adults.
• Deliver evidence-based interventions and collaborate with stakeholders.

Skills

Mental Health Assessment

Evidence-Based Interventions

Community Mental Health Services

Psychoeducation

Partnership Approaches

Education

Registered Mental Health Nurse

Occupational Therapist

Postgraduate Education

Job description

Are you an Occupational Therapist, Registered Mental Health Nurse, or Social Worker who enjoys providing high-quality, holistic care to people who need mental health support? Are you skilled at comprehensive individual assessments? Are you looking for an opportunity to also deliver group interventions?

We are recruiting a Mental Health Hub Clinician to be part of a developing Primary Care Mental Health hub to support GP practices with mental health assessment and support for patients in their communities.

You'll be responsible for conducting comprehensive mental health assessments and delivering evidence-based interventions to adults with serious mental illness. With a focus on partnership approaches, you'll collaborate with various stakeholders to provide holistic care. We seek motivated individuals eager to engage in training across multiple therapy modalities, signposting, and psychoeducation.

You will be based within the Buckinghamshire Primary Care Mental Health team, working across the county with a base at either our Aylesbury or High Wycombe site.

Main duties of the job

• Experience in mental health assessments: Clinicians should have experience in completing mental health assessments and delivering evidence-based interventions in community settings.
• Passion for partnership approaches: Candidates should be passionate about partnership approaches to care for adults living with serious mental illness.
• Motivated for training: Individuals should be motivated to engage in training to deliver evidence-based interventions across various therapy modalities, signposting, and psychoeducation.
• Innovative mindset: The roles require innovative individuals who can help achieve the vision for cross-sector integrated pathways.
• Improving access to mental health support: Clinicians should aim to remove existing barriers to deliver better access to dedicated mental health support in local, non-stigmatised community settings.

The ability to travel independently between sites within the Trust is essential for this role.

Working for our organisation

This is an exciting development opportunity as you will be part of this developing 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, including:

• 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

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.

Please note, if you are based outside of the UK, you will need to be fully qualified, have already passed your OSCE, and have an NMC pin number to be considered for this role. | Please note, if you are based outside of the UK, you will need to hold HCPC registration to be considered for this role.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Current professional registration: Registered Mental Health Nurse, Occupational Therapist.

Desirable criteria

• Postgraduate education specifically relating to client group.

Experience

Essential criteria

• Community experience in mental health services for adults and older adults with severe/significant mental illness.
• Experience of facilitating groups.

Desirable criteria

• Experience of working in primary and secondary mental health services.
• Experience of delivering psychosocial interventions.

Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Specialist knowledge of person-centred care and its application.
• Specialist knowledge of psychosocial interventions and their appropriate use.
• Understanding of the mental health needs of adults.

Desirable criteria

• Specialist knowledge relating to the needs of those diagnosed with, or presenting traits of, personality disorder.

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 organizational culture enables our teams to deliver the best quality of care and services possible. We work hard to ensure that our diverse workforce reflects the communities 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 to enable you to fulfill the role to your full potential. All our employees are committed to demonstrating 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's 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.