Senior Community Mental Health Nurse/Occupational Therapist

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust; Oxford; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare organization is inviting applications for a Senior Community Mental Health Nurse or Occupational Therapist in Oxford. This multifaceted role emphasizes patient assessment, care program development, and offers specialized training. Ideal candidates will possess excellent interpersonal skills and experience in mental health services, contributing to a supportive environment for patients and their families.

Benefits

27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays

NHS Discount across various retailers

Competitive pension scheme

Employee Assistance Programme

Staff networking and support groups

Qualifications

• At least 1 year experience working in a mental health community team.
• Experience managing a caseload of patients.
• Experience supervising students.

Responsibilities

• Provide assessment of care needs for individuals experiencing first episode psychosis.
• Develop and evaluate care programmes for clients and families.
• Manage a caseload with complex needs.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Risk management

Safeguarding

Education

Mental Health Nurse qualification

Occupational Therapist qualification

Job description

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Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust

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Oxford, United Kingdom

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Posted:

02.06.2025

Expiry Date:

17.07.2025

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Job overview

Are you a qualified Mental Health Nurse or Occupational Therapist seeking an opportunity to develop yourself further?

We are seeking a qualified Mental Health Nurse or Occupational Therapist to join the Oxford Early Intervention Service in a varied role. You will be offered specialised training, enabling you to increase your knowledge base and to advance your practice. The role can be challenging at times, due to the sensitive needs and difficult points in the lives of our patients, but you will be rewarded with outcomes that change lives, and you will have the support of a highly motivated and passionate team around you.

This is an opportunity in a service with a strong team focus. We have regular shared lunches which provides an opportunity to spend some quality time together, as well as weekly meetings which focus on supporting the team in achieving high levels of care. We provide supervision in all areas, including behavioural family therapy.

The successful candidate will have excellent interpersonal skills, a strong understanding of mental health, particularly psychosis and the impact this can have on an individual as well as their family, friends and carers. You will need to have a good understanding of monitoring risk in the community and an understanding and experience of working with patients who experience psychosis.

Applicants will need the ability to travel across Oxfordshire to see patients within their homes.

Main duties of the job

The responsibilities of the role include, but are not limited to:

• To provide assessment of the care needs of individuals and their families/carers who present with first episode psychosis or at-risk mental states.
• To develop, implement and evaluate programmes of care to appropriate individuals and their families/carers in the community.
• To manage a caseload of clients with complex needs, up to a maximum of 18 dependent on needs.
• To assess clients/carers needs, using appropriate evidence-based assessment tools.
• Participate in OEIS duty rota, receiving, triaging and assessing new referrals into the team and providing timely assessment to meet the new referral to treatment times

You will be holding a reduced caseload in the community which entails completing highly complex assessments, including the assessment of risk, identifying needs and develop care plans jointly with patients and carers underpinned by evidence-based practice.

You will be ensuring and monitoring that evidenced interventions for first episodes of psychosis have been provided within time recommended.

The team is dedicated to providing excellent care and service through evidence-based interventions, research and quality improvement work. We work closely with families and carers as well as other services including social services who may be involved in supporting our patients/clients. The team enjoy having a range of students learning and working with them and have gained consistent positive feedback.

Working for our organisation

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

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

Good experience of working in NHS mental health services

• Experience of working as a nurse/occupational therapist
• Good experience of managing a caseload of patients
• At least 1 year experience of working in a mental health community team
• Good knowledge and experience of risk management
• Good knowledge and experience of safeguarding
• A good understanding and experience of team working
• At least 1 year experience of working in a mental health team

Experience of supervising including students

• Experience of being a practice supervisor/practice educator or any other supervision experience
• Experience of supervising students
• 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