Senior Mental Health Practitioner

NHS; Banbury; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Part time

Job summary

A healthcare provider is seeking a Senior Mental Health Practitioner passionate about supporting children's mental health. This part-time role (22.5 hours/week) involves working in a multidisciplinary team to deliver assessments and develop care plans for children and young people. Ideal candidates will hold a mental health qualification such as a Registered Nurse, Social Worker, or Occupational Therapist, and have experience working with young clients. The position offers training opportunities and flexible working days across various locations, including Banbury.

Benefits

27 days annual leave

NHS discounts

Cycle to work scheme

Employee Assistance Programme

Qualifications

• Professional knowledge acquired through degree/diploma.
• Ability to organize own time and diary.
• Commitment to lifelong learning.

Responsibilities

• Deliver mental health assessments for children and young people.
• Collaborate with families and develop holistic care plans.
• Supervise student placements and mentor junior staff.

Skills

Ability to reflect and critically appraise

Organizational skills

Commitment to client-centered practice

IT competency

Experience working with children

Education

Mental Health or equivalent professional health qualification

Professional knowledge acquired through degree/diploma

Job description

Are you passionate about supporting children's mental health?

In our North Oxfordshire Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) Getting More Help Team, we are proud to be developing a needs-led, responsive and accessible service based on the Thrive model.

We're looking for you to join our team as a Senior Mental Health Practitioner - you might be a Registered Mental Health Nurse, Social Worker or Occupational Therapist and have a range of experience.

You will work as part of a multidisciplinary team supporting children and young people with mental health difficulties, alongside Family Therapists, Psychologists, Psychotherapists and Psychiatrists.

We will provide supervision and training tailored to your clinical needs.

This part-time post (22.5 hours a week) offers flexibility in working days. We deliver services from several North Locality bases, including Witney, Banbury, Bicester and Oxford, and will supply all necessary equipment.

We value teamwork, supporting one another, and celebrating our successes in helping children and young people.

You will have opportunities to develop your clinical skills through mandatory and ongoing training, including CBT/DBT-informed approaches. CAMHS specialist teams also provide regular in-house sessions.

The CAMHS North Getting More Help Team serves the communities of Witney, Bicester, Banbury and parts of Oxford, operating Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm.

Main duties of the job

Our North team is a supportive team: we know that delivering the best care means we need to make sure we are looking after you, so we focus on clinicians' wellbeing. We understand that working in CAMHS can be challenging and therefore strive to ensure that clinicians are well supported. Team managers work alongside clinicians to ensure that individual job plans are created to support clinicians in managing capacity of caseloads.

In this role, you will:

• Deliver generic mental health assessments and risk assessments for children and young people (CYP) open to the Getting More Help Team.
• Work collaboratively with CYP families/other agencies to develop holistic plans of care which are evidence based
• Hold a clinical caseload which consists of providing evidence based therapies and working with other professionals to meet the needs of children and young people with mental health needs.

We have a duty rota which we'll need you to partake in: this involves the clinician to respond and support plans for children and young people who are waiting for our service.

About us

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

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

Qualifications

• Mental Health or equivalent professional health qualification- e.g. OT, RMN Nurse, Social Worker
• Professional knowledge acquired through degree/diploma

Personal Qualities

• Ability to reflect on and critically appraise the performance of self and others
• Ability to organise own time and diary and that of junior staff and learners
• Commitment to client centred, non-discriminatory practice
• Commitment to lifelong learning
• Willingness to be flexible
• To be I.T competent
• Skills in spreadsheets and other office applications

Experience

• Experience of working with children and young people who have serious mental illness and their families and carers in the community
• Experience of mentoring and clinical supervision of others
• To have experience of supervising student placements

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.