Senior Mental Health Practitioner

TN United Kingdom; Melksham; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a compassionate professional to enhance mental health services for children and young people. This role involves providing expert assessments, delivering evidence-based interventions, and supporting families in navigating mental health challenges. Join a collaborative team dedicated to making a meaningful impact in the community. With a focus on innovative care, this position offers opportunities for career progression and a supportive work environment. If you are passionate about mental health and want to contribute to a recovery-focused team, this role is for you!

Benefits

27 days annual leave

NHS Discount

Employee Assistance Programme

Mental Health First Aiders

Staff accommodation

Lease car scheme

Individual learning and development opportunities

Qualifications

• Must hold a professional qualification in a relevant field.
• Essential knowledge of working with children and young people.

Responsibilities

• Provide expert assessment and ongoing evaluation of care.
• Deliver evidence-based psychosocial interventions.
• Establish therapeutic relationships with young people.

Skills

Assessment and treatment

Psycho-educational advice

Crisis intervention

Knowledge of psychological therapies

Education

Professional qualification in Social Work

Occupational Therapy

Mental Health Nursing

Job description

Client:

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust

Location:

Melksham, United Kingdom

Job Category:

-

EU work permit required:

Yes

Job Reference:

060c7cd7522b

Job Views:

3

Posted:

10.05.2025

Expiry Date:

24.06.2025

Job Description:

Job overview

We are looking for a compassionate and dedicated professional to join our team in delivering high-quality, comprehensive mental health services for children, young people, and their families. If you're passionate about supporting those facing mental health challenges and thrive in a collaborative, recovery-focused environment, this is the role for you!

As a key member of our team, you will:

• Provide expert assessment, treatment, and ongoing evaluation of care for children and young people in need of more intensive community-based support.
• Deliver evidence-based, psychosocial interventions that empower both young people and their families to navigate mental health challenges.
• Offer psycho-educational advice and practical support to help families cope and thrive.
• Work with a focus on positive risk-taking, ensuring safety and well-being while promoting independence and recovery.

If you're ready to make a meaningful impact and bring your skills to a team that values collaboration, innovation, and the recovery journey, we would love to hear from you!

Please note that this is an internal only role and therefore only current employees of Oxford Health are eligible to apply

Main duties of the job

• Undertake a lead role for children and young people open to the team and work collaboratively with young people, their families and wider care team in the context of their environment.
• Providing effective assessment, planning and review of care needs.
• Establishing, maintaining and ending purposeful, therapeutic relationships with children and young people experiencing severe mental health difficulties. Practice will be creative and underpinned by specialist knowledge of, and skills in, evidence based and psychosocial interventions.
• Using knowledge of psychological therapies, for example CBT, DBT and Solution Focused approaches.
• Providing time-limited intervention, often during periods of increased need related to crisis or deterioration in mental health in order to provide intensive community support as an alternative to inpatient care.
• Identifying appropriate discharge goals and working positively with risk using own professional judgment and team processes.

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 you are encouraged to read the “candidate guide to making an application” which is attached to all roles. Please include details around qualifications (including years these were gained particularly if we need to assess for clinical roles that these are still valid) and ensure that the supporting statement is tailored to the role you are applying for and addresses the essential criteria found in the JD.

As a Trust we provide 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
• Individual and Trust wide learning and development
• 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
• NHS Discount
• Lease car scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Mental Health First Aiders
• Staff accommodation (waiting lists may apply)
• Staff networking and support groups

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

Professional Qualification

• Must hold a professional qualification (Social Work, Occupational Therapy, Mental Health Nursing)

Knowledge/Experience

• Must hold essential knowledge of role and show evidence of experience

Experience of working with complex/risk

• Understanding of working with children and young people with a wide range of complex mental health needs. (2)
• 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

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Created on 10/05/2025 by TN United Kingdom