Staff Nurse - CAMHs PICU - Oxford

Integrated Care System; Oxford; On-site; GBP 31,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Oxford is looking for dedicated nurses to join their CAMHS PICU team, focusing on delivering compassionate and personalized care to young patients. This role offers opportunities for professional growth and collaboration with multidisciplinary teams. Candidates should have a relevant nursing qualification and experience in mental health care. The position includes both full-time and part-time options with a salary range of £31,049 to £37,796 annually.

Benefits

Career progression opportunities

27 days annual leave plus bank holidays

NHS Discount and cycle to work scheme

Qualifications

• Experience in mental health care or working in CAMHS settings.
• Knowledge of Mental Health Act 1983.
• Willingness to be involved in mentorship.

Responsibilities

• Build therapeutic relationships with young people.
• Conduct comprehensive assessments including mental state and functional needs.
• Develop and implement risk management plans.

Skills

Clinical risk assessment

Communication skills

Mentoring students

Education

RMN/RNLD or RSCN qualification

Job description

Join Our CAMHS PICU Nursing Team - Where Compassion Meets Career Growth

Are you ready to make a real difference in young people's lives? At our CAMHS Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU), our nursing team is the heartbeat of the unit - central to delivering exceptional, person-centred inpatient care.

You'll work shoulder to shoulder with a multidisciplinary team dedicated to supporting children and young people through their most challenging times. Together, we provide a safe, therapeutic environment where care is not only planned - it's truly personalised.

Whether you're a **Newly qualified nurse**seeking a solid foundation in mental health care or an **experienced professional** ready to embrace fresh challenges, we offer meaningful opportunities for development and progression.

We welcome nurses from diverse backgrounds and fields - including Mental Health, Learning Disability, and Paediatrics - to help us deliver truly holistic care. Your unique skills and perspective will be valued and nurtured here.

Start your next chapter with a team that values care, collaboration, and continuous growth. Come and be part of something extraordinary

Main duties of the job

As a member of the nursing team you would be supported to work collaboratively with young people and their families to build therapeutic relationships, along with other professionals involved in their care. Training and supervision is provided to develop individual and group therapeutic work. We pride ourselves on nurturing and supporting nurses to deliver professional, thoughtful, high quality compassionate nursing care when young people need it the most.We are keen to support all nurses to develop their own leadership skill to enable them to feel competent at managing shift and team coordination and supervising junior staff. Reflection within and on practice is an essential part of development, both within groups and on an individual basis. The CAMHS PICU will have a structured weekly timetable of reflective spaces to ensure everyone has access to support and supervision to enhance their abilities and further their development. All nurses at the CAMHS PICU will be encouraged to develop areas of specialist interest and be provided with many opportunities for research. You will be motivated and dynamic about service improvement and passionate about providing quality and creative care to adolescents.

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

At the Trust, there are opportunities to develop your nursing skills at whatever stage you may be; whether this be as a newly qualified nurse wanting to build a solid foundation of knowledge within inpatient mental health care, or for those at a later stage in their career looking for new learning opportunities and challenges. We strive to recruit a variety of nurses from different fields to ensure holistic care is delivered, this includes mental health nurses, learning disability nurses and paediatric nurses.

Reflection within and on practice is an essential part of development, both within groups and on an individual basis. Highfield Unit has a structured weekly timetable of reflective spaces to ensure everyone has access to support and supervision to enhance their abilities.

Providing consistent and robust round the clock inpatient care is vital.

• Engage proactively with young persons and their families/carers/significant others to build positive working relationships.
• Make a systematic and comprehensive assessment/ re-assessment of patient need within the CPA framework to take account of all aspects of the young persons life, including;

o Individual history

o Strengths, individual goals and resources

o Mental state, signs and symptoms

o Health and social care needs including factors relating to the impact of culture, race, gender, social class and lifestyle

o Functional needs

o Family needs

o Complex needs such as substance use

o Participation in Mental Health Act (1983) Assessments

Develop effective risk management plans, and timely review of the risk management plan identifying opportunities for positive risk taking in conjunction with the patient, carers/significant others and the ward team.

Actively engages with the Care Coordinator under CPA to identify appropriate resources to support the young persons care package within the hospital setting and within their local home environment including;

o Housing

o Social welfare and income

o Education

• Contribute towards supporting family members and carers to be as involved as required in the care of the young person
• Demonstrate knowledge of medication effects, side-effects, indications, contraindications and recommended dosage
• To demonstrate competency in physical aspects of physical monitoring (e.g. blood pressure, blood glucose level etc)
• Work with young persons with concordance issues and promote patient choice
• Actively engage young persons and carers with the PALS or Advocacy service where appropriate
• Co-ordinate and implement plans of care during the young persons journey through the inpatient environment and demonstrate clear written communication to support such plans
• Work with young persons and their families/carers/significant others on symptom management and relapse prevention
• Evaluate plans of care in collaboration with the patient as an ongoing process and able to make recommendations for changes in the care package
• To model healthy eating behaviours for all young people
• Work to develop effective multidisciplinary relationships through skilled communication with the ward and community teams
• To convey clearly, accurately and concisely patient information to colleagues in team meetings, ward rounds, handovers and all other verbal communications
• Following support and training to be involved in co-facilitating groups on the unit; there is a wide range available including DBT informed skills, psychodynamic groups and be involved in the development of other unit groups.
• To work alongside the multi disciplinary team collaborating with the young person and their family or carers to develop Positive Behaviour Support plans.

Person Specification

Experience

• Experience in mental health care or the care of young people (e.g. within CAMHS)
• Experience of working within a CAMHS inpatient unit / PICU setting

Qualifications/Knowledge

• RMN/RNLD or RSCN
• Knowledge of MHA 1983
• Further training in psychosocial interventions
• Training in clinical risk assessment and management

Skills

• Skills in clinical risk assessment and management
• Able to handle patient concerns sensitively and effectively
• Able to co-ordinate a span of duty on an inpatient ward

Teaching and Facilitation

• Demonstrate a willingness to be involved in mentoring students
• Experience in mentorship

Other work related requirement

• Must be of average fitness as successful completion our Restraint Training will be a mandatory requirement if you are successful in your application
• Commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults.

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.

£31,049 to £37,796 a yearper annum | pro-rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time,Part-time

Reference number

267-OC7164105-A

Job locations

Meadow Unit