Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
Senior Mental Health Practitioner - Outreach & DBT Service CAMHS
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Are you looking to make a real difference in the lives of children, young people, and vulnerable adults? Are you a trained DBT practitioner?
Buckinghamshire Children and Young Person's Mental Health team are looking for a Senior Mental Health Practitioner to join the OSCA (Outreach Service for Children and Adolescent) team to work across the Outreach and DBT caseload.
About the Role
The OSCA (Outreach Service for Children and Adolescent) is a specialised element within the Buckinghamshire CAMHS service. The Buckinghamshire CAMHS service is based on the iThrive model, and includes a number of pathways delivering the full range of assessments and interventions to young people with mental health needs.
Our service has 3 main elements (DBT, Crisis & Intensive Home Treatment (IHTT) and Outreach) the post holder will be expected to work across DBT & Outreach elements.
If you are looking for a role where you can provide expert clinical care, leadership, and support across multiple teams, this is the perfect opportunity for you.
Responsibilities
- Provide expert care to patients on their caseload. Providing skilled assessment, treatment, supervision and consultation within CAMHS
- The post holder will have Keyworker responsibility for an agreed case load of young people
- To undertake relevant training and to support in the delivery of Dialectical Behavioural Therapy within the OSCA Team as per service need and alongside the DBT Lead.
- Develop risk management plans, regularly review risk plans, identifying opportunities for positive risk taking in conjunction with the client, community team and client’s carers/ relatives/ significant others
- Provide expertise and specialist advice, supervision, guidance and consultation.
- Exercise a high degree of personal professional autonomy
- Make critical judgements of the highest order to satisfy the expectations and demands of the job
- Make decisions where precedents do not exist, where appropriate without recourse to others, and to advise and support colleagues where standard protocols do not apply
- Draw on advanced knowledge and exercise professional skills of the highest order, some of which are likely to be highly specialist, acquired only after lengthy training, supervision and practice
- Make and receive referrals
- Complete advanced history taking, and physical examinations as required with patient group
- Regularly undertake clinical supervision
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About Us
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”
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Our values are: “Caring, safe and excellent”
Benefits
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
Contact
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Ashleigh Green
- Job title: Operational Lead
- Email address: ashleigh.green@oxfordhealth.nhs.uk
- Telephone number: 01865 901980
At Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust we want to employ people not just with experience, but with the aptitude and motivation to succeed and whose values resonate with our own.
Therefore, if you don’t meet all the requirements of the role and are unsure about applying but are excited about the opportunity, please do get in touch. We will be happy to discuss the requirements in more detail ahead of making a written application.
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