Senior Mental Health Practitioner - OT/SW/Mental Health Nurse
Oxford Health NHS Foundation TrustOxford Health NHS Foundation Trust has been rated as Good by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
We are a responsive and innovative Foundation Trust that places our values of Caring, Safe and Excellent at the heart of everything we do. We take great pride in our staff and believe that investing in you is key to us achieving our vision of outstanding care delivered by outstanding people.
We work with a wide range of partner organisations to deliver care and support to people in their own homes and from a number of hospitals and community bases. We focus on delivering care as close to home as possible for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset.
We actively support anti-racism, equality, diversity, and inclusion so, if you’re excited about this job opportunity and you meet our Trust values, but feel unsure about applying, then please get in touch and we will be happy to have a conversation with you.
We are also committed to increasing diversity in the workforce, that is why we actively encourage applications from those groups of people who are currently under-represented, which include amongst others: people with disabilities; men from all socio-economic backgrounds; people from diverse ethnic backgrounds; and people from the LGBTQIA+ community.
Good luck and we hope to hear from you.
Job overview
Are you seeking a varied clinical role in a friendly, supportive team?
Marlborough CAMHS is a happy, hard-working team dedicated to providing an excellent service for our young people and their families. We are looking for a full time Senior Mental Health Practitioner who shares these attributes. Located beside the beautiful Savernake forest, our base is an easy commute with plenty of free parking and birdsong is the soundtrack to our working day. The work can be challenging at times, but is always varied, interesting supported and rewarding. You’ll find us a welcoming bunch, with a serious work ethic tempered by our sense of humour, all fuelled by hobnobs and caffeine – we welcome visitors if you would like to come and meet the team.
Our team ethos is to be supportive, collaborative and kind to each other and the community we serve. Our collective wellbeing is important to us and we have many fun initiatives for you to get involved in or just enjoy.
This is a perfect for an experienced Nurse, or Social Worker/OT, Or a band 5 on a preceptorship development post for newly qualified nurses. There will be the opportunity for further training based around individual learning needs.
We encourage you to come and visit to see if you can visualise driving to our base and working with the team.
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- The assessment and treatment of young people presenting to mental health services with a wide variety of mental health needs with differing complexity and challenges.
- Doing everything to keep our young people safe and where necessary implement our safeguarding arrangements.
- Putting the young person's voice at the centre of everything you do.
- Work with families, other services and agencies involved with the young person.
- Use supervision and Routine Outcome Measures to guide and progress the young person's treatment.
- You will also participate in covering the service’s 24 hour on call service on a rota basis
We are looking for a flexible individual, who works well in a close knit team, as well as someone who has excellent IT and organisational skills.
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”
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
· Pension scheme
· 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.
If you have any questions about the role or the team, you are more than welcome to contact:
Clinical Team Manager - Nel Bartlett at [email protected] or
Deputy Team Manager - Kay Day at [email protected]
Or you can call us on: 01865 904666
- 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