Consultant Mental Health Practitioner

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Job Description

Are you dedicated to improving the lives of children and young people?

Do you thrive in environments where you can help to deliver impactful, short-term interventions? 

Do you want to be part of a service that offers intensive, personally tailored mental health support for children and young people?

We are looking for enthusiastic, caring individual with a passion for improving care for young people with mental health difficulties to join our exciting CAMHS Crisis and Home Treatment Service (CAHTS). Following investment, we are proud to continue to develop a needs led service based on the i-Thrive model, consistent with the nationally defined Crisis Resolution Home Treatment Team clinical model. Accessibility, responsiveness and excellence in care, with the highest regard for service experience will be at the heart of the service.

This role is BWS wide, covering our core CAMHS teams, with the option to chose a base and work flexibly across bases to meet the needs of the service. This flexibility can extend to some home working, when clinically appropriate.

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Main duties of the job

You would be part of an experienced multi disciplinary (CAHTS) leadership team who works closely together and support each other. This role will offer consultations on clinical cases to internal and external staff, clinical supervision and training. We would welcome applications from clinicians with experience of working in CAMHS and an interest in leadership.

The successful candidates will be offered a variety of training including Positive Behaviour Support, AMBIT, DBT coping skills, and Family Based Therapy for Eating Disorders. There will also be the opportunity for further training based around individual learning needs.

 

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
  • 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

·       Provide expert care to patients on their caseload. Providing skilled assessment, treatment, supervision and consultation within CAMHS.

·       Provide expertise and specialist advice, supervision, guidance and consultation to other professionals

·       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.

·       Build on and maintain working relationships between the Crisis and Home Treatment Service and the District General Hospitals in BSW.

·       Lead on ensuring that CAMHS clinicians are working together with the Crisis and Home Treatment Service to deliver positive and seamless experiences of care to children, young people and families.

For more information please see the attached Job Description.

 

Person specification

Qualification

Essential criteria
  • Registered RMN, OT, Social Worker or Psychological Therapist
  • Advanced clinical skills in acute mental health presentations and risk management
  • Educated to degree level or equivalent plus masters degree or willing to work towards
Desirable criteria
  • Masters degree directly related to specialism
  • Educated to PhD level Non-medical prescribing qualification

Knowledge and experience

Essential criteria
  • Evidence of involvement in strategic level decision-making
  • Evidence of involvement in innovative practice or service developments
  • Experience of mentoring and clinical supervision of others

Personal Qualities

Essential criteria
  • Strong influencing and negotiation skills with experience of facilitating change by collaborating with stakeholders
  • Highly developed interpersonal skills for delivering key messages to a range of stakeholders
  • Resilience under situational pressure, professional challenge and change.
  • Ability to work flexibly to the needs of the locality, service, patients, families and carers.