Mental Health Liaison Lead Practitioner - BANES CAMHS

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Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Keynsham is seeking an experienced Mental Health Nurse for their Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service. You will lead the liaison service and provide support to young individuals with mental health needs, contributing to clinical leadership. This role offers extensive training opportunities and a supportive environment, allowing you to make a significant impact in improving mental health services for children and young people. Flexible working patterns are included.

Benefits

Excellent opportunities for career progression

27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays

NHS Discount across a wide range of shops

Qualifications

• Experience as a Band 6 Mental Health professional.
• Experience working with children and young people with mental health needs.
• Commitment to working in a multi-agency setting.

Responsibilities

• Act in a lead role for the liaison service.
• Supervise and support colleagues in Band 6 roles.
• Conduct comprehensive assessments of young people with mental health needs.

Skills

Knowledge of mental health and community care legislation

Motivational interviewing

Solution focused therapy

Psychological therapy (CBT/DBT)

Education

RMN/OT/Social Worker with mental health training

Current registration with NMC or HCPC

Job description

Main area NMC Grade Band 7 Contract 12 months (12 months fixed term opportunity) Hours

• Full time
• Flexible working

37.5 hours per week Job ref 267-OC7540806

Employer Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site BANES CAMHS Town Keynsham Salary £47,810 - £54,710 Per annum | Pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 22/12/2025 23:59

Band 7

Oxford 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 a Mental Health Nurse looking to develop your leadership skills and offer an excellent service to children and young people?

We're looking for an experienced Mental Health Nurse to join our Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service team on a full-time basis. With a big national focus on improving services for children and young people’s mental health, there has never been a better time to join and make a positive difference to children and young people’s life chances.

As the Mental Health Liaison Lead Practitioner, you will act in a lead role for the liaison service, jointly with a Liaison Lead Practitioner colleague, at the district general hospital in RUH Bath. Alongside Liaison Lead colleagues, you'll participate in the delivery and on-going development of the service. As joint lead, you'll provide daily leadership & clinical support for the Mental Health Liaison Service and ensure a consistent, responsive, high quality and user-friendly service is delivered.

You’ll be able to make a meaningful contribution to our service modernisation, ensuring children & young people get the right support from individuals with the right skills.

We offer a full induction, shadowing opportunities, ongoing in-house training, access to external courses, and regular managerial, professional, peer, clinical and safeguarding supervision to support your confidence, competence and development.

In this role, you will undertake comprehensive assessments of young people with mental health needs who present to the acute District General Hospital in Bath and supervise and support colleagues in Band 6 roles and support work to assess and plan for care following admission to hospital .

You will contribute to the clinical leadership of the team, provide supervision for other team members and develop an area of clinical leadership within BANES Community CAMHS

• Assessment of deliberate self-harm
• Support to patients admitted with an eating disorder
• Contribute a psycho-social perspective to patients admitted
• Provide day support and consultation to hospital staff where a mental health need is identified
• Identify and provide CAMHS training (this may involve other CAMHS colleagues)

Within the team, we work on a flexible working pattern within the multi-disciplinary team to provide cover for a core day 8am-8pm Monday-Friday and 10am-6pm Saturday –Sunday and Bank Holidays. The flexible working patterns allows team members to work hours flexibly and for days off during the week. You will participate in covering the service’s 24 hour on call service on a rota basis. There is a robust system of support available from on call colleagues including the manager, consultant psychiatrist and senior manager on call.

Working for our organisation

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

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

This is a varied and rewarding role within a highly supportive team.

For more information or to arrange an informal visit please contact us.

Person specification

Knowledge Requirements

• Knowledge of mental health and community care legislation and policy
• Knowledge of Recovery Focused Practice
• Knowledge of Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Knowledge and experience of a range motivational interviewing, solution focused therapy and a psychological therapy (i.e. CBT/DBT)

Qualifications – Academic/Skills/Professional

• RMN/OT/Social Worker with mental health training
• Current registration with relevant professional body; NMC, HCPC

Experience

• Experience as a Band 6, or equivalent, Mental Health professional
• Understanding and experience of working with children and young people with a wide range of mental health needs or relevant Mental Health experience
• Experience of and commitment to working in a multi-agency setting working in partnership with a range of health, social care and education professionals
• Experience of working with young adults or young people or experience of working in a community setting
• Experience of working with young people with an Eating Disorder
• Experience of contributing to the leadership /management of a clinic, project, aspect of clinical work
• 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

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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