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Senior Mental Health Practitioner - Outreach Service for Children

Oxford Health

Aylesbury

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Job summary

A healthcare organization in Aylesbury is seeking a Senior Mental Health Practitioner to join its CAMHS team. You will provide expert clinical care and support across various elements, including DBT and Crisis management. The role requires professional registration, experience with children having complex mental health needs, and a flexible schedule. Competitive benefits include career progression and NHS discounts.

Benefits

27 days annual leave plus bank holidays

NHS discounts

Cycle to work scheme

Employee Assistance Programme

Mental Health First Aiders

Qualifications

Experience working with children and young people with complex mental illness.
Professional qualifications and registration in relevant fields.
Knowledge of risk assessment in various settings.

Responsibilities

Provide expert care to patients on their caseload.
Develop and review risk management plans.
Make critical judgments and decisions regarding care.

Skills

Risk assessment and management

Expert clinical care

Leadership and support

Education

Professional qualification in Social Work, Mental Health Nursing, or Occupational Therapy

Job overview

Are you looking to make a real difference in the lives of children, young people, and vulnerable adults?

Buckinghamshire Children and Young Person's Mental Health team are looking for a Senior Mental Health Practitioner to join OSCA (Outreach Service for Children and Adolescent).

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 all three elements.

You will be required to work flexibility across a 7-day working week.

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.

Join us and be part of a dynamic team dedicated to making a positive impact on the community!

Main duties of the job

Provide expert care to patients on their caseload. Providing skilled assessment, treatment, supervision and consultation within CAMHS
The post holder will have Clinical Care Coordinator responsibility for an agreed case load of Crisis patients, undertaking CPA, including crisis and risk management
To undertake relevant training and to participate in the delivery of Dialectical Behavioural Therapy within the OSCA Team as per service need.
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

Working for our organisation

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”

Our values are: “Caring, safe and excellent”

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

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.

We are aware that some candidates may choose to use AI tools to support their application. We kindly remind applicants that submissions should remain an honest and accurate representation of their experience and must take care to ensure the use of AI tools does not generate an application that does not accurately reflect their knowledge, skills and values.

We spoke with the team and here's what they said about working in CAMHS:

"I am incredibly proud to work for our Trust and to work with so many people who are so committed to helping to support young people and their families. CAMHS feels like one big family, and it is a great place to be where everyone works collaboratively and helps support each other in the quest to trying to provide the best care to our patients."

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

Professional Qualification and registration in Social Work, Mental Health Nursing or Occupational Therapy.

Skills

Essential criteria

Knowledge and experience of risk assessment and management in different settings

Desirable criteria

Teaching/mentoring qualification.

Experience

Essential criteria

Experience of working with children and young people who have complex mental illness and their families and carers or experience of working within Child maltreatment and abuse and parenting services

Desirable criteria