Consultant Mental Health Practitioner

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust

About

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. We focus on delivering care as close to home as possible.

Key details

Location

Site: Swindon, Melksham, Salisbury, Marlborough, Keynsham

Town: Choice of base

Postcode: SN1 4JS

Major / Minor Region: Oxfordshire

Contract type & working pattern

Contract: Permanent

Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (OOH managers rota)

Salary

Salary: £53,755 - £60,504 Per annum, pro-rata

Salary period: Yearly

Grade: Band 8a

Specialty

Main area: Mental Health

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 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.

Job overview

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 an 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 choose 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.

Advert

You would be part of an experienced multi-disciplinary (CAHTS) leadership team who works closely together and supports 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.

“Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team”

“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.

• 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.

Applicant requirements

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.

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.

Further details / informal visits contact

Name: Clare Fry

Job title: Clinical Team Manager

Email address: clare.fry@oxfordhealth.nhs.uk

Telephone number: 07785 663323

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.