Job overview
Are you a Social Worker, Occupational Therapist or Nurse?
Are you looking for a new challenge to develop your skills in working with children and mental health?
If so, come and join us within the Oxon Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) Single Point of Access (SPA) team.
The SPA is the initial contact for all children, young people, families and professionals wishing to contact Oxfordshire CAMHS.
Our team provides consultation, promoting self help approach where appropriate, giving support, advice and expertise. When required the team will identify the appropriate CAMHS pathway to provide assessment.
The aim is to make it easier to access the most appropriate help, working closely with Children’s social care, GPs, School and Health referrers, as well as local charitableservices.
Please apply if you are passionate about working with children and families and have experience within mental health. You will need to have a professional qualification of Social Worker, Occupational Therapy or Nurse, we welcome applications including a range of backgrounds (including children’s, adult, learning disability).
The role would suit applicants who enjoy problem solving, can remain calm under pressure, are able to work as part of a team and be self-motivated.
Main duties of the job
To promote the mental and emotional health of children, young people, and families in the community. Understanding their needs, identifying risk and support the family in accessing appropriate services.
To prevent more serious mental health problems in children and young people by early identification of the development of mental health problems.
To have a wide range of knowledge in approaches to communicating and managing care with families, children and young people.
To have excellent communication skills and to be able to promote integrated healthcare working internally and externally.
The Candidate should have the following:
1. experience of working with children and young people in a variety of settings
2. experience of work within a multi-disciplinary team and with multi-agency professionals
3. the ability to relate and provide accessible services to a diverse community
4. the ability to adapt to the fast-paced nature of SPA work, with good IT and computer recording skills to navigate between the various IT systems within CAMHS and the local authority.
5. knowledge and skills in risk assessment, management and safeguarding
6. be able to deliver a range of evidence-based interventions
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:
7. Excellent opportunities for career progression
8. Access to tailored individual and Trust wide learning and development
9. 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
10. NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers
11. Competitive pension scheme
12. Lease car scheme
13. Cycle to work scheme
14. Employee Assistance Programme
15. Mental Health First Aiders
16. Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists may apply)
17. Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
We'll provide you with a comprehensive induction programme, including a range of shadowing opportunities to fully support the post holder in the role. The team fully supports and delivers regular managerial, clinical, and safeguarding supervision to build upon confidence, competence and commitment to developing self and the role, so there's plenty of opportunities to share learning and expertise.
As an organisation we offer flexibility in terms of hours and work base. We recognise the importance of flexible working to ensure a healthy work life balance and would be open to the possibility of home working for a proportion of the working week.
We pride ourselves on embedding team cohesion, support and appreciation opportunities over the working week, to support us all in the hard work we deliver. There is excellent work/life balance and ensure we look after staff’s wellbeing.
In this role, you'll be a point of contact in the single point of access; clinical decisions regarding referrals into services, contacting young person/families, offer advice and support to assist whilst waiting for assessment into the services or share information of alternative appropriate provision.
18. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the screening and plan of care for clients in line with the service.
19. Use highly developed communication skills in working with people to understand their personal and often very sensitive difficulties and develop carefully tailored interventions.
20. Use highly developed communication skills in working with external agencies/referrers to understand their concerns relating to CYP ensuring that the CYP are offered the right intervention either within the CAMHS service or within the wider provision within Oxfordshire
21. To undertake risk assessment and risk management for young children and their parents/carers
22. Adhere to an agreed activity contract relating to the number of client contacts carried out per week in order to minimise waiting times and ensure treatment delivery remains accessible and convenient.
23. Attend multi-disciplinary meetings relating to referrals or clients in treatment, where appropriate.
24. Complete all requirements relating to data collection within the service.
25. To maintain accurate and accessible health care records according to Trust policy and Information Governance requirements
26. work closely with other members of the team ensuring appropriate step-up and step-down arrangements are in place to maintain a stepped care approach.
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.
Person specification
Qualification
Essential criteria
27. A recorded/registered doctoral level qualification in clinical or counselling psychology with current HCPC registration OR A recorded/registered qualification in one of the following - nursing, social work, occupational therapy, arts therapy or a psychological therapy
28. Evidence of continuing professional development and maintenance of relevant professional qualification
Desirable criteria
29. Clinically relevant knowledge acquired through degree/diploma
30. Teaching / mentoring qualification
31. Leadership training
Experience
Essential criteria
32. Significant post qualification experience in a mental health setting
33. Experience of mentoring and clinical supervision of others
Desirable criteria
34. Experience and understanding of working within the education setting.
35. Experience of working with children and young people who have serious mental illness, and their families / carers in the community.
Skills
Essential criteria
36. To have ability to manage case load and experieince of acting as care coordinator
37. To have ability to assess client need, both mental health and social needs
Desirable criteria
38. To be able to contribute to the aduit process
39. All new starters have a 6 month probationary period. This, together with the induction process, aims to create a positive supportive working environment allowing new employees to learn key elements of their role over a reasonable timescale
40. Candidates not currently employed by the Trust who attend an interview for non-qualified Band 1-5 posts are required to undertake numeracy and literacy assessments.
41. 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.
42. Employees are expected to undertake mandatory and statutory training related to their role.
43. 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.
44. 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.
45. Oxford Health is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults, we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
46. 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