Main area Registered Mental Health Practitioner Grade Band 5 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday 9am - 5pm.) Job ref 267-OC7479372
Employer Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Melksham Community Hospital Town Melksham Salary £31,049 - £37,796 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 06/11/2025 23:59
Band 5
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 looking for a rewarding role where you can make an immediate impact?
Join our CAMHS Single Point of Access team as a full time Mental health Practitioner and be the first step in helping children, young people, and families get the right support at the right time.
“Be the voice that makes the first call count – join us in transforming how families get support from the very start.”
With new funding from our commissioners, we’re enhancing how we support families. Rather than sending signposting letters, we’ll now call every family to offer personalised advice and connect them with the right help. Join our expanding BANES and Wiltshire CAMHS SPA Team in Melksham and make a real difference from the very first conversation. You will be joining an established and supportive multi-disciplinary team offering an extended period of induction which includes shadowing opportunities and the flexibility of hybrid working.
You will receive regular managerial, clinical, peer and safeguarding supervision and the opportunity to avail of the many training opportunities on offer through Oxford Health Foundation Trust.
With the national focus on improving services for children and young people’s mental health and wellbeing, there has never been a better time to join Oxford Health CAMHS and make a positive difference to children and young people’s life chances.
We are based in Melksham and work Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will join the SPA team who are responsible for all referrals and enquiries for children and young people (CYP) across Banes AND Wiltshire CAMHS teams. The SPA team is instrumental in gathering more information and co-ordinating the appropriate care at the right time by the right service/pathway.
Supporting the Clinical Team Manager and SPA Practitioners to manage all requests for service, to ensure children, young people and families receive timely access to the right help they need according to their mental health and wellbeing needs.
To undertake phone consultations to children, young people, families and other referrers.
Work collaboratively with parents/families/carers to promote the emotional and physical wellbeing of the child/young person.
Assessing risk in collaboration with children and young people experiencing mental health difficulties, significant others, and other workers/professionals, alongside use of own professional judgment and team processes.
Identifying and engaging with practitioners with specialist knowledge to support decision making.
Confidently signpost to other appropriate resources within the community.
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 please read the “candidate guide to making an application” and ensure your supporting statement is tailored to the role you are applying for and addresses any essential criteria.
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.
Person specification
Professional Registration.
* Professionally recognised registration.
* Experience of working in CAMHS.
* Understanding of and the use of Risk Assessment in a Mental Health setting.
* Knowledge of Safeguarding.
Autonomous working.
* Experience of working autonomously.
* Ability to work autonomously.
* 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.
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