Main area Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services Grade Band 4 Contract 12 months (Fixed term opportunity) Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week Job ref 267-OC7540948
Employer Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Keynsham CAMHS Town Keynsham Salary £27,485 - £30,162 per annum/pro-rata Salary period Yearly Closing 01/12/2025 23:59
Senior Support Worker - Keynsham
Band 4
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
Do you want to be part of a service that offers support and understanding to children and young people at one of the most crucial moments in their life?
We are looking for individuals with a passion for improving care for young people with mental health difficulties to join our CAMHS liaison team.
You will work with children and young people who come to hospitals and need mental health assessment and support. In this role every day is different and you will be working with multidisciplinary teams of healthcare professional and mental health clinicians.
This role will also involve working with the wider team, Eating disorder team and crisis and home treatment to complement the work of liaison and TEDS through supporting children in a flexible way within CAMHS.
The role will involve offering emotional support to adolescents and/or their parents who are in mental health crisis or those with mental health difficulties who are being supported on the paediatric ward.
This role will be based in the Royal United Hospital, Bath and will be linked to BaNES CAMHS team.
* To assist the liaison clinicians in their clinical work with children, young people and parents or carers.
* To assist qualified clinicians in their training of paediatric and A& E staff.
* To work with the TEDS team and to provide meal supports for children and young people with an eating disorder, under the direction of the eating disorder service care coordinator.
* To prepare psychoeducational material for children, young people and their families, and for use of other agencies’ staff, under the supervision of a qualified clinician in the team.
To prepare and organise materials for brief therapeutic input, under the supervision of a qualified clinician in the team.
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
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
Qualifications
* Five GCSEs at grade C/level 5
* CPD in the area of children and young people’s mental health.
Knowledge
* An understanding of the needs and difficulties of people with mental health problems.
* Knowledge of the developmental emotional challenges for children and young people
experience
* Experience of working with service users with mental health difficulties.
* Experience of working as a support worker or an assistant psychologist.
* Experience of working with children and adolescents.
* 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
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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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