Mental Health Practitioner - Social Worker

If you're a Mental Health Nurse, Occupational Therapist or Social Worker, and you're passionate about Child and Adolescent Mental Health, we'd love to hear from you.

You will work in the Getting More Help team to deliver a high quality, comprehensive mental health service for children, young people and their families, who are experiencing mental health difficulties.


Main duties of the job

The Getting More Help service offers support to young people with moderate to severe mental health conditions.

As a Mental Health Practitioner you will be responsible for initial assessment, delivery and evaluation of care and provide psycho-educational advice and practical support to young people and their families by drawing on evidence- based interventions and using a collaborative, recovery focused approach. Risk assessment and management including the need for positive risk taking is an important part of the role.

You will have the opportunity to make an active and meaningful contribution to the team and participate in the team service development and evaluation. Alongside liaison, advice and consultation with wider CAMHS, colleagues in Children Services and a range of external agencies such as Children’s Social Care, Education, Youth Offending Services and Police is central to the role.

Working for our organisation

This is a varied and rewarding role within a highly supportive team. Clinical Supervision and CPD are priorities for the service. We are an inclusive and forward thinking team with a strong focus on training, CPD, supervision and staff wellbeing.

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”

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

You will be required to participate in a flexible working pattern within the multi-disciplinary team to provide cover for a core day 8am-8pm Monday-Friday and 10am-6pm Saturday –Sunday and Bank Holidays.

You will be included in supporting the liaison provision at the local district general hospitals.

If you have any questions or queries about the role, or the team, please get in touch with Saffia Ahmad on Saffia.Ahmad@oxfordhealth.nhs.uk or 01865 903889.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria

- Relevant professional mental health qualification. eg. Mental Health Nurse/Occupational Therapist/Social Worker
- Current registration with relevant professional body – NMC, HCPC

Experience
Essential criteria

- Experience of working with families, carers and significant others
- Experience of and commitment to working in a multi- agency setting working in partnership with a range of health, social care and education professionals

Knowledge
Essential criteria

- Knowledge of mental health and community care legislation and policy
- Knowledge of Safeguarding policy and procedures

Desirable criteria

- CAMHS Experience

- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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