Job summary
- Main area
- Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services - Learning Disability
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 267-BM6480173
- Employer
- Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Sue Nicholls Centre Bucks CAMHS
- Town
- Aylesbury
- Salary
- per annum/pro-rata
- Closing
- 08/08/2024 23:59
- Interview date
- 20/08/2024
Employer heading
Senior Mental Health OT - Learning Disability- Bucks
Band 6
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.
Job overview
Are you a Nurse or Occupational Therapist and passionate about working with children and young people with intellectual disabilities, who wants to be able to work from home and a clinical base? Do you want to work in an organisations that values being caring, safe and excellent? Do you have the skills and knowledge to help us deliver mental health support in the beautiful county of Buckinghamshire?
Then this role is for you.
You will join a friendly and supportive, well-established, and knowledgeable multi-professional team. You will receive quality reflective supervision. You will use your skills to deliver quality assessments and interventions and influence service improvements. You will have opportunities grow in your career and continuing professional development. You will be a vital member of the team helping the system to understand the complete identity of the young person including their intellectual disability, neurodivergence, mental health and developmental profile.
Main duties of the job
In this role, you'll be contributing to the triaging process for children and young people with an established learning difficulty, experiencing mental health needs. You'll be assessing the mental health component of their experience and delivering evidence based interventions.
We work closely with families to build care plans and there's a lot of multi-agency networking involved, as you'll be in contact with schools. the local authority, play organisations and charities.
We'll need you to participate in duty cover and liaison cover as well - please get in touch with us if you'd like more information about this.
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
- Competitive pension scheme
- 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
The main duties of the job include:
- Comprehensive assessment
- Shared formulation
- Delivery and/or oversight of collaborative treatment plan using evidence-based interventions
- Collaborative risk management
- Support and supervision of colleagues
- Multi-agency working
You will be responsible for:
- Compliance with professional registration practice
- Safe practice in accordance with Trust policies and procedures
- Addressing safeguarding concerns were appropriate or necessary
You will be supported by excellent team knowledge and experience on a formal/informal basis. Clinical and managerial supervision are augmented with profession specific supervision as required with systemic/psychodynamic opportunities.
Person specification
Qualification
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse (Mental Health), Registered Nurse (Learning Disability), Occupational Therapist or Social Worker.
- Registration with relevant professional body
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working with children and young people with neuro developmental and/or Intellectual Disability and their families and carers
- Experience of planning and providing intervention of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and inpatient settings
- Experience of supervision of staff
Knowledge and further training/skills
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of Mental Health, Neurodevelopmental conditions and Intellectual Disabilities.
- To have ability to assess client need, both mental health, health and social needs.
- To have the ability to complete clinical risk assessments
- Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multimedia materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Rachel Bailey
- Job title
- Operational Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01865 901325
- Additional information
Please also contact Debbie Keep ([email protected]). We welcome contact to discuss these roles and you can arrange an informal visit if you would like to know more.
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.
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