Mental Health Liaison Lead Practitioner - BANES CAMHS

Are you an Occupational Therapist looking to develop your leadership skills and offer an excellent service to children and young people?

We're looking for an experienced Occupational Therapist to join our Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service team on a full-time basis. With a big national focus on improving services for children and young people's mental health, there has never been a better time to join and make a positive difference to children and young people's life chances.

As the Mental Health Liaison Lead Practitioner, you will act in a lead role for the liaison service, jointly with a Liaison Lead Practitioner colleague, at the district general hospital in RUH Bath. Alongside Liaison Lead colleagues, you'll participate in the delivery and on-going development of the service. As joint lead, you'll provide daily leadership & clinical support for the Mental Health Liaison Service and ensure a consistent, responsive, high quality and user-friendly service is delivered.

You'll be able to make a meaningful contribution to our service modernisation, ensuring children & young people get the right support from individuals with the right skills.

We offer a full induction, shadowing opportunities, ongoing in-house training, access to external courses, and regular managerial, professional, peer, clinical and safeguarding supervision to support your confidence, competence and development.

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Main duties of the job

In this role, you will undertake comprehensive assessments of young people with mental health needs who present to the acute District General Hospital in Bath and supervise and support colleagues in Band 6 roles and support work to assess and plan for care following admission to hospital .

You will contribute to the clinical leadership of the team, provide supervision for other team members and develop an area of clinical leadership within BANES Community CAMHS

• Assessment of deliberate self-harm
• Support to patients admitted with an eating disorder
• Contribute a psycho-social perspective to patients admitted
• Provide day support and consultation to hospital staff where a mental health need is identified
• Identify and provide CAMHS training (this may involve other CAMHS colleagues)

Within the team, we work on 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. The flexible working patterns allows team members to work hours flexibly and for days off during the week. You will participate in covering the service's 24 hour on call service on a rota basis. There is a robust system of support available from on call colleagues including the manager, consultant psychiatrist and senior manager on call.

About us

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

Job responsibilities

This is a varied and rewarding role within a highly supportive team.

For more information or to arrange an informal visit please us.

Person Specification Knowledge Requirements

• Knowledge of mental health and community care legislation and policy
• Knowledge of Recovery Focused Practice
• Knowledge of Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Knowledge and experience of a range motivational interviewing, solution focused therapy and a psychological therapy (i.e. CBT/DBT)

Qualifications - Academic/Skills/Professional

• RMN/OT/Social Worker with mental health training
• Current registration with relevant professional body; NMC, HCPC

Experience

• Experience as a Band 6, or equivalent, Mental Health professional
• Understanding and experience of working with children and young people with a wide range of mental health needs or relevant Mental Health experience
• Experience of and commitment to working in a multi-agency setting working in partnership with a range of health, social care and education professionals
• Experience of working with young adults or young people or experience of working in a community setting
• Experience of working with young people with an Eating Disorder
• Experience of contributing to the leadership /management of a clinic, project, aspect of clinical work

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

£47,810 to £54,710 a yearPer annum Pro rata