Senior Mental Health Practitioner - Social Worker - Swindon inSwindon inSwindon PUBLISHED 10 DEC 2023
Oxford Health NHS Trust rH27iWzC
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The role will involve offering emotional support to adolescents and/or their parents who are in mental health crisis or are being supported to leave psychiatric inpatient care.
We can offer you a variety of training including Positive Behaviour Support, AMBIT, DBT coping skills, and Family Based Therapy for Eating Disorders. There will also be the opportunity for further training based around individual learning needs.
If you have any questions about the role or the team, and you'd like to find out more, please contact Clare Fry on or .
Are you dedicated to improving the lives of children and young people?
Do you thrive in environments where you can help to deliver impactful, short-term interventions?
We, the Crisis and Home Treatment Service (CAHTS), embedded within the Bath, North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire (BSW) Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS), are looking for a Mental Health Practitioner to join us, based in Swindon.
We work closely alongside and liaise with the Getting More Help Teams on supporting children, young people (CYP) and their families experiencing complex mental health needs.
Our CYP might be at risk of inpatient hospital admission or transitioning out of inpatient care; our role is to provide intensive, short-term support within the community. No two days are the same, with plenty of variety in this role and lots of opportunities for learning.
In this role, you would be responsible for initial assessments and delivery of time limited, short term interventions to address emotional and mental health needs of young people in crisis, with the aim of reducing longer term mental health problems.
Check us out on Youtube:BSW RECRUITMENT - YouTube
This role carries an incentive premium of £3,500 which will be paid in instalments over an 18th month period. Please note that this scheme is not open to existing employees of Oxford Health and is subject to a claw back clause. Further information will be provided.
In CAHTS, we're committed to deliver a high quality, comprehensive mental health services for children, young people and their families who are experiencing additional mental health needs.
Children and Young people within our service are often experiencing an increased level of mental health needs, including exhibiting increased risk behaviours. Whilst this can sometimes feel daunting, we have a strong multi-disciplinary leadership team who are responsive to the needs of the team.
You might support CYP and their families with psycho-social education or provide practical support, drawing upon evidence-based interventions.
Liaison, advice and consultation with wider CAMHS, colleagues in Children Services and a range of external agencies such as Children's Social Care, Education and many more.
We'll need you 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 also participate in covering the service's 24 hour on call service on a rota basis.
The role will involve offering emotional support to adolescents and/or their parents who are in mental health crisis or are being supported to leave psychiatric inpatient care.
We can offer you a variety of training including Positive Behaviour Support, AMBIT, DBT coping skills, and Family Based Therapy for Eating Disorders. There will also be the opportunity for further training based around individual learning needs.
If you have any questions about the role or the team, and you'd like to find out more, please contact Clare Fry on or .
Are you dedicated to improving the lives of children and young people?
Do you thrive in environments where you can help to deliver impactful, short-term interventions?
We, the Crisis and Home Treatment Service (CAHTS), embedded within the Bath, North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire (BSW) Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS), are looking for a Mental Health Practitioner to join us, based in Swindon.
We work closely alongside and liaise with the Getting More Help Teams on supporting children, young people (CYP) and their families experiencing complex mental health needs.
Our CYP might be at risk of inpatient hospital admission or transitioning out of inpatient care; our role is to provide intensive, short-term support within the community. No two days are the same, with plenty of variety in this role and lots of opportunities for learning.
In this role, you would be responsible for initial assessments and delivery of time limited, short term interventions to address emotional and mental health needs of young people in crisis, with the aim of reducing longer term mental health problems.
Check us out on Youtube:BSW RECRUITMENT - YouTube
This role carries an incentive premium of £3,500 which will be paid in instalments over an 18th month period. Please note that this scheme is not open to existing employees of Oxford Health and is subject to a claw back clause. Further information will be provided.
In CAHTS, we're committed to deliver a high quality, comprehensive mental health services for children, young people and their families who are experiencing additional mental health needs.
Children and Young people within our service are often experiencing an increased level of mental health needs, including exhibiting increased risk behaviours. Whilst this can sometimes feel daunting, we have a strong multi-disciplinary leadership team who are responsive to the needs of the team.
You might support CYP and their families with psycho-social education or provide practical support, drawing upon evidence-based interventions.
Liaison, advice and consultation with wider CAMHS, colleagues in Children Services and a range of external agencies such as Children's Social Care, Education and many more.
We'll need you 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 also participate in covering the service's 24 hour on call service on a rota basis.
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