Senior Mental Health Practitioner-Mental Health Liaison Social Worker inSwindon inSwindon PUBLISHED
THU 17 OCT 2024
Oxford Health NHS Trust rH27iWzC
Candidates, who should be qualified Mental Health Nurses, Learning Disability Nurses, Occupational Therapists, or Social Workers, will benefit from a comprehensive induction program, ongoing training, and robust supervision. Flexibility in working patterns is provided, with core service hours from 8 am to 8 pm on weekdays and a 24-hour on-call service as part of the role. The position offers an opportunity to make a significant impact on the mental health and wellbeing of children and young people in the community.
Are you looking for a role where you can make a real difference to the lives of children, young people and their families?
With a big national focus on improving services for children and young people's mental health and wellbeing, there has never been a better time to join Oxford Health CAMHS and make a positive difference to children and young people's life chances.
If you're a Mental Health Nurse, Learning Disability Nurse, Occupational Therapists or Social Worker, we're looking for you to join our Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service team based at Swindon CAMHS, Swindon and support the delivery of our Mental Health Liaison provision.
As a Senior Mental Health Liaison Practitioner you will work closely with our Liaison Lead and deliver Hospital Liaison at the acute district general hospital in Swindon, Great Western Hospital. You will provide day-to-day liaison and clinical support for the Liaison Service and ensure a consistent, responsive, high quality and user-friendly service is delivered.
You will have the opportunity to make an active and meaningful contribution to our exciting service modernisation and redesign that is based on the Thrive model, ensuring children and young people get the right support, at the right time, in the right place, from individuals with the right skills.
You can start getting to know about us by having a look at our recruitment video:
BSW RECRUITMENT - YouTube
Swindon CAMHS is a supportive multidisciplinary team who offer assessment, treatment, and consultation either in the clinic base or out in the community.
In this role, you will undertake comprehensive assessments of young people with mental health needs who present to the acute District General Hospital in Swindon.
Risk assessment and management including the need for positive risk taking is an important part of the role.
You can expect a comprehensive induction programme, including a range of shadowing opportunities to fully support the post holder in the role, ongoing in-house training and opportunities to attend external trainings. The team fully supports and delivers regular managerial, professional, peer, clinical, and safeguarding supervision to build upon confidence, competence, and commitment to developing self and the role.
About us
- 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)
- Provide a link to CAMHS within the acute District General Hospital.
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 services 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.
For more information or to arrange an informal visit please do contact us.
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