CAMHS Duty Lead - AylesburyinAylesburyinAylesburyPUBLISHED WED 12 MAR 2025
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In this vital management position, you will enhance the clinical support offered to young individuals on their mental health journeys. You’ll engage directly with children and families to ensure they feel connected and understood, facilitating educational sessions that empower parents and carers. If you have a background in Mental Health Nursing, Social Work, or Occupational Therapy, this is your opportunity to elevate your career in a compassionate environment that values teamwork and shared goals. Join us and discover why our staff describe their experience as working with “the best team” where collaboration and support are at the heart of everything we do.
Do you have an interest in working with young people? Do you enjoy working to support young people and their families to meet their full potential?
Do you enjoy leading others to provide a high-quality service to others?
We are delighted at the prospect of recruiting a Duty Lead to join our supportive and innovative Getting Help / Getting More Help team in the Buckinghamshire Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service. This is part of Buckinghamshire-wide mental health and well-being service which is designed to provide young people with expert help from one easy access point and is and run by Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust.
If you've got a background as a Mental Health Nurse, Social Worker or Occupational Therapist and want to take a step up into management - We want to hear from you!
- To support and enhance the clinical care of patients and their parents/carer whilst they are on a treatment specific pathway.
- Offer timely liaison with both internal and external partners, families signposting opportunities to support recovery, and parent & carers psychoeducational sessions to improve understanding.
- To work directly with children, young people and families to ensure that they are well engaged in their CAMHS service offer.
- Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team that offers a whole systems approach to the short- and long-term management of mental illness that works across the whole CAMH service.
- Manage and lead a small team of support workers within the service.
Applicants must have a full valid driving licence and have access to a vehicle for work. Adjustments can be considered in line with the Equality Act 2where required.
About us
We hope that the advert has given you a clear understanding of the skills we are seeking and the opportunity at hand. You will need to use the supporting statement element of your application form to demonstrate your suitability for this role and you should refer to the job description, person specification and the guidance notes attached to this role to help you tailor your application. The essential and desirable criteria will be used to shortlist for interview and you should ensure that you refer to these within your application to increase your chances of being selected for interview.
We spoke with the team and here's what they said about working in CAMHS:
"I cannot speak highly enough of the team I work with. Getting more help is full of compassionate , kind, hardworking people who are an absolute pleasure to work with. Best team I have ever worked in by far!"
"I am incredibly proud to work for our Trust and to work with so many people who are so committed to helping to support young people and their families. CAMHS feels like one big family, and it is a great place to be where everyone works collaboratively and helps supports each other in the quest to trying to provide the best care to our patients."
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