Senior Mental Health Practitioner - Nurse - OxfordinAbingdoninAbingdonPUBLISHED TUE 21 JAN 2025
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The team emphasises professional development and clinician wellbeing, offering various training opportunities, including systemic skills and therapies such as Cognitive Behaviour Therapy. Supportive supervision and tailored job plans are integral to the role, ensuring a collaborative environment focused on celebrating team achievements and effectively managing caseloads. The position is full-time with the potential for part-time arrangements, and services are offered to the local community from Monday to Friday.
In our South Oxon CAMHS Getting More Help Team we are proud to be developing a needs-led, responsive and accessible service based on the Thrive model.
We are looking for an enthusiastic Registered Mental Health Nurse, Social Worker or Occupational Therapist to work within our integrated Children and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) team and make a real difference to the lives of young people.
You will be working as part of a multi-disciplinary team, consisting of Nurses , Social Workers, Occupational Therapists , Family therapists , Psychologist and Consultant Psychiatrists, with plenty of opportunity for sharing skills and knowledge. You'll also be able to access supervision and training to support you in this role. We offer individual and peer supervision, along with regular reflective space.
In this role, you'll be delivering generic mental health assessments and risk assessments of children and young people (CYP) open to the Getting More Help Team. Depending on the needs of the CYP this could either be on an urgent or routine basis. Working collaboratively with CYP families/other agencies, you will develop holistic plans of care which are evidence based.
You'll be holding a clinical caseload which consists of care co-ordination as well as providing evidence based therapies. We'll also need you to partake in the duty rota, where the clinician responds to and support plans for children and young people who are presenting with an element of risk.
About us
The Getting More Help CAMHS team is a supportive team with a particular focus on your wellbeing. We understand that working in CAMHS can be challenging and therefore strive to ensure that you are well supported. Teams managers work alongside clinicians to ensure that individual job plans are created to support clinicians in managing capacity of caseloads.
We ensure that we celebrate our successes and acknowledge the hard work we do to support children and YP. There is a strong sense of team working and supporting one another.
There will be opportunities to develop clinical skills through ongoing training, such as systemic skills, Cognitive Behaviour Therapy skills and Dialectical Behaviour Skills. Mandatory training will be provided as well as ongoing training to undertake the role. In house training by CAMHS specialist teams occur regularly and on an ad hoc basis.
The CAMHS South Getting More Help Team serves the community of Abingdon, Didcot, Wantage, Henley, Thame, the surrounding villages and parts of Oxford, providing a service that operates Monday - Friday 9am-5pm. This post is full time but if that doesn't work for you, we're open to discussions about part time hours too!
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