Senior Mental Health Practitioner - Occupational Therapist

Job summary

Are you a qualified Occupational Therapist seeking a new role?We are looking for a full-time Senior Mental Health Practitioner to join our CAMHS Outreach Team, providing specialist community-based support to children and young people experiencing complex and pervasive mental health difficulties. The service works with those who may struggle to engage with traditional clinic-based provision, offering flexible and responsive care within homes, schools, and community settings.

We enthusiastically welcome the knowledge and expertise of an Occupational Therapist to our experienced team of Social Workers, Nurses and Psychologists. The role requires close multidisciplinary working to ensure coordinated, high-quality care throughout the young person's journey in mental health services. You will support and promote young people as occupational beings - utilising Occupational Therapy assessment tools and measures, to consider impact on identity and motivation for change.

You will have the opportunity to develop the role of OT within the CAMHS Outreach team as well as have access to OT specific training including targeted sensory, universal and MOHO modules of human occupations and its relevance to CAMHS.

In addition, there will be the opportunity to attend and participate in the Oxon CAMHS Occupational Therapy Forum and Sensory Supervision as required to support your clinical caseload.

Main duties of the job

• To collaboratively assess, plan and provide evidence-based interventions for children and young people referred to the CAMHS Outreach, paying particular attention to opportunities for functional, creative, educational, work, leisure, interpersonal and life skills.
• Once trained, partaking in the delivery of the Dialectical Behaviour Therapy for Adolescence (DBT-A) provision. This will include being able to participate in all modalities of the therapy, including being part of the on call phone coaching rota and DBT skills group.
• To work alongside the multi-disciplinary team to deliver a high quality of holistic care, promoting the value of Occupational Therapy.
• To work closely with a range of agencies including, Social Care, schools, other CAMHS teams to meet the needs of children and young people and work collaboratively to develop/provide integrated services.
• To participate in regular supervision and appraisal

Once trained in DBT, will be required to be part of DBT phone coaching rota (8-8pm Monday to Friday) and DBT skills group once per week 5-8pm

About us

Oxford Health is a great place to work and to be able to showcase the best of yourself when making an application please read the "candidate guide to making an application" and ensure your supporting statement is tailored to the role you are applying for and addresses any essential criteria.

As a Trust we provide physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and Northeast 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"

We offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include:

o Excellent opportunities for career progressiono Access to tailored individual and Trust wide learning and developmento 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous serviceo NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailerso Competitive pension schemeo Lease car schemeo Cycle to work schemeo Employee Assistance Programmeo Mental Health First Aiderso Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists apply)o Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team

Job responsibilities

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.

In your supporting statement, we encourage you to talk about examples of transferrable skills into different settings, including experience of doing so and/or how you intend on implementing within a CAMHS setting specifically.

Person specification

Knowledge

Essential

• Evidence of continuing professional development

Qualifications

Essential

• Occupational Therapist qualification

Desirable

• Professional knowledge acquired through degree/diploma. Additional post qualifying training in a relevant field (DBT, CBT or any other psychological therapies) Teaching/mentoring qualification

Further training or job related skills

Essential

• To have ability to manage case load and act lead professional for clients on case list.
• To be able to function as part of multi-disciplinary team and liaise with external agencies i.e. primary care, education, social and health care.
• To have ability to assess client need, both mental health, health and social needs
• Ability to organise own time and diary and that of junior staff and learners.
• Understanding of evidencebased practice and the ability to demonstrate how this influences clinical practice.
• Maintain patient records both written and electronic
• Ability to maintain effective working relationships with relevant parties

Experience

Essential

• Post qualification experience in a mental health setting, working with young people or adults with mental illness.
• Experience of mentoring and clinical supervision of others
• Experience of using Occupational Therapy assessment tools and therapy outcome measures to evaluate clinical practice.

Desirable

• Experience of working with children and young people who have pervasive; chronic mental illness and their families and carers in the community