Senior Mental Health Practitioner - Outreach Service for Children Posted

Job overview

Are you looking to make a real difference in the lives of children, young people, and vulnerable adults?

Buckinghamshire Children and Young Person's Mental Health team are looking for a Senior Mental Health Practitioner to join OSCA (Outreach Service for Children and Adolescent).

The OSCA (Outreach Service for Children and Adolescent) is a specialised element within the Buckinghamshire CAMHS service. The Buckinghamshire CAMHS service is based on the iThrive model, and includes a number of pathways delivering the full range of assessments and interventions to young people with mental health needs.

Our service has 3 main elements (DBT, Crisis & Intensive Home Treatment (IHTT) and Outreach) the post holder will be expected to work across all three elements.

You will be required to work flexibility across a 7-day working week.

If you are looking for a role where you can provide expert clinical care, leadership, and support across multiple teams, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Join us and be part of a dynamic team dedicated to making a positive impact on the community!

• Provide expert care to patients on their caseload. Providing skilled assessment, treatment, supervision and consultation within CAMHS
• The post holder will have Clinical Care Coordinator responsibility for an agreed case load of Crisis patients, undertaking CPA, including crisis and risk management
• To undertake relevant training and to participate in the delivery of Dialectical Behavioural Therapy within the OSCA Team as per service need.
• Develop risk management plans, regularly review risk plans, identifying opportunities for positive risk taking in conjunction with the client, community team and client’s carers/ relatives/ significant others
• Provide expertise and specialist advice, supervision, guidance and consultation.
• Exercise a high degree of personal professional autonomy
• Make critical judgements of the highest order to satisfy the expectations and demands of the job
• Make decisions where precedents do not exist, where appropriate without recourse to others, and to advise and support colleagues where standard protocols do not apply
• Draw on advanced knowledge and exercise professional skills of the highest order, some of which are likely to be highly specialist, acquired only after lengthy training, supervision and practice
• Make and receive referrals
• Complete advanced history taking, and physical examinations as required with patient group
• Regularly undertake clinical supervision

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:

• Excellent opportunities for career progression
• Access to tailored individual and Trust wide learning and development
• 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
• NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers
• Competitive pension scheme
• Lease car scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Mental Health First Aiders
• Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists apply)
• Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team

We hope that the advert has given you a clear understanding of the skills we are seeking and the opportunity  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…