Senior Mental Health Practitioner - Outreach Service for Children

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

The Buckinghamshire Children and Young Person's Mental Health team is looking for a Senior Mental Health Practitioner to join the OSCA (Outreach Service for Children and Adolescent). The OSCA is a specialised element within the Buckinghamshire CAMHS service, based on the iThrive model, and includes several 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)
• Outreach

The post holder will be expected to work across all three elements and must be flexible 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!

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide expert care to patients on their caseload, including skilled assessment, treatment, supervision, and consultation within CAMHS.
• Have Clinical Care Coordinator responsibility for an agreed case load of Crisis patients, undertaking CPA, including crisis and risk management.
• Undertake relevant training and participate in the delivery of Dialectical Behavioural Therapy within the OSCA Team as per service need.
• Develop risk management plans, regularly review risk plans, and identify opportunities for positive risk taking in conjunction with clients, community teams, and clients’ 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, without recourse to others, and 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 the 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, ensuring care is 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, including:

• 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.

At Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, we want to employ people not just with experience, but with the aptitude and motivation to succeed whose values resonate with our own. If you don’t meet all the requirements of the role and are unsure about applying but are excited about the opportunity, please do get in touch. We will be happy to discuss the requirements in more detail ahead of making a written application.