Mental Health Liaison Lead Practitioner

Develop your leadership skills and support clinicians to offer an excellent service to children and young people!

With a national focus on improving services for children and young people’s mental health, there has never been a better time to join Oxford Health Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service!

If you're an experienced Mental Health Nurse, Occupational Therapist, or Social Worker, we're looking for a part-time clinician to join our CAMHS team based in Swindon on a 12-month Fixed Term Contract.

As the Mental Health Liaison Lead Practitioner, you will:

• Act in a lead role for the liaison service at the district general hospital in Swindon, Great Western Hospital.
• Provide leadership and clinical support for the Mental Health Liaison Service.
• Ensure a consistent, responsive, high-quality, and user-friendly service is delivered.

You will make a meaningful contribution to our exciting service modernisation, ensuring children and young people get the right support, at the right time, in the right place, from individuals with the right skills.

You can expect:

• A comprehensive induction programme.
• Ongoing in-house training and opportunities to attend external trainings.
• Regular supervision to build upon confidence, competence, and commitment to developing self and the role.

In this role, you will:

• Sit within Swindon Community CAMHS and undertake comprehensive assessments of young people with mental health needs who present to the acute District General Hospital in Swindon.
• Work as part of a supportive multidisciplinary team offering assessment, treatment, and consultation either in the clinic base or out in the community.

Key responsibilities include:

• Risk assessment and management, including the need for positive risk taking.
• Contributing to the clinical leadership of the team.
• Providing supervision for other team members.
• Developing an area of clinical leadership within Swindon Community CAMHS.
• Assessment of deliberate self-harm.
• Support to patients admitted with an eating disorder.
• Contributing a psycho-social perspective to patients admitted.
• Providing day support and consultation to hospital staff where a mental health need is identified.
• Identifying and providing CAMHS training, potentially involving other CAMHS colleagues.
• Providing the primary link to CAMHS within the acute District General Hospital.
• Developing an area of clinical leadership/specialism within Swindon Community CAMHS.

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust provides physical, mental health, and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath, and North East 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.”

At Oxford Health, 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 may apply).
• Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team.

We hope that this 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 refer to the job description, person specification, and 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 an interview.