Mental Health Liaison Lead Practitioner

Job overview

Do you want to 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. You will provide leadership and clinical support for the Mental Health Liaison Service and 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. The team fully supports and delivers regular supervision to build upon confidence, competence, and commitment to developing self and the role.

You can start getting to know about us by having a look at our recruitment video:

BSW RECRUITMENT - YouTube

Main duties of the job

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 .

Swindon Community CAMHS is  a supportive multidisciplinary team who offer assessment, treatment, and consultation either in the clinic base or out in the community.

Risk assessment and management including the need for positive risk taking is an important part of the role. You will contribute to the clinical leadership of the team, provide supervision for other team members and develop an area of clinical leadership within Swindon Community CAMHS.

• Assessment of deliberate self-harm
• Support to patients admitted with an eating disorder
• Contribute a psycho-social perspective to patients admitted
• Provide day support and consultation to hospital staff where a mental health need is identified
• Identify and provide CAMHS training (this may involve other CAMHS colleagues)
• Provide primary link to CAMHS within the acute District General Hospital.
• Develop an area of clinical leadership/specialism within Swindon Community CAMHS.

Detailed job description and main 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.

For more information or to arrange an informal visit please contact us.