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Job summary

Main area
Child & Adolescent Mental Health Services
Grade
Band 7
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
267-OC6284930
Employer
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Raglan House
Town
Cowley
Salary
£43,742 - £50,056 per annum/pro-rata
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
07/07/2024 23:59

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Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust logo

Deputy Team Manager - CAMHS - Oxford

Band 7

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust has been rated as Good by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).

We are a responsive and innovative Foundation Trust that places our values of Caring, Safe and Excellent at the heart of everything we do. We take great pride in our staff and believe that investing in you is key to us achieving our vision of outstanding care delivered by outstanding people.

We work with a wide range of partner organisations to deliver care and support to people in their own homes and from a number of hospitals and community bases. We focus on delivering care as close to home as possible for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset.


 

Job overview

Are you looking for a new leadership role where you can develop, grow and shape and a new team?

One where you can really make a difference to the lives of children and young people?

We, in the West Oxfordshire Mental Health Support Team (MHST) (embedded within the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS)) are looking for a dedicated Deputy Team Manager to help expand our team.

In line with the government’s priority to increase access and availability of mental health and wellbeing support for children and young people, the new expansion to the west is an exciting opportunity to deliver evidence-based early interventions for children and young people, working across both educational settings and healthcare sectors in England. 

You may be an Occupational Therapist, a Nurse, or Social Worker with preferably some CBT Therapist Training but crucially passionate about supporting those experiencing mental health difficulties.  Ideally, you'd have  CAMHS experience , along with an understanding the the MHST service. 

We know how important it is to have a good work/life balance, for yourself, your family and your career. You will be at Raglan House, Cowley with some flexibility of hybrid working. 

We are open to receive applications for both full time and part time roles. 

Main duties of the job

In this role, you'll  be involved in service development and expansion, being responsible for its expansion alongside the operational lead; this is a unique opportunity to build a new team in the South of the County. 

Line management is also essential in this role as you  will directly line manage  Trainee  Education Mental Health Practitioner (EMHP) Supervisors, and EMHPS. You'll be responsible for ensuring members of the team have essential skills required to provide evidence based psychological assessment and interventions.

There's also strong liaison and linking with the University of Reading, alongside taking a clinical caseload once settled within the role,.

Working for our organisation

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

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

You will be joining a supportive, and passionate team of people , who are focused on early intervention support for children and young people with mild to moderate mental health needs. Being able to help them to improve their lives is a real privilege. 

This is a new and exciting time to join as this is a new team - you will be able to shape its expansion and growth, and so have an opportunity to make a real difference. 

Other responsibilities include:

  • To line manage the LI CBT Trainee EMHPs and be a direct link for Reading University.
  • To be directly responsible for managing clinical staff (EMHP Trainees/Trainee Supervisors) during training year, and once qualified.
  • To support Trainee supervisors and EMHPs with course requirements.
  • To manage and support absence/performance issues within the trainee cluster of west Oxfordshire.
  • Responsible for ensuring members of the team have essential skills required to provide evidence based psychological assessment and interventions.
  • Responsible for developing skills and training packages for junior staff to enable delivery of work within schools with structure and governance.
  • Responsible for case management for the designated west area.
  • Offering advice, consultation and support to staff and schools in the health improvement plans ensuring the whole school interventions and Mental Health needs are met.
  • Offering advice, consultation and supervision about clients’ psychological care to non-psychological colleagues and to other, non-professional carers.
  • To support the operational lead with stepped care pathways and MHST development across the county.
  • To work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures.
  • To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service.
  • To provide consultation, supervision and support to other clinical members of the service who provide CBT based care, supervision and treatment.
  • To support the operational lead with line management within a cluster of the county, either North, City or South.
  • To support the building of relationships with schools and wider agencies.
  • To support the MHST Operational Manager in the delivery of assessment and intervention for the MHST caseload/in the management and further development of the CAMHS MHST working to an agreed model, developing clinical structures, recruiting staff and implementing the service.
  • Provide a safe, effective and therapeutic clinical team ensuring the delivery of establishing current presentation and to give advice for young people and families waiting for assessment / intervention.
  • To be responsible for the line management, case supervision and appraisal of team colleagues.

If you have any queries regarding the role, the team or you'd like to just get in touch, please contact Lesley Leadbeater, Service Manager, on [email protected], as we'd love to hear from you! 

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • A registered qualification in one of the following - nursing, social work, occupational therapy, arts therapy, psychological therapy With Provisional/Full Accreditation with the BABCP for High Intensity Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CAMHS) OR Qualified CWP/EMHP with Supervisors Qualified and experience OR A registered doctoral level qualification in clinical/counselling psychology with current HCPC registration

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Post qualification experience in a mental health setting, working with young people with mental illness.
  • Experience of mentoring and providing clinical supervision.
Desirable criteria
  • Experience and understanding of working within the education setting.
  • Experience of working with children and young people who have serious mental illness and their families and carers in the community

Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • To have ability to assess client need, with regards to both mental health and/social needs.
  • To have ability to manage a case load
Desirable criteria
  • Experience of acting as care coordinator for clients on a case list.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Apprenticeships logoNo smoking policyPositive about disabled peopleCare quality commission - GoodArmed Forces Covenant Gold AwardMindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.Disability confident employerStep into healthNHS 75th BirthdayDefence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) - Gold

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Lesley Leadbeater
Job title
Service Manager
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01865 903722
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