Job summary
- Main area
- Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Compressed hours
- Job ref
- 267-OC6392894
- Employer
- Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Raglan House
- Town
- Oxford
- Salary
- £35,392 - £42,618 per annum/pro-rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 10/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
EMHP Supervisor/Senior Wellbeing Practitioner - Oxford
Band 6
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
This is an exciting time of growth and change within the Oxford Health NHS Trust as our Mental Help Support Teams (MHST) Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) are currently working collaboratively with children and young people, and partners to deliver the Governments Programme for mental health support to be available in schools.
in this role, you will be supporting the development of our newly established Mental Help Support Teams; we are looking to recruit a Senior Education Mental Health Practitioner and Supervisor to be based in West, or South Oxfordshire.
If you are not trained as an EMHP or CWP supervisor already, we will expect you to have over a year post qualified experience and be prepared to undertake the part time Supervisor training at Reading University, either with the September '24 or January '25 intake programme.
There is an option of doing a 2nd year training for the Senior Wellbeing part of the job role which will enable you to work with more complex mental health difficulties, or children with SEND needs. A timetable of the course can be available on request.
Main duties of the job
On a day to day basis, you will be overseeing the workload of EMHPs, conducting both Case Management and Clinical Skills supervision, as well as holding a small caseload of patients yourself.
Typical tasks within this, might include reviewing suitability for treatment within the MHST, gathering information and facilitating onward referrals, and liaising with schools as part of the wider MHST.
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
• To be trained and confident in the use of the Psychological Professional low intensity CBT principles, evidence based interventions and routine outcome measures.
• To manage a defined caseload of children and young people presenting with emotional health and wellbeing difficulties in schools
• To co-ordinate and deliver individualised care packages / programmes for children and young people and evaluate these programmes, ensuring high standards of practice in accordance with national guidelines and trust policy.
• To provide day to day clinical and supervisory support for the Education Mental Health Practitioners (EMHP).
• To provide specialist mental health advice, consultation and signposted using an outcome based triage model, to schools
• To provide training to schools staff, parents and carers in conjunction with colleagues.
• Within schools actively promote the whole school based approach to developing and maintaining emotional health and well-being.
• To train and mentor students and less experienced members of the team.
• To act as an autonomous practitioner with an understanding of own limitations and recognition of when to seek support.
If you have any questions or queries regarding the role, or our team, please get in contact with us.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Post Graduate Diploma for Senior Wellbeing Practitioners (SWP) or commitment to undertake and complete Post Graduate Diploma for Senior Wellbeing Practitioners (SWP)
- Post Graduate or Graduate Certificate in Brief Evidence Based Interventions for Children and Young People with Common Health Problems (CWP or EMHP) from a Health Education England (HEE) Quality Assured EMHP Training Course (prior to January 2023) or a British Psychological Society (BPS) Accredited EMHP training course (January 2023 onwards).
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working with children and young people, their families, and others
- Experience of working and liaising with a wide variety of agencies and stakeholders
- Working with children/young people presenting with a range of moderate mental health presentations.
- Working within a community mental health setting.
Skills/Abilities
Essential criteria
- Excellent communication skills including the ability to engage with children/young people of all ages experiencing a wide range of mental health presentations
- Able to produce well written reports
- Ability to carry out 1:1 therapeutic mental health assessments and interventions with children and families,
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Lesley Leadbeater
- Job title
- Clinical Team Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07385 006320
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