social worker Keynsham, England
Job description
Are you a Social Worker looking for a new challenge as part of a leadership team?
With a big national focus on improving services for children and young people’s mental health and wellbeing, there has never been a better time to join Oxford Health CAMHS and make a positive difference to children and young people’s life chances.
We are looking for an experienced clinician to as a deputy manager for BaNES CAMHS. You will be a qualified professional (Registered Mental Health Nurse, Social Worker, Occupational Therapist, Clinical Psychologist, Family Therapist or Psychotherapist) with professional registration. We are seeking people with an interest in leadership and in developing staff.
This is an exciting opportunity to join the service and to be fully involved in developing and creating the highest quality service provision for service users and their families / supporters.You will hold a clinical caseload and have the opportunity to develop both your leadership/clinical skill set.
In this role, you'll be working with the Clinical Team Manager to ensure the successful and effective day-to-day operational management of BaNES Community CAMHS so that it provides a responsive, high quality service to children, young people and their families; you'll be making a real different. Clinical leadership of the team is essential in this job, and we'll be asking you to provide supervision for other team members as agreed with the Team Manager and participate in the service development of the team.
As Deputy Team Manager,you will have specific lead areas of responsibility and will deliver a high quality, comprehensive mental health service for children, young people and their families experiencing mental health difficulties, who would benefit from more intensive outreach community support. You'll have responsibilities over the assessment, treatment and evaluation of care and provide psycho-educational advice and practical support to young people and their families by drawing on psychosocial evidence-based interventions and using a collaborative, recovery focused approach.
Liaison, advice and consultation with wider CAMHS and Children services colleagues and a range of external agencies such as Children’s Social Care, Education, Youth Offending Services and Police is also central to the role, so there will be a great opportunity for networking and building relationships with a variety of organisations.
You will be part of a dynamic local leadership team that meet frequently and work closely together. There is a supportive leadership ethos in BSW CAMHS with regular managers meetings and opportunities for coaching or mentoring. We know how important this time is together, in being able to lead a team successfully, to provide a high quality service for some of our most vulnerable service users.
Clinical supervision and professional development are priorities for the service and preceptorship is supported too.
Benefits of working for Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust include:
- Excellent opportunities for career progression
- 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, with an increase to 33 days with continuous service
- NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers
- Staff accommodation
- Competitive pension scheme
- Lease car scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
The flexible working patterns allows team members to work hours flexibly and for days off during the week. The frequency of evening/weekend shifts is subject to change, dependent upon the needs of the service, though would typically involve working an evening shift each week and up to two weekend days per month. You will also be required to contribute to the on call, out of hours rota.
Risk assessment and management including the need for positive risk taking is an essential part of the role.
Clinical:
- Undertake a lead role for children and young people open to the team and work collaboratively with young people, their families, Care Coordinator and wider care team in the context of their environment.
- Providing effective assessment, planning and review of care needs using the CPA process.
- Establishing, maintaining and ending purposeful, therapeutic relationships with children and young people experiencing severe mental health difficulties. Practice will be creative and underpinned by specialist knowledge of, and skills in, evidence based and psychosocial interventions.
- Supporting the delivery of the Liaison Service by providing mental health assessments for young people at the acute general hospital and working closely with the CAMHS Liaison Practitioner.
- Supporting the Team Manager through contributing to clinical leadership within the Team.
- To deputise and provide cover for the team manager when required
- Providing clinical advice and support for other members of the team.
- To develop an area of specialist practice and knowledge within the team and to provide specialist advice, information and supervision (according to level of competence and experience) for other team members. To act as a team representative and to develop and maintain links with other professionals and other agencies in relation to this area of specialist practice.
- Providing supervision to qualified and/or unqualified members of staff, through monthly supervision, as agreed with the Team Manager.
