Job summary
- Main area
- Child & Adolescent Mental Health
- Grade
- Band 4
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 267-OC7177966
- Employer
- Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Melksham CAMHS
- Town
- Melksham
- Salary
- £26,530 - £29,114 per annum/pro-rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 22/05/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Senior Support Worker - Crisis and Home Treatment - Melksham
Band 4
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.
We actively support anti-racism, equality, diversity, and inclusion so, if you’re excited about this job opportunity and you meet our Trust values, but feel unsure about applying, then please get in touch and we will be happy to have a conversation with you.
We are also committed to increasing diversity in the workforce, that is why we actively encourage applications from those groups of people who are currently under-represented, which include amongst others: people with disabilities; men from all socio-economic backgrounds; people from diverse ethnic backgrounds; and people from the LGBTQIA+ community.
Good luck and we hope to hear from you.
Job overview
Do you want to be part of a new service that offers intensive, personally tailored mental health support for children and young people?
We are looking for enthusiastic, caring individuals with a passion for working with young people with mental health difficulties to join our exciting new CAMHS Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Service (CAHTS). Following new investment, we are proud to be developing a needs led service based on the i-Thrive model.
This will be a service consistent with the nationally defined Crisis Resolution Home Treatment Team clinical model. Accessibility, responsiveness and excellence in care, with the highest regard for service experience will be at the heart of the service.
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Main duties of the job
Based in Melksham, you would be part of a thriving multidisciplinary team who work closely together and support each other. We would welcome applications from clinicians with some experience of working with children or adults with mental health difficulties.
You will support and enhance the clinical care of patients and their parents/carers within the CAMHS Crisis and Home Treatment Service. You will also support the mental health assessments and interventions led by qualified clinicians for children and young people in crisis, waiting to enter or leaving inpatient adolescent care and those who require intensive home treatment.
The post holder will be required to participate in a flexible working pattern within the multidisciplinary team to provide cover for a core day 8am-8pm Monday-Friday and 10am-6pm
Saturday –Sunday and Bank Holidays.
previous applicants need not apply.
Working for our organisation
You will be offered a variety of training including Positive Behaviour Support, AMBIT, DBT coping skills, and Family Based Therapy for Eating Disorders. There will also be the opportunity for further training based around individual learning needs.
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
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- To provide meal supports for children and young people with an eating disorder, under the direction of the eating disorder service care coordinator.
- To prepare psychoeducational material for children, young people and their families, and for use of other agencies’ staff, under the supervision of a qualified clinician in the team.
- To prepare and organise materials for therapeutic input, under the supervision of a qualified clinician in the team.
Please see attached job description for further information.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Five GCSE’s at grade C/level 5
Desirable criteria
- CPD in the area of children and young people’s mental health.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- An understanding of the needs and difficulties of people with mental health problems.
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of the developmenKnowledge of the developmental emotional challenges for children and young people. tal emotional challenges for children and young people.
experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working with service users with mental health difficulties.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working as a support worker or an assistant psychologist.
- Experience of working with children and adolescents.
Applicant requirements
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
- Clare Fry
- Job title
- Clinical Team Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07785 663323
- Additional information
At Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust we want to employ people not just with experience, but with the aptitude and motivation to succeed and whose values resonate with our own.
Therefore, if you don’t meet all the requirements of the role and are unsure about applying but are excited about the opportunity, please do get in touch. We will be happy to discuss the requirements in more detail ahead of making a written application.
Clare Fry Consultant Mental Health Practitioner 07785 663323
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