Job overview

Would you like to work in an innovative CAMHS Tier 4 service?

Are you interested in delivering intensive community support to young people and their families, as an alternative to hospital admission?  

Are you keen to work with highly motivated and passionate colleagues?  
LDA Hospital at Home is an innovative new service being developed under the Thames Valley Provider Collaborative. The Hospital at Home team will focus on young people with moderate to severe learning disabilities AND/OR a severe degree of functional impairment associated with an autism diagnosis who are at risk of home or placement breakdown and who could meet the threshold for inpatient care.

In some cases, the team will help prevent unnecessary admissions and in others, young people will be stepped down from tier 4 care through the LDA Hospital at Home team, shortening their inpatient admission. LDA Hospital at Home maximizes the use of new technology, provides care close to home, reduces admission, length of stay, waiting times and provides earlier discharge from inpatient care.

By managing the care pathway, we will be able to ensure that children and young people are cared for in an inpatient setting or via an ‘out of hospital’ service as close to home as possible. This will:

• Reduce the burden on families to travel long distances
• Enhance continued engagement with community clinical teams
• Encourage early therapeutic home leave
• Minimise stay length
• Avoid admission

Main duties of the job

As the family therapist in the team you will be able to bring your perspective to complex cases and situations to the LDA H@H team and the local teams, agencies and networks around the young people on the teams caseload.  At times these cases may cause high levels of emotions and impact on individuals, you will also be integral to holding and supporting the team using a systemic framework on these cases.

You will be based in our new offices in the Meadow unit on the Warneford hospital site, there will be LDA Hospital at Home is a specialist service working with patients up to 18 years old with moderate to severe learning disability and autism.  The Thames Valley Provider Collaborative is a network of service providers covering Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, Gloucestershire, Swindon, Wiltshire and Bath and North East Somerset (BaNES), working collaboratively to provide high quality care for the most unwell young people as close to home as possible.

We are currently recruiting our multi-disciplinary team (MDT) who will work with young people diagnosed with moderate to severe learning disabilities and autism, who are at risk of admission due to mental health difficulties. 

You  will be based in Oxford in our new offices located above the meadow unit on the Warneford site. 

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