Job overview

We're looking for a Clinical Lead Occupational Therapist to join our CAMHS Outreach service

This is an opportunity to work in a fantastic multidisciplinary team, where there's plenty of opportunity to learn from one another, share knowledge and expertise and develop your leadership skills. We offer specialist training relevant to the job role as well as wider leadership related opportunities. The team is part of a wider CAMHS offer and there are regular opportunities to link with colleagues from occupational therapies across the whole service too.

The Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) Outreach team provides a community-based service to children and young people and their carers who are experiencing complex mental health difficulties.

In this role you will contribute to the treatment of patient's and their recovery at the key stages of their journey through mental health services. The Outreach team has two strands of the services:

Outreach: a part of the service which supports young people with complex mental health difficulties, founded on the basis of young people and families who may struggle to engage with the traditional CAMHS models of care.  Patient care can occur in a variety of settings such as patient home, school or community.

Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT): a therapy based offered by the service to young people involving weekly individual sessions, DBT skills group, access to DBT phone coaching and professional supervision. 

Main duties of the job

• Develop and provide a high standard of Occupational Therapy assessment, treatment and evaluation for referred for patients referred to the service in collaboration with professional colleagues and clinical services, in order to enable continuity of care.
• Be responsible for a defined clinical caseload
• Through assessment, identify patients’ strengths and needs and co-ordinate and facilitate suitable therapy programmes to meet those needs. This should involve use of the Recovery approach and be socially inclusive in practice.
• Use OT models of practice and standardised assessment tools. For example, Model of Human Occupation.
• Review and evaluate each patients progress regularly with the patient, carers and other members of the treatment team.
• Participate in relevant clinical meetings and case conferences.
• Compile written reports as required, and to generate and maintain accurate treatment records on paper and electronically in each patient’s file which are stored securely.
• Develop and maintain relevant therapeutic activities as appropriate to the patient group served, including opportunities for cognitive, sensory, creative, education, work, leisure, interpersonal, spiritual and life skills. Where possible to ensure interventions are evidence based.
• Work within the Care Programme Approach (CPA) framework.
• Delivery of the Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) provision. 

Working for our organisation

Oxford Health is a great place to work and to be able to showcase the best of yourself when making an application you are encouraged to read the “candidate guide to making an application” which is attached to all roles. Please include details around qualifications (including years these were gained particularly if we need to assess for clinical roles that these are still valid) and ensure that the supporting statement is tailored to the role you are applying for and addresses the essential criteria found in the JD.

As a Trust we provide 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
• Individual and Trust wide learning and development
• 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
• NHS Discount
• Pension scheme
• Lease car scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Mental Health First Aiders
• Staff accommodation (waiting lists may apply)
• Staff networking and support groups