Job summary
- Main area
- Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 267-OC6952586-1A
- Employer
- Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Salisbury Community CAMHS
- Town
- Salisbury
- Salary
- £46,148 - £52,809 pa
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 18/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Mental Health Liaison Practitioner - Salisbury
Band 7
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 develop your leadership skills and support clinicians to offer an excellent service to children and young people?
If you're a Mental Health Nurse, Occupational Therapist, Clinical Psychologist, Psychotherapist or Social Worker, we're looking for you to join our Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service team based in Salisbury Community CAMHS.
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.
As the Clinical Specialist Mental Health Liaison Practitioner, you will help to lead the liaison service at Salisbury District Hospital working alongside Liaison Lead colleagues you will participate in the delivery and on-going development of the CAMHS Liaison Service across Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire (BSW). As the identified lead, you will provide day-to-day leadership, coordination and clinical support for the Mental Health Liaison Service and ensure a consistent, responsive, high quality and user-friendly service is delivered.
You will have the opportunity to make an active and meaningful contribution to our exciting service modernisation and redesign that is based on the Thrive model, ensuring children and young people get the right support, at the right time, in the right place, from individuals with the right skills.
Main duties of the job
In this role, you will sit within Salisbury Community CAMHS and undertake comprehensive assessments of young people with mental health needs who present to the acute District General Hospital in Salisbury .
Salisbury Community CAMHS is a supportive multidisciplinary team who offer assessment, treatment, and consultation either in the clinic base or out in the community.
Risk assessment and management including the need for positive risk taking is an important part of the role. You will contribute to the clinical leadership of the team and provide supervision for other team members.
You can expect a comprehensive induction programme, including a range of shadowing opportunities to fully support the post holder in the role, ongoing in-house training and opportunities to attend external trainings. The team fully supports and delivers regular managerial, professional, peer, clinical, and safeguarding supervision to build upon confidence, competence, and commitment to developing self and the role.
You can start getting to know about us by having a look at our recruitment video:
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
- Assessment of deliberate self-harm
- Support to patients admitted with an eating disorder
- Contribute a psycho-social perspective to patients admitted
- Provide day support and consultation to hospital staff where a mental health need is identified
- Identify and provide CAMHS training (this may involve other CAMHS colleagues)
- Provide primary link to CAMHS within the acute District General Hospital.
Within the team, we work on a flexible working pattern within the multi-disciplinary team to provide cover for a core day 8am-8pm Monday-Friday and 10am-6pm Saturday –Sunday and Bank Holidays. The flexible working patterns allows team members to work hours flexibly and for days off during the week. You will participate in covering the service’s 24 hour on call service on a rota basis. There is a robust system of support available from on call colleagues including the manager, consultant psychiatrist and senior manager on call.
This is a varied and rewarding role within a highly supportive team.
For more information or to arrange an informal visit please contact Terry Pearce on Clinical Team Manager [email protected].
Person specification
Knowledge Requirements
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of mental health and community care legislation and policy
Qualifications – Academic/Skills/Professional
Essential criteria
- RMN/OT/Social Worker with mental health training
- Current registration with relevant professional body; NMC, HCPC
Desirable criteria
- Non-Medical Prescribing qualification
- Leadership Training/ Experience
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience as a Band 6, or equivalent, Mental Health professional
- Understanding and experience of working with children and young people with a wide range of mental health needs or relevant Mental Health experience
- Experience of and commitment to working in a multi-agency setting working in partnership with a range of health, social care and education professionals
- Experience of care coordination/role of Lead Professional
- Ability to carry out assessments and psycho-social interventions
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
- Terry Pearce
- Job title
- Clinical Team Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01865 901901
- 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.
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