Mental Health Liaison Lead Practitioner - Swindon CAMHS
| Posting date: | 25 July 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | Competitive |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 24 August 2025 |
| Location: | Swindon |
| Company: | inploi |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 75719559 |
Summary
Do you want to develop your leadership skills and support clinicians to offer an excellent service to children and young people?
With a big national focus on improving services for children and young people’s mental health, 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.
If you're an experienced Mental Health Nurse, Occupational Therapist or Social Worker, we're looking for a Full time to join our Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service team based in Swindon Community CAMHS, Swindon.
As the Clinical Specialist- Mental Health Liaison Lead Practitioner you will act in a lead role for the liaison service, jointly with a Liaison Lead Practitioner colleague, at the district general hospital in Swindon, Great Western Hospital. Alongside Liaison Lead colleagues across Bath & North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire (BSW) you will participate in the delivery and on-going development of the Liaison Service. As the joint lead, you will provide day-to-day leadership 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 a meaningful contribution to our exciting service modernisation 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 Swindon Community CAMHS and undertake comprehensive assessments of young people with mental health needs who present to the acute District General Hospital in Swindon .
Swindon 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, provide supervision for other team members and develop an area of clinical leadership within Swindon Community CAMHS.
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:
BSW RECRUITMENT - YouTube
Working for our organisationOxford 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
- 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.
- develop an area of clinical leadership/specialism within Swindon Community CAMHS.
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 us.
Person specification Knowledge Requirements Essential criteria
- Knowledge of mental health and community care legislation and policy
- Knowledge of Recovery Focused Practice
- Knowledge of Safeguarding policy and procedures
- Knowledge and experience of a range motivational interviewing, solution focused therapy and a psychological therapy (i.e. CBT/DBT)
- RMN/OT/Social Worker with mental health training
- Current registration with relevant professional body; NMC, HCPC
- Non-Medical Prescribing qualification
- 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 working with young adults or young people or experience of working in a community setting
- Experience of working with young people with an Eating Disorder
- Experience of contributing to the leadership /management of a clinic, project, aspect of clinical work
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Recruiter Contact DetailsName: Tori Mitchell
Title: Clinical Team Manager
Email: CAMHS.Swindon-Admin@oxfordhealth.nhs.uk
Telephone: 01865 903422