22 Oct
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
Oxford
Job description
Job overview
Are you a Mental Health Practitioner who is passionate about establishing better access to Mental Health Support within the Community?
Oxford Health is excited to be working in partnership with The Spires Primary Care Network on the introduction of a Specialist Mental Health Practitioner (MHP) for Primary Care.
This new role will enable patients aged 18+ to access dedicated mental health support in their surgery and, that support will have stronger links with specialist mental health services.
Making it easier for patients to obtain the help they need, when they need it, within their community.
This role needs someone who is proactive and passionate about innovative new ways of working and a holistic approach to caring for people in need of mental health support.
Main duties of the job
In Oxfordshire we are working in partnership to improve community mental health services and plug the gaps between primary and secondary care.
Your role will be crucial to developing strong partnership working relationships between, other primary, secondary and third sector mental health support services at a community level.
As part of surgery Multi-Disciplinary Teams (MDT) you will provide triage, assessment and mental health advice to patients presenting at their GP surgery.
Your role will support primary care in offering enhanced support to patients with mental health conditions, facilitating early intervention, supporting recovery and helping them to live well in their community.
You will be based within a Primary Care Network (PCN) working on a day to day basis out of the aligned GP surgeries, accountable to the PCN leadership in a matrix management style.
However, as an Oxford Health member of staff,
you will be fully connected to our Trust mental health teams for line management and team support;
whilst also receiving full training and clinical supervision through the Trust to support your continuous development.
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
There is access to specific training to enhance your skills in working with people over 18 in a primary care setting who have a complex and serious mental illness.
For example; innovative approaches to working with people who have an established or emerging personality disorder; innovative approaches to helping support people with an eating disorder, and other training tailored to your needs in this role.
We aim to support everyone's well being in this role as well as one to one supervision we have opportunities for group clinical supervision focusing on specific areas of clinical work, we have a network across Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West offering peer support sessions, and opportunities for reflective practice sessions.
The must haves for you to be considered for this role :
- Current professional registration : Registered Mental Health Nurse, Social Worker, Occupational Therapist
- Community experience in mental health services for adults or older age adults with severe / significant / enduring mental illness
- Experience of providing a range of evidence-based interventions to people with a variety of mental health problems and serious mental illness.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
Current professional registration : Registered Mental Health Nurse, Social Worker, Occupational Therapist
Desirable criteria
Independent and supplementary Prescriber
Knowledge
Essential criteria
Community experience in mental health services for adults and older age adults with severe / significant mental illness
Desirable criteria
Experience of working in primary and secondary mental health services
Skills
Essential criteria
Experience of providing a range of evidence based interventions to people with a variety of mental health problems and serious mental illness
Desirable criteria
- Specialist knowledge relating to MH needs of young adults age 18-25 and to the needs of those diagnosed with, or with presenting traits of, personality disorder
- All new starters have a thorough induction process, both local and Trust wide, which aims to create a positive supportive working environment allowing new employees to learn key elements of their role over a reasonable timescale.
- Appointment to this post is subject to the trust receiving satisfactory references covering 3 years of employment or study.
Please ask your referees to respond promptly to reference requests.
- Employees are expected to undertake mandatory and statutory training related to their role.
- We are ambitious in our pursuit of excellence, driven by the belief that a fair, just and fully inclusive organisational culture enables our teams to deliver the best quality of care and services possible and we work hard to ensure that our diverse workforce reflects the communities that we serve.
- We welcome applications from all sections of the community,
are an Equal Opportunities employer with a number of internal networking groups to support our employees and where possible will always look to make reasonable adjustments in order that you can fulfil the role to recognise your full potential.
All our employees are committed to demonstrating through their behaviour our core values safe, caring and excellent.
- Oxford Health is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults, we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
- Oxford is a world-renowned centre of excellence for research. Oxford Health works closely with the University of Oxford department of Psychiatry and the Department of Primary care, has a Biomedical Research Centre dedicated to improving mental health and the NIHR Clinical Research Facility at the Warneford site.
The Trust also hosts the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) which carries out applied research that directly impacts patient health and wellbeing
▶️ Specialist Mental Health Practitioner - Primary Care - Spires PCN
🖊️ Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
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