• Job Description

  Req#: C9267-25-0576?language=en&page=682&sort=publicationDateDesc

  Job summary

  The Oxfordshire North CAMHS Getting More Help Service are delighted to be offering the opportunity to employ an Occupational Therapist (OT) within our service. If you are passionate about working in the community with children and young people with moderate to severe Mental Health needs to enhance their quality of life and health and reduce their vulnerabilities, then we are the team for you.

  We would love to hear from any Occupational Therapists who have the compassion, skills and knowledge to help us holistically assess our young people and to deliver person centred interventions which impact daily activities and functioning and improve mental health and behaviours that challenge.

  We're a friendly and supportive, well-established, and knowledgeable community multi-disciplinary team with good links across the CAMHS directorate (including to other OT's within CAMHS). You will receive quality individual, safeguarding and reflective practice supervision.

  The CAMHS North Getting More Help Team serves the community of Witney, Bicester, Banbury and parts of Oxford providing a service that operates Monday - Friday 9am-5pm.

  Main duties of the job

  This role would suit someone who thrives conducting initial and specific assessments and can communicate this effectively within the MDT and family but also externally to key organisation. Such as social care and education. You will also have responsibility for and be supported with, managing risk changes and supporting young people and families with this.

  You'll hold a clinical caseload of children and YP open to our service, taking on the role as Key worker and delivering OT based assessments and interventions.

  We'll also need you to take part in the duty rota and work with the duty lead within the team. This entails the clinician to respond and support plans for children and young people who are presenting with an element of risk and our open to our service.

  About us

  The GMH North team is a supportive team with a particular focus on clinicians wellbeing. We understand that working in CAMHS can be challenging and therefore strive to ensure that clinicians are well supported. Teams managers work alongside clinicians to ensure that individual job plans are created to support clinicians in managing capacity of caseloads.

  We ensure that we celebrate our successes and acknowledge the hard work we do to support children and YP. There is a strong sense of team working and supporting one another.

  There will be opportunities to develop clinical skills through ongoing training. Mandatory training will be provided as well as ongoing training to undertake the role such as CBT/DBT informed training. In house training by CAMHS specialist teams occur regularly and on an ad hoc basis.

  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

  Details

  Date posted

  25 April 2025

  Pay scheme

  Agenda for change

  Band

  Band 5

  Salary

  £29,970 to £36,483 a year Per annum, pro rata

  Contract

  Permanent

  Working pattern

  Full-time, Part-time

  Reference number

  267-OC6952788-3A

  Job locations

  Orchard Health Centre

  Cope Road

  Banbury

  OX16 2EZ

  
  

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  The post holder will work in assessment clinics to lead new assessments under the supervision of and as part of the multi-disciplinary team (MDT). Additionally you will deliver OT specific assessments within the service, working closing with our OT lead. You will hold a caseload or be a keyworker for cases, with responsibility for ensuring up to date care plans and risk assessments are in place.

  You will take part in the teams Duty rota. You will crucially provide consultation, advice, training and support to partnership agencies and members of the multidisciplinary team, from an OT perspective.

  You will be a vital member of the MDT helping the wider internal and external systems to understand the complete identity and needs of the young people we support, including neurodivergence and mental health.

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  The post holder will work in assessment clinics to lead new assessments under the supervision of and as part of the multi-disciplinary team (MDT). Additionally you will deliver OT specific assessments within the service, working closing with our OT lead. You will hold a caseload or be a keyworker for cases, with responsibility for ensuring up to date care plans and risk assessments are in place.

  You will take part in the teams Duty rota. You will crucially provide consultation, advice, training and support to partnership agencies and members of the multidisciplinary team, from an OT perspective.

  You will be a vital member of the MDT helping the wider internal and external systems to understand the complete identity and needs of the young people we support, including neurodivergence and mental health.

  Person Specification

  Qualification

  Essential

  • Registered Occupational Therapist - including registration with HCPC

  Desirable

  • A qualification in Sensory Integration or sensory informed practice.
  • A qualification in Positive Behaviour Support.

  Personal Qualities

  Essential

  • Commitment to client centred, non-discriminatory practice.
  • Ability to reflect on and critically appraise the performance of self.
  • Passionate to work with yp who have an ld

  Desirable

  • Ability and skill to support others.
  • Ability to speak up

  Expereince

  Essential

  • Experience of working with children and young people who have psychiatric, emotional and behavioural problems

  Desirable

  • Experience of training and supporting others.
  • Experience of supervising others.

  Knowledge and skill

  Essential

  • To have an awareness of Occupational Therapy models and an understanding of how they may relate in practice.
  • To have ability to assess client need, including mental health, physical health, education, and social needs.

  Desirable

  • Understanding and experience of Positive Behaviour Support.
  • Knowledge of emotional and mental health problems that affect children and young people.
  • Knowledge and understanding of Learning Disability and Autistic Spectrum Disorder.

  Person Specification

  Qualification

  Essential

  • Registered Occupational Therapist - including registration with HCPC

  Desirable

  • A qualification in Sensory Integration or sensory informed practice.
  • A qualification in Positive Behaviour Support.

  Personal Qualities

  Essential

  • Commitment to client centred, non-discriminatory practice.
  • Ability to reflect on and critically appraise the performance of self.
  • Passionate to work with yp who have an ld

  Desirable

  • Ability and skill to support others.
  • Ability to speak up

  Expereince

  Essential

  • Experience of working with children and young people who have psychiatric, emotional and behavioural problems

  Desirable

  • Experience of training and supporting others.
  • Experience of supervising others.

  Knowledge and skill

  Essential

  • To have an awareness of Occupational Therapy models and an understanding of how they may relate in practice.
  • To have ability to assess client need, including mental health, physical health, education, and social needs.

  Desirable

  • Understanding and experience of Positive Behaviour Support.
  • Knowledge of emotional and mental health problems that affect children and young people.
  • Knowledge and understanding of Learning Disability and Autistic Spectrum Disorder.

  Disclosure and Barring Service Check

  This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

  UK Registration

  Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

  Additional information

  Disclosure and Barring Service Check

  This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

  UK Registration

  Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

  Employer details

  Employer name

  Oxford Health NHS Trust

  Address

  Orchard Health Centre

  Cope Road

  Banbury

  OX16 2EZ

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://www.oxfordhealth.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)

  Employer details

  Employer name

  Oxford Health NHS Trust

  Address

  Orchard Health Centre

  Cope Road

  Banbury

  OX16 2EZ

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://www.oxfordhealth.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)

• About the company

  National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly-funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). The founding principles were that services should be comprehensive, universal and free at the point of delivery—a health service based on clinical need, not ability to pay. Each service provides a comprehensive range of health services, free at the point of use for people ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom apart from dental treatment and optical care.

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