Job summary
- Main area
- Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 267-OC5969536-BN
- Employer
- Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Clockhouse
- Town
- Abingdon
- Salary
- £43,742 - £50,056 per annum/pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 09/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Mental Health & Neurodiversity Nurse Prescriber - Abingdon
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.
Job overview
Are you passionate about improving the lives child and young people?
Are you resilient, creative, and dedicated to supporting those experiencing mental health difficulties?
We, in the Oxfordshire Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) Getting Help, (GH) and Getting More Help (GMH) teams, are looking for a Non-Medical Prescriber to join us. You might be a Nurse with relevant non-medical prescribing qualification, or a qualified Pharmacist with a passion for mental health.
We provide a community-based service to children and young people (CYP) who are experiencing mental illness, those who may require a formulation of ongoing difficulties, as well as standardised, short-term interventions.
This is an exciting time to join us; this role is the first of its kind in our GMH team, so there’s a unique opportunity for you to shape how we work together. We’re a multidisciplinary team (MDT), able to support a range of therapeutic intervention, wanting to expand our offer to ensure we’re meeting the needs of our children, young people and their families.
You’ll be prescribing medication to CYP who may be neurodiverse or experiencing mental illness such as anxiety and depression, reducing the need for medical intervention with Consultants. You’ll be reviewing the impact and efficacy of their medication, working closely with the MDT in terms of regular review, as well as support in building this new pathway in our team.
Main duties of the job
In this role, you will be supporting CYP from early intervention to complex risk management and treatment of mental health disorders. You will closely link with consultant psychiatrists within the service, as well as our Neurodevelopmental Conditions (NDC) pathway, in order to further develop and define the role of NMPs in CAMHS. The core duty is non-medical prescribing, so you’ll be consulting with patients, diagnosing, and generating treatment options/follow-up plans within clinical management plans (where applicable).
As a Senior Clinician within our team, we’ll also need you to undertake a keyworking role for CYP and their families. This involves providing effective assessment (including risk), planning, monitoring the care needs of CYP, and ensuring these are communicated effectively to the relevant teams and organisations. You’ll be reviewing complex and sensitive information, so attention to detail, excellent communication skills and collaborative working are essential.
Developing new processes, procedures and pathways is a key component of this role, so we’ll need you to have good reasoning skills, to be confident in your decision making and be solutions focused too. We know taking on a role that hasn’t existing within a team before can seem quite a daunting task, but we’re an incredibly supportive team, dedicated to finding new ways of working so we’ll be alongside you, providing guidance, advice and regular review.
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
We are looking for someone with relevant transferable experience and skills and a passion to work in partnership with children and young people and parents/carers to improve the quality of services, as well as empower recovery, and support engagement with the current clinical pathways.
We'll need you to be enthusiastic, self-motivated, able to be flexible and work creatively to find solutions, an excellent communicator and leader, and with good organisational skills to develop and implement changes in service delivery, process, and culture.
If you have any questions about the role, or would like to find out more about our team, please contact Maria Bourbon on [email protected] or 07776225578.
The post is advertised as full-time, and based in Abingdon. We are keen to employ the right candidate and happy to discuss the job plan around the role to get the right focus.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse: RMN/RNMH or RNLD. (RSCN with post registration psychosocial training or relevant experience in CAMHS) or Registered Pharmacist
- Independent Non- Medical Prescribing qualification.
Skills
Essential criteria
- Substantial risk assessment and management skills, particularly in relation to Safeguarding children and young people.
- Exceptional interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate effectively with patients, families/carers
Experinence
Essential criteria
- Substantial experience of working in a Mental Health or learning disability service.
Desirable criteria
- Relevant experience in a community setting
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
- Maria Bourbon
- Job title
- Oxfordshire Service Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07776225578
- 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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