Job summary

Are you a registered health or social care professional seeking a new challenge to help improve clinical care?

We are seeking a Specialised Mental Health Case Manager with mental health clinical and practice background to be part of our Thames Valley CAMHS Provider Collaborative on a maternity cover. The contract will finish by January 2028.

The Thames Valley CAMHS Provider Collaborative brings together inpatient and community providers to improve clinical care across a defined geographical region and to ensure that patients receive inpatient treatment as close to their home as possible. This is an innovative network of partners across a large geography covering Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset and Gloucestershire.

The partnership brings together clinical expertise, experience, and innovation, aiming to improve quality, use resources most effectively, and deliver best practice consistently to all patients.

You will actively be working in partnership to innovate to improve patient provisions and outcomes.

About the location:
Office space is available in Oxford & Swindon.

Main duties of the job

• To provide clinical assurance of the quality of the care provided by services / providers within the Thames Valley region, and for those patients placed in out of area placements.
• Support the team in the assurance of specialised services compliance to applicable specification and guidance including Transforming Care.
• Provide the link with Integrated Care Boards (ICB) and their commissioned services within the network to ensure there is a coordinated approach to care and discharge planning, which results in robust and effective care packages.
• Monitoring and overseeing individual patient pathways to ensure high quality services and care planning outcomes are achieved.
• Have oversight of the overall patient pathway, supporting strong multiagency involvement to ensure patients are receiving care in the least restrictive environment and barriers to discharge are expediently addressed.
• Independent chairing and oversight of inpatient Care, Education and Treatment Reviews (C(E)TRs) for people with learning disabilities or autism, ensuring person-centred, rights-led decision-making, robust system assurance, and effective governance reporting.

About us
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

Job responsibilities
We hope that the advert has given you a clear understanding of the skills we are seeking and the opportunity at hand. You will need to use the supporting statement element of your application form to demonstrate your suitability for this role and you should refer to the job description, person specification and the guidance notes attached to this role to help you tailor your application.

The essential and desirable criteria will be used to shortlist for interview, and you should ensure that you refer to these within your application to increase your chances of being selected for interview.

Person Specification

Knowledge and Experience
Essential

• Detailed knowledge of legal issues pertaining to specialised mental health services, including MHA 1983, S117 after care, DOLS, MCA, safeguarding and child protection legislation.
• Detailed operational knowledge of specialist area, acquired through post graduate training or equivalent experience, plus further specialist knowledge or experience to master's level equivalent.
• Willing to engage with and learn from peers, other professionals and colleagues in the desire to provide or support the most appropriate interventions.

Qualifications
Essential

• Registered Mental Health Nurse or other registered health or social care professional
• Relevant additional professional qualification (e.g. master's level) or equivalent experience of working at a senior level in specialist area

Technical Expertise/ Competence
Essential

• Development and maintenance of therapeutic alliance with patients and their families / carers.
• Case management skills, focusing on the needs of the individual and the context of their care pathway in relation to all clinical and legal processes.

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).

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.
Applicants must have current UK professional registration.