Bucks Primary Care Mental Health Hub Deputy Manager & Senior Clinician

Would you like the opportunity to use your leadership skills to support a team, whilst also delivering direct client care?
We are looking for a forward-thinking, innovative leader with a 'can do' attitude, to join our supportive leadership team.
We have a newly developed post of Deputy Manager & Senior Clinician for the Buckinghamshire Primary Care Mental Health Hub (Bucks PCMHH). Bucks PCMHH is a new and innovative service, which has been set up as part of delivering the Community Mental Health Framework (CMHF) objectives of providing care and support to people in their own communities. The team brings together a range of health care professionals and support staff, to provide care and treatment to patients in their own communities.
We aim to deliver more proactive and responsive care to reduce
unnecessary hospital admissions, secondary mental health service referrals, or repeat GP appointments wherever possible. PCMHH Teams aim to offer a collaborative approach to deliver care for people with multiple long-term conditions by providing better, local and faster access to services for patients at an earlier point in the care journey. PCMHH Teams offer careful, holistic assessments based on a biopsychosocial care model., You will work as the lead clinician for the Bucks Primary Care Mental Health Hub, supporting the Team Manager in supporting the team, whilst also working directly with clients.
The team comprises of mental health professionals, Peer Support Workers and 3^rd sector partners who work together to provide short-term interventions for people experiencing mental health issues who need more than can be offered by the GP surgery and IAPT service, but not requiring the input of secondary mental health services. Support is offered through group and individual interventions.
You will support the team to focus services on local communities and local GP practices to help rebuild and reconnect healthcare teams across the communities they serve., + Lead clinician, working alongside the Team Manager to support and manage the team.
+ To deliver direct client care.
+ To support the development of the service and junior staff
+ All new starters have a 6 month probationary period. This, together with the induction process, aims to create a positive supportive working environment allowing new employees to learn key elements of their role over a reasonable timescale
+ Candidates not currently employed by the Trust who attend an interview for non-qualified Band 1-5 posts are required to undertake numeracy and literacy assessments.
+ 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

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.

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