Senior Support Worker - Complex Trauma Pathway

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

Are you seeking a new opportunity to gain experience in a key service?

This part-time position will be based within Keynsham CAMHS, working as part of a skilled and compassionate Complex Trauma Pathway team. You will play a vital role in assisting clinicians in their work with CYP and their families, delivering psychoeducational materials, facilitating therapeutic groups, and supporting service evaluation through data collection and audit.

This is an excellent opportunity to join a strengths-based, trauma-informed service at an early stage of its development. The role will allow you to contribute to shaping a pathway that embeds positive partnerships with key adults and networks, improving outcomes for young people who have experienced complex trauma. The pathway aims to provide consultation, supervision, and trauma-informed interventions across CAMHS teams in B&NES, Swindon, and Wiltshire.

• Assist in the delivery of trauma-informed psychological interventions under the supervision of a qualified clinician.
• Support psychoeducational work with young people and their families, including preparing and distributing relevant materials.
• Co-facilitate therapeutic groups alongside qualified clinicians.
• Assist in the administration, distribution, and analysis of Routine Outcome Measures (ROMs) to support service evaluation.
• Contribute to clinical audit, research, and data collection to inform ongoing development of the pathway.
• Support training initiatives for CAMHS staff and professionals from other agencies.

Work within a multi-agency framework, collaborating with schools, social care, and other key services to promote a coordinated, trauma-informed approach

Applicants must have a full valid driving licence and have access to a vehicle for work. Adjustments can be considered in line with the Equality Act 2010 where required.

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.

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work sensitively in emotive environments.
• Ability to work independently within a structured supervision framework.

Senior Support Worker Band 4 (PDF, 140.5KB)

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Name: Lisa Williams

Title: Team Manager

Email: lisa.williams@oxfordhealth.nhs.uk

Telephone: 01865 9033733