Our administrator provides support to the clinical team.

This includes day-to-day organisation of systems to ensure the smooth running of the office, managing school clinics and other clerical duties.

A key part of their role is facilitating good communication and liaison with patients and their families, colleagues within the Trust and across other organisations.

Our Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrists provide assessment and ongoing treatment plans when young people need medication or if their needs are of high complexity and the view of a Psychiatrist is useful.

The Psychiatrist provides assessment and diagnosis of depression, anxiety, ASD, ADHD, psychosis, PTSD, and OCD. They prescribe and monitor medication for efficacy and side effects.

Alongside working directly with young people, the psychiatrists offer support and advice to children’s parents and carers, and link in with other involved professionals and services.

Our Clinical Psychologist offers assessments and uses formulations to help understand a young person’s difficulties.  This includes general assessment, ASD assessments, assessment of ability levels (related to mental health needs) and behavioural assessments.

They offer intervention work with individuals, families, and the wider professional networks for difficulties with mental health and behaviours that challenge.

Their aim is to help parents and carers better understand their child’s presentation and empower them to provide support in a way which reduces emotional distress and behaviours that challenge.

We have a Senior Behaviour Specialist who may offer a range of assessments and interventions as part of our Challenging Behaviour Pathway. These assessments help to better understand the young person’s behaviours that are challenging so that appropriate strategies to reduce these behaviours can be recommended.

For more complex behaviours, a functional assessment (including questionnaires, behaviour charts and/or observations) might be offered to determine the function of the behaviour that challenges.

A behaviour care plan will then be provided to you and other professionals supporting your child.

You will then be offered advice and guidance on how to implement strategies to reduce the behaviours that are challenging.

The Assistant Psychologist supports the Challenging Behaviour Pathway, carrying out assessments and offering interventions and strategies alongside the Senior Behaviour Specialist.

They also work to support with assessments of ability levels and carry out intervention work for difficulties with mental health and behaviours that challenge alongside the Clinical Psychologist.

Our Senior Mental Health Practitioner’s (SMHP) role involves working clinically with young people and their families to assess mental health, autism, physical health and social needs.

They then develop and implement evidence based therapeutic approaches appropriate for the young person. These include opportunities for cognitive, creative, education, work, leisure, interpersonal and life skills.

Our SMHP contributes to medication management, risk assessment, participates in clinical meetings, and liaises with the multiagency network around the young person and their families.

With specialist experience in mental health and learning disabilities, the role of the Clinical Specialist Practitioner includes completing general assessments, behaviour assessments, autism assessments (ADI-R and ADOS).

They offer families and children support in completing Health Action Plans and hospital passports with the aim to ensure easier access to medical care.

They work closely with other professionals and agencies who support our young people and families to provide holistic care and support.

The Clinical Team Manager oversees the team from a clinical and management perspective.

They support the team with complex clinical decision making and ensuring the team are delivering the most up to date, evidence based interventions for our young people.

By gathering feedback from young people, their families and the wider professional team, their role is to help shape the future of learning disability mental health services within Oxfordshire.