Carers Oxfordshire is a free service for unpaid adult carers of someone living in Oxfordshire.
That means if you are 18 or older and a child, adult or both, who lives in Oxfordshire rely on you, you can rely on us.
Whether you’re taking on a caring role for the first time, or have many years’ experience, we can help you.
We Make Caring Easier
We can offer advice and information and let you know about our wellbeing offers, or you can simply sign up to receive our newsletter that gives lots of information about services and activities going on.
If you need more, a carer’s assessment is the best way to look at what support you might need to help you to look after yourself and stay well and safe while you are caring for someone.
We want you to know that when you speak to us, we have a wealth of experience, we won’t overwhelm you with information or advice and you don’t have to take any support we offer if you don’t want to. We can help you to tackle the things you feel that are difficult and find solutions that can make caring easier. Our team are here to listen and to help whatever your caring situation is.
Oxfordshire Carers Support Services, part of Rethink Mental Illness provide one-to-one emotional and practical support to adult mental health carers throughout the county. They believe that carers play an invaluable role in the recovery of the person being cared for. They feel carers should be acknowledged, valued and supported to live a life outside of their caring role.
Rethink supports a number of support groups for people caring for family members or friends with mental health problems. The workers also signpost people to a carers course within Oxfordshire Recovery college, as well as training which could be beneficial for those in a caring role.
Crisis work directly with thousands of homeless people every year. They provide vital help so that people can rebuild their lives and are supported out of homelessness for good. Crisis offer one to one support, advice and courses for homeless people in 12 areas across England, Scotland and Wales. How they help someone depends on their individual needs and situation. It could be with finding a home and settling in, getting new skills and finding a job, or help with their health and wellbeing. Crisis use research to find out how best to improve our services, but also to find wider solutions to homelessness. Together with homeless people and Crisis supporters, they campaign for the changes needed to end homelessness for good.
It is UK Youth’s mission to provide all young people with access to appropriate, high-quality services in their local community or online. They offer support, advice and training to equip young people with the vital life skills needed to engage in education, volunteering and employment.
All UK Youth’s programmes are designed with a clear understanding of the learning and outcomes they hope young people will achieve. In addition to the programme specific skills and knowledge they gain, they also measure emotional and social capabilities (ESC). These capabilities are sometimes referred to as life skills and include communication, self-awareness, resilience, motivation, receptiveness, confidence and responsibility.
This unit provides acute and medium term mental health care for young people aged 11 to 18. It offers a setting where young people can be assessed and treated for psychiatric disorders which cannot be managed in the community, offering a broad range of treatments. The unit works closely with community Child & Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) services to ensure stays in hospital are as short as possible. Oxfordshire County Council provides teaching in line with the national curriculum.
IPPS offers support to parents of any age or gender in the antenatal (from 12 weeks pregnant) and postnatal period (up to 12 months post-natal). We cover Oxfordshire.
The service is multi-professional and includes a senior clinical psychologist two community mental health nurses, a mental health practitioner, a child and adolescent psychotherapist in training and an assistant psychologist. Please note the clinicians do not work full-time.
Child & Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) Neuropsychiatry Service provides assessment, treatment and support for young people (up to 18 years) with complex Neuropsychiatry needs, such as Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Autistic Spectrum Disorder and Tourette’s Syndrome who are presenting with high risk behaviours and/or have come into contact with the youth justice system. The team also offers support to their families.
A mental health team, with expertise in attachment, family trauma, and family relationships – their focus is on the emotional side of parenting. They help families plan for their future when there has been concern about risk or harm to the children in the past. They aim to reduce the negative consequences of harm to children, and reduce risk of future harm to children.
Their intensive therapy programme is typically 6-12 months, and involves a mentalization based (MBT) parenting programme. Parents in the past have found their programme helpful for:
- Making sense of your child’s confusing behaviour or difficult emotions
- Exploring and strengthening your relationship with your child
- Building a deeper understanding of your child (and yourself)
- Improving your confidence as a parent
Child & Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) Learning Disability Service provides assessment, treatment and support for young people (up to 18 years) with learning disabilities who have mental health needs or complex behavioural difficulties, a diagnosed learning disability or significant impairment of intellectual and social adaptive functioning, or had an assessment which indicates that other services involved with the child are not able to meet the current need if there are not the skills or competence available.
