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Senior Clinican and Supervisor
Grade
Band 7
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
395-EC211-24
Employer
NELFT NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Mid Essex (Covering Braintree, Chelmsford & Maldon)
Town
Chelmsford
Salary
£43,742 - £50,056 Per Annum, Pro rata
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
02/05/2024 09:00

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NELFT NHS Foundation Trust logo

MHST Senior Clinician and Supervisor - Mid Essex

Band 7

Joining #TeamNELFT means you’ll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We’re CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London, Essex, Kent and Medway. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.

The Trust has award winning equality and diversity initiatives and staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest heavily in your development, because when you are valued and supported, we provide the best care to our patients. We are a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, have been featured in the Working Families Top 10 Employers benchmark for three consecutive years, and we have achieved a Carers UK Level 1 Accreditation. Along with our staff networks and training opportunities, we work hard to embed a just and compassionate culture here at NELFT.

Find out more about NELFT careers and what makes our Trust a great place to work, in this video

Job overview

We are looking for an experiencing Mental Health Practitioner with a UK Professional Registration to join our fast-growing fast-paced Mental Health Support Teams (MHSTs) in Mid Essex.

MHST’s are a new service designed to support children and young people with mild to moderate mental health and emotional wellbeing difficulties within education settings. We are a multidisciplinary team made up of Children and Young People’s Mental Health Practitioners and Education Mental Health Practitioners.

MHSTs aims to:

  • Support children and young people with mild to moderate mental health problems through evidence-based interventions
  • Support schools in developing their whole school approach to mental health
  • Provide timely advice to school staff and to liaise with other services to help children and young people get the right help and stay in education.

 

Main duties of the job

The applicant will work in partnership with schools, children, young people, and families in the development of plans for the intervention and agreed outcomes.

To support the Locality Clinical Lead with the formulation and treatment and management plans for schools, parents, children, and young people using a range of specialist psychological interventions appropriate to the service, individual and group.

To effectively manage a caseload of CYP with mild to moderate mental health difficulties.

Completion of thorough assessments, risk assessments, care planning and reviews. The applicant must ensure that there is accurate documentation, and that Routine Outcome Measures are completed.

Appropriately raise safeguarding concerns were identified and to support colleagues with this process.

Provide caseload management and supervision to Trainee Education Mental Health Practitioners, Education Mental Health Practitioner's  and Senior Mental Health Practitioner's.

To support in the delivery of evidence-based CBT.

To work as part of a Multi-Disciplinary Team within your locality but also with other MHSTs within Essex

The applicant should be able to work as part of a team and autonomously.

Further training will be expected for any successful applicant who does not hold a supervisor qualification.

 

 

Working for our organisation

COVID-19 Vaccination

We continue to encourage all staff to ensure that they have been double vaccinated and received their booster. We recognise that taking the vaccine provides the best defence against COVID 19 for our patients, our staff and their families.

 

Probationary Period

This post will be subject to a probationary period. Internal applicants are exempt from the probationary period (unless you are an internal applicant currently part way through a probationary period or currently a bank member of staff).

 

Starting with NELFT

NELFT place a great deal of importance on new starters being properly welcomed and inducted into the Trust. All new starters will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and will undertake a comprehensive induction of up to two weeks which will include mandatory training, systems training and the allocation of equipment. As part of the process new starters will have the opportunity to also meet the executive team, senior managers and attend a number of drop in sessions focusing in engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes. The induction will be held at our head office in Rainham, Essex.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nX8CImoDX8

 

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The post-holder will be a graduate qualified health care professional and ideally have formal CBT training for example:

  • Qualified CBT Therapist
  • Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT)
  • Children and Young People-IAPT (CYP-IAPT)

Or will have substantial Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) clinical experience which includes delivery of CBT interventions and fully registered with the appropriate professional or regulatory body (e.g. HCPC, NMC, BABCP etc…).

The role of Senior Clinician and Supervisor will cover the Mid Essex area (Braintree, Chelmsford & Maldon), and we currently have vacancies for 2 WTE. 

Please see person specification and job description for full details and responsibilities required for this role.

Base

This post is largely agile working, ability to work independently within educational settings or at NELFT sites is important. Some travel around the county is also expected. A nominal base of Stapleford House, Chelmsford is given.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Successful completion of a graduate training (e.g. nursing, social work, occupational therapy) and eligible for registration as a full member of the appropriate professional body NMC, HCPC, BABCP AFT, ACP
  • Further professional knowledge will have been gained through accredited courses workshops, study and in house training programmes (e.g. CYP- IAPT training)

Experience

Essential criteria
  • At least 2 years experience of working with evidence based approaches to low mood, anxiety and behaviour problems with children and young people
  • Experience of undertaking delegated leadership tasks and managing trainee staff effectively
Desirable criteria
  • Experience working with or in educational settings

Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • High level knowledge of the theory and practice of psychological interventions including low -intensity CBT interventions.
  • Knowledge of the relevant clinical research literature and ability to apply it to field of parent support/child mental health/staff wellbeing
Desirable criteria
  • Knowledge of Systmone

Skills

Essential criteria
  • Ability to form excellent working relationships with colleagues and work flexibly with others in multidisciplinary and multi-agency settings
  • Effectively manage a clinical caseload, complete outcomes measure routinely, update clinical records in line with team, service and Trust requirements

Other

Essential criteria
  • To be able to travel efficiently throughout the area
  • Confident speaking with a range of audiences in different settings including education settings

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Melanie Kemp
Job title
Operational Manager Mid Essex MHST
Email address
[email protected]