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
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our busy and thriving child and adolescent mental health teams. We are currently looking to recruit Band 4 full time support time and resilience (STAR) worker within SET CAMHS .
Our CAMHS teams focus on promoting recovery and resilience to young people and their families experiencing mental health and wellbeing needs. We provide comprehensive multi-disciplinary services and work closely with primary care, local authority and education to support our young people and their families.
Main duties of the job
Within this role your main responsibilities will be to work collaboratively with young people and their families to promote engagement and independence. You will work with the wider MDT to develop therapeutic relationships, working with young people to develop recovery goals and support them to access resources and services to facilitate involvement with the local community.
In order to undertake this role you will have:
You will have excellent interpersonal skills
Good written communication
High levels of initiative
An ability to work as part of a team
Within this role you will be provided with:
Clinical and managerial supervision
Training opportunities to develop your skills
Working for our organisation
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).
Certificates of Sponsorship
Although we are a registered sponsor organisation, we are unable to offer sponsorship for all job roles. Please check your eligibility under the UKVI points based system
Use of AI
Applications for this role should be written by the applicant. If artificial intelligence (AI) programmes are used then the application may be rejected due to this document being an important part of the assessment process. This does not prevent applicants seeking appropriate support with applications should they need to for the purposes of any declared disability.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for further details on this vacancy.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
1. NVQ Level 3
Desirable criteria
2. Must have passed NVQ level 3 in a health and socail care or other relevent subject
Knowledge
Essential criteria
3. Awareness of national and local policy
4. Some understanding of the treatment and management of mental health conditions
Desirable criteria
5. Knowledge of clinical outcome measures.
Experience
Essential criteria
6. Experience of working with children and young people with mental health needs
Other
Essential criteria
7. Awareness of the trust vaules
Benefits
We believe in bringing your authentic and best self to work, in order to deliver the best care to our patients. We are committed to supporting our employees holistically. Here is a snapshot of what is on offer at NELFT:
8. A long-standing and award-winning approach to equality and diversity with supportive networks for ethnic minority staff, staff with disabilities or long term/chronic conditions and LGBT staff.
9. A commitment to supporting colleagues to achieve a work life balance, through flexible working opportunities and our effortsto support our working parents and carers. This has resulted in us being recognised as a ‘Top 10 Family Friendly Employer’ from the Working Families Charity.
10. Proactive health and wellbeing support, including access to our employee assistance programme, staff psychological support, individual wellbeing conversations and a network of health and wellbeing ambassadors.
11. Detailed information about our wellbeing and benefits offer can be found in this link.
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s a job share, part time hours or another flexible pattern.