Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Key Responsibilities:
1. As a senior leader working in partnership with schools and the wider community, supporting children and young people experiencing mild to moderate emotional wellbeing and mental health difficulties and their families in the self-management of presenting difficulties.
2. To take the lead in any complex relationships or system issues with our partnership with Education and working within the wider mental health sector.
3. To support clinical supervisors in their task of overseeing the assessment, formulation and treatment and management plans for schools, parents, children and young people being supported by the MHSTs using a range of psychological interventions.
4. Work in partnership with children, young people, families and schools to develop goals, plans for intervention, and agreed outcomes.
5. To support and empower children, young people and families to make informed choices about support.
6. To operate at all times from an inclusive values base which recognises and respects diversity.
7. Provide overall clinical leadership for the MHSTs within Kent & Medway.
8. Undertake accurate assessment of risk to self and others where needed, and support the service to ensure that risk assessments are applied using clinical knowledge drawing on formulation and best practice guidance.
9. Ensure the MHSTs adhere to the service referral protocols and through supervision to help signpost unsuitable referrals to the relevant service as necessary.
10. Through close case management and supervision, escalate cases where the level of need becomes beyond scope, or more severe, ensuring adherence to other relevant elements of service delivery.
11. Provide a range of information and support to schools for evidence based psychological treatments, primarily guided self-help. This work may be face-to-face, by telephone or via other media.
12. Ensure MHSTs adhere to an agreed activity contract relating to the overall number of children and young people contacts offered, and sessions carried out per week in order to improve timely access and minimise waiting times.
13. Ensure the keeping of coherent records of all activity in line with service protocols and use these records and outcome data to inform decision-making. Complete all requirements relating to data collection.
14. Assess and integrate issues relating to transitions, education and training/employment into the overall therapeutic process.
15. Work within a collaborative approach involving a range of relevant others when indicated.
16. Work in collaboration with children, young people and communities to enhance and widen access to support health promotion.
17. To provide some joint specialist mental health assessments and interventions for children, young people and families.
18. To oversee clinical supervision structures.
19. To help the clinical supervisor judge when the EMHPs are able to work independently with specific clients and interventions.
20. To provide reports and communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients.
21. To support the MHSTs to liaise with other education, health, social care and voluntary sector staff from a range of agencies, in the care provided to children, young people and families.
22. Represent the trust when engaging in system wide events or delivering external training, managing system working and promoting the service.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
* Successful completion of a post-graduate training in psychological practice (e.g. psychologist, family therapist, child and adolescent psychotherapist).
Qualifications
Essential criteria
* To be eligible for registration as a full member of the appropriate professional body (e.g. HCPC, BACP, UKCP, AFT, ACP).
Experience
Essential criteria
* Extensive experience of working with CYP within Mental Health settings and working at an 8a or above level or equivalent.
Desirable criteria
* Experience of strategic work with wider health and education system.
* Knowledge or experience of MHST services.
Experience
Essential criteria
* Extensive experience of working therapeutically with parents/carers/families of children and young people with complex mental health problems.
Desirable criteria
* Extensive experience of clinical supervision of post-graduate qualified psychological practitioners.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Documents to download
* Job Description Clinical Lead (PDF, 462.4KB)
* NELFT Application - Hints and Tips (PDF, 38.4KB)
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