Main area Mental Health Grade NHS AfC: Band 8a Contract Permanent Hours
* Full time
* Part time
* Job share
* Flexible working
37.5 hours per week (Monday - Friday 09:00 -17:00) Job ref 395-EC072-25
Site Mid Essex Mental Health Support Team - Covering Braintree, Chelmsford and Maldon areas Town Chelmsford Salary £53,755 - £60,504 per annum (pro rata) Salary period Yearly Closing 07/03/2025 23:59 Interview date 20/03/2025
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.
Job overview
NELFT is the largest provider of Mental Health Support Teams (MHSTs) in England. Our Southend, Essex and Thurrock services cover 144 schools currently. We currently cover 48% of secondary and primary schools within Southend, Essex and Thurrock.
The MHST delivers evidence-based individual and group interventions in educational settings for children experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties aged 4 to 18 years old.
The Locality Clinical Lead will be responsible for the caseload management & supervision of MHST practitioners. The post holder will work with and support the MHST Operational Manager in developing teams across the locality to support the delivery of Education Mental Health Practitioner (EMHP) skills and facilitate wider service transformation within the local children’s mental health system.
Main duties of the job
* To oversee the assessment, formulation and intervention plans for children, young people (CYP) and families/carers being supported by the MHSTs drawing on a range of psychological theories and guided by evidence-based practice.
* Working in partnership with schools to support CYP and families in the context of mild to moderate mental health difficulties, to work towards agreed goals.
* To undertake accurate assessment of risk to self and others.
* To design, adapt and modify clinical materials (e.g. guided self-help interventions, group content) to meet the needs of different clinical populations for approval of the senior team (e.g. SEN, ASC).
* 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.
* Provide a range of information and support to schools for evidence-based psychological treatments.
* To provide joint specialist mental health assessments and interventions for schools, parents, CYP with the EMHP supervisees.
* Demonstrating excellent leadership, communication and collaboration throughout the service.
* To support the strategic and practical development of the MHST initiative within the service and wider children’s mental health system, under the direction of the Clinical Lead, Education Lead & Head of Service.
Person specification
Experience
* Experience of working in community mental health settings.
* Minimum two years post-qualification experience.
* Experience of working with/in schools.
* Experience of clinical leadership.
* Minimum of 2 years of experience supervising staff.
* Trained as a NELFT safeguarding supervisor.
Qualification
* Qualified & Registered Mental Health Practitioner, Psychologist, Family Therapist, Psychotherapist, Nurse, CBT Therapist, Educational Psychologist.
* Registered with the relevant governing body (e.g., NMC, BABCP, UKCP, HCPC).
* Professional training in an evidence-based therapeutic approach applicable to working with children, young people and families.
* Successful completion of CYP-IAPT Supervision course.
Knowledge
* Ability to form excellent working relationships with colleagues and work flexibly in multidisciplinary and multi-agency settings.
* Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate to support and maintain clinical practice.
* Has an excellent understanding of MHSTs and Education settings.
Skills
* Confident speaking with a range of audiences in different settings including education settings.
* Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of multi-media materials suitable for presentations with clients and/or professionals.
* Ability to adapt, prioritize and effectively manage allocated caseload and service needs.
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.
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.
Equal opportunities employer
We are committed to equal opportunities and diversity and positively encourage applications from all sections of the community regardless of any protected characteristic.
We are a Disability Confident employer and have made the pledge to commit to employing more people with disabilities.
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