Main area: Children’s Wellbeing Practitioner - Band 5 Grade NHS AfC: Band 5
Contract: 12 months (Fixed Term)
Hours:
* Full time
* Part time
* Job share
* Flexible working
37.5 hours per week (Fixed Term)
Job ref: 395-EC946-24
Site: CAMHS Learning Disability Team, Stapleford House, Town Chelmsford
Salary: £29,970 - £36,483 pa pro rata (plus HCAS)
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 20/01/2025 23:59
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
We are looking for either a Clinician with a professional registration (i.e. Nurse, Social Worker, Occupational Therapist) or two years or more experience of working directly with children or adults with a learning disability to work within NELFT’s Essex wide SET CAMHS Learning Disabilities team.
The team provides mental health services to children and young people with severe to profound learning disabilities who may also have related complex developmental disorders, often including an additional Autistic Spectrum Disorder diagnosis. The team is based in Chelmsford and offers a specialist community Mental Health service across Essex to children/young people, their parents and professionals who support them in all environments.
As a clinician, you will be expected to support skilled assessments and provide interventions to this client group and the systems that support them and their families, around their mental health issues.
Main duties of the job
As a Children's Wellbeing Practitioner (CWP):
* The post holder will be responsible for delivering clinical interventions within SET CAMHS, receiving clinical supervision from a Mental Health Practitioner or a Senior Practitioner within SET CAMHS.
* To routinely measure clinical outcomes and deliver evidence-based clinical interventions, in-line with the Ithrive Model within CAMHS.
* Promoting the mental and emotional health of children, young people, and families in the community through clinical interventions in the care pathway.
* To undertake initial school-based and community-based assessments and deliver early interventions to children, young people, and their families with emotional and psychological difficulties.
* Providing a direct service to children and young people and their families, in an accessible environment, based on the best available research evidence.
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).
Starting with NELFT
NELFT places 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 including mandatory training, systems training, and the allocation of equipment.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Clinical Skills
* To act as an autonomous, registered practitioner who is legally and professionally accountable for own unsupervised actions.
* To be responsible, and accountable, for service delivery to clients/patients, via NICE compliant pathways.
* To assess and develop plans of care to meet the complex needs of patients.
* To initiate referrals to other health professional specialist services and agencies.
* To provide patients and relatives with information and education, ensuring they have meaningful choices.
* To ensure practice is supported by research, evidence-based practice, literature, and peer review.
Leadership
* To be part of an effective team and develop productive working relationships throughout the Trust.
* To actively promote integrated health professional working internally and externally.
* To facilitate the development of a positive team culture.
* To participate in the audit process, linking in with the clinical governance agenda.
Administration
* To promote agile working.
* To ensure accurate recording of actions and updating patient’s records.
* To assist in the planning and administration relating to the day-to-day running of the caseload.
* To collect Routine Outcome data routinely.
Communication
* To develop a broad range of relationships with both internal and external colleagues.
* To communicate complex patient-related information effectively.
* To effectively communicate with colleagues, peers, and clinical leads within the Trust.
Training
* To ensure own continued professional development.
* To undertake a regular appraisal, developing a personal development plan.
* To support training as part of the role.
Person specification
Demonstration of Trust Values
* Putting people first
* Prioritising quality
* Being progressive, innovative, and continually improving
* Being professional and honest
* Promoting independence, opportunity, and choice
Qualifications
* NVQ level 2 or equivalent standard of literacy and numeracy
* Clinician with a professional registration (i.e. Nurse, Social Worker, Occupational Therapist)
* Appropriate registration with either the BABCP or BPS as a low-intensity practitioner.
* Successful completion of the HEE commissioned 1yr Children's Wellbeing Practitioner course.
Experience
* Evidence of working with People (Children or Adults) with a severe learning disability.
* Experience of working in a community Team with children with a learning disability and additional mental health difficulties.
* Experience of carrying out generic assessments with other colleagues in the multi-disciplinary team.
* Experience of providing individual interventions with children and young people, from 3 to 19 years old.
* Experience of assessment carried out autonomously.
* Experience of working in mental health or related services.
* Experience of working therapeutically with parents/carers/families of children and young people with a learning disability.
Knowledge
* An awareness of NHS priorities and safeguarding procedures.
* Knowledge of NHS, Social Care and Education structures, national policies, and frameworks.
* Knowledge of risk management and ability to monitor and assess risk.
* Knowledge of the impacts of learning disability and Autistic Spectrum Conditions on emotional well-being.
Skills
* Basic awareness of IT and IT skills.
* Ability to communicate complex and sensitive matters clearly.
* Capacity to work alone and involve colleagues as relevant.
* Ability to plan and organise own workload and time.
Other
* To work within the Professional Code of Conduct and Ethics.
* Full, enhanced and current satisfactory DBS disclosure for the role.
* Able to form good working relationships in multi-disciplinary and inter-agency settings.
We believe in bringing your authentic and best self to work, in order to deliver the best care to our patients.
* A long-standing and award-winning approach to equality and diversity.
* A commitment to supporting colleagues to achieve a work-life balance.
* Proactive health and wellbeing support.
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.
Equal opportunities employer
We are committed to equal opportunities and diversity and positively encourage applications from all sections of the community.
Correspondence with us
You are advised to regularly check your emails for correspondence related to this post.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.
If you require any additional support during the application process please contact recruitment@nelft.nhs.uk.
Name: Julie Blackaby
Job title: SET CAMHS Learning Disability Team Manager
Email address: julie.blackaby@nelft.nhs.uk
Telephone number: 0800 953 0222
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