Locality Clinical Lead - SE Essex Locality - MHST
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Main area: CYP Community Mental Health
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 8a
Contract: Permanent
Hours: 37.5 hours per week (Monday - Friday 9am-5pm)
Job ref: 395-EC827-24-B
Site: Skyline Plaza Town Southend-on-sea
Salary: £53,755 - £60,504 pa pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 28/01/2025 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. 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.
Job overview
NELFT is the largest provider of MHSTs in England. Our North East, Southend, Essex and Thurrock services cover 144 schools currently. The service is developing and expanding with an aim to cover all secondary schools in Mid and South Essex by September 2025. We currently cover 48% of secondary and primary schools within Southend, Essex and Thurrock.
The Mental Health Support Teams (MHST) deliver evidence-based individual interventions and group interventions in educational settings for children experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties aged 5 to 18 years old. The teams also have a strong focus on whole school approaches to improve mental health outcomes for children and young people.
The South East Essex Mental Health Support Team (MHST) covers a large geographical area incorporating the districts of Southend, Castlepoint, Rochford and Canvey Island. We are an early intervention and prevention evidence-based service and as a team, we are supportive and passionate in what we deliver. We recognize the need for a healthy work-life balance, and we will consider flexible working applications in line with the trust policies and process. We encourage Continual Professional Development (CPD) and are keen to support our staff to grow and progress.
Main duties of the job
The Locality Clinical Lead should:
1. Have a current and in date professional registration with a regulatory body (e.g. ACP, UKCP, HCPC, BABCP)
2. Have substantial experience (more than 2 years, post qualification) working therapeutically with children and families with mental health needs.
3. In-depth knowledge and experience of evidence-based practice with children and families (including CBT).
4. Experience of providing and receiving supervision (including CBT-informed practice).
5. Clinical experience and in-depth understanding of effective use of routine outcome measures.
6. Enthusiasm for and knowledge of early intervention and prevention including low intensity support for emotional wellbeing and mental health difficulties in an education context.
7. Knowledge of evidence-based interventions for low mood, self-harm, anxiety and common behaviour difficulties in young children in education settings.
8. Knowledge and understanding of whole school approaches to emotional wellbeing and mental health.
9. Experience of providing consultation in education settings.
10. Experience of service development and multi-disciplinary and multi-agency working.
11. Hold evidence of ongoing continuing professional development in a relevant subject.
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 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 on engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes. The induction will be held at our head office in Rainham, Essex.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
We are looking for an experienced Mental Health Practitioner with a UK Professional Registration to join our Mental Health Support Teams (MHSTs). MHSTs are a new service designed to support children and young people with mild to moderate mental health and emotional wellbeing difficulties within education settings; ensuring children and young people receive faster access to early intervention mental health support. In this post, you will be a senior clinical team member, holding a clinical caseload and supervising junior staff and trainee EMHPs. You will work alongside partner agencies to develop and co-produce training materials and support the delivery of whole school approach models for mental health.
The successful applicant would have completed the Supervisors Course, a fundamental requirement for the post.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Have a current and in date professional registration with a regulatory body (e.g. ACP, UKCP, HCPC, BABCP)
* Experience of providing and receiving supervision (including CBT-informed practice).
* Have substantial experience (more than 2 years, post qualification) working therapeutically with children and families with mental health needs.
Experience
* Clinical experience and in-depth understanding of effective use of routine outcome measures.
* Team leadership management of people; professionalism, conduct and capability
* Knowledge of evidence-based interventions for low mood, self-harm, anxiety and common behaviour difficulties in young children in education settings.
* Experience of providing consultation in education settings.
* Use of system 1
Knowledge
* Knowledge of evidence-based interventions for low mood, self-harm, anxiety and common behaviour difficulties in young children in education settings.
* Knowledge of auditing, report writing and impact on service development
* Knowledge and understanding of whole school approaches to emotional wellbeing and mental health.
* Report writing and auditing
Skills
* Ability to apply psychological theory to understand complex interpersonal/organizational situations and to guide actions.
* Ability to form good working relationships
Other
* To be able to travel efficiently throughout the area
* Confident and ability to teach and train others, using a variety of multi-media materials suitable for presentations with clients and/or professionals
* Ability to show innovation
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:
* 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.
* A commitment to supporting colleagues to achieve a work-life balance, through flexible working opportunities and our efforts to support our working parents and carers. This has resulted in us being recognized as a ‘Top 10 Family Friendly Employer’ from the Working Families Charity.
* 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.
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.
We recognize the valuable contribution that the Armed Forces community makes to our organisation. We have signed the Armed Forces Covenant and achieved Gold Award under the Armed Forces Employer Recognition Scheme. We have supportive policies, guaranteed interview schemes for veterans, reservists and military spouses and give additional leave to our Reservists so that they can attend their annual camp.
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. If you require this application in another format i.e. Braille or audio tape please contact the recruitment team on 0300 300 1530 or email recruitment@nelft.nhs.uk.
Correspondence with us
You are advised to regularly check your emails (including any junk mail/spam folders) for correspondence related to this post.
In the event of a high number of responses to any advert, NELFT reserves the right to close the vacancy early. If you do not hear from us within three weeks of the closing date then please assume you have not been successful on this occasion.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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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