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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
Band 8a - MHST Senior Supervisor and Locality Lead (Substantive Post)
We are looking for a Clinical/ counselling/Educational psychologist or BABCP accredited CBT therapist to join us to oversee the Thanet MHST teams and to work closely with other Clinical Leads and Operational colleagues to support clinical delivery across the Locality area (Folkestone, Dover, Thanet) and service as a whole.
The post holder will oversee the clinical offer in the area, including relationships and partner working in schools. This post will see the applicant overseeing and supporting both CBT group skills supervision and individual supervision for Trainees and qualified staff.
Mental Health Support Teams (MHSTs) are a new government initiative to help increase children and young people's access to support for emotional wellbeing and mental health. MHSTs are part of the national Children and Young People's Increasing Access to Psychological Therapies (CYP-IAPT) programme.
MHSTs have three main functions:
1. Targeted Intervention
2. Whole School Approach
3. Consultation and Liaison
Main duties of the job
This post is to support the clinical development and service delivery of the Mental Health Support Teams (MHSTs) in Kent & Medway. The post holder will be responsible for supporting the delivery of evidence-based CBT interventions in schools/colleges and providing supervision to practitioners in the team. They will also be responsible for supporting schools to develop a whole school approach to emotional wellbeing and mental health using a range of different evidence-based and theoretical approaches (e.g. systemic and attachment theory).
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The post holder will hold the responsibility of overseeing the day-to-day clinical delivery of the MHST programme in the designated area. To effectively ensure this, the post holder will require:
* Substantial experience working therapeutically with children and families with mental health needs.
* In-depth knowledge and experience of evidence-based practice with children and families (including CBT).
* Experience of providing supervision (including of CBT-informed practice).
* Clinical experience and in-depth understanding of effective use of routine outcome measures.
* Enthusiasm for, and knowledge of early intervention and prevention including low intensity support for emotional wellbeing and mental health difficulties in an education context.
* Knowledge of evidence-based interventions for low mood, self-harm, anxiety and common behaviour difficulties in young children in education settings.
* Knowledge and understanding of whole school approaches to emotional wellbeing and mental health.
* Experience of providing consultation in education settings.
* Experience of service development and multi-disciplinary and multi-agency working.
Person specification
Experience
* Experience of work in mental health and educational settings
Qualification and Professional Registration
* Post graduate qualification in MH
* Has correct professional registration as outlined in JD
Knowledge
* Able to demonstrate knowledge of CYP Mental Health services and appropriate clinical delivery within these.
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:
* 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.
* 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.
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.
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