Site North East Essex (Covering Colchester and Tendring) Town Colchester Salary £46,148 - £52,809 p.a. pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 10/01/2025 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.
Job overview
Come and join our friendly and supportive team making a difference to the lives of children and young people.
NELFT is a growing organisation serving a population of 4.9 million across North-East London, Essex, and Kent. We employ more than 7,500 staff and have an annual budget of £490 million approx.
Main duties of the job
We are looking for an experienced Mental Health Practitioner with a current UK Professional Registration to join our Mental Health Support Team (MHST).
In this post, you will be a senior clinical team member, holding a caseload and supervising junior staff including trainees. You will work alongside partner agencies to co-produce training materials and support the delivery of whole school approach interventions.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Work in partnership with schools, children, young people (CYP), and families in the development of plans for interventions and agreed outcomes.
2. Support the Locality Clinical Lead with the formulation, treatment, and management plans for schools, parents, and CYP using a range of psychological interventions appropriate to the service.
3. Effectively manage a caseload of CYP with mild to moderate mental health difficulties, complete thorough assessments, risk assessments, care plans, and reviews.
4. Provide caseload management and clinical skills supervision to Trainee Education Mental Health Practitioners, Education Mental Health Practitioners, and Senior Mental Health Practitioners.
5. Work as part of a Multi-Disciplinary Team within your locality and with other MHSTs within Essex.
6. Work as part of a team and autonomously.
Qualifications
* Successful completion of a graduate training (e.g., nursing, social work, occupational therapy) and eligible for registration as a full member of the appropriate professional body NMC, HCPC, BABCP AFT, ACP.
* Completion of EMHP or IAPT Supervisory Course.
Experience
* At least 2 years experience of working with evidence-based approaches to low mood, anxiety, and behaviour problems with children and young people.
* Experience of managing and providing supervision.
* Experience of caseload management.
* Ability to work with partner agencies in developing and co-producing materials for presentations.
* Experience working with or in educational settings.
Skills
* Effectively manage a clinical caseload.
* Ability to write concise and informative reports and letters.
* Ability to keep accurate and high-quality records.
* Ability to deliver workshops to professionals, young people, and/or parents/carers.
* Ability to form excellent working relationships with colleagues and work flexibly with others in multidisciplinary and multi-agency settings.
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.
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.
Name: Sarah McGuinness Job title: Operational Manager North-East Essex MHST Email address: sarah.mcguinness@nelft.nhs.uk Telephone number: 07745107010
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