NELFT North East London Foundation Trust
We welcome applications from mental health nurses, psychologists, social workers, psychotherapists, family therapists, and other qualified professional staff for the role of senior practitioner within SET CAMHS Mid-Essex.
Mid-Essex SET CAMHS are looking to recruit a qualified professional from nursing, social work, psychology, family therapy or psychotherapy to join a busy community CAMHS team based in Chelmsford, Essex (covering Maldon/Braintree and Halstead). SET CAMHS works to the iThrive model, with this role sitting within the Getting More Help and System Support sections. We are seeking candidates with experience of managing risk and managing a caseload of more complex presentations. The successful candidate will also have experience of supervising and supporting colleagues at band 6. The band 7 role sits within the Multi-disciplinary Team (MDT) to take a lead on urgent and high-risk assessments, to support the team in formulating risk plans and to be able to provide a range of NICE recommended and evidence-based treatments. The role will support the senior leadership team in monitoring quality of interventions and processes through effective supervision.
Main duties of the job
* To complete assessments of children and young people's mental health with their families and carers.
* To complete risk and safety plans, care planning including CPA processes post discharge from Inpatient care.
* To provide evidence-based treatments individually and/or via groups for a range of presentations to include CBT/DBT, trauma informed practice, EMDR, reflective therapies.
* To provide treatment and interventions for children and young people with additional neurodevelopmental needs and co-morbid mental health issues.
* To provide supervision to band 6 staff.
About us
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.
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).
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification when completing your application.
We welcome newly qualified or applications from those about to be qualified Psychologists as well as those with previous experience who are passionate and motivated to work with young people and families. We pride ourselves on working within a strong and supportive multi-disciplinary team with opportunities for learning, development, and progression.
Professional registrations accepted:
RCN, BABCP, HCPC, Social Work England, UKCP.
Person Specification
Qualification
* Qualification in a Core profession (Social Worker, Mental Health Nursing, Psychotherapy, Clinical Psychology).
* To have registration as a full member of the appropriate professional body (e.g. HCPC, NMC, UKCP, BABCP).
* Experience in a relevant NHS setting or similar with Young people with mental health presentations.
* 2-3 years post qualifying experience.
* Must be able to travel across the Mid Essex area.
Experience
* Experience of working with complex and high-risk mental health presentations in children and young people.
* Experience of providing evidence-based mental health interventions to children and young people including neurodiversity.
* Experience of supervising staff providing mental health treatments to children and young people.
* Experience of providing specialist individual interventions with a wide variety of children and young people, from 3 to 19 years old- presenting problems at the most severe end of the spectrum.
* Experience of managing teams.
Skills
* Multi-Agency working experience.
* Assessment, formulation risk management and safety planning.
* Evidenced based treatments e.g. DBT, CBT, Trauma informed.
* Knowledge of relevant legislation (Children's Act, Mental Health Act, mental capacity).
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Salary: £46,148 to £52,809 per annum (pro rata).
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