Main area: Behavioural and Sensory Analyst KMAH/CREST Grade NHS AfC: Band 7
Contract: Permanent
* Full time
* Flexible working
37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 395-KM056-25
Site: Kent and Medway Adolescent Hospital
Town: Staplehurst
Salary: £46,148 - £52,809 PA
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 26/02/2025 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
Join our Multi Disciplinary Teams as a Behavioural Analyst & Sensory Practitioner!
Are you passionate about making a real difference in the lives of young people in Kent and Medway, facing complex mental health and eating disorder challenges? We are looking for a dedicated Behavioural Analyst & Sensory Practitioner to join our dynamic teams, a 14-bed adolescent inpatient unit and an Intensive Home Treatment team. This is a unique opportunity to work in a specialist setting and in the community that supports young people with a range of mental health conditions, including those requiring Naso-gastric feeding. You will be part of a multi-disciplinary team and play a vital role in developing tailored behavioural and sensory strategies, helping young people regulate emotions, build coping skills, and engage in their recovery journey. If you are ready for a rewarding, challenging, and impactful role within a compassionate, multidisciplinary team, we would love to hear from you!
Main duties of the job
The post-holder will provide clinical expertise and specialist behavioral and sensory assessment and treatment within their professional sphere of expertise in the service. They will be responsible for assessment, formulation and treatment, systematic outcome evaluation, and clinical supervision of junior clinicians throughout the team.
The post holder will offer consultations, assessment, and treatment across KMAH & IHT services. The postholder will be accountable for their own professional actions and will work within professional ethics & Trust policies as a specialist.
They will ensure that a high quality, timely, accessible, and evidence-based service is available to all service users who need it throughout the service.
The post-holder will establish and maintain excellent working relationships with wider mental health and wellbeing services and ensure adherence to evidence-based treatments by all clinical staff across the team.
The post-holder will be directly involved in delivering a range of therapeutic interventions, which may include parental work, group work, short-term input, and specialist psychological behavioral and/or sensory assessments and treatments. They will be responsible for working with the KMAH & IHT MDTs and providing specialist behavioral and sensory assessments and treatments within their professional sphere of expertise.
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 partway 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
The post holder should have relevant clinical skills and experience outlined in the job description and relevant to the role. The key responsibilities are outlined within the job description attached. The post holder will have relevant clinical, administration, communication, and training skills to be eligible for the post.
The post holder will be responsible to the operation team leads, as well as the clinical lead for oversight.
Person specification
Qualification
* Relevant qualification
Experience
* Experience (years)
* Experience working with children and young people
* Experience in robust assessments and formulation
Knowledge
* Knowledge of working with children and young people
* NHS priorities and legislation
* Skills in the use of complex methods of behavioral assessment, intervention, and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
* Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
* Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
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 organization, 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 organization. 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.
As part of our recruitment process, we may be required to share information you provide on the application form with NHS Counter Fraud Authority (NHSCFA) and/or other organizations for the purpose of the prevention, detection, investigation, and prosecution of fraud or any other unlawful activity affecting the NHS. We also use third-party providers to check and verify your qualifications who may be contacting you on our behalf to verify the same.
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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