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We are seeking 2 Clinical Leads, each working 0.8wte to join our service and support us to continue to expand and develop our clinical offer.
We are looking for Clinical/Counselling or Educational Psychology/ BABCP accredited CBT/ Family Therapy/ Child Psychotherapy colleagues with a passion for Early Intervention emotional wellbeing and mental health support to get in touch if they feel this role would suit them.
Who are we:
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 are a resource in addition to the already existing support in any particular education setting. MHSTs have three main functions:
1. Targeted interventions.
2. Whole School Approach.
3. Consultation and Liaison.
Please see our website for details.
MHSTs are continually expanding across Kent & Medway. Please take a look at our current list of schools.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will join the established senior leadership team within Kent and Medway MHST to support with the following areas:
* Leading, with senior clinical and operational colleagues, on the development and implementation of MHSTs across Kent & Medway in line with the transformation agenda for children and young people's mental health services.
* Ensuring evidence-based practice by engaging in and establishing links between higher education institutions, NELFT research and development, NELFT quality improvement and the clinical offer provided by Kent & Medway MHSTs.
* Promoting the service-user voice and meaningful coproduction in Kent & Medway MHSTs.
* Ensuring county wide consistency in the clinical delivery of the service and continuously monitoring and reviewing to ensure high quality and ensuring the offer is up to date with the newest research and evidence base.
Key Responsibilities:
As a senior leader working in partnership with schools and the wider community, supporting children and young people experiencing mild to moderate emotional wellbeing and mental health difficulties and their families in the self-management of presenting difficulties.
To take the lead in any complex relationships or system issues with our partnership with Education and working within the wider mental health sector.
To support clinical supervisors in their task of overseeing the assessment, formulation and treatment and management plans for schools, parents, children and young people being supported by the MHSTs using a range of psychological interventions.
Work in partnership with children, young people, families and schools to develop goals, plans for intervention, and agreed outcomes.
To support and empower children, young people and families to make informed choices about support.
To operate at all times from an inclusive values base which recognises and respects diversity.
Provide overall clinical leadership for the MHSTs within Kent & Medway.
Undertake accurate assessment of risk to self and others where needed, and support the service to ensure that risk assessments are applied using clinical knowledge drawing on formulation and best practice guidance.
Ensure the MHSTs adhere to the service referral protocols and through supervision to help signpost unsuitable referrals to the relevant service as necessary.
Through close case management and supervision, escalate cases where the level of need becomes beyond scope, or more severe, ensuring adherence to other relevant elements of service delivery.
Provide a range of information and support to schools for evidence based psychological treatments, primarily guided self-help. This work may be face-to-face, by telephone or via other media.
Ensure MHSTs adhere to an agreed activity contract relating to the overall number of children and young people contacts offered, and sessions carried out per week in order to improve timely access and minimise waiting times.
Ensure the keeping of coherent records of all activity in line with service protocols and use these records and outcome data to inform decision-making. Complete all requirements relating to data collection.
Assess and integrate issues relating to transitions, education and training/employment into the overall therapeutic process.
Work within a collaborative approach involving a range of relevant others when indicated.
Work in collaboration with children, young people and communities to enhance and widen access to support health promotion.
To provide some joint specialist mental health assessments and interventions for children, young people and families.
To oversee clinical supervision structures.
To help the clinical supervisor judge when the EMHPs are able to work independently with specific clients and interventions.
To provide reports and communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients.
To support the MHSTs to liaise with other education, health, social care and voluntary sector staff from a range of agencies, in the care provided to children, young people and families.
Represent the trust when engaging in system wide events or delivering external training, managing system working and promoting the service.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
* Successful completion of a post-graduate training in psychological practice (e.g. psychologist, family therapist, child and adolescent psychotherapist)
Essential
* To be eligible for registration as a full member of the appropriate professional body (e.g. HCPC, BACP, UKCP, AFT, ACP)
Experience
Essential
* Extensive experience of working with CYP within Mental Health settings and working at an 8a or above level or equivalent
Desirable
* Experience of strategic work with wider health and education system
* Knowledge or experience of MHST services
Essential
* Extensive experience of working therapeutically with parents/carers/families of children and young people with complex mental health problems
Desirable
* Extensive experience of clinical supervision of post-graduate qualified psychological practitioners
Employer details
Employer name
NELFT North East London Foundation Trust
Address
County Wide post main office is in Maidstone.
Maidstone Studios
Maidstone
ME14 2NZ
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