Key Responsibilities
Supervision and Management
1. Provide clinical and case management supervision, including support through observations and modelling, to team members who are undertaking EMHP training in CBT evidence-based practice.
2. Support the EMHPs to develop and maintain a working relationship with education settings.
3. Support the EMHPs in delivering a Whole School Approach service.
4. Support the EMHPs to develop their clinical progression during and after training.
5. Support the EMHPs in assessing, reporting and managing any client risk.
6. Support the EMHPs to ensure data is inputted to EPR (Iaptus) within 48 hours of clinical contact.
7. As required, liaise with educational settings.
8. As required, liaise with training university regarding trainee EMHP progress.
9. As required attend any MHST partnership meetings.
10. As required attend any meetings representing MHST and/or Mind in West Essex.
Clinical and Client Care
1. Assess and develop evidence-based treatment plans to meet the mild - moderate needs of CYP with a range of emotional and mental health difficulties.
2. Support children and young people, their parents/carers, families and educators in the self-management of presenting difficulties.
3. Work in partnership with children, young people, their families and educators in the development of their care plans, including specific interventions and agreeing outcomes.
4. Deliver evidence-based, low intensity interventions for CYP aged 5-18 with mild moderate emotional and mental health difficulties.
5. Show evidence in a variety of forms that at all times, assessment and intervention is provided from an inclusive values base, which recognises and respects diversity.
6. Undertake accurate assessments of risk to self and others and support supervisees to do the same.
7. Make decisions on suitability of new referrals, adhering to the services referral protocols.
8. Maintain comprehensive records of all training and clinical activity in line with both health and education service protocols.
9. Ensure outcome measures (e.g. SDQ, RCADS) are routinely embedded in your clinical work and that of those you line-manage.
10. Complete all requirements relating to data collection and report clinical outcomes and service access data into the digital patient record system.
11. Promote the mental and emotional health of children and young people in education settings, through clinical interventions in the care pathway.
12. Practice, evidence, reflect on and demonstrate an ability to manage one's own caseload in conjunction with the requirements of the team.
13. Attend multi-disciplinary and multi-agency meetings relating to referrals or children and young people in treatment, where appropriate.
14. Show evidence of working within a collaborative approach, involving a range of relevant others when indicated.
15. Contribute to the development of individual or group clinical materials or training materials.
Teaching, Training and Supervision
1. Provide advice, consultation and training to staff working within the network of schools and across a range of professions, agencies and settings.
2. Receive regular clinical and case management supervision.
3. Supervise and support safeguarding cases held by team members that you line-manage.
4. Provide quality assurance for the data submitted by team members that you line-manage.
5. Attend and complete supervision training programme provided by course University.
6. Monitor and track progress against access targets for your caseload and that of the team members you line-manage.
7. Actively promote the whole school based approach to developing and maintaining emotional health and well-being.
Professional
1. Maintain standards of own professional practice according to Mind in West Essex policies and procedures.
2. Ensure that confidentiality is always protected.
3. Develop a local knowledge of the locality and its services and facilities, particularly in relation to mental health issues.
4. Communicate and share any risks or issues related to the safety and wellbeing of anyone the post-holder comes into contact with.
5. Identify, discuss and review clear objectives with supervisor and senior colleagues regularly.
6. Participate in individual appraisal and respond to agreed objectives.
7. Keep all records up to date in relation to Continuous Professional Development.
8. Attend relevant educational opportunities in line with identified professional objectives.
9. Ensure adherence to organisational policies and procedures and that interventions are developed and delivered in accordance with NICE guidelines and clinical standards.
Person Specification
1. Essential Qualification (e.g. PG Cert, PG Dip) to deliver evidence based-therapeutic interventions to CYP.
2. Candidates with degree level qualifications and relevant experience will also be considered.
3. Familiarity with CBT evidence-base, both within clinical training and delivering interventions.
4. Direct clinical experience (autonomously providing assessment, developing treatment plans and delivering evidence-based therapeutic interventions) with CYP aged 5-18 with mental health difficulties.
5. Knowledge and direct clinical experience of adapting interventions and delivering them to CYP.
6. Experience of supervising team members.
7. Experience of routine clinical outcome monitoring.
8. Experience of clinical risk assessment.
9. Understanding of child development and psychosocial influences.
10. Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary mental health team/environment.
11. Experience of providing clinical supervision and case management.
12. Experience of supervising safeguarding cases.
13. Experience of working in education settings.
14. Experience of delivering Low Intensity/Psycho-educational interventions to groups of CYP, educational staff and/or parents/caregivers.
15. Experience of engaging a range of stakeholders.
16. Excellent communication skills.
17. Organisational skills and excellent time management.
18. Experience of using Microsoft Office package.
19. Experience of using EPR systems (IAPTUS).
20. No criminal record that prevents work with our client group or which would harm our reputation.
21. Valid UK driving licence and/or access to transport.
General
1. Attend regular supervision and annual appraisal.
2. Identify and implement your own Continuing Professional Development programme.
3. Understand, promote, keep up to date and comply with all policies and procedures.
4. Undertake any other tasks, duties or projects as directed by your line manager.
5. Be flexible with work hours as some out of hours may be required.
6. Work with community partners where appropriate.
7. Work with the MHST to promote mental health awareness via social media.
Skills and Abilities
1. Ability to develop and deliver effective presentations and promotional talks.
2. Ability to communicate effectively and clearly to a range of individuals and audiences.
3. Relationship building and motivational skills.
4. Excellent organisational/project management skills.
5. Ability to implement monitoring/evaluation procedures and produce accurate/informative reports.
6. The ability to work as part of a team and contribute to bringing the team on board with the task in hand.
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