Main area: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service
Grade: Band 6
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 334-CLI-6837808
Site: Lewisham CAMHS MHST Kaleidoscope Lewisham Centre
Town: Lewisham
Salary: £44,806 - £53,134 per annum (Incl. of HCAs)
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 13/01/2025 23:59
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust has a rich history, well-established community links, and an international reputation. We deliver specialist services in the London boroughs of Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham, Southwark, Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Wandsworth, and Richmond.
We are committed to providing high-quality specialist care to our service users and are recognized for the care and treatment we provide. The Care Quality Commission rates our services as ‘good’.
We launched our five-year strategy, Aiming High; Changing Lives, in 2021, along with Our Care Improvement System as our quality management system methodology to positively impact patient care, outcomes, and staff experience. By joining SLaM, all staff will have the opportunity to be part of this exciting improvement journey supported by learning and development to harness everyone’s potential as change-makers.
The trust recognizes the unique and valuable contribution that people with lived experience of mental illness can bring to a role. We, therefore, welcome applications from people with lived experience and consider them an asset to the Trust.
Our Values:
We take pride in providing specialist care to our service users, where our Trust values and our promise to be caring, kind, polite, prompt, honest, listen, and do what I say I’m going to do is at the heart of everything we do. When you join us, you’ll be part of something special.
As a Trust, we are happy to talk flexible working.
Job Overview
This is an exciting opportunity for a Senior Wellbeing Practitioner (SWP) or Mental Health Practitioner, with a background of working with education settings, to work in Lewisham CAMHS Mental Health Support Team (MHST).
The post holder will be an SWP due to complete the approved 2-year SWP Post Graduate Diploma in Jan 2025 OR a registered Mental Health Practitioner who has undertaken a recognized qualification in one of the core mental health professions.
The post holder will use their knowledge, skills, and experience to supervise trainee and qualified Education Mental Health Practitioners (EMHPs) and contribute to the general service development and functioning.
The post holder will also manage a defined caseload with a focus on providing focused assessment and evidence-based intervention for children and young people (CYP) with mild to moderate mental health difficulties and their parents/carers.
Part of this role will include being a named MHST Link Practitioner to a group of schools/colleges, regularly liaising with education staff, external agencies, CAMHS colleagues, and other local services.
The post holder will travel across the borough to different schools/colleges and adapt working patterns as appropriate to meet the needs of the community and service.
Main Duties of the Job
* To deliver evidence-based therapeutic interventions to CYP and families.
* To supervise trainee and qualified EMHPs.
* To contribute to multi-disciplinary team discussions and service development.
* To be a Link Practitioner to MHST schools.
* To contribute and facilitate whole school approach workshops.
* To provide advice and guided signposting to CYP, families, and education staff.
Working for Our Organisation
Mental Health Support Teams (MHSTs) are designed to help meet the mental health needs of children and young people in education settings. They consist of senior clinicians, SWPs, EMHPs, MHST Practitioners, and Practitioner Psychologists, based across education settings as an additional resource within a whole-system approach to promote wellbeing, support earlier intervention, enable appropriate signposting, and deliver evidence-based support, care, and interventions.
Lewisham MHST works across four teams and will cover over 80% of education settings in the borough next year. The MHSTs partner with their education settings to design a bespoke offer based on individual school/college needs and work with the mental health services that are already in place, such as counselling, educational psychology, school nurses, pastoral care, educational welfare officers, VCSEs, local authority, including children’s social care, and NHS Children and Young People Mental Health Services (CYPMHS).
Detailed Job Description and Main Responsibilities
Qualifications:
* Senior Wellbeing Practitioners (SWPs) due to complete the approved 2-year SWP PGDip in Jan 2025, and be registered or eligible for EMHP registration with the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP) or EMHP registration with the British Psychological Society (BPS).
* All applicants with a Core Profession will require professional training and relevant CAMHS experience in combination with professional registration with one of the following statutory bodies as appropriate to their discipline: Nursing Midwifery Council (NMC), Health & Care Professionals Council (HCPC), Association of Child Psychotherapists (ACP), The UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP), or British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP).
Experience:
* Significant experience in a setting where mental health is the primary focus, some of which should have been in a CAMHS, school, or similar service.
* Working in collaboration with supervisors, service users, carers, and MDT in assessing needs, planning, and implementing care.
* Taking responsibility for care delivery in a specific area and maintaining a safe therapeutic environment.
* Experience of the following: initial assessments, group, individual and family work, multi-disciplinary work, clinical governance, and audit or clear evidence of transferable skills.
Knowledge/Skills:
* Ability to assess, plan, implement, and evaluate risk/care plans to meet the needs of clients.
* Ability to work to standards for quality within the service.
* Ability to work as a member of a multi-disciplinary team and demonstrate awareness of MDT functioning.
* Ability to maintain and manage own workload and work autonomously within the specialist area.
* Willingness and ability to develop specialist knowledge of clinical aspects of child and adolescent mental health.
* Ability to recognize own limits and seek support and supervision as appropriate.
* Developed computer skills to enable input of relevant data and typing of summaries and reports.
* The ability to supervise, teach, and develop the skills of students and junior staff as appropriate.
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
* Good interpersonal skills and demonstrable ability to work flexibly and respectfully with others.
* Ability to analyze risk and respond appropriately, seeking support as necessary.
* Knowledge of The Children Act 1989, 2004, The Mental Health Act 1983, Human Rights Act 1998, and Mental Capacity Act 2005.
* London Child protection procedures.
* The principles of clinical governance and practice.
* The principles underlying confidentiality and information sharing.
Person Specification
Knowledge
* Ability to assess, plan, implement, and evaluate risk/care plans to meet the needs of CYP and families.
* A good working knowledge of key legislation relevant to CAMHS setting e.g., The Children Act 1989, 2004, and The Mental Health Act 1983, Human Rights Act 1998, and Mental Capacity Act 2005, Clinical Governance, confidentiality.
* Ability to maintain and manage own workload and work autonomously within the specialist area.
* The ability to supervise, teach, and develop the skills of student and junior staff as appropriate.
Experience
* Experience and ability to function as a practitioner in CYP mental health services and manage a caseload.
* Demonstrable post-qualification experience, including experience of working with CYP with mild to moderate mental health problems and their families using CBT or CBT-informed approaches.
* Evidence of good practice in CAMHS assessment facilitation, including assessing: risk behavior, impact of the lived experience, systemic functioning, working in an MDT, and managing differences in the clinical space.
* Awareness and experience of working with equality, diversity, and inclusion.
* Experience of working with neurodivergent CYP (e.g., Autism, ADHD, SEN).
Skills and Training
* Ability to work therapeutically with the client group, using a range of therapeutic interventions.
* Good written and verbal presentation skills. Basic IT and data entry skills to enter clinical information into databases.
* Ability to work within a changing environment. Ability to be ‘reflective’ in therapeutic practice and adapt practice from this reflection. Demonstrate an ability to work effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team.
* Research-informed and evidence-based methods of assessment, treatment, and case management.
Qualifications
* Approved SWP qualification OR Core Profession in child and adolescent mental health and professional registration as appropriate to discipline: Nursing Midwifery Council (NMC), Health and Care Professionals Council (HCPC), Social Work England (SWE), Association of Child Psychotherapists (ACP), The UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP), or British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP).
* Supervision training (e.g., approved CYP-IAPT supervisor Post Graduate Certificate or CPD).
* Further post-qualifying training and education in working with children and adolescents with mental health problems.
The Trust is committed to providing services that embrace diversity and promote equality of opportunity. We are a Disability Confident Employer, welcoming applicants from all sections of the community and people of all protected characteristics. We provide reasonable adjustments for candidates with a disability and are committed to treating people fairly with compassion, respect, and dignity while promoting equality and human rights. We aim to put this commitment into practice by:
* Embedding our commitment to tackling inequality, eliminating discrimination and harassment; promoting equality of opportunity and fostering good relations in our everyday practice.
* Ensuring that all our services and all staff understand and support our commitment.
* We believe that people who use our services, their carers, and our staff should be treated with compassion, respect, and dignity.
Please Note:
* All applications for this post will need to be made online.
* Read and understand the Job Description and Personal Specification attached to the role. Your Statement in Support should reflect the requirements specified as your application will be judged against these criteria.
* The closing date listed is a guide only, and the vacancy may close earlier should a sufficient number of applicants have been received. We advise that you submit your application as early as possible.
* Once you have submitted your application, you agree to your application being transferred to a 3rd party e-recruitment system. All subsequent information regarding your application will be generated from apps.trac.jobs.
* If you have not heard from us within three weeks from the closing date, your application has not been successful.
* Priority consideration for applications may be given to at-risk NHS employees.
* If successful and appointed, you authorize South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust to confirm your previous NHS service via an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process.
* We are a smoke-free Trust.
SLaM is a Stonewall Diversity Champion; Stonewall is the largest Lesbian, Gay, Bi, and Trans (LGBT) rights charity in Europe.
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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: David Linford
Job title: Lewisham CAMHS MHST Clinical Service Lead
Email address: david.linford@slam.nhs.uk
Telephone number: 07970 760 794
Additional information:
Zoe McLeod - Lewisham CAMHS MHST Clinical Service Lead
Tel: 07860704651
Email: zoe.mcleod@slam.nhs.uk
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