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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.
Job Overview
NELFT is the largest provider of Mental Health Support Teams (MHSTs) in England. Our Southend, Essex and Thurrock services cover 144 schools currently. We currently cover 48% of secondary and primary schools within those areas.
The MHST delivers evidence-based individual and group interventions in educational settings for children experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties aged 4 to 18 years old. The teams also have a strong focus on whole school approaches to improve mental health outcomes for children and young people.
Come and join our friendly and supportive team in South West Essex, covering Thurrock, Basildon and Brentwood and Billericay as a senior clinician and supervisor.
Main Duties of the Job
We are looking for an experienced Mental Health Practitioner with a current UK Professional Registration to join our Mental Health Support Team (MHST).
1. Work in partnership with schools, children, young people (CYP), and families in the development of plans for interventions and agreed outcomes.
2. Support the Locality Clinical Lead with the formulation, treatment and management plans for schools, parents and CYP using a range of psychological interventions appropriate to the service.
3. Effectively manage a caseload of CYP with mild to moderate mental health difficulties, complete thorough assessments, risk assessments, care plans and reviews.
4. Provide caseload management and clinical skills supervision to Trainee Education Mental Health Practitioners, Education Mental Health Practitioners and Senior Mental Health Practitioners.
5. Work as part of a Multi-Disciplinary Team within your locality but also with other MHSTs within Essex.
6. Work as part of a team and autonomously.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Successful completion of a graduate training (e.g. nursing, social work, occupational therapy) and eligible for registration as a full member of the appropriate professional body NMC, HCPC, BABCP AFT, ACP.
* Further professional knowledge will have been gained through accredited courses workshops, study and in-house training programmes (e.g. CYP- IAPT training).
Experience
* At least 2 years experience of working with evidence-based approaches to low mood, anxiety and behaviour problems with children and young people.
* Experience of managing and providing supervision.
* Experience of caseload management.
* Ability to work with partner agencies in developing and co-producing materials for presentations.
Knowledge
* Knowledge of CYP IAPT and the benefits of low intensity work.
* Knowledge of relevant safeguarding and mental health policy, and procedures.
* Knowledge of risk management and ability to monitor and evaluate risk and act accordingly to ensure safety.
Skills
* Effectively manage a clinical caseload.
* Ability to write concise and informative reports and letters.
* Ability to keep accurate and high-quality records.
* Ability to form excellent working relationships with colleagues and work flexibly with others in multidisciplinary and multi-agency settings.
* Ability to provide culturally sensitive support and supervision.
Benefits
* 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.
* 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 organisation, 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.
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.
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