Site: Holywell Primary School, Tolpits Lane, Watford WD18 6LL
Town: Watford
Salary: £37,338 - £44,962 per annum pro rata + 5% of basic salary, min £1,258 - max £2,122
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 25/11/2024 23:59
Values Based Screener
At Hertfordshire Partnership Foundation Trust, we are looking for people to join us who share our values and those of the NHS. Before your application can be considered, please take part in our online values questionnaire. When you have finished, you will be sent a 'completion code' by email, which will be valid for 6 months and required to submit your application form.
As part of Hertfordshire CAMHS transformation, our priority is simple: to increase access and availability of mental health and wellbeing support for children and young people.
This role is a chance to make a difference in young lives, and as such duties will include elements of operational management in support of the Team Leader as well as clinical activity.
Main duties of the job
* You will be expected to support the Team Leader to contribute to the team with a unique opportunity to be part of a dynamic mental health team in a creative environment where evidence-based interventions, new ideas, ways of working and supporting children and young people are actively encouraged.
* This approach requires flexibility, dynamism and above all a passion for working with children and young people in educational settings whilst also motivating, inspiring and supporting your team to do the same.
* You will be responsible for operationalizing the delivery of evidence-based interventions within Mental Health Support Teams (MHSTs) in schools and colleges whilst providing supervision for EMHPs.
Minimum Qualifications and Experience
Supervisors will be graduate qualified health care professionals who:
* Have some level of formal CBT training (e.g. CYP-IAPT)
* Have previous consolidated post-graduate experience of working with young people with emotional and mental health issues
* Have completed the HEE Postgraduate Diploma in Education Mental Health Practice or the HEE Postgraduate Certificate Psychological Wellbeing Practice for children and young people (with at least 1 year post-qualification practice)
* Have experience in delivering evidence-based CBT interventions for mild to moderate mental health issues such as anxiety, low mood, and behavioral problems to CYP both individually and in groups.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will be expected to work in schools closely with school staff to support CYP, their families, and staff to foster a whole school approach to mental well-being meaning a commitment to travel within the aforementioned areas.
The Supervisors will play a key role in:
* Forming strong working relations with a variety of stakeholders
* Providing consultations to education colleagues and supporting education settings to embed a whole school approach to wellbeing
* Developing and delivering evidence-based time-limited interventions to young people within education settings
* Evidencing the outcomes of the MHST service
* Providing clinical supervision to trainee Education and Mental Health practitioners.
Person specification
Training & Qualifications
* Core post-graduate training in the provision of low intensity CBT, e.g. CWP /CYP-IAPT qualification plus post-qualification experience
* Postgraduate Certificate in Child and Young Persons Psychological Wellbeing Practice
* A professional qualification with professional registration in a relevant subject (e.g. psychology, social work, counselling, mental health nursing, Psychotherapy) at degree level or equivalent.
* Post-graduate training in mental health
* Documented evidence of continued professional development.
Skills and Aptitude
* Deliver care with respect, dignity, compassion, and recovery-focused.
* Clinical skills to assess young people in a variety of settings who have an acute mental health presentation.
* Comprehensive risk assessment skills.
* Specific clinical skills applicable in a community or educational setting e.g. brief therapy, cognitive therapy, and anxiety management, de-escalation.
* Confidence to work autonomously in the community and use own initiative, and make decisions in complex situations.
* Ability to deal sensitively with stressful situations including; staff and organisational problems; child abuse; family breakdown; mental ill health and risk of self-harm.
* Delivering a range of evidence-based early intervention techniques for the relevant service user group.
Communication Skills
* Able to communicate effectively, orally and in writing at an age-appropriate level – complex, highly technical, and/or clinically sensitive information to service users, their families, carers and professionals within and outside the NHS.
* Ability to communicate sensitive information to children and/or adolescents, carers and colleagues in a way that addresses psychological resistance.
* Ability to work flexibly across service boundaries.
* Skills in liaising with other agencies and providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
* Respectful approach to service users, families, carers, colleagues.
Other
* Car driver (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010 which prevents you from driving)
* Able to travel independently across the Trust.
* Ability and willingness to work outside office hours when required by the role.
About us
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is rated by the Care Quality Commission as an Outstanding provider of mental health and learning disability services.
If you would like to join a team to be proud of and you share our values and passion for great care and outcomes for our service users and carers, we would love to hear from you.
Additional Information
HPFT is committed to being an equal opportunities employer and in order to reflect the diversity of its population, positively encourages applications from all areas of the community.
The Trust is committed to helping staff balance work and home life and welcomes applications from candidates wishing to work part-time or under flexible working arrangements.
Infection Control
All our staff will need to comply with current Infection Prevention and Control measures which could include wearing a mask on all our Trust sites and in all roles.
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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