Main area CAMHS Grade NHS AfC: Band 7 Contract Permanent Hours
* Full time
* Part time
* Job share
* Flexible working
37.5 hours per week (Monday - Friday - 9.00am - 5.00pm) Job ref 395-EB937-24-A
Site Stapleford House Town Chelmsford Salary £46,148 - £52,809 per annum (pro rata) Salary period Yearly Closing 26/02/2025 23:59
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.
Job overview
We welcome applications from mental health nurses, psychologists, social workers, psychotherapists, family therapists, and other qualified professional staff for the role of senior practitioner within SET CAMHS Mid-Essex.
Mid-Essex SET CAMHS are looking to recruit a qualified professional from nursing, social work, psychology, family therapy or psychotherapy to join a busy community CAMHS team based in Chelmsford, Essex (covering Maldon/Braintree and Halstead). SET CAMHS works to the iThrive model, with this role sitting within the Getting More Help and System Support sections. We are seeking candidates with experience of managing risk and managing a caseload of more complex presentations. The successful candidate will also have experience of supervising and supporting colleagues at band 6. The band 7 role sits within the Multi-disciplinary Team (MDT) to take a lead on urgent and high-risk assessments, to support the team in formulating risk plans and to be able to provide a range of NICE recommended and evidence based treatments. The role will support the senior leadership team in monitoring quality of interventions and processes through effective supervision.
Main duties of the job
* To complete assessments of children and young people’s mental health with their families and carers.
* To complete risk and safety plans, care planning including CPA processes post discharge from Inpatient care.
* To provide evidence based treatments individually and/or via groups for a range of presentations to include CBT/DBT, trauma informed practice, EMDR, reflective therapies.
* To provide treatment and interventions for children and young people with additional neurodevelopmental needs and co-morbid mental health issues.
* To provide supervision to band 6 staff.
Person specification
Qualification
* Qualification in a Core profession (Social Worker, Mental Health Nursing, Psychotherapy, Clinical Psychology).
* To have registration as a full member of the appropriate professional body (e.g. HCPC, NMC, UKCP, BABCP).
* Experience in a relevant NHS setting or similar with Young people with mental health presentations.
* 2- 3 years post qualifying experience.
* Must be able to travel across the Mid Essex area.
Experience
* Experience of working with complex and high risk mental health presentations in children and young people.
* Experience of providing evidence based mental health interventions to children and young people including neurodiversity.
* Experience of supervising staff providing mental health treatments to children and young people.
* Experience of providing specialist individual interventions with a wide variety of children and young people, from 3 to 19 years old- presenting problems at the most severe end of the spectrum.
* Experience of managing teams.
Skills
* Multi-Agency working experience.
* Assessment, formulation risk management and safety planning.
* Evidenced based treatments e.g DBT, CBT, Trauma informed.
* Knowledge of relevant legislation. (Childrens Act, Mental Health Act, mental capacity).
We believe in bringing your authentic and best self to work, in order to deliver the best care to our patients. We are committed to supporting our employees holistically.
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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