Senior Mental Health Worker - Barnet CAMHS in Specialist Schools
NHS AfC: Band 7
Main area: AHP
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 7
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 306-BEH-2431
Site: Various
Town: Barnet
Salary: £51,883 - £58,544 Per annum including HCAS
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 21/11/2024 23:59
Thank you for your interest in the North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT). It is an exciting time to join us and be part of our journey to improve mental health care across North London and deliver excellent services to our local people. We achieve this through the North London Way, as we:
* Collaborate at every level by living our Values to create the right conditions for us all to work together.
* Develop our new Trust culture, to help make our new Trust a great place to work and to receive great care.
* Empower our teams to lead the planned improvements in our services, by skilling them and giving them the tools to make the changes.
* Focus on delivering excellence at every level to improve our performance and ensure consistently high-quality care across all our services.
* Ensure that research, Quality Improvement, and technology lead the way and are embedded in our services.
* Take a trauma informed approach to everything we do.
We proactively welcome diversity in our workforce and pride ourselves on being an inclusive employer. We aim to recruit from our local communities and provide opportunities to all, including apprenticeships, veterans, care leavers, and more.
The Barnet CAMHS in Specialist Schools team is a small dynamic community-based team that sits within the local Specialist schools provision. The team also provides outreach home treatment and support in community settings.
‘The Pavilion’ is the umbrella name for the Specialist schools provision set within Borough Barnet and refers to the following sites:
* Meadway: Pupils year 7 to 11 who have been out of mainstream school for some time as a result of medical and/or mental health challenges.
* Whetstone: Pupils year 7 to 11 who have been permanently or temporarily excluded from school.
* Primary PRU: Provided support for Pupils from Reception – Year 6, who have been temporarily or permanently excluded from their mainstream school.
* Outreach Service: Pupils who are not able to access education outside of their homes because of medical and/or mental health needs.
* Oak Hill Campus: A specialist provision for years 7 to 11, all pupils have an Education Health Care Plan (EHCP).
Main duties of the job
The role of the Senior Mental Health Worker in this setting is to act as an interface between Primary, Secondary, and Specialist Education Provision in Barnet and specialist (tier 3) CAMH services with the aims of:
* Delivering assessment and treatment in Barnet CAMHS clinical settings and in Education/ Community settings including Specialist Educational Provision at Tier 2, 3, and 4.
* Supporting and strengthening Tier 1 and 2 CAMHS provision through building capacity and capability within Education, in relation to early identification and intervention for children’s and young people's mental health needs.
* Promoting the mental health and emotional health of children and families in the community.
* Early identification of the development of mental health problems in children and young people.
* Working across boundaries to develop a co-ordinated response to children’s and young people’s mental health needs between agencies.
* Facilitating appropriate access to specialist CAMHS and other relevant provision according to level and nature of need.
* Providing a direct service to children and their families, in an accessible and less stigmatising environment.
Working for our organisation
North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.
In order to meet the needs of the Trust, you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that falls under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey, or Islington.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
***Please review the attached Job Description and Person Specification for further details regarding this role. ***
Person specification
TRAINING & QUALIFICATIONS
* A relevant Professional Qualification representing a core training in child and adolescent mental health and disorders.
* In-depth training and knowledge of various models of understanding mental health and mental disorders in children.
* Postgraduate certificates and diplomas in relevant specialities.
EXPERIENCE
* A minimum of 3 years post-graduate experience in CAMHS or a related professional field.
* Experience of specialist assessment and treatment of children across the full range of care settings.
* Experience of working with children and young people presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity.
* Demonstrate further specialist training/experience.
* Experience of teaching, training, and/or supervision.
* Experience of obtaining user views and involving users in the design, delivery, and evaluation of service provision.
KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS
* Skills in the use of complex methods of assessment and intervention.
* Well-developed skills in effective communication, both orally and in writing.
* Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
* Skills in interpreting complex facts/situations requiring analysis.
* Evidence of continuing professional development.
* Skills in implementing clinical and service outcome measures.
* Knowledge and experience of collecting statistically robust data.
OTHER
* Ability to teach and train others using a variety of complex multi-media materials.
* Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance.
* Ability to act independently within appropriate operational guidelines.
* The ability to exercise a high degree of self-management and work within time deadlines.
* Personal experience of mental health problems.
* Experience of working within a multicultural framework.
References will be required to cover your last 3 years of employment/training. One has to be from your current or most recent employer and the others from your previous employer.
If you have been unemployed for a period of four years or more, please provide the details of your last employer and one character referee of your choice (not members of your family).
Vacancies that are advertised as Fixed Term Contracts will also be available as secondment opportunities for substantive internal staff.
Please be aware that your documents, e.g., Passport/NI Card, will be electronically scanned using Home Office accredited Verification System.
Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts, we will close vacancies before the stated closing date once the first 50 applications are received. Therefore, please apply as soon as possible.
All non-medical posts with the Trust are subject to a probationary period of six months.
Should you not hear from us within three working weeks of the closing date, then regretfully in this instance, you have not been shortlisted.
By applying for this role, you accept that your personal data may be transferred from the Trust to another NHS organisation.
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 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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