A Vacancy at Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust.
This role is a secondment opportunity. The post holder must agree to a minimum of 6 months, but an extension can be negotiated.
This is a senior role in our established MHST teams, providing clinical leadership to the MHST team, and supporting the development of the MHST alongside senior colleagues within the service.
The role for MHST will support the delivery of all interventions within the MHST teams, ensuring that a wide range of evidence-based interventions, using CBT based principles and a CBT informed framework, are used to support young people with mild to moderate mental health difficulties, and to ensure early help and access to specialist services is seamless and transparent. The post holder will need to be flexible with a clear understanding of THRIVE and how all providers and organizations build on collaborative working with children, young people and families at the heart of all we do.
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Main Responsibilities
The post holder will be working across schools supporting trainee EMHPs and junior clinicians in the team by providing line management and clinical supervision. They will support clinicians in delivering consultation, mental health assessments and evidenced based mental health treatments to children, young people and their families within education settings. They will provide support to frontline children’s services in developing their capacity in early identification and intervention with children’s mental health need. Promoting the emotional and mental health of children, young people and their families in the community, facilitating appropriate access to specialist CAMHS and other relevant local provision.
As a senior supervisor they will be working as part of the leadership team to lead and manage the service. They will also offer intervention to more complex cases within the early intervention remit and have oversight over service delivery in a group of schools/colleges.
We are looking for a committed senior supervisor/MH Practitioner with a passion for working with children, young people and their families. You will work together with the MHST Lead in developing the Harrow MHST service providing supervision to junior staff, liaising and consulting with schools, ICB and other community agencies and ensuring the best possible outcomes for children who have emotional difficulties.
As one of the senior members of the team, you will work alongside senior CNWL staff and contribute to the service’s development, as we continue to strive to be an accessible, responsive and innovative service with patient care and patient experience at its heart. There will be opportunities to further develop your leadership and strategic skills with support from senior colleagues.
Key responsibilities of the post holder will include:
• Day to day operational running of the MHST teams, with support from Clinical Lead/Supervisor and CAMHS management structure. This may include managerial tasks such as recruitment, managing performance, ensuring team meetings take place, and management of healthroster.
• Holding a caseload and undertaking the role of lead professional for children/young people with mild to moderate mental health problems in educational settings.
• Working as an autonomous and accountable practitioner. This involves the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of the care for the child or young person.
This advert closes on Thursday 19 Dec 2024
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