Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
About
We provide health and social care for people with mental ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Norfolk and North Essex. Employing around 3,000 staff who deliver these services within the community as well as inpatient settings. HPFT was rated as outstanding overall by the CQC at the last inspection and we are proud winners of the prestigious Health Service Journal Award Mental Health Trust of the Year.
We also deliver a range of nationally commissioned specialist services including Tier 4 services for children and young people, perinatal services and medium and low secure learning disabilities services.
We have operated as a NHS Foundation Trust since our authorisation in August 2007. This gives us opportunities to further build upon and improve the services for our community. Benefits include a stronger involvement with local communities through our members and Council of Governors and the ability to borrow finance to support our capital investment programme.
Our work is driven by a very strong set of values. We provide services which make a positive difference to the lives of patients, service users and their carers, underpinned by choice, independence and equality.
Safety is a top priority at HPFT and for the second year running in 2019, we achieved a national ‘best score’ for the theme of safety culture amongst mental health and learning disability trusts, which is a tremendous achievement. Our staff have told us that the care of our service users is the most important thing at HPFT. Staff also recommend HPFT as a place to work and as a place for their friends and family to receive care.
Our partnerships with other organisations are very important to the way in which we work. We play a full part in the local health and social care economies by promoting greater integration between mental and physical health and social care. These include:
* Local authorities and commissioners
* Our Chief Executive, Tom Cahill, led the development of ‘A Healthier Future’, the sustainability and transformation plan for Herts and West Essex which has since been granted ‘ Integrated Care System’ (ICS)
* Being a university trust, with close links to the University of Hertfordshire. This provides excellent learning and development opportunities for staff, as well as strengthening clinical research.
Key details
Location
Site: Peace Children's Centre, Peace Prospect, Watford, WD17 3EW
Contract type & working pattern
Contract: 12 months (Fixed term)
Hours: 30 hours per week
* Part time
* Flexible working
Salary
Salary: £48,270 - £54,931 per annum, pro rata (Inclusive of 5% HCAS)
Salary period: Yearly
Grade: (NHS AfC: Band 7)
Specialty
Main area: CAMHS Practitioner
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 on our online values questionnaire, which you can find below. 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.
Values Questionnaire
Job overview
All staff should comply with the Trust’s Anti-Discriminatory Statement, Employee Charter, Trust Policies and Procedures, Code of Conduct and Equality and Diversity.
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· To have good working relationships with multi-disciplinary colleagues.
· To maintain close working relationships with colleagues from the same professional group across the county.
· To promote and maintain good working relationships with colleagues in all areas of the service and develop and maintain effective working relationships with other agencies and service areas.
· To promote and maintain good working relationships with clients, their families and carers.
· To enhance public relations, taking active steps to project a positive image of service users, the service and the Trust.
Working for our organisation
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of ‘Outstanding’ from the Care Quality Commission.
Our family of over 4,000 members of staff provide health and social care for people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Essex and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. Everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:
Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Clinical Responsibility
· To be responsible for a caseload of complex assessment, treatment and consultation work with children, adolescents and their families/carers and caring networks for those with problems of behavioural, emotional, attachment and trauma, emotional, psychological or mental health issues.
· To operate as a member of the multidisciplinary team providing child and adolescent mental health services in line with the principles and practice of CYP-IAPT.
· To work in ways which are sensitive to and appropriate for the needs of families from a wide range of racial, cultural and religious backgrounds. This includes abilities to understand and offer therapeutic interventions to a variety of family forms including single parents, same sex couples and their families, extended families, foster carers and people with mental health difficulties.
· To act as a role model in the delivery of care and uphold public confidence.
· To assess, plan and implement programmes of care for individual children and young people, carers and families with complex behavioural, emotional, psychological or mental health issues.
· To undertake risk assessment and risk management for all children and adolescents, including the protective and risk factors in the network of significant relationships.
· To be responsible for a defined caseload selecting and using appropriate interventions to meet care plan objectives and goals privileging core skills as appropriate.
· To develop, implement and manage specialised interventions within the child/young person’s context, employing evidence based practice.
· To evaluate and adjust practices based on feedback.
· To act as care coordinator, where appropriate, ensuring provision of a care plan, taking responsibility for initiating, planning and review of the client’s care, ensuring the work of others involved and communicating effectively with the child/ the carer/ professional as appropriate, monitoring the progress of multi-disciplinary interventions.
· To carry out assessments and interventions.
· To work jointly with co-workers from the multi-disciplinary teams as appropriate.
· To contribute and develop skills in Clinical Governance.
· To maintain up to date knowledge of legislation, national and local policies and issues in relation to both the specific client group and mental health.
· To maintain a personal and professional profile in accordance with Post Registration Educational Practice (PREP).
All staff should comply with the Trust’s Anti-Discriminatory Statement, Employee Charter, Trust Policies and Procedures, Code of Conduct and Equality and Diversity.
Key Relationships
· To have good working relationships with multi-disciplinary colleagues.
· To maintain close working relationships with colleagues from the same professional group across the county.
· To promote and maintain good working relationships with colleagues in all areas of the service and develop and maintain effective working relationships with other agencies and service areas.
· To promote and maintain good working relationships with clients, their families and carers.
· To enhance public relations, taking active steps to project a positive image of service users, the service and the Trust.
This job description is an outline, which reflects the present requirements of the post and is not intended to be an inflexible or finite list of duties and responsibilities. As these duties and responsibilities change and develop the job description will be amended from time to time in consultation with the post holder.
About us
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is rated by the Care Quality Commission as an provider of mental health and learning disability services. In 2021, we won the prestigious Health Service Journal award for Mental Health Trust of the Year, with the judges saying they were “blown away” by our people’s achievements and that everything they saw “sings and hums”. This year, our staff rated us the 4 best mental health and learning disability trust to work for out of all 52 trusts in the country. Our staff tell us that they are proud to be part of the HPFT team, proud of the standard of care we provide and proud that service users are our top priority. Our people tell us they feel supported though a great development, wellbeing and work-life balance offer and a highly compassionate, values-driven culture. We are equally proud of our staff, who live our values of being welcoming, kind, positive, respectful and professional so that together we provide great care and great outcomes for our service users and carers.
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. We aim to be a representative organisation with regards to age, disability, ethnicity, gender, beliefs and sexual orientation and are fully committed to equality, diversity and human rights and encourage applications from all sections of the community including users of mental health services.
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.
Applicant requirements
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.
Person specification
QUALIFICATIONS/EDUCATION/TRAINING
Essential criteria
* Qualification in one of the following and current full professional registration as relevant to the specific profession: Clinical or Counselling Psychologist (Postgraduate doctorate in clinical psychology or its equivalent prior to 1996, as accredited by the BPS, or fully completed training as a Counselling Psychologist with valid HCPC registration)
* OR Systemic or Family Therapist (Masters/Doctoral level qualification with post-graduate qualification in appropriate mental health/social welfare profession)
* OR RMN, RGN or RSCN
* OR Art therapist with appropriate HCPC registration AND further qualification in another therapeutic intervention
* OR Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist (Post-graduate clinical doctorate or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996 - including 2 year preclinical masters/diploma level training - in psychoanalytic psychotherapy accredited by the ACP)
* Further training/qualification in relevant area of practice Evidence of CPD
* Specialist training in an appropriate area and knowledge of CAPA and CYP-IAPT
PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE
Essential criteria
* Post qualification experience in a CAMHS team or related area, or several years experience prior to qualification, with experience of working with moderate to severe mental health problems and knowledge of a range of clinical interventions with children/adolescents and their carers/families.
* Experience of multi-disciplinary team working, and inter-agency collaboration
* Knowledge of child development, child and adolescent mental health and an understanding of a range of theoretical approaches especially in relation to trauma and attachment
* Ability to provide clinical supervision, appraisal, preceptorship/practice education and staff support methods and teaching and training
* Knowledge in current developments in mental health or learning disabilities care
* Abilities to provide consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
* Good general knowledge of the literature and research concerning mental health interventions with children, particularly the clinical effectiveness of such interventions.
* Knowledge of relevant legislation and its implications for clinical practice in relation to children and adolescents.
* Knowledge of child protection procedures
Desirable criteria
* Experience of service quality monitoring e.g. clinical audit, evaluative research, etc.
Documents
* CAMHS Practitioner JD (, 600.5)PDFKB
* Refer a Friend (, 160.5)PDFKB
* Staff Benefits (, 888.5)PDFKB
Further details / informal visits contact
Name: Luke Makumbe
Job title: Operational Lead
Telephone number: 01923 470 610
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