CAMHS CYP Mental Health Practitioner (Bedford MHST)
Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.
Job overview
Are you an enthusiastic, flexible and self-motivated individual who is willing to make a real difference in young people’s mental health? Are you passionate about providing excellent quality care, team working and ready for a new challenge? Are you motivated, possess excellent communication and organisational skills?Then you are the person we are looking for!
The Mental Health Support Team (MHST) are excited to offer the opportunity for an experienced CAMHS Practitioner to join our team. The MHST is an established team that has a strong ethos of improving the mental health and well-being of children and young people in schools and in the community.The post provides an exciting opportunity to deliver evidence – based interventions for children and young people working across multiple education settings and aims to increase early access and availability to services.
The Mental Health Support Teams are part of an exciting trailblazer project funded by NHS England, Health Education England and partners, with the aim of improving the mental health and wellbeing of children and young people in the community.There is a specific focus on developing more access to helping and improving the general culture of emotional support within all primary and secondary schools. Working alongside community partners the Mental Health Support Teams will be fully integrated with community CAMHS and educational settings.
Main duties of the job
You would be joining a comprehensive and dynamic CAMH service, delivering a substantial stepped model of care following the needs-led Thrive framework. Your role will help to develop and deliver a wide range of interventions, projects and system change with the aim of whole school and whole community approaches to supporting young people’s mental health.In addition to providing comprehensive consultation, assessment, risk management and interventions for young people experiencing emotional and mental health difficulties in schools, the postholder will supervise more junior colleagues. There may be an option of supervisor training at Reading University as part of this role
We are part of ELFT (East London Foundation Trust), which includes five CAMHS services across East London, Bedfordshire and Luton. The Bedford MHST is a busy MDT team who works with all specialist pathways within the North Bedfordshire service, such as our crisis service, Emotional & Behavioural, Neurodevelopmental service and more.Our Service and Trust highly values equality and diversity and we embrace difference within our team.
Working for our organisation
Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for more details and information regarding the job role.
Person specification
Education/ Qualification/ Training
Essential criteria- Qualification in appropriate mental health/social welfare profession such: (Family & Systemic Psychotherapist / Clinical Psychologist / Counselling Psychologist / Educational Psychologist /Occupational Therapist / Clinical Nurse Specialist (Mental Health) / Social Worker/ Senior CWP or EMHP) / Art therapist
- Senior EMHPs/CWPs with advanced post qualification experience. All applicants must be BABCP accredited or eligible to apply for accreditation within 6 months.
- Appropriate level of qualification for your profession e.g. PG Diploma, BSc, Masters.
- Evidence of continuous and relevant professional training and development (CPD), as appropriate with qualification period
- Registration with your appropriate body (e.g. UKCP, NMC, HCP etc.) once available.
- Post Grad training or experience to support the needs of different children, young people and their families
- Mentor/Practice educator qualification
- Clinical supervision and training
Experience
Essential criteria- Experience of working with CYP across the full age-range (5-18)
- Experience of working with parents/caregivers
- Experience of delivering low-intensity interventions for social anxiety
- Experience of delivering low-intensity interventions for mild-moderate low self-esteem and/or emerging body image concerns
- Experience of risk formulation, monitoring, and management for mild-moderate self-harm
- Experience in delivering low-intensity emotion regulation interventions
- Experience of working with CYP with increased complexity (e.g. physical, social care, educational needs), within the remit of low-intensity mild-moderate services and the evidence-base, and adapting interventions accordingly - With and/or under the guidance of appropriately experienced supervisor
- Experience of engaging and delivering interventions to CYP with protected characteristics
- Experience of delivering psychoeducation workshops remotely
- Experience of delivering psychoeducation workshops in person
- Experience of leading elements of Whole School Approach or Systemic Change
- Experience of working directly with senior leadership teams in service context (e.g. education, health, VCSE) to support design and delivery of programmes, policy, pathways, support offers etc.
- Experience of negotiating, problem solving and relationship management where there are disagreements or resistance within systems
- Experience of offering consultation (under guidance of supervisor) to schools/other professionals within bounds of knowledge and competence
- Experience of mentoring/coaching other trainees CWPs/EMHPs
- Recognising when core interventions are appropriate for neurodiverse CYP and being able to make necessary adaptations
- Experience of delivering low-intensity interventions for OCD
- Experience of trauma-informed practice
- Experience in identifying when CYP with increased complexity (e.g. physical, social care, educational needs) are beyond a low-intensity or early intervention service remit/competence, and of making appropriate onward referrals in line with local pathways and protocols
- Experience of providing interventions for emotionally based school refusal
- Experience of delivering aspects of in-house training events in service context (team, school etc.)
- Previous experience of working in CAMHS
- Experience of working in a culturally diverse inner city area
Making Things Better
Quality Improvement is a key part of our work to improve our services and refine how we do things. We have a global reputation for our quality improvement work and we don’t stand still! So we offer a fantastic opportunity for our staff to learn, lead and contribute towards improving our services.
We launched our Five Year Strategy in April 2018, which identified four main strategic outcomes to improve: population health outcomes, experience of care, staff experience and improve value. This complements the NHS Long Term Strategy and sets out our direction of travel.
Our Community
We provide a wide range of community health and mental health inpatient services to children, young people, adults of working age, and older adults in The City of London, Hackney, Newham, Tower Hamlets, Bedfordshire and Luton. We also provide psychological therapy services to the London Borough of Richmond, and provide Forensic services to the whole of North East London.We provide services in urban and rural settings, sometimes in our inpatient units, but mostly in the community close to where people live. Integrated care is key in making the best use of resources and providing effective care.
Aiming High
We were rated ‘Outstanding’ by the CQC in 2016, were proud to be rated ‘Outstanding’ again in 2018 and continue to be rate 'Outstanding' in 2021.. We were named in the HSJ’s Top 10 best places to work in healthcare and were voted Provider Trust of the Year in 2018.
Staff and Service Users United
We strive to ensure that staff feel valued by the Trust and as they are truly pivotal in delivering better outcomes for our patients and service users. Our aspiration is to help to make ELFT the best place to work. This Trust is clinician-led and provides the highest possible level of clinical expertise throughout its services.We pride ourselves on our service user involvement. A service user will be on your assessment centre and interview panel if you are invited to meet us.
We especially welcome people with lived experience of health difficulties, with insight and understanding of different backgrounds, cultures and lifestyles in our population as we believe that this will equip staff to deliver a high standard of care to our service users and patients.
Diversity
ELFT Is committed to being a diverse organisation and our workforce is reflective of the population and communities we serve. We believe that having colleagues with a range of backgrounds and life experiences enriches and adds value to the outcomes we have set out to achieve.Having partnered and endorsed by organisations who are representative and experts in various areas of equality and diversity, we can ensure we are meeting the pre-set standards all the way from recruitment stage throughout the career journey of our employees by being accessible, having fair inclusive practices and a host of staff networks to support, nurture and celebrate our valued staff in the workplace.
Other reasons to apply
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 job share, part time or another flexible pattern.
As part of the relocation scheme we presently have, the Trust could support you with offering up to £10,000 for removal and associated expenses. This is subject to change and terms and conditions apply.
What Next?
If you like the sound of ELFT, don’t waste a moment. We sometimes close adverts early if there is a high response, so apply now!
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