Mental Health Support Team (MHST) Specialist Clinician and Supervisor
It is a condition of this employment that you must live in and remain a resident of the United Kingdom during your employment with the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust.
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The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health trust with a focus on training and education alongside a full range of mental health services and psychological therapies for children and their families, young people and adults.
We are committed to improving mental health and emotional wellbeing, believing that high quality mental health services should be available for all who need them. We bring a distinctive contribution based on the importance we attach to social experience at all stages of people’s lives, and our focus on psychological and developmental approaches to the promotion of health and the prevention and treatment of mental ill health
We contribute to the pool of ideas through our own research and development, but are also committed to bringing together the best ideas of the time, old and new, from inside and out, together with the most gifted and able professionals in our fields of endeavour.We aim to share our ideas and practice through as many routes as possible.
As a Trust we aim constantly to be evolving in nature and form in relation to the environment in which we work, to ensure that our contribution remains relevant.
The Trust uses electronic new starter forms on Trac to collect personal details. Information collected is securely stored and used to set up the employee record on the ESR HR system.
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Job overview
The Mental Health Support Team (MHST) in Camden are a well-established multi-disciplinary team that provides high quality support to children, young people, and families, presenting with mild to moderate concerns.
Main duties of the job
The role of Specialist Clinician and Supervisor includes consultation, assessment, therapy/intervention, supervision as well as service development, evaluation, and training. You will take a lead role in developing relationships with the school community, supporting the Designated Mental Health Lead with their Whole School Approach as well as providing advice, sign-posting and consultation relating to new requests for MHST involvement.
Working for our organisation
This is a community-based post, with most of the work taking place in school settings or other community settings. The post holder must be able to work collaboratively with other members of the team, staff from other teams as well as with our allied partners across education, health, social care and the charity sector.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description and Person specification for more information on the role requirements and duties.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria- Appropriate qualification as either a Clinical/Counselling/Educational Psychologist (Doctoral level training and relevant UK Professional Registration (HCPC/BPS).
- Or as a Systemic Family Psychotherapist (MA/MSc qualification with full registration as a Systemic Psychotherapist with UKCP)
- Or Cognitive Behavioural Therapist with relevant UK Professional registration (e.g. BABCP)
- Or Appropriate qualification to be an existing CAMHS clinician at band 7 for example, clinical nurse specialist or mental health social worker. This must equate to a Master’s degree in the relevant clinical area.
- Post-graduate qualification in a relevant field of mental health or social welfare and demonstrate significant practice.
- CYP IAPT Trainings, e.g. CBT, Systemic Family Therapy, Interpersonal Therapy [IPT], Under 5’s, Parent Training.
- Other post-graduate qualifications in: CBT, Systemic Foundation and Diploma, Mindfulness.
- Additional training and qualification in providing supervision
- Additional Training in Group intervention such as Incredible Years, Solihull Approach, etc.
Experience
Essential criteria- Experience of undertaking delegated leadership tasks and supervising junior staff/trainees effectively.
- Experience of working with and within schools (primary and secondary).
- Experience of working with evidence based approaches to low mood, anxiety and behavior problems
- An enthusiasm for using Routine Outcome Measures. Ability to develop, manage and lead on outcomes data and data reporting for the service
- Experience of providing brief interventions.
- Experience of working with other a range of different agencies across health, education, social care and/or charities.
- Experience of working with Health Visitors, Family Support Workers and Social Workers.
Skills
Essential criteria- Knowledge and understanding of child and adolescent mental health difficulties, their assessment, and current evidence based intervention strategies.
- Skills in the assessment of mental health for children young people and their parents.
- An ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing to convey highly complex and clinically sensitive information to family members of all ages, students and to a wide range of professional people within and outside the NHS.
- An awareness of current issues in service delivery within community CAMHS and other settings and an ability to contribute to service development.
- Ability to work autonomously, managing and planning own workload
- High level skills in working with professional networks and the ability to advocate for and advance the mental health needs of parents and their children.
- Ability to form excellent working relationships with colleagues and work flexibly with others in multidisciplinary and multi-agency settings.
- Skills in providing consultation and support regarding mental health needs to other professionals.
- Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice.
- Ability to manage/supervise clinical staff (Band 4, 5 and/ or 6).
- An awareness of relevant legislation and its implications for clinical practice
- Knowledge and understanding of issues relating to safeguarding children (child protection policies and procedures), integrated working and ISA (information sharing and assessment) procedures.
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The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion. We are particularly keen to attract candidates from underrepresented backgrounds to better meet the needs of the service users and students that we serve.
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Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. Before submitting your application and to avoid disappointment please check that you are eligible under the UKVI points based system.
By applying for this role, you accept in the event you are successful that your personal data may be transferred from the Trust to another NHS organisation where your employment transfers within the NHS. This is in accordance with the streamlining programme which is aimed at saving you time and improving efficiencies within the NHS when your employment transfers.Therefore we want you to complete your e-learning modules prior to joining our organisation.
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PLEASE NOTE:- The closing date given is a guide. We reserve the right to close the vacancy once we have received sufficient applications, so we advise you to submit your application as early as possible to prevent disappointment.
- Only those candidates who clearly demonstrate how they meet the person specification on their application will be shortlisted for this job.
- Candidates suitable for shortlisting will be contacted within three weeks. If you have not heard from us within this time then you have not been successful on this occasion.
- Interview arrangements will be communicated via email so please check your email regularly following the closing date
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