Camhs/mhst Practitioner Band 7

CAMHS/MHST Practitioner Band 7 - Clinical/Counselling/Educational Psychologist, CBT Therapist, Family Therapist, Social Worker, Nurse (37.5hrs, permanent)

We are seeking to recruit an experienced CAMHS practitioner to join the Tower Hamlets Education Wellbeing Service (THEWS).

THEWS is a Mental Health Support Team (MHST) established following the government Green Paper: Transforming Children & Young People’s Mental Health Provision. The service has undergone recent expansion.

The three core functions of a Mental Health Support Team (MHST) are:
1. Delivering evidence-based interventions for children and young people (CYP) with mild-to-moderate mental health problems.
2. Supporting the senior mental health lead in each education setting to introduce, develop and deliver the whole school/college approach.
3. Giving timely advice to school and college staff, and liaising with external specialist services, to help CYP to get the right support and stay in education.

The role involves delivering all three MHST functions. The role involves providing clinical supervision and line management to practitioners within the team, holding a small caseload of clinical work (based on the postholder’s training and interests), acting as a senior link supporting school leads to develop their whole school approach to wellbeing, with other tasks as required.

THEWS is part of the Tower Hamlets Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS). This service is based in a newly refurbished office in the vibrant borough of Whitechapel.

As a result of the COVID pandemic, the service has adopted a hybrid clinical working model of direct face to face and remote working as appropriate.

The service embraces continual improvement and wellbeing of the staff and has a high degree of enthusiasm for quality improvement and working together with partner agencies to provide the highest quality service to the population we serve.

The three core functions of a Mental Health Support Team (MHST) are:
1. Delivering evidence-based interventions for children and young people (CYP) with mild-to-moderate mental health problems.
2. Supporting the senior mental health lead in each education setting to introduce, develop and deliver the whole school/college approach.
3. Giving timely advice to school and college staff, and liaising with external specialist services, to help CYP to get the right support and stay in education.

The role involves delivering all three MHST functions. The role involves providing clinical supervision and line management to practitioners within the team, holding a small caseload of clinical work (based on the postholder’s training and interests), acting as a senior link supporting school leads to develop their whole school approach to wellbeing, with other tasks as required.

CAMHS/MHST Practitioner Band 7 - Clinical/Counselling/Educational Psychologist, CBT Therapist, Family Therapist, Social Worker, Nurse (37.5hrs, permanent)

We are seeking to recruit an experienced CAMHS practitioner to join the Tower Hamlets Education Wellbeing Service (THEWS).

THEWS is a Mental Health Support Team (MHST) established following the government Green Paper: Transforming Children & Young People’s Mental Health Provision. The service has undergone recent expansion.

Clinical supervision responsibilities
- Supportingand developing the abilities of practitioners to deliver CBT-informed interventions for mild to moderate anxiety, low mood, low self-esteem, OCD and behaviour difficulties to parents and young people in secondary and primary schools.
- Supporting practitioners with risk assessment and management plans, including safeguarding.
- Overseeing the assessments, formulations and intervention plans for the parents, children and young people the practitioners work with; holding in mind a wider range of therapeutic modalities (e.g. systemic), in order to maximise outcomes.
- Ensuring that the recording and reporting of clinical work by practitioners is consistent with the policies and protocols of the NHS and Trust, and that clinical and goal-based outcome measures are being used as required by MHSTs.

Line management responsibilities
- Providing line management to practitioners within the team. This is likely to include monitoring leave, sickness, training needs, and performance.

Clinical responsibilities
- Providing evidence-based interventions (in line with professional training and interests) to a small caseload of young people and/or families with moderate mental health difficulties.

School responsibilities
- To act as a senior link for schools, supporting senior leads to develop their whole school approach to wellbeing.
- Providing signposting and consultation and liaising with external specialist services, to help CYP to get the right support and stay in education.

Audit and service development
- To be involved with audit and service development projects as and when required.

Training and development
- To attend regul