Mental Health

2 weeks ago

Barking, United Kingdom NELFT NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Joining #TeamNELFT means you’ll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We’re CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London, Essex, Kent and Medway. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.

The Trust has award winning equality and diversity initiatives and staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest heavily in your development, because when you are valued and supported, we provide the best care to our patients. We are a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, have been featured in the Working Families Top 10 Employers benchmark for three consecutive years, and we have achieved a Carers UK Level 1 Accreditation. Along with our staff networks and training opportunities, we work hard to embed a just and compassionate culture here at NELFT.

Find out more about NELFT careers and what makes our Trust a great place to work, in this video

Job overview

Team Lead Post

NEWLY CREATED POST FOR SERVICE EXPANSION

Job Overview

Our service is expanding further, and we are delighted to be recruiting for a team lead for our West Kent area. This role is an exciting mixed operational and clinical role and we are looking for a candidate with experience in Children and Young Peoples Mental Health with aspiration to progress in their career and to work in a fast paced innovative service. Please contact us for more details about the role. Candidates need to be qualified clinicians with core professional registrations (NMC, OT, Social Work, Clinical/Counselling Psychology, BABCP CBT).

Mental Health Support Teams (MHSTs) are a new government initiative to help increase children and young people’s access to support for emotional wellbeing and mental health. MHSTs are part of the national Children and Young People’s Increasing Access to Psychological Therapies (CYP-IAPT) programme.

MHSTs are a resource in addition to the already existing support in any particular education setting. MHSTs have three main functions:

1. Targeted Intervention

2. Whole School Approach

3. Consultation and Liaison

Our local MHST services are called Emotional Wellbeing Teams Kent and Emotional Support teams Medway. To find out more about us please see our website:

Main duties of the job

Applicants will need to meet the job description requirements and be able to demonstrate a passion for early intervention mental health and emotional wellbeing support. As stated above these roles are mixed operational and clinical and we are looking for candidates that can strike a balance between the two perspectives. Please contact us for more details.

This role will be based in:

West Kent

Working for our organisation

Probationary Period This post will be subject to a probationary period. Internal applicants are exempt from the probationary period (unless you are an internal applicant currently part way through a probationary period or currently a bank member of staff). . Please ask us about more information during your interview.

Starting with NELFT NELFT place a great deal of importance on new starters being properly welcomed and inducted into the Trust. All new starters will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and will undertake a comprehensive induction of up to two weeks which will include mandatory training, systems training and the allocation of equipment. New starters will have the opportunity to meet the executive team, senior managers and attend a number of drop-in sessions focussing in engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes. The induction will be held at our head office in CEME Campus, Rainham, Essex, RM13 8EU (please note: in order to travel to this destination you will have to make the Dartford crossing and be aware of the ULEZ charges). Candidates will need to have business insurance when travelling by car to claim both travel and above charges on expenses.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To provide an efficient, effective, comprehensive and specialist MHST experience for children and adolescents with emotional and mental health problems, their carers/parents and families To contribute to multi-disciplinary assessment and treatment of children and adolescents with emotional and mental health problems, their carers/parent and families To undertake a range of generic clinical work, guided self help, targeted group work and workshops under Whole School Approach. To provide consultation on MHST cases to EMHP’s/CWP’s and lead by example in promoting the NELFT 5p’s To contribute to audit and research. To monitor and guide the team in ensuring we meet safety benchmarks set by NELFT and the CQC, as well as ensuring delivery of interventions are carried out in line with NICE, guidance with Routine Outcome measures to monitor efficacy of intervention. To support Operational Leads with day to day running of the service including monitoring governance and compliance. Act up in the absence of the Operational manager for short periods.

If you are an overseas qualified nurse and wanting to start your journey to becoming a UK based registered nurse with the NMC, you can check whether you are eligible to be supported through our Capital Nurse consortium. Please visit; . Whilst NELFT is happy to welcome overseas nurses we are unable to consider your application directly. You should submit your interest and apply through the Capital Nurse London group.

Although we are a registered sponsor organisation, we are unable to offer sponsorship for some job roles, and this will be identified through filtering questions at the start of any job application on the Trac recruitment system.

Use of AI

Applications for this role should be written by the applicant. If artificial intelligence (AI) programmes are used then the application may be rejected due to this document being an important part of the assessment process. This does not prevent applicants seeking appropriate support with applications should they need to for the purposes of any declared disability.

Person specification

Qualification

Essential criteria

Relevant graduate qualification with recognised professional body A minimum of a second-class Bachelor’s degree from a UK university or an overseas qualification of an equivalent standard in a relevant academic subject ( Psychology, Education, Childhood development, Social Work etc)

Desirable criteria

A minimum of a second-class Bachelor’s degree from a UK university or an overseas qualification of an equivalent standard in a relevant academic subject ( Psychology, Education, Childhood development, Social Work etc)

Experience

Essential criteria

Substantial Band 6 experience within a CYP Mental Health setting or equivalent Experience in offering CBT therapeutic Interventions within a CYP Mental Health Setting with children and young people with mental health difficulties.

Desirable criteria

CAMHS or other relevant mental health experience Experience in NHS or equivalent service

Experience of providing Clinical Supervision

Essential criteria

Extensive experience of providing clinical and managerial supervision

Desirable criteria

CYP-IAPT Supervision course Managerial or leadership training

Skills

Essential criteria

Demonstrate the ability to communicate clearly and effectively within a team

Desirable criteria

Demonstrate the importance of good record keeping and working in line with local policies, procedures, and guidelines.

Knowledge

Essential criteria

Knowledge of MHST legislation in relation to children and adolescents and safeguarding procedures and policies Knowledge of risk management, ability to monitor and assess risk and act accordingly to ensure safety.

Desirable criteria

To guide the team to ensure safety benchmarks are met regarding delivery of interventions in line with NICE guidance and the use of ROMS

Benefits

We believe in bringing your authentic and best self to work, in order to deliver the best care to our patients. We are committed to supporting our employees holistically. Here is a snapshot of what is on offer at NELFT:

A long-standing and award-winning approach to equality and diversity with supportive networks for ethnic minority staff, staff with disabilities or long term/chronic conditions and LGBT staff. A commitment to supporting colleagues to achieve a work life balance, through flexible working opportunities and our effortsto support our working parents and carers. This has resulted in us being recognised as a ‘Top 10 Family Friendly Employer’ from the Working Families Charity. Proactive health and wellbeing support, including access to our employee assistance programme, staff psychological support, individual wellbeing conversations and a network of health and wellbeing ambassadors. Detailed information about our wellbeing and benefits offer can be found in this link.

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 a job share, part time hours or another flexible pattern.

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