Havering Mental Health

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.

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Job overview

Come and work for NELFT’s Children and Young People's Mental Health Service (CYPMHS) in Canterbury, Kent, and be part of one of the UK’s most innovative healthcare Trusts. An exciting opportunity has arisen for a graduate qualified health professional ( nurse, social worker, occupational therapist BABCP Accredited CBT Therapist) to join our dynamic multi-disciplinary team. Driven by the principles underpinning the national CYP-IAPT programme (Children and Young People’s Improving Access to Psychological Therapies) the service provides the latest in evidence based NICE compliant psychological interventions to children, young people and their families experiencing emotional wellbeing and mental health difficulties.

You will be a highly motivated and innovative individual with clinical experience working with children and young people with emotional wellbeing and mental health difficulties.

Main duties of the job

Be responsible for managing the referrals within the mood and anxiety Pathway and you will undertake mental health assessments and routinely measure clinical outcomes and deliver evidence-based clinical interventions in line with the CY-IAPT programme within CYPMHS Promote the mental and emotional health of children, young people and families in the community through clinical interventions in the care pathway  Undertake initial school based and community based assessments and deliver a range of early interventions to children and young people with a range of emotional and psychological difficulties where appropriate Assess and develop plans of care to meet the complex needs of patients with a variety of conditions. 

Working for our organisation

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. As part of the process new starters will have the opportunity to also 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 Rainham, Essex.

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).

COVID-19 Vaccination

We continue to encourage all staff to ensure that they have been double vaccinated and received their booster. We recognise that taking the vaccine provides the best defence against COVID 19 for our patients, our staff and their families.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early should sufficient applications be received.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

There is one Children’s Single Point of Access (SPA), a Neurodevelopmental & Learning Disabilities Service, and a Crisis Team. 

What difficulties can be referred to the service?

• Mood and anxiety disorders

• Behavioural and conduct disorders

• Emerging personality and attachment disorders

• Psychotic disorders

• Deliberate self-harm and suicidal ideation

• Substance misuse with co-existing mental health needs (dual diagnosis)

• Autistic spectrum disorder (ASD) - with co-occurring mental health needs

• Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) - with co-occurring mental health needs

• Neurodevelopmental disorders

• Prolonged bereavement problems All referrals to the service are assessed using a care pathways approach, developed in line with the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence guidance criteria (NICE) and based on a best practice model of treatment.

The aim of our service is to respond earlier to children and young people’s needs in order to help prevent, reduce or delay the need for more specialist interventions. This transformation of children and young people’s mental health services has a clinical focus, integrated with local authorities to deliver a long term collaborative approach to planning and delivering services. 

CYPMHS focuses on emotional wellbeing as well as mental health and includes access to self-help tools and services based in schools and the community. The CAMHS Tier II and Tier III service no longer exist, replaced with an integrated CYPMHS. Training and support is available to other professionals and agencies. We are creating a modern service that fits with children’s lives in a way that best suits them. Key new features include a Children’s Single Point of Access (SPA) into the service, clear early signposting, and use of digital channels such as Big White Wall to access support and services. The locality team have care pathways. Each care pathway is clinically led, with care pathway leads operationally managing all YPWS practitioners working in that care pathway. With the support of the team manager, care pathway leads are responsible for assessment, treatment and systematic outcome measurement in that care pathway. 

Care pathway leads and practitioners ensure that a high quality, timely, accessible and evidence-based service is available to all children and young people who need it. This means establishing and maintaining excellent working relationships with wider social, health and voluntary services. If working in our CYPMHS team in South Kent Coast is for you and you are excited by a modern approach then we would very much like to hear from you.

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.

Please see the attached job description and person specification for more information about this role and working at North East London NHS Foundation Trust. We encourage you to refer closely to this when completing your application.

We welcome your application even if you do not meet all the criteria listed in the person specification. Any development needs to help you succeed in the role, can be discussed at the interview stage.

Person specification

Qualification

Essential criteria

Core professional registration Post grad dveleopment and training in CYPMHS

Experience

Essential criteria

3 plus years experience in working with CYPMHS Theraputic work undertaken with complex cases Experience of working with difficult, disturbed or challenging children/young people requiring skilled and complex interventions Experience of working therapeutically with parents/carers/families of children and young people with complex mental health problems

Knowledge

Essential criteria

Evidence of groups work or ability to run groups High level knowledge of the theory and practice of short term and long ter m in clinical interventions in CAMHS/EWMHS Knowledge of legislation in relation to children and adolescents and safeguarding procedures and policies

Desirable criteria

Knowledge of research methodology and outcome research methodology and outcome research design and ability to critically interpret research findings

Skills

Essential criteria

Basic awareness of IT and IT skills Ability to communicate clearly and effectively highly complex and sensitive matters to patients, which give rise to psychological distress Highly developed ability to integrate complex clinical information into a coherent formulation

Desirable criteria

Able to form good working relationships with others in multi - disciplinary and inter - agency settings

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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