MHST Clinical Supervisor

Job summary

The MHST Clinician and Supervisor will have several key roles within the team. They will offer supervision to trainee and qualified Education Mental Health Practitioners or Children's Wellbeing Practitioners, who are part of a new workforce within CAMHS to deliver early intervention work, and some aspects of clinical service delivery, including direct psychological interventions and consultation to schools. Alongside supervision, overtime the post holder's caseload will include children and adolescents with mild moderate emotional and mental health difficulties and will deliver evidence-based 1:1 and group interventions, employing the principles underpinning the national CYP-IAPT programme (Children and Young Peoples Improving Access to Psychological Therapies).

Applicants must have a core profession in relevant field such as Psychology, Mental Health Nurse, Social worker, Therapist and must be registered with UK relevant professional body. Training will be provided for applicant without supervision training.

The intended closing date for this post is Friday 8th November, however, we reserve the right to close this post early should there be high demand. You are therefore encouraged to submit your application early.

Main duties of the job

1. To provide specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation, and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client's care, when and where appropriate.

2. To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client's mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client's problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.

3. To be responsible for implementing a range of psychotherapeutic interventions for individuals, carers, families, and groups, including adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining several provisional hypotheses.

4. To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options considering both theoretical and therapeutic models.

Refer to JD / PS for full details.

o A requirement to undertake, complete and pass the supervisors course at Kings (KCL).o The course is based at Kings College London, at Denmark Hill campus with some sessions also online.

About us

North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people. Our Five-Year Strategy:

1. We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.

2. With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all

3. We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.

4. We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.

Why NLFT?

We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities.

We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.

NHS Discounts, generous annual leave and NHS pension scheme

Excellent internal staff network

The postholder will be aligned with our Values :

We Are Kind

We Are Respectful

We Work Together

We Keep Things Simple

We Empower

We Are Proudly Diverse

In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the attached Job description and Person Specification for main responsibilities of the role.

Person Specification

Education & Qualification

Essential

The post holder must have a core profession and registered under a regulatory body.

Desirable

Masters, higher or equivalent qualification Teaching / supervision / mentoring training or qualification Additional qualification/training in a relevant area of practice Training in an area related to CYP IAPT, for example - CBT, Systemic or parenting approaches. This may be covered within the primary therapeutic training qualification or supplement it.

Experience & Knowledge

Essential

Candidates will need evidence working therapeutically/ clinically or consultatively within a CYP Education or Mental Health Setting with children and young people with mental health difficulties. Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across a range of care settings Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the life course Experience of working with diverse communities and within a multi-cultural setting, and reflective practice Experience of working with children and young people in mental health services, including the application of risk assessment and safeguarding procedures in this area Experience of providing evidence based psychological interventions relevant to the client group Experience of using routine outcome monitoring

Desirable

Previous experience of supervising clinicians Supervising CYP IAPT trainees or Children's Wellbeing Practitioners Knowledge and experience of delivering whole-school approaches to mental health

Skills And Abilities

Essential

Skills in the use of complex methods of assessment and intervention, frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration. Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups Ability to contain, explore and formulate an understanding of high levels of distress, both directly with patients and indirectly via supervision of other staff. Capacity to maintain a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, and situations where there may be resistance, verbal aggression or the threat of physical aggression Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies with children, young people and families Ability to undertake clinical risk assessment and to work within safeguarding procedures Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health Understanding of the need and rationale for using evidence based psychological therapies Ability to meet agreed/specified service targets Ability to manage own caseload and time Skills in using IT, including office applications, clinical record systems ( RiO) and database/statistical applications Excel, SPSS)

Desirable

Skills in undertaking Quality Improvement projects and service evaluation Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings

Personal Qualities

Essential

A commitment to service user participation across the levels of clinical practice, team/service, and the organisation High level of enthusiasm and motivation Ability to work within a team and foster good working relationships Ability to use clinical supervision and personal development positively and effectively Regard for others and respect for individual rights of autonomy and confidentiality Ability to be self-reflective whilst working with service users, in own personal and professional development, and in supervision

Other Requirements

Essential

Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings. Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.

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