MHST Senior Clinician and Supervisor South-West Essex

4 days ago

Basildon, United Kingdom NELFT North East London Foundation Trust Full time

Job summary

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. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children.

The Trust has award winning equality and diversity initiatives and staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest heavily in your development and work hard to embed a just and compassionate culture.Find out more about NELFT careers and what makes our Trust a great place to work, inthis video.

NELFT is the largest provider of Mental Health Support Teams (MHSTs) in England. Our Southend, Essex and Thurrock services cover 144 schools currently. We currently cover 48% of secondary and primary school within those areas.

The MHST deliver evidence-based individual and group interventions in educational settings for children experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties aged 4 to 18 years old. The teams also have a strong focus on whole school approaches to improve mental health outcomes for children and young people.

Come and join our friendly and supportive team in South West Essex, covering Thurrock, Basildon and Brentwood and Billericay as a senior clinician and supervisor.

Main duties of the job

We are looking for an experienced Mental Health Practitioner with acurrent UK Professional Registration to join our Mental Health Support Team (MHST).

In this post, you will be a senior clinical team member, holding a caseload and supervising junior staff including trainees. You will work alongside partner agencies to co-produce training materials and support the delivery of whole school approach interventions.

The successful applicant will be enrolled on the EMHP Supervisors Course where required. This training is funded as part of the MHST program.

Main Duties of the Job:

1) Work in partnership with schools, children, young people (CYP), and families in the development of plans for interventions and agreed outcomes.

2) Support the Locality Clinical Lead with the formulation, treatment and management plans for schools, parents and CYP using a range of psychological interventions appropriate to the service.

3) Effectively manage a caseload of CYP with mild to moderate mental health difficulties, complete thorough assessments, risk assessments, care plans and reviews.

4) Provide caseload management and clinical skills supervision to Trainee Education Mental Health Practitioners, Education Mental Health Practitioners and Senior Mental Health Practitioners.

5) To work as part of a Multi-Disciplinary Team within your locality but also with other MHSTs within Essex.

6) To be able to work as part of a team and autonomously.

About us

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 focusing 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).

High Cost Area Supplement - Fringe

This South-West Essex post also attracts payment for High Cost Area Supplement of 5% of the basic salary (with a minimum of £1,258 to a maximum of £2,122 pro rata for part time).

Job description

Job responsibilities

The South-West Essex Mental Health Support Team (MHST) covers a large geographical area incorporating the districts of Thurrock, Basildon, and Brentwood and Billericay. We are an early intervention and prevention evidence-based service and as a team we are supportive and passionate in what we deliver. We are a friendly team of professionals who come from multidisciplinary backgrounds. We recognise the needs for a healthy work life balance, and we will consider flexible working applications in line with the trust policies and process. We encourage Continual Professional Development (CPD) and are keen to support our staff to grow and progress. In South-West we offer an addition five percent, higher cost of living payment on top of your yearly wage as we understand the expense of living in this area. Finally, we are a welcoming, compassionate and considerate team, that work incredibly hard to support one another to improve the mental health of our community.

Please see person specification and job description for full details and responsibilities required for this role.

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

Qualifications

Essential

Successful completion of a graduate training ( nursing, social work, occupational therapy) and eligible for registration as a full member of the appropriate professional body NMC, HCPC, BABCP AFT, ACP Further professional knowledge will have been gained through accredited courses workshops, study and in house training programmes ( CYP- IAPT training)

Desirable

Completion of EMHP or IAPT Supervisory Course

Experience

Essential

At least 2 years experience of working with evidence based approaches to low mood, anxiety and behaviour problems with children and young people oExperience of managing and providing supervision. oExperience of caseload management. oAbility to work with partner agencies in developing and co-producing materials for presentations.

Desirable

Experience working with or in educational settings

Knowledge

Essential

oKnowledge of CYP IAPT and the benefits of low intensity work. oKnowledge of CYP IAPT outcome measures (ROMS). oKnowledge of relevant safeguarding and mental health policy, and procedures. oKnowledge of risk management and ability to monitor and evaluate risk and act accordingly to ensure safety.

Desirable

Knowledge of Systmone

Skills

Essential

oEffectively manage a clinical caseload. oAbility to write concise and informative reports and letters. oAbility to use and interpret outcome measures to monitor intervention effectiveness. Competent ICT skills to collect and interpret data, for reports, presentations, and service performance. oAbility to keep accurate and high-quality records. oAbility to deliver workshops to professionals, young people, and/or parents/carers. oAbility to form excellent working relationships with colleagues and work flexibly with others in multidisciplinary and multi-agency settings. oAbility to motivate, guide and support staff to develop. oAbility to provide culturally sensitive support and supervision.

Other

Essential

oTo be able to travel efficiently throughout the area.

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