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NELFT NHS Foundation Trust
About
NELFT NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health and community services for over 4.9 million people living in the London Boroughs of Waltham Forest, Redbridge, Barking and Dagenham, Havering, and across Essex and Kent.
We work to ensure our patients, their friends and family, feel confident that their health needs are well met. With an excellent reputation for research and development, our skilled health professionals are at the cutting edge of evidence-based innovation, opening up the possibilities for better ways of working and delivery of care.
Senior Mental Health Practitioner - Mid Essex MHST
Closed for applications on: 9-May-2024 07:40
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 9-May-2024 07:40
Key details
Location
- Site
- Mid Essex (covering Braintree, Chelmsford & Maldon areas)
- Town
- Chelmsford
- Postcode
- CM2 0QX
- Major / Minor Region
- London
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Salary
- Salary
- £35,392 - £42,618 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (NHS AfC: Band 6)
Specialty
- Main area
- Senior Mental Health Practitioner
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
Mental Health Support Teams (MHSTs) are a service designed to support children and young people with mild to moderate mental health and emotional wellbeing difficulties within education settings. We are a multidisciplinary team made up of Children and Young People’s Mental Health Practitioners and Education Mental Health Practitioners.
MHSTs aims to:
- Support children and young people with mild to moderate mental health problems through evidence-based interventions
- Support schools in developing their whole school approach to mental health
- Provide timely advice to school staff and to liaise with other services to help children and young people get the right help and stay in education.
The post-holder will be a graduate qualified health care practitioner with qualifications in at least one of the following areas:
- Education Mental Health Practitioner (EMHP)
- Children Wellbeing Practitioner (CWP)
- Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT)
- Children and Young People-IAPT (CYP-IAPT)
Or
For the applicant to have extensive Children and Adolescent Mental Health experience delivering Cognitive Behaviour Therapy and who are eligible for
registration as a full member of the appropriate professional body (e.g. HCPC, NMC).
The role will require the successful applicant to work across the Mid Essex area (Braintree, Chelmsford and Maldon). Therefore, candidates with a valid driving licences and access to a vehicle are desirable.
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The responsibilities of the Senior Mental Health Practitioner are:
- To work in partnership with schools, children, young people, and families in the development of plans for the intervention and agreed outcomes.
- To support and deliver CBT to the CYP either within a group setting or on an individual basis.
- To support and provide groups for parents/guardians/carers of the CYP within the MHST
- To support and provide Whole School Approaches
- To confidently and effectively manage a caseload of Children and Young People (CYP) with mild to moderate emotional wellbeing and mental health difficulties.
- Provide supervision and caseload management to Education Mental Health Practitioners (EMHPs)
- To undertake further educational development as part of the role.
- To work as part of a Multidisciplinary team across the MHST and with other professionals
- Being able to work as part of a team and autonomously.
- To ensure that there is accurate documentation, and that Routine Outcome Measures are completed.
- Appropriately raise safeguarding concerns were identified and to support colleagues with this process.
Working for our organisation
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.
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).
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.
Base
This post requires the successful applicant to work agilely between NELFT sites and educational settings. For applicant to have the ability to work independently is an important factor. Some travel around the county is also expected. The nominated base for Mid Essex is Stapleford House in Chelmsford.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see person specification and job description for full details and responsibilities required for this role.
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 efforts to 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.
Supporting our Armed Forces
We recognise the valuable contribution that the Armed Forces community make to our organisation. We have signed the Armed Forces Covenant and achieved Gold Award under the Armed Forces Employer Recognition Scheme. We have supportive policies, guaranteed interview schemes for veterans. reservists and military spouses and give additional leave to our Reservists so that they can attend their annual camp.
Equal opportunities employer
We are committed to equal opportunities and diversity and positively encourage applications from all sections of the community regardless of any protected characteristic.
We are a Disability Confident employer and have made the pledge to commit to employing more people with disabilities. If you require this application in another format i.e. Braille or audio tape please contact the recruitment team on 0300 300 1530 or email [email protected].
Correspondence with us
You are advised to regularly check your emails (including any junk mail/spam folders) for correspondence related to this post.
In the event of a high number of responses to any advert, NELFT reserves the right to close the vacancy early. If you do not hear from us within three weeks of the closing date then please assume you have not been successful on this occasion.
Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Person specification
Qualification
Essential criteria
- Successful completion of a graduate training (e.g. nursing, social work, occupational therapy) or have completed a low intensity EMHP/CWP Qualification.
- Eligible for registration as a full member of the appropriate professional body (e.g. HCPC, NMC) OR Successful CYP - IAPT Low Intensity CBT training (CWP/EMHP) with substantial post qualified experience and CPD alongside BPS or BABCP registration.
Desirable criteria
- Attended/willing to attend SWP course or CYPIAPT Supervisor training
Experience
Essential criteria
- Substantial experience in delivering low intensity CBT treatments and working with difficult, disturbed or challenging children /young people requiring skilled and complex interventions
- Experience of initiating, organising and planning inter - agency meetings aimed at setting in place a treatment package tailored to the individual needs of a child/young person.
Desirable criteria
- Experience working within educational settings
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of risk management and ability to monitor and assess risk and act accordingly to ensure safety
- Knowledge of NHS, Social Care and Education structures, national policies and frameworks, evidence based practice including NICE guidelines.
Desirable criteria
- Proficient in using Systmone
Skills
Essential criteria
- Skill in the ability to communicate effectively, verbally and in writing complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside EWMHS.
- Ability to tolerate anxiety without recourse to premature action whilst appreciating the role of the supervisor
Other
Essential criteria
- To be able to travel efficiently throughout the area
- To be able to work autonomously within the overall framework of the Trust’s policies and procedures
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Melanie Kemp
- Job title
- Operational Manager - Mid Essex MHST
- Email address
- [email protected]
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