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Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
About
Here at Surrey & Borders Partnership NHS FT we have a reputation for being innovative and forward thinking. We actively seek out new ways to work flexibly with partners and are passionate about people. We are one of the leading providers of specialist mental health, drug and alcohol and learning disability services for people of all ages in southern England, working in partnership to offer integrated health and social care, with 2300 excellent staff and a £155m budget.
We offer best employment practice and environments for staff in terms of equal opportunities, managing and developing a diverse workforce.
Contact
For general enquires about recruitment, please email [email protected]Recruit to Train LD-ASD CYP-IAPT Trainee
Closed for applications on: 14-Oct-2024 00:03
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 14-Oct-2024 00:03
Key details
Location
- Site
- 18 Mole Business Park
- Address
- Randalls Road
- Town
- Leatherhed
- Postcode
- KT22 7AD
- Major / Minor Region
- Surrey
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Salary
- Salary
- £39,205 - £47,084 Incl. 5% Fringe HCAS, pa, pro rata.
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (NHS AfC: Band 6)
Specialty
- Main area
- Mental Health Child and Adolescent
Would you like to work in an organisation that sits in the top 10 best NHS Mental Health, Learning Disability and Community Services Trust to work for. This ranking is based on staff feedback in the 2023 NHS Staff Survey.
Job overview
Mindworks has an exciting opportunity to join our team as a Recruit to Train ASC/LD Trainee, part of the Health Education England (HEE) funded Recruit to Train Programme in partnership with the Anna Freud Centre, University College London, and Kings College London. The post-holder will be training on the Children & Young People Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (CYP IAPT) Therapy Course and carrying out clinical work in our service to complement their studies and use their newly developed skills. We are seeking highly motivated and enthusiastic mental health practitioners to work and train within our service. The training post will equip the post-holder to provide evidence-based interventions for children and young people with Autism Spectrum Conditions and/or Learning Disabilities, their families, schools and wider systems. The post holder will work with people with different cultural backgrounds and ages, using interpreters when necessary and should be committed to equity, diversity and inclusion.
Advert
The successful candidates would be working within the Specialist Schools Mental Health Support Team (MHST) as part of the wider School Based Needs Team. The team offer support to schools in Surrey boroughs. This county-wide service ensures children and young people receive the most appropriate help and support at the right time in alignment with the ITHRIVE model. You will mainly cover Special Schools in the East of the county. As part of a wide Alliance of partners including Tavistock and Portman, the Surrey Wellbeing Partnership, Barnardo’s and others, the School Based Need teams will be supporting young people more locally in their schools and communities in collaboration with other agencies driven by a needs-led, outcome-focused framework.
Working for our organisation
Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is the leading provider of health and social care services for people of all ages with mental ill-health and learning disabilities in Surrey and North East Hampshire. We also provide social care services for people with a learning disability in Croydon and ASD and ADHD assessment services in Hampshire.
We actively seek to engage people who use our services and our communities in improving the mental wellbeing of the local population. We work closely with other NHS and voluntary sector organisations who provide services and support people who use services and carers.
Surrey is a beautiful county lying just 30 minutes away from Central London and from the South Coast.
Our historic market towns and bustling districts are enveloped in wonderful countryside, and our excellent road and rail networks bring the rest of the country within easy reach.
For international travel, both Gatwick and Heathrow airports are nearby.
Please note that we reserve the right to close posts as soon as sufficient applications are received.
Working from home contracts do not attract high cost area payments.
We look forward to receiving your application!
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
This is a permanent post with this training year funded by HEE. After successful completion of the course you will continue your employment within the service using the new skills you have developed.
This role will be best suited for applicants that are able to balance a very busy work and study schedule. You will be an employee at the service but also enrolled on a Postgraduate Diploma course. As this is a Postgraduate level training, you will be required to study and perform at academic level. Applicants must be prepared to work towards their studies outside of protected study time (such as on weekends and after work). Protected study time or teaching days are typically two days a week during term (with possibility of extra university days near start) and will be a mixture of in person and online sessions. Applicants must be willing to travel into London to attend their lectures.
More information about the courses and how the training works can be found here (AFC website) including the course brochures, and we strongly recommend you read the FAQs.
NHSE have implemented a rule regarding beneficiaries of their training year funding – this affects candidates who have been on one of the courses listed on the NHSE website from 1st August 2022. We recommend you read this if you plan to apply to future trainings.
Please see the JD and additional Documents for more information.
Please be aware the information on your application form (name and contact details, qualifications and prior relevant experience) will be shared with the Anna Freud staff team as part of the recruitment process. By submitting your application to this role, you are agreeing to your details being shared with Anna Freud.
Applicants will also need to apply and be accepted on the course.
This role will involve travelling to different schools across the county. Ability to travel is required.
We are seeking to enrich the diversity of our Trust to better reflect demographic needs of the populations we serve and to enhance the skills of our workforce. We actively encourage applicants with underrepresented personal characteristics to apply for this role if you match the job description. Please note that you are not restricted from applying for this role if you do not identify with these characteristics and all applicants will be considered fairly against the job description.
As a flexible working and friendly organisation, we want to ensure that you can work in a way that is best for us, our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or any other flexible working patterns.
Gender Pay Gap Action
Women in our Trust are under-represented in some senior grades. We are therefore encouraging women to apply for posts at 8A and above.
Sponsorship
Regrettably, due to UK Home Office requirements we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately, your application form will be rejected from the process.
Applicant requirements
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- • Qualifications that demonstrate a capacity to complete academic work at postgraduate diploma level.
- • OR Minimum second-class Bachelor’s Degree from a UK University or an overseas qualification of an equivalent standard in a relevant subject (e.g. psychology, social work etc)
- • A professional qualification in relevant mental-health field (e.g. psychology, nursing, health visiting; social-work, occupational therapy, speech and language therapy, special needs teaching, psychiatry, other psychotherapy, counselling, CWP/EMHP).
Desirable criteria
- • Registration with a professional body
- • Relevant post-qualification training
Experience
Essential criteria
- • At least two years experience of working within a professional setting concerned with the mental health of children and young people or families (e.g. as a mental health worker).
- • Basic level of clinical competence and experience (at least one year) of having worked with Autistic Individuals or those with a Learning Disability.
Desirable criteria
- • Experience of working as part of the multi-disciplinary team with children and young people with ASC and/or LD and their families.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- • Demonstrates an understanding and appreciation of the unique challenges associated with ASC and/or LD for children, young people and their families.
- • Demonstrates awareness of the significantly increased risk of co-morbid mental health and other neuro-developmental problems in this population.
- • Knowledge and understanding of the key features and symptoms associated with ASC and/or LD.
- • Knowledge and understanding of importance to modify, adapt methods of communication and intervention for this population.
- • Knowledge and understanding of issues relating to safeguarding children
Desirable criteria
- • Demonstrates an appreciation of the MDT approach and involving other agencies, such as education and social care in order to ensure that the needs of children and young people with ASC and/or LD are well understood and effectively met.
Skills and Ability
Essential criteria
- • Ability to be flexible and creative in facilitating engagement with children and young people with ASC and/or LD and their families.
- • Ability to adapt communication style according to the varying needs and levels of comprehension of children and young people with ASC and/or LD.
- • Ability to maintain a reflective stance in emotive/challenging interactions with children and their carers.
- • Ability to use supervision to reflect on practice.
- • Ability to manage academic demands alongside placement/clinical demands.
- • Ability to organise own time and diary.
- • Ability to maintain accurate records.
- • Capability to complete academic work at postgraduate diploma level, including IELTS or equivalent to the appropriate level for students with English as a foreign language (Level 2) https://www.ucl.ac.uk/prospective-students/graduate/english-language-requirements
Desirable criteria
- • Ability to adopt a multi-agency working, especially in relation to complex cases with multiple needs, where a more systemic approach is required.
- • Ability to advocate for the needs of children and young people with ASC and/or LD and their families.
- • Ability to maintain an observational stance, particularly in relation to children and young people with ASC and/or LD who do not express themselves verbally.
- • Understanding of evidence-based practice and the ability to demonstrate how this influences clinical practice.
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Alison McGivern
- Job title
- Clinical Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
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