Job summary
- Main area
- Mental Health
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 4
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 363-SSLB6283600
- Employer
- East London NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Central Bedfordshire CAMHS
- Town
- Dunstable
- Salary
- £25,147 - £27,596 PA
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 26/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Trainee Educational Mental Health Practitioner - Sandy and Biggleswade
NHS AfC: Band 4
ELFT has long been recognised as a centre of excellence for mental and health care, innovation and improvement. So it is a very exciting time for you to come and work for us. Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.
Job overview
This is a very exciting opportunity in response to the Government’s priority to increase access and availability of mental health and wellbeing support for children and young people in schools and colleges. Central Bedfordshire has been successfully awarded funding for a new Mental Health Support Team due to start in September 2024.
The MHST team will be working with schools in and around the areas of Sandy and Biggleswade. The team will be focusing on early interventions, working closely with schools and our partners to improve access to services for children and young people to mental health services. The team will focus on the needs of the community to help reduce health inequalities whilst delivering our whole school approaches.
Successful candidates will be offered a full-time educational programme specifically for the role delivered by the University of Reading. The course fees are fully funded, and the salary support for the job post will be funded at NHS Agenda for Change (AfC) at level Band 4. You will gain credits towards completing a postgraduate degree diploma level qualification. There will be guaranteed employment on successful completion of training, with a starting salary projected to be based on the NHS AfC Band 5 scale. For the duration of the training year and afterwards, successful candidates will be employed by CAMHS, East London Foundation Trust.
Main duties of the job
The training programme for this post starts in September 2024, is 12 months in duration and will consist of academic and supervised practice learning across mental health services and educational settings, such as primary and secondary schools, and further education colleges.
During training, the post-holder will work under supervision to gain experience across healthcare and educational settings to enable them to gain the level of competence required to deliver high-quality, evidence-based early interventions for children and young people experiencing mild to moderate mental health problems.
Delivery of the programme will be provided through a combination of taught days within University of Reading, independent self-guided study days, and experience gained in education wellbeing and mainstream mental health services.
The training course is divided into 6 modules, developing skills and knowledge in areas such as:
• Self-management including development of plans for specific interventions and agreeing outcomes;
• Learning to manage own caseload, gaining the necessary skills to practice a range of interventions such as guided self-help;
• Preparing and presenting caseload information to supervisors;
• Working with colleagues to provide better access to specialist mental health services and supporting referrals where required;
• Supporting colleagues in education to identify and manage issues related to mental health and wellbeing.
Working for our organisation
You will be working with schools around the Sandy and Biggleswade area, and at the moment we are working hard to identify a suitable base for the team.
We welcome and encourage applications from candidates who are bi-lingual, and candidates from BME communities, including the South Asian community.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please find attached the job description and person/role specification.
Closing date for applications: Sunday 26th May.
Please note there will be a two stage interview.
Stage 1 (Service Interview Dates) - Monday 10th June and Tuesday 11th June
Stage 2 (University of Reading Interview) – Thursday 13th June
*We reserve the right to bring the closing date forward for this vacancy at any time should we receive an overwhelming number of applications. We therefore encourage applicants to apply early if you wish to be considered for this post
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Applicants that may not hold an honours degree must have proven successful study at Level 5; or successful part completion of an Honours degree (Level 6) or a pre-entry essay for the University of Reading that achieves a passing standard). Please note, an academic reference may be sought OR Postgraduate route (Level 7) Honours degree graded at 2:2 or above
- It is essential that the applicant has previous experience of working with children and young people in either a health or educational setting
Other
Essential criteria
- Ability to personally manage a sensitive, traumatic and potentially emotionally distressing caseload
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Self-motivated
- Must be able to travel between venues/schools
- Team Player
- Excellent time management and organisational skills
- Able to meet the physical requirements of the role after reasonable adjustments have been made for any illness or disability
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of the educational system in England.
- Knowledge of children and young people gained through academic study in child development, child wellbeing or mental health.
- Excellent organizational and motivation to manage the demands of the course and clinical work.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Lawrence Chung
- Job title
- Countywide Project Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- Not Applicable
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