Job summary
- Main area
- Children & Young People
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 277-6937647-CYP
- Employer
- Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Highpoint House, Memorial, Schools & Remote,
- Town
- Greenwich,
- Salary
- £42,939 - £50,697 pa inc
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 02/02/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Mental Health in Schools Senior Practitioner
Band 6
Job overview
Greenwich CAMHS are excited to be recruiting a senior practitioner for the Mental Health in Schools Team. The Mental Health in Schools Teams are part of an exciting trailblazer project funded by NHS England, Health Education England and partners, with the aim of improving the mental health and wellbeing of children and young people in the community.
Main duties of the job
Working for our organisation
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.
We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.
Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:
- We’re Kind
- We’re Fair
- We Listen
- We Care
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The senior practitioner role will focus on providing day to day clinical support for the EMHP. The team will require development and there will be specific work to ensure robust integration across the schools pathway. The role will be working alongside community partners and developing relationships between the new MHST and educational settings.
The role will ensure the efficient and effective delivery of the MHST, providing high quality, safe and responsive specialist mental health services and interventions to children, young people, parents/carers and professionals provided in accordance with Children and Young People’s IAPT principles, in partnership with service users and partner agencies, working as part of a multi-agency system.
Person specification
Education & Qualifications
Essential criteria
- RN Mental Health • CQSW/CSS/DipSW or equivalent Social Work qualification/Dip or BSc OT or other equivalent qualification.
- Specialist training in a subject/skill relevant to Child & and Adolescent Mental Health (0-18 years) together with CYP IAPT Dip in CBT/SFP/IPT-A
- Registration with relevant Professional body
Experience
Essential criteria
- At least 2 years post registration experience in a setting where mental health is the primary focus some of which should have been in a CAMHS setting.
Skills, Ability and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Ability to maintain and manage own clinical/non-clinical workload and work autonomously within the specialist area
- Experience of working with Parents/Carers to support young people and experience of offering therapeutic clinical interventions to young people
- Experienced in CAMHS assessments & clinical work including assessing risk
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
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.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Alexandra Akande
- Job title
- MHST Team Manager Greenwich CAMHS
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0203 260 5211
- Additional information
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