Job summary
- Main area
- Mental Health
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 222-LS-CAMHS-572-B
- Employer
- West London NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Heart of Hounslow Health Centre
- Town
- Hounslow
- Salary
- £51,883 - £58,544 per annum inclusive of 15% HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 13/11/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Mental Health Practitioner
Band 7
West London NHS Trust provides a full range of mental health, community and physical healthcare services for children, adults and older people living in the London boroughs of Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham and Hounslow.
We also provide some specialist services that are commissioned regionally, such as our medium secure services; and nationally, such as the Cassel Hospital for people with complex and severe personality disorder and our high secure services at Broadmoor Hospital.
Job overview
We are looking for a CAMHS Specialist Mental Health Practitioner with CBT skills and training to join a highly-regarded MHST in Hounslow.
It is essential you hold a relevant clinical qualification and have previous experience of working in a CAMHS team. The role involves carrying out assessments and holding your own caseload for individual and group interventions; training and consulting to education colleagues, and support for parents/carers. You will be supported to maintain your professional registration and will have access to support/supervision from colleagues from within your discipline.
Experience of working in education would be a bonus. The post holders will offer supervision to Band 4 Trainee Education Wellbeing Practitioners and successful candidates will be supported to attend the CYP IAPT PG Cert training in supervising low intensity interventions where necessary.
Main duties of the job
This role offers you the chance to make a difference in young lives, and as such includes both clinical and supervisory duties.
The main focus is to:
· Lead on and directly providing comprehensive assessment, risk management and interventions for children and young people experiencing emotional and mental health difficulties.
· Offer one to one and group interventions
· Offer Clinical Supervision to team members including Band 4 Education Mental Health Practitioner trainees
· Work with school staff and cultures to develop school environments that are more conducive to supporting better emotional health and wellbeing.
· Work with parents/carers to raise awareness of the mental and emotional wellbeing needs of children and young people and strategies to protect and promote these
If you are interested in working with schools and want to help shape new models of evidence-based support for children and young people, this job could be for you!
Working for our organisation
Hounslow was one of the first sites to benefit from significant investment to develop a trailblazer MHST, as outlined in the Young People’s Mental Health Green Paper 2016. Hundreds of children and young people have now accessed guided self-help; awareness raising and early intervention support, with encouraging feedback and improved clinical outcomes.
West London NHS Trust is committed to eliminating discrimination for all groups and achieving equality of opportunity regardless of age, disability, gender, race, religion or belief and sexuality. We aim to create a workforce that is representative of the communities we serve at all levels of seniority within the Trust. We are therefore particularly interested in receiving applications from people from ethnic minority backgrounds.
All new employees are provided with a comprehensive induction at Trust and Team level, the necessary equipment and training to meet the job requirement.
For further info: https://www.westlondon.nhs.uk/work-for-us
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The Candidate Pack provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. Please view as attached
The person specification below is not the full person specification, but outlines the criteria against which your application form will be assessed
Person specification
Qualification and training
Essential criteria
- Qualification in an appropriate mental health profession (such as Nursing, Social Work, OT, Counselling or Clinical Psychology, Family Therapy or Child Psychotherapy) and registration with relevant UK governing body, plus a postgraduate diploma or higher degree in CBT.
- To be accredited by the BABCP as a provisionally or fully accredited practitioner, and be able to work towards achieving full practitioner accreditation with the BABCP.
Desirable criteria
- Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology
- Other specialist therapeutic skills
- Fully accredited with the BABCP
- Post registration training in CAMHS
Experience
Essential criteria
- Demonstrable experience of assessment and working therapeutically with children, adolescents and their families within a range of settings
- Experience of working with evidence based approaches to low mood, anxiety and behaviour problems.
- Experience of working in a number of ways i.e. assertive outreach, clinic based settings, home, school or other appropriate environments.
- Experience of using therapeutic skills, such as CBT, Solution Focused Therapy, Family Work.
- Experience of interagency and multidisciplinary working.
- Experience of assessing risk and formulating safe and effective risk management plans.
- Clinical Supervision / Reflective Practice.
- Experience of teaching other professionals.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working with young people with in a community CAMHS setting.
- Experience of management of child protection emergencies.
- Experience of therapeutic work with children and families where abuse or neglect has occurred.
- Experience of audit and/or research.
- Experience of contributing to and implementing new service developments.
- Experience of developing and delivering whole school approaches in line with the recently published Mental Health Support Teams for Children and Young People in Education Manual.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of legislation relevant to the Children’s Act 2004, Mental Health Act 1983 & Safeguarding Guidelines
- A sound working knowledge and application of relevant professional code, i.e. professional Code of Practice
- Knowledge of the legal issues relating to consent and capacity in children and young people.
- An awareness and understanding of the issues facing, children, adolescents and their families
- Knowledge of the various assessment tools used in CAMHS
Skills
Essential criteria
- Excellent communication skills.
- Skills in communicating with children, adolescents and their families or carer.
- The ability to present and communicate complex information.
- Good organisational and prioritising skills.
- Ability to work autonomously as well as part of a team.
- Flexible approach.
- Good team player.
- Able to manage risk.
- A good understanding of, and ability to use, clinical supervision.
- A high level of self-awareness and capacity to reflect.
- Ability to contain the anxieties of severely unwell young people and their parents.
- Consultation Skills.
- Computer literate.
Desirable criteria
- Skills and sensitivities in working with marginalised families and young people.
- Ability to deal with challenging behaviour in possibly distressing situations.
Other requirements
Essential criteria
- Evidence of continuing professional development as expected by your professional body.
- Flexible approach to work.
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Hully Wolderufael
- Job title
- Team Manager Trailblazer
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07511048329
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