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Job summary

Main area
Psychology
Grade
Band 8c
Contract
Permanent
Hours
  • Part time
  • Job share
  • Flexible working
30 hours per week
Job ref
395-KM938-24
Employer
NELFT NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Maidstone Studios
Town
Maidstone
Salary
Dependant on years experience within the NHS
Closing
10/01/2025 23:59

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NELFT NHS Foundation Trust logo

Clinical & Strategic Lead

Band 8c

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

We have an exciting opportunity for a highly experienced psychological professional lead to join our service within Kent and Medway Mental Health Support Teams (MHSTs). 

 

Mental Health Support Teams (MHSTs) are a government initiative to help increase children and young people’s access to support for emotional wellbeing and mental health. 

MHSTs are a resource in addition to the already existing support in any education setting. MHSTs have three main functions:

1. Targeted Interventions

2. Whole School Approach

3. Consultation and Liaison

Our local MHST services are called Emotional Wellbeing Teams (Kent) and Emotional Support Teams (Medway). To find out more about us please see our website: https://www.nelft.nhs.uk/kent-and-medway-mental-health-support-teams.

This role is an exciting opportunity to lead on the MHST programme across Kent and Medway with responsibility for clinical and strategic oversight of MHSTs in the context of the Kent and Medway ICB footprint.  The service is committed to ensuring that the clinical offer is evidence based, innovative and co-produced.  Please see the website for examples of our work. You can also contact Dr Virginia Lumsden (current clinical and strategic lead) [email protected] to find out more.

 

 

Main duties of the job

 The post-holder will be expected to:

1.  Set, implement and evaluate clear, achievable and measurable clinical objectives for the Kent EWTs and Medway ESTs with the senior clinical and operational leadership team. 

2.      To assist with the effective management of operational services and resources within the designated service areas, including budgets, and staffing.

3.      To initiate and implement programmes to achieve strategic and clinical changes and improvement to services and systems.

4.      To deputise when required in the Assistant Director’s absence and delegate appropriately to clinical and administration staff.

5.      To have organisational knowledge relating to NELFT protocols and procedures particularly safeguarding.

6. To ensure effective risk management at team level by incident reporting, assessing and controlling risk and ensuring residual risks are added to the NELFT register.

7.      To ensure that there is a research culture within Kent EWTs and Medway ESTs. To co-ordinate the implementation of Research & Development activity within the service, ensuring that all R&D activity is monitored and reported in accordance with the NELFT R&D governance guidelines. This may include securing externally funded or multi-disciplinary research.

8.      To provide strategic and clinical leadership and to liaise with commissioners at CCG 

9.   To provide clinical quality control and to ensure adherence and competence to evidence- -based approaches.

Working for our organisation

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 focussing in engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes.  The induction will be held at our head office in Rainham, Essex.

 

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Applicants will need to meet the job description requirements and be able to demonstrate substantial experience of working as a senior psychological professional in children and young people's mental health services, a passion for prevention and early intervention of emotional wellbeing and mental health difficulties, and substantial leadership experience.

 

The applicant needs to have substantial experience of working in children and young people's mental health at Band 8b or equivalent and hold an appropriate psychological professional qualification, registration and training as laid out in the job description. 

 

Interviews are planned for: Monday 3 February 2025. 

Please see attached Job Description and person Specification 

If you are an overseas qualified nurse and wanting to start your journey to becoming a UK based registered nurse with the NMC, you can check whether you are eligible to be supported through our Capital Nurse consortium.  Please visit; https://www.capitalnurselondon.co.uk/how-to-apply/. Whilst NELFT is happy to welcome overseas nurses we are unable to consider your application directly.  You should submit your interest and apply through the Capital Nurse London group.

 

Although we are a registered sponsor organisation, we are unable to offer sponsorship for some job roles, and this will be identified through filtering questions at the start of any job application on the Trac recruitment system.

 

Use of AI

Applications for this role should be written by the applicant. If artificial intelligence (AI) programmes are used then the application may be rejected due to this document being an important part of the assessment process. This does not prevent applicants seeking appropriate support with applications should they need to for the purposes of any declared disability.

 

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • 3 plus years 8b experience
Desirable criteria
  • Research and development experience

expereince

Essential criteria
  • Evidence of working with CYP MHG services

Expereince

Essential criteria
  • Demonstration of leadership within current or previous role

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Knowledge of Early intervention and preventative services

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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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

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Jodie Bing
Job title
Assistant Director
Email address
[email protected]
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