CAMHS/MHST Practitioner

East London NHS Foundation Trust; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 56,000 - 64,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare trust in East London is seeking an experienced CAMH/CMHS practitioner to join the Tower Hamlets Education Wellbeing Service, focusing on delivering mental health support to children and young people. The role involves providing clinical supervision, developing school approaches to wellbeing, and embracing a hybrid working model. Candidates should have a relevant mental health qualification and a minimum of two years' experience working with children. Competitive salary between £56,276 and £63,176 per annum.

Qualifications

• Minimum of two years working as a qualified clinician with children and young people.
• Experience supervising others, particularly in CBT.
• Knowledge of recent developments in mental health assessments and interventions.

Responsibilities

• Deliver evidence-based interventions for children and young people.
• Provide clinical supervision and line management to team practitioners.
• Support school leads to develop their whole school approach to wellbeing.

Skills

Cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT)

Clinical supervision

Experience with diverse backgrounds

Evidence-based interventions

Education

Recognised qualification in mental health

Registration with relevant professional body

Job description

We are seeking to recruit an experienced CAMH/CMHS practitioner to join the Tower Hamlets Education Wellbeing Service (THEWS).

THEWS is a Mental Health Support Team (MHST) established following the government Green Paper: Transforming Children & Young People's Mental Health Provision. The service has undergone recent expansion.

The three core functions of a Mental Health Support Team (MHST) are:

• Delivering evidence-based interventions for children and young people (CYP) with mild-to-moderate mental health problems.
• Supporting the senior mental health lead in each education setting to introduce, develop and deliver the whole school/college approach.
• Giving timely advice to school and college staff, and liaising with external specialist services, to help CYP to get the right support and stay in education.

Main duties of the job

The role involves delivering all three MHST functions. The role involves providing clinical supervision and line management to practitioners within the team, holding a small caseload of clinical work (based on the postholder's training and interests), and acting as a senior link supporting school leads to develop their whole school approach to wellbeing, with other tasks as required.

About us

Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the 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.

THEWS is part of the Tower Hamlets Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS). This service is based in a newly refurbished office in the vibrant borough of Whitechapel.

As a result of the COVID pandemic, the service has adopted a hybrid clinical working model of direct face-to-face and remote working as appropriate.

The service embraces continual improvement and wellbeing of the staff and has a high degree of enthusiasm for quality improvement and working together with partner agencies to provide the highest quality service to the population we serve.

Job responsibilities

Please see attached Job Description and Personal Specification for further details of role requirements.

For further information about this role, please contact [e-mail] or [e-mail]

Person Specification

Education, Training and Qualifications

• Recognised qualification in mental health (e.g. clinical psychologist, counselling psychologist, educational psychologist, CBT therapist, Mental health Nurse, Senior EMHP)
• Registration with relevant professional body

Knowledge

• Knowledge of current guidelines and recent developments in evidence-based assessments and interventions for children and young people with mild to moderate mental health problems
• Knowledge of legislation and its implications for both clinical practice and professional management and mental health in relation to children, young people and their families
• Knowledge, understanding and experience with diverse racial, ethnic and cultural backgrounds and families with a high level of deprivation
• Knowledge of current guidelines in terms of the implementation of the whole-school approach in education

Experience & Training

• Experience of working as a qualified clinician with children and young people for a minimum of two years
• Specialist skills, training and experience in cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT)
• Substantial experience of working with evidence-based approaches for mild to moderate mental health problems in children and young people
• Experience of supervising others (particularly in CBT)
• Experience of routine outcome monitoring
• Experience working with schools
• Experience of service development
• Experience working as part of an MHST
• Formal training in supervision

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

£56,276 to £63,176 a yearper annum inc HCA