SET CAMHS Senior Practitioner-Mid Essex

North East London NHS; Essex; On-site; GBP 46,000 - 53,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a dedicated Senior Practitioner to join their community CAMHS team in Chelmsford, Essex. This role offers a unique opportunity to work with children and young people, providing essential mental health services while being part of a supportive and diverse environment. With a commitment to professional development and a focus on evidence-based practices, you will lead urgent assessments and support your team in delivering high-quality care. Join a forward-thinking organization that values your contributions and prioritizes your well-being.

Benefits

Flexible Working

Health and Wellbeing Support

Comprehensive Induction

Employee Assistance Programme

Training and Development Opportunities

Qualifications

• Qualified professional in mental health nursing, psychology, or social work.
• Experience in managing complex mental health presentations.

Responsibilities

• Complete assessments of children's mental health with families.
• Provide evidence-based treatments and supervise band 6 staff.

Skills

Mental Health Nursing

Psychotherapy

Clinical Psychology

Risk Management

Multi-Agency Working

Evidence-Based Treatments

Education

Professional Registration (e.g., HCPC, NMC)

Qualification in Core Profession

Job description

Full time

Part time

Job share

Flexible working

Job ref395-EB937-24-BEmployerNELFT NHS Foundation TrustEmployer typeNHSSiteStapleford HouseTownChelmsfordSalary£46,148 - £52,809 per annum (pro rata)Salary periodYearlyClosing11/04/2025 23:59

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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, inthis video

Job overview

We welcome applications from mental health nurses, psychologists, social workers, psychotherapists, family therapists, and other qualified professional staff for the role of senior practitioner within SET CAMHS Mid-Essex.

Mid-Essex SET CAMHSare looking to recruit a qualified professional from nursing, social work, psychology, family therapy or psychotherapy to join a busy community CAMHS team based in Chelmsford, Essex (covering Maldon/Braintree and Halstead). SET CAMHS works to the iThrive model, with this role sitting within the Getting More Help and System Support sections. We are seeking candidates with experience of managing risk and managing a caseload of more complex presentations. The successful candidate will also have experience of supervising and supporting colleagues at band 6 . The band 7 role sits within the Multi-disciplinary Team (MDT) to take a lead on urgent and high-risk assessments, to support the team in formulating risk plans and to be able to provide a range of NICE recommended and evidence based treatment s. The role will support the senior leadership team in monitoring quality of interventions and processes through effective supervision.

Main duties of the job

To complete assessments of children and young people’s mental health with their families and carers.

To complete risk and safety plans, care planning including CPA processes post discharge from Inpatient care.

To provide evidence based treatments individually and/or via groups for a range of presentations to include CBT/DBT, trauma informed practice, EMDR, reflective therapies.

To provide treatment and interventions for children and young people with additional neurodevelopmental needs and co-morbid mental health issues.

To provide supervision to band 6 staff

Working for our organisation

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

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)

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification when completing your application

We welcome newly qualified, or applications from about to be qualified, Psychologists as well as those with previous experience who are passionate and motivated to work with young people and families. We pride ourselves on working within a strong and supportive multi-disciplinary team with opportunities for learning, development, and progression.

Professional registrations accepted:

RCN, BABCP, HCPC, Social Work England, UKCP.

Locality Teams in CAMHS The aim of our new CAMHS is to respond earlier to children and young people’s needs in order to help prevent, reduce or delay the need for more specialist interventions. This transformation of children and young people’s mental health services has a clinical focus, integrated with local authorities to deliver a long term collaborative approach to planning and delivering services. The service is driven by the principles underpinning the national CYP-IAPT programme (Children and Young People’s Improving Access to Psychological Therapies); evidence based interventions, routine measurement of outcomes, access to high quality training and supervision for professionals and co-production with children and young people

This post is eligible for the Trust 'Welcome to NELFT' Payment, a lump sum of 10% of agreed basic salary excluding HCAS and is open to all new applicants who are successfully appointed. Payment of the incentive is 50% of the lump sum at the end of the probationary period (typically six months) and then 50% at the end of year two. This welcome package is applicable to external candidates only.

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.

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.

Person specification

Qualification

Essential criteria

Qualificantion in a Core profession (Social Worker, Mental Health Nursing, Psychotherapy, Clinical Psychology)

To have registration as a full member of the appropriate professional body (e.g. HCPC, NMC, UKCP, BABCP)

Experience in a relevant NHS setting or similar with Young people with mental health presentations.

Desirable criteria

2- 3 years post qualifying experience

Must be able to travel across the Mid Essex area.

Experience

Essential criteria

Experience of working with complex and high risk mental health presentations in children and young people.

Experience of providing evidence based mental health interventions to children and young people including neurodiversity.

Experience of supervising staff providing mental health treatments to children and young people

Desirable criteria

Experience of providing specialist individual interventions with a wide variety of children and young people, from 3 to 19 years old- presenting problems at the most severe end of the spectrum

Experience of managing teams

Skills

Essential criteria

Multi-Agency working experience

Assessment, formulation risk management and safety planning

Evidenced based treatments e.g DBT, CBT, Trauma informed.

Knowledge of relevant legislation. (Childrens Act, Mental Health Act, mental capacity)

Benefits

We believe in bringing your authentic and best self to work, in order to deliver the best care to our patients. We are committed to supporting our employees holistically. Here is a snapshot of what is on offer at NELFT:

A long-standing and award-winning approach to equality and diversity with supportive networks for ethnic minority staff, staff with disabilities or long term/chronic conditions and LGBT staff.

A commitment to supporting colleagues to achieve a work life balance, through flexible working opportunities and our effortsto support our working parents and carers. This has resulted in us being recognised as a ‘Top 10 Family Friendly Employer’ from the Working Families Charity.

Proactive health and wellbeing support, including access to our employee assistance programme, staff psychological support, individual wellbeing conversations and a network of health and wellbeing ambassadors.

Detailed information about our wellbeing and benefits offer can be found in this link .

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s a job share, part time hours or another flexible pattern.

Supporting our Armed Forces

We recognise the valuable contribution that the Armed Forces community make to our organisation. We have signed the Armed Forces Covenant and achieved Gold Award under the Armed Forces Employer Recognition Scheme. We have supportive policies, guaranteed interview schemes for veterans. reservists and military spouses and give additional leave to our Reservists so that they can attend their annual camp.

Equal opportunities employer

We are committed to equal opportunities and diversity and positively encourage applications from all sections of the community regardless of any protected characteristic.

We are a Disability Confident employer and have made the pledge to commit to employing more people with disabilities. If you require this application in another format i.e. Braille or audio tape please contact the recruitment team on 0300 300 1530 or email [email protected] .

Correspondence with us

You are advised to regularly check your emails (including any junk mail/spam folders) for correspondence related to this post.

As part of our recruitment process, we may be required to share information you provide on the application form with NHS Counter Fraud Authority (NHSCFA) and/or other organisations for the purpose of the prevention, detection, investigation and prosecution of fraud or any other unlawful activity affecting the NHS. We also use third party providers to check and verify your qualifications who may be contacting you on our behalf to verify the same.

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.