Mental Health Practitioner

NELFT NHS FOUNDATION TRUST; Chelmsford; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A mental health service provider is seeking an experienced Mental Health Practitioner in Chelmsford to join their team focused on supporting children and young people with mental health difficulties. The successful candidate will manage a caseload, collaborate with schools and families, and provide evidence-based interventions including CBT. This role offers opportunities for professional development within a supportive multidisciplinary team committed to improving community mental health.

Benefits

Proactive health and wellbeing support

Flexible working opportunities

Commitment to equality and diversity

Qualifications

• Graduate qualified health care professional with formal CBT training.
• Substantial CAMHS clinical experience with evidence-based interventions.
• Full registration with appropriate professional or regulatory body.

Responsibilities

• Work with schools and families on intervention plans.
• Support Locality Clinical Lead with treatment and management plans.
• Manage caseload of CYP with mental health difficulties.

Skills

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS)

Risk assessments

Multi-Disciplinary Team collaboration

Supervising Education Mental Health Practitioners

Education

Degree in health care

Formal CBT training

Job description

NELFT is the largest providers of Mental Health Support Teams (MHST's) in England. The MHST's deliver evidence-based individual and group interventions in educational settings for children experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties aged 5 to 18 years old. The teams also have a strong focus on whole school approaches to improve mental health outcomes for children and young people.

The Mid Essex MHST covers a large geographical area incorporating the districts of Braintree, Chelmsford, and Maldon. We are an early intervention and prevention evidence-based service and as a team we are supportive and passionate in what we deliver. We are a friendly team of professionals who come from multidisciplinary backgrounds. We recognise the needs for a healthy work life balance, and we will consider flexible working applications in line with the trust policies and process. We encourage Continual Professional Development (CPD) and are keen to support our staff to grow and progress.

We are a welcoming, compassionate and considerate team, that work incredibly hard to support one another to improve the mental health of our community.

The successful applicant will be enrolled on the Children and Young People's Mental Health and Wellbeing Services supervisor course. This training is funded as part of the MHST program and a fundamental requirement for the post. We are looking for an experienced Mental Health Practitioner with a UK Professional Registration to join our MHST.

Key Responsibilities

• Work in partnership with schools, CYP and families in the development of plans for the intervention and agreed outcomes.
• Support the Locality Clinical Lead with the formulation and treatment and management plans for schools, parents, CYP using a range of specialist psychological interventions appropriate to the service, individual and group.
• Effectively manage a caseload of CYP with mild to moderate mental health difficulties, complete thorough assessments, risk assessments, care plans and reviews.
• Provide caseload management and supervision to Trainee Education Mental Health Practitioners, Education Mental Health Practitioner's and Senior Mental Health Practitioner's.
• Support in the delivery of evidence-based Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT).
• Work as part of a Multi-Disciplinary Team within your locality but also with other MHSTs within Essex.
• Work autonomously as part of a team. The Senior Clinician and Supervisor role will work closely with the MHST Locality Clinical Leads, the MHST Operational Manager, and other clinical colleagues/partner agencies.
• Deliver clinical interventions, both targeted and under the Whole School Approach, to maintain professional registrations and continue to develop.
• Remain current in evidence-based interventions and have a good working knowledge of CBT. Supervisors are also key to service development in progressing and adapting interventions to ensure we are an inclusive service and contributing to research and development of the MHST's nationally.

Qualifications and Experience

• Senior Clinician will be a graduate qualified health care professional, and ideally have formal CBT training for example: Qualified CBT Therapist, Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT), Children and Young People-IAPT (CYP-IAPT).
• Will have substantial Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) clinical experience which includes CPD in delivering evidence-based psychological interventions.
• Applicants need to be fully registered/accredited with the appropriate professional or regulatory body (e.g. HCPC, NMC, BABCP).
• Must have a good understanding of CBT and have clinically practiced using this model.
• Experience supervising Education Mental Health Practitioners (EMHP) within MHSTs is desirable.

Certificates of Sponsorship

Although we are a registered sponsor organisation, we are unable to offer sponsorship for all job roles. Please check your eligibility under the UKVI points-based system. When calculating the basic salary for sponsorship, HCAS (High-Cost Area Supplement) is not included to ensure fairness and consistency within our Trust.

Use of AI

Please see attached document regarding acceptable use of AI during the recruitment process.

Benefits

• 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 efforts to 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.

Joining #TeamNELFT

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 five 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, Working with our colleagues, patients and carers we have co-produced three new values that we aim to embed within our culture here at NELFT.

They are:
We are kind. We are respectful. We work together with our communities.
These three values help us to strive to provide the best care by the best people.

Base

The Mid Essex MHST have a nominal base of Stapleford House in Chelmsford. As agile workers the successful applicant will be required to travel to various NELFT offices and educational settings across the MHST's.