Mhst Team Leader

North London Nhs Foundation Trust; Greater London; In loco; GBP 60.000 - 85.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

North London NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an MHST Team Lead to supervise trainee and qualified practitioners, deliver early intervention, and manage a sub-team within the MHST. The role involves direct clinical delivery, supervision, and collaboration with school leads to improve child mental health and wellbeing.

You will join a large, multidisciplinary team with peer support and opportunities for career development, working across London boroughs as needed.

Competenze

• The post holder must have a core profession and be registered in the relevant field.
• Desirable SWP qualification with supervisory experience.
• Desirable CYP IAPT supervisors course completion.
• Experience supervising clinicians within CYP Education or Mental Health settings.
• CBT-informed interventions are desirable.

Mansioni

• Provide specialist psychological assessments of referred clients.
• Formulate and implement plans for formal psychological treatment.
• Deliver psychotherapeutic interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups.
• Provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals.
• Undertake risk assessment and advise on risk management.
• Provide consistent clinical supervision for the team.
• Maintain operational oversight of a sub-team within the MHST.

Conoscenze

Consultation skills

Distress containment

Knowledge of therapies

Clinical risk assessment

Team collaboration

Formazione

Clinical or Counselling Psychologist

Systemic Therapist

Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist

Descrizione del lavoro

Job summary

The MHST Team Lead will have several key roles within the team. They will offer supervision to trainee and qualified Education Mental Health Practitioners or Children's Wellbeing Practitioners, who are part of workforce within CAMHS to deliver early intervention work, and some aspects of clinical service delivery, including direct psychological interventions and consultation to schools. Alongside supervision, the post holder's caseload will include children and adolescents with mild moderate emotional and mental health difficulties and will deliver evidence-based 1:1 and group interventions. The post holder will develop relationships with designated mental health Leads in schools to help them develop approaches for mental health and wellbeing, while also being responsible for the operational oversight of a smaller sub-team within the MHST. The post holder will be joining three other MHST Team Leaders with lots of opportunities for peer support and career development, and working within a large multi-disciplinary team.

Applicants must have a core profession in relevant field such as Psychology, Mental Health Nurse, Social worker, Therapist and must be registered with UK relevant professional body. Training will be provided for applicants without formal supervision training. BABCP registered Senior Wellbeing Practitioners (SWP) with relevant clinical and supervisory experience will also be considered.

Main duties of the job

• To provide specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the team.
• To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client's mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client's problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
• To be responsible for implementing a range of psychotherapeutic interventions for individuals, carers, families, and groups, including adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining several provisional hypotheses.
• To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients' formulation, understanding around their presentation, and support plan.
• To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and where appropriate to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management
• To provide consistent and effective clinical supervision for the team.
• To have operational oversight of a smaller sub-team within the MHST.

The duties and responsibilities described in this Job Description are intended to be indicative but not exhaustive of the responsibilities of the postholder.

About us

North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.Our Five-Year Strategy:

• We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
• With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
• We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
• We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.

In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.

Job responsibilities

• To provide specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation, and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the clients care, when and where appropriate.
• To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a clients mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the clients problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
• To be responsible for implementing a range of psychotherapeutic interventions for individuals, carers, families, and groups, including adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining several provisional hypotheses.
• To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options considering both theoretical and therapeutic models.
• To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients formulation, understanding around their presentation, and support plan.
• To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and where appropriate to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management
• To provide consistent and effective clinical supervision for the team.
• To have operational oversight of a smaller sub-team within the MHST.
• To report to Team Manager about effectiveness of the team and problem solve any routine challenges.

The duties and responsibilities described in this Job Description are intended to be indicative but not exhaustive of the responsibilities of the postholder.

Person Specification

Education & Qualification

Essential

• The post holder must have a core profession and as a Clinical or Counselling Psychologist, Systemic Therapist or Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist

Desirable

• SWP qualification with suitable clinical and supervisory experience
• Completion of CYP IAPT supervisors course

Experience & Knowledge

Essential

• Candidates will need evidence working therapeutically/ clinically or consultatively within a CYP Education or Mental Health Setting with children and young people with mental health difficulties.
• Previous experience of supervising clinicians

Desirable

• Experience working with CBT informed interventions

Skills And Abilities

Essential

• Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
• Ability to contain, explore and formulate an understanding of high levels of distress, both directly with patients and indirectly via supervision of other staff.
• Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies with children, young people and families
• Ability to undertake clinical risk assessment and to work within safeguarding procedures

Desirable

• Skills in undertaking Quality Improvement projects and service evaluation
• Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings

Personal Qualities

Essential

• High level of enthusiasm and motivation
• Ability to work within a team and foster good working relationships
• Ability to use clinical supervision and personal development positively and effectively
• Ability to be self-reflective whilst working with service users, in own personal and professional development, and in supervision

Other Requirements

Essential

• Ability to travel around the borough

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. Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab). From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab). Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).