Multi-Disciplinary Pathway Worker (RMN/OT/SW/CBT Therapist)

NELFT NHS Foundation Trust; Folkestone; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare foundation in Folkestone is seeking a Multi-disciplinary Pathway Worker (Band 6) primarily focused on CAMHS assessments and support for young people with mental health challenges. The ideal candidate should be a graduate qualified health care professional with experience in complex interventions and the ability to work closely with multi-agency teams. This role offers numerous opportunities for professional development and flexible working arrangements to ensure the best care is provided to young patients.

Benefits

Supportive working environment

Flexible working opportunities

Proactive health and wellbeing support

Award-winning approach to equality and diversity

Qualifications

• Eligible for registration as a full member of a professional body (NMC, HCPC).
• Experience in working with complex mental health needs.

Responsibilities

• Undertake CAMHS assessments of children and young people up to age 18.
• Develop and maintain close working relationships with team members and partner agencies.

Skills

CAMHS experience

Ability to deliver evidence-based interventions

Good clinical skills

Experience with challenging children/young people

Education

Graduate qualified health care professional (nurse, social worker, occupational therapist)

Job description

Overview

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

Job overview

Band 6 - Multi-disciplinary Pathway Worker (RMN / OT / SW / CBT Therapist)

Come and work for NELFT, an organisation that values the best care by the best people.

Are you enthusiastic, motivated and an experienced CAMHS Practitioner, who has an interest and knowledge of working with Children and Adolescents who present with mental health and significant behavioural difficulties.

If so this is the job for you.

Main duties of the job

• As a key part of our Children and Young Peoples Mental Health Service, the post holder will undertake CAMHS assessments of children and young people up to age 18 to inform formulation, diagnosis and recommendations for treatment within a spectrum of mental health presentations.
• You will have a caseload, offering evidence based interventions to children and adolescents with complex mental health needs and their families.
• You will have the ability to deliver a range of evidence based clinical interventions for children and young people and will be supported to train in other treatment modalities.
• Develop and maintain close working relationships with members of the team and partnership agencies Social Services, Education and others is essential.
• You must demonstrate an interest in multi-agency and multi-disciplinary work and be familiar with evidence-based practice in children’s mental health.
• There are excellent opportunities for CPD, in service teaching and supervision within the team and the Trust.
• You must be able to work independently and have good clinical / therapeutic and case management skills to engage this group of young people.

Working for our organisation

• Our Values 2025 - 2030
  • 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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for further details on this vacancy.

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

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Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• The post-holder will be a graduate qualified health care professional ( nurse, social worker, occupational therapist)

Desirable criteria

• To be trained in CBT

Experience

Essential criteria

• To be eligible for for registration as a full member of appropriate professional body ( NMC, HCPC)

Desirable criteria

• To have CAMHS experience

Complex interventions

Essential criteria

• Experience of working with difficult, disturbed or challenging children / young people requiring skilled and complex interventions

Desirable criteria

• To have a flexible approach to working around the needs of the service

Flexible approach

Essential criteria

• To be willing to take on new training opportunities to increase the clinics skills

Desirable criteria

• To be willing to take on new training opportunities to increase the clinics skills

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 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.