SET CAMHS Senior Practitioner-Mid Essex

NELFT NHS Foundation Trust; Chelmsford; On-site; GBP 46,000 - 53,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking organization dedicated to mental health care for children and young people. As a senior practitioner within a busy CAMHS team, you will have the opportunity to lead urgent assessments, formulate risk plans, and deliver evidence-based treatments. This role offers a supportive environment with a strong focus on professional development and a commitment to equality and diversity. You will work alongside a dedicated multi-disciplinary team, making a significant impact on the lives of young individuals and their families. Embrace a fulfilling career where your expertise is valued and nurtured, and contribute to a journey towards outstanding care.

Benefits

Flexible working opportunities

Employee assistance programme

Proactive health and wellbeing support

Comprehensive induction training

Supportive networks for minority staff

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Conduct assessments and develop risk and safety plans for young people.
• Provide evidence-based treatments and supervise band 6 staff.

Skills

Multi-Agency working

Assessment and risk management

Evidence-based treatments (DBT, CBT)

Knowledge of legislation

Education

Qualification in Core profession (Social Work, Mental Health Nursing, etc.)

Registration as a full member of a professional body

2-3 years post qualifying experience

Job description

Main area CAMHS Grade NHS AfC: Band 7 Contract Permanent Hours

• Full time
• Part time

37.5 hours per week (Monday - Friday - 9.00am - 5.00pm) Job ref 395-EB937-24

Site Stapleford House Town Chelmsford Salary £46,148 - £52,809 per annum (pro rata) Salary period Yearly Closing 13/01/2025 23:59

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.

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 CAMHS are 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 treatments. 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

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

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

Person specification

Qualification

• Qualification 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.
• 2-3 years post qualifying experience
• Must be able to travel across the Mid Essex area.

Experience

• 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.
• 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

• 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).

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.

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 [e-mail].

Correspondence with us

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

In the event of a high number of responses to any advert, NELFT reserves the right to close the vacancy early. If you do not hear from us within three weeks of the closing date then please assume you have not been successful on this occasion.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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.