Supervisors

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust; Greater London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

An NHS mental health service provider is seeking supervisors to work in children's mental health services in Greater London. This role entails supporting operational management while providing clinical supervision to Education and Mental Health practitioners. Candidates should have a healthcare qualification, experience working with children, and formal CBT training. The position requires flexibility and a commitment to improving mental health in educational settings, with a focus on delivering evidence-based interventions and supporting teams effectively.

Benefits

Supportive work environment

Professional development opportunities

Qualifications

• Graduate qualification in health-related field, such as psychology, social work, or mental health nursing.
• Formal CBT training (e.g. CYP-IAPT) is required.
• Experience working with young people facing emotional and mental health issues.

Responsibilities

• Support the Team Leader in operational management and clinical activities.
• Engage with schools and colleagues to implement mental health interventions.
• Supervise Education and Mental Health practitioners in evidence-based interventions.

Skills

Experience with children and young people

Flexibility and dynamism

Clinical supervision skills

Evidence-based interventions

Education

Graduate level healthcare professional degree

HEE Postgraduate Diploma in Education Mental Health Practice

Professional registration in a relevant subject

Job description

Overview

As part of Hertfordshire CYPMHS transformation, our priority is simple: to increase access and availability of mental health and wellbeing support for children and young people. Driven by this goal and in line with NHS long term plans, we have exciting new opportunities for Supervisors to work at the forefront of innovation in Children's and Young Peoples Mental Health and to play an instrumental role in a forward-thinking service delivering interventions into schools and other settings in Hertfordshire. This role is a chance to make a difference in young lives, and as such duties will include elements of operational management in support of the Team Leader as well as clinical activity.

Responsibilities

• You will be expected to support the Team Leader to contribute to the team with a unique opportunity to be part of a dynamic mental health team in a creative environment where evidence-based interventions, new ideas, ways of working and supporting children and young people are actively encouraged.
• This approach requires flexibility, dynamism and above all a passion for working with children and young people in educational settings whilst also motivating, inspiring and supporting your team to do the same.
• You will be responsible for operationalizing the delivery of evidence based interventions within Mental Health Support Teams (MHSTs) in schools and colleges whilst providing supervision for EMHPs. You will be expected to work in schools closely with school staff to support CYP, their families and staff to foster a whole school approach to mental well-being meaning a commitment to travel within the aforementioned areas.
• Supervisors will play a key role in:
• Forming strong working relations with a variety of stakeholders
• Providing consultations to education colleagues and support education setting to embed a whole school approach to wellbeing
• Developing and delivering evidence-based time limited interventions to young people within education settings
• Evidencing the outcomes of the MHST service
• Providing clinical supervision to trainee Education and Mental Health practitioners.

Qualifications

• Supervisors will be a graduate qualified health care professional who will:
• Have some level of formal CBT training (e.g. CYP-IAPT)
• Have previous consolidated postgraduate experience of working with young people with emotional and mental health issues
• Have completed the HEE Postgraduate Diploma in Education Mental Health Practice or the HEE Postgraduate Certificate Psychological Wellbeing Practice for children and young people with at least 1 year postgraduate qualification practice
• You will have experience in delivering evidenced-based CBT interventions for mild to moderate mental health issues such as anxiety, low mood and behavioural problems to CYP both individually and in groups.
• A professional qualification with professional registration in a relevant subject (e.g. psychology, social work, counselling, mental health nursing, Psychotherapy) at degree level or equivalent.
• Core postgraduate training in provision of low intensity CBT, e.g. CWP /CYP-IAPT qualification plus post qualification experience

Desirable Criteria

• Accredited CBT qualification
• Documented evidence of continued professional development.
• Post-graduate training in mental health
• Appropriate UK professional registration
• Mentor / Practice Educator supervision training
• Postgraduate Certificate in Child and Young Persons Psychological Wellbeing Practice
• Postgraduate Diploma for Educational Mental Health Practitioner (EMHP programme)
• Significant post qualification experience of working in a range of settings relevant to the post.
• Significant experience of assessing people in a variety of settings who have an acute mental health presentation.
• Experience of working with young people presenting with emotional/psychological difficulties and challenging behaviour.
• Experience and knowledge of implementing safeguarding procedures for children and adults.
• Experience and knowledge of working in a multi-ethnic community.
• Experience of teaching and training in practice.
• Experience of peer supervision, supervising colleagues in the multi-disciplinary team and consultation in other agency settings.
• Experience of supporting young people in an educational setting, knowledge of legislation related to children and/or adolescent's mental health and social care e.g. Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act, Care Act, Child Protection and Safeguarding of Vulnerable Children etc.
• Knowledge of recent developments in mental health/learning disability provision for young people including government initiatives.
• Knowledge of current developments in research and its application with regards to children and young people's mental wellbeing.
• Facilitating clinical supervision.
• Ability to teach and train others using multi-media materials suitable for presentation within public, professional and academic settings.
• Deliver care with respect, dignity, compassion and recovery focused.
• Clinical skills to assess young people in a variety of settings who have an acute mental health presentation.
• Comprehensive risk assessment skills.
• Specific clinical skills applicable in a community or educational setting e.g. brief therapy, cognitive therapy, and anxiety management, de-escalation.
• Confidence to work autonomously in the community and use own initiative, and make decisions in complex situations.
• Ability to deal sensitively with stressful situation including staff and organisational problems; child abuse; family breakdown; mental ill health and risk of self-harm.
• Delivering a range of evidence based early intervention techniques for relevant service user group.
• Able to communicate effectively, orally and in writing at an age-appropriate level - complex, highly technical, and/or clinically sensitive information to service users, their families, carers and professionals within and outside the NHS.
• Ability to communicate sensitive information to children and/or adolescents, carers and colleagues in a way that addresses psychological resistance.
• Ability to work flexibly across service boundaries.
• Skills in liaising with other agencies and providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
• Ability to contain and work with organisational stress and ability to hold the stress of others.
• Respectful approach to service users, families, carers, colleagues.
• Ability to maintain high standards of record keeping, including data entry and recording.
• Ability to assess and manage risks.
• A commitment to work in ways which support equality and diversity and treat everyone with appropriate dignity and respect.
• Disclosure and Barring approval (formally CRB check).
• Able to travel independently across the Trust.
• Ability and willingness to work outside office hours when required by the role.

Travel and Hours

Commitment to travel within the aforementioned areas. You are required to travel independently across the Trust and work outside office hours when required by the role.

Professional Registration and Visa

You must have appropriate UK professional registration. Candidates who require a Skilled Worker visa to work in the United Kingdom can determine the likelihood of obtaining a Certificate of Sponsorship for this position by assessing their circumstances against the criteria specified on the Check if you need a UK visa - GOV.UK website. We would encourage all applicants to review the criteria carefully to understand their eligibility for sponsorship. You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

Employer

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is an outstanding organisation with ambitions to match. We are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of 'Outstanding' from the Care Quality Commission, and our aim is to be the leading provider of mental health and specialist learning disability services in the country. Our family of over 3500 members of staff provide health and social care for over 400,000 people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. We also deliver a range of nationally commissioned specialist services including Tier 4 services for children and young people, perinatal services, plus medium and low secure learning disabilities services. The care we provide makes a fantastic difference to the lives of our service users, their families and carers - everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout, Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is rated by the Care Quality Commission as an Outstanding provider of mental health and learning disability services. In 2021, we won the prestigious Health Service Journal award for Mental Health Trust of the Year, with the judges saying they were "blown away" by our people's achievements and that everything they saw "sings and hums". This year, our staff rated us the 4^th best mental health and learning disability trust to work for out of all 52 trusts in the country. Our staff tell us they are proud to be part of the HPFT team, proud of the standard of care we provide and proud that service users are our top priority. Our people tell us they feel supported through a great development, wellbeing and work-life balance offer and a highly compassionate, values-driven culture. We are equally proud of our staff, who live our values of being welcoming, kind, positive, respectful and professional.

Equal Opportunity Statement

The employer is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to diversity and inclusion. We encourage applications from all qualified people who are excited to serve children, young people and families with resilience and compassion. All individuals are equally considered without bias in recruiting and hiring.