About this role
Job summary
A permanent part-time Team Lead and Supervisor post (0.6 WTE) is available in Islington's School Wellbeing Service (MHST).
This is an exciting opportunity to jointly lead one of the teams within Islington's School Wellbeing Service (SWS). The SWS is part of the national Mental Health Support Teams (MHST) initiative, aiming to improve access to help, and the general culture of emotional support within primary and secondary schools. The service is delivered as a partnership between Whittington Health and LB Islington.
We are recruiting a proactive, creative and skilled colleague to join our thriving team. The successful applicant will be passionate about mentalhealth in schools, widening access to services and enjoy inter-agency working.
The successful applicant will join one of our two locality teams in the School Wellbeing Service. The teams deliver preventative and earlyintervention mental health work to all the borough's mainstream schools. This work includes workshops, groups and individual interventions withCYP and school staff, as well as whole-school approaches to mental health. Each team is led by joint team leads from CAMHS and EducationalPsychology, with six School Wellbeing Practitioners in each team and three senior clinicians. The SWPs and senior clinicians aresupervised and managed by the team leads.
Please see job description for more details.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be the joint (with the educational psychologist in the team) lead clinician in the south locality team of the School Wellbeing Service - Islington's MHSTs. They will line manage and supervise the School Wellbeing Practitioners (Islington's Education Mental Health Practitioners) in the teams, having responsibility for their professional development and training, and establishing and maintaining team and individual caseloads. They will co-lead the team with the EP and work closely with the other team leads, team co-ordinators, Service Manager, Project Manager and education and local authority partners. Depending on experience they may be required to attend the one-year PG Cert Supervision: Children and Young People's Mental Health and Wellbeing Services which is delivered in partnership between UCL and Anna Freud.
About us
This is a great time to join our service. We are a strong, well established friendly team with professionals from a wide range of therapeutic backgrounds and experiences. We are excited about developing the MHST in Islington so that more children and families can receive this vital support at an earlier stage in their schools.
We are committed to supporting staff development and offer additional training opportunities and reflective spaces to support your wellbeing and further promote your development as a clinician while working with us.
The community served is multi-ethnic and culturally diverse and we welcome applicants who are skilled at working with the richness and complexity of our multicultural context. We are keen to recruit applicants that reflect the local community and support them to remain in post.
We offer an exciting and dynamic environment where your ideas and career development will be valued. You will be supported directly by senior colleagues and we will develop the service together.
Job description Job responsibilities
We are looking for a highly skilled senior clinician who has experience in leading on and delivering CAMHS work in education settings. Thesuccessful candidate will also have experience of delivering, teaching and supervising evidence-based practice for children and young peoplesmental health and will be skilled in CBT.
Main responsibilities include:
1. SWS Team lead role the post holder will be the joint lead clinician in our south locality team working with the educational psychologistin the team. The role involves working closely with the EP/joint team lead, the team manager, project manager,central CAMHS team managers and head of multi-agency CAMHS and with education and local authority partners.2. Line management and supervision of School Wellbeing Practitioners (SWPs) The post holder will provide weekly supervisionon the delivery of evidence-based interventions for anxiety, low mood and behaviour difficulties, and education-specificinterventions. In addition to supervision, they will assist with SWP assessments and support interventions where appropriate. Experience with CBT interventions is essential and knowledge of the guided self-help interventions that the SWPs will offer is important.3. Responsibility for the programme of induction and local training of the SWPs and other clinicians.4. Co-ordinating and managing the referral routes for SWP direct clinical work and for managing the SWP caseloads.5. Supporting the co-ordination, development, delivery and evaluation of the indirect workload of the SWPs, including workshops andtrainings.6. Working with schools to set up and review input from the SWS to the school.Please see job description for full details
Person Specification
Education / Qualifications Essential
Post-graduate/doctoral level qualification in clinical psychology, counselling psychology, family and systemic psychotherapy or child and adolescent psychotherapy as recognised by HCPC/DOH/UKCP/ACP, or other relevant professional qualification recognised by appropriate registering bodies including qualified CBT therapists.
Desirable
Completion of the CYIAPT Supervision course
Skills and Abilities Essential
Skills in direct clinical work, preventative/early intervention, training and consultation in school settings. Ability to supervise other clinicians, assistants and trainees in their work with in schools. Skills in facilitating client's participation in use of routine outcome measures. Skills in facilitating school staff's participation in use of ROMs and feedback measures/evaluation. Skills in assessment of risk, in relation to mental health and safeguarding issues. Skills in working across agencies in relation to risk and to managing issues of confidentiality and information sharing Skills in effective communication, orally and in writing, of complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS, especially within education. Ability to maintain appropriate clinical records and in use of electronic recording systems Skills in and ability to deliver Cognitive Behaviour Therapy with children, young people and adults Ability to lead on areas of service development and evaluation
Knowledge and Experience Essential
Significant experience delivering clinical work in a school or education setting. Significant experience in early intervention/preventative mental health work in a school or education setting. Significant experience offering consultation in a school or education setting. Knowledge and experience of delivering Cognitive Behaviour Therapy with children, young people and families Significant experience working with schools to develop a CAMHS or other mental health service in their school setting. At least two years post qualification experience working in a CAMHS setting
Desirable
Significant experience supporting other clinicians in offering a mental health service into schools. Experience of supervising Child Wellbeing Practitioners or Education Health Mental Health Practitioners
Personal Qualities Essential
Ability to form good working relationships and work flexibly with others in multi-agency settings in the community Enthusiasm for and capability to complete designated tasks. Enthusiasm and commitment to working in a school based mental health service
Disclosure and Barring Service Check 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.
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UK Registration
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Employer details Employer name Whittington Hospital NHS Trust
Address The Laycock Centre
Laycock Street
Islington
N1 1TH
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.whittington.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)