About this role
Job summary
Senior CAMHS Practitioner - North Bedfordshire MHST
Are you an enthusiastic, flexible and self-motivated individual who is willing to make a real difference in young people's mental health? Are you passionate about providing excellent quality care, team working and ready for a new challenge? Are you motivated, possess excellent communication and organisational skills? Then you are the person we are looking for!
The Community Access Service (CAS) are excited to offer the opportunity for an experienced CAMHS Practitioner to join our team. The CAS is an established team that has a strong ethos of improving the mental health and well-being of children and young people in schools and in the community. The post provides an exciting opportunity to deliver evidence - based interventions for children and young people working across multiple education settings and aims to increase early access and availability to services.
The Community Access Service have the aim of improving the mental health and wellbeing of children and young people in the community. There is a specific focus on developing more access to helping and improving the general culture of emotional support within all primary and secondary schools. Working alongside community partners the CAS will be fully integrated with the community which includes educational settings and GP Surgeries.
Main duties of the job
The role will include helping to develop and deliver a wide range of interventions, projects andsystem change with the aim of 'whole school' and 'whole community' approaches to supportingyoung people's mental health. In addition, the successful candidates will provide comprehensiveconsultation, assessment, risk management and interventions for young people experiencingemotional and mental health difficulties. The post also involves supervising more junior colleaguesof the Mental Health Support Teams.
About us
Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.
We are part of ELFT (East London Foundation Trust), which includes five CAMHS services across East London, Bedfordshire and Luton. The Bedford CAS is a busy MDT team who works with all specialist pathways within the North Bedfordshire service, such as our crisis service, Emotional & Behavioural, Neurodevelopmental service and more. Our Service and Trust highly values equality and diversity and we embrace difference within our team.
Job description Job responsibilities
You would be joining a comprehensive and dynamic CAMH service, delivering a substantial stepped model of care following the needs-led Thrive framework. Your role will help to develop and deliver a wide range of interventions, projects and system change with the aim of whole school and whole community approaches to supporting young peoples mental health.
In addition to providing comprehensive consultation, assessment, risk management and interventions for young people experiencing emotional and mental health difficulties in schools, the post holder will supervise more junior colleagues. There may be an option of supervisor training at Reading University as part of this role
Detailed job description and main responsibilities attached.
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
A qualification of Mental Health Nurse, Systemic Family Psychotherapist, Psychologist, Art Psychotherapist, Social Worker, Child Psychotherapist, Occupational Therapist, CBT Therapist & Registration
Desirable
Parenting qualification and parenting supervision qualification. Specific therapeutic modality training and qualification e.g. CBT, DBT, IPT And accreditation with BABCP etc. IAPT supervisors' course
Skills Essential
Evidence of well-developed clinical skills and knowledge in CAMHS Specialist clinical skills within in specific therapeutic modalities Able to manage own time and caseload Excellent verbal and written communication skills Evidence of ability to lead, support and influence others Able to work effectively across organisational boundaries Teaching skills, both in clinical setting and education centres Keyboard/computer skills
Experience Essential
Previous experience of working in CAMHS Experience of working with a wide range of mental health problems commonly seen in CAMHS Experience of care planning Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary way Knowledge and experience of working within a CBT framework to support trainee practitioners.
Desirable
Delivery of parenting programmes - Webster-Stratton, Triple P, NVR etc. Previous experience working with schools in mental health capacity. Supervision of clinicians delivering parenting and manualised CBT interventions Experience of working in a culturally diverse inner-city area Experience in crisis work
Other Essential
Commitment to equal opportunities Self motivated, assertive and flexible Proven qualities in sustaining the mental, emotional and physical demands of specialized therapeutic work with disturbed and distressed children, adolescents and their families/carer networks. Car driver essential
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.
Certificate of Sponsorship 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).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details Employer name East London NHS Foundation Trust
Address North Beds CAMHS
9 rush court
Bedford
MK40 3JT
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.elft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)