Job summary
- Main area
- Children and Young People's Mental Health
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 395-EC212-24
- Employer
- NELFT NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Skyline Plaza
- Town
- Southend On Sea
- Salary
- £28,407 - £34,581 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 02/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Educational Mental Health Practitioner's - SE Essex Locality
NHS AfC: Band 5
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.
Find out more about NELFT careers and what makes our Trust a great place to work, in this video
Job overview
The SE Essex MHST team are advertising for X2 Qualified EMHP's or CWP's.
- The post holder's will be registered with the BABCP or BPS or are in the process of registering.
- The post holder's will work as part of an MHST delivering, under supervision, high-quality, brief outcome focused evidence-based interventions for children and young people experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties in and around schools. The post holder's will be responsible for delivering clinical interventions within the MHST and will receive clinical supervision from a senior psychological practitioner.
- To routinely measure clinical outcomes.
- Promoting the mental and emotional health of children, young people, and families in the community through evidenced based clinical interventions.
- To undertake initial school based and community-based assessments and to deliver a range of early interventions to children and young people with a range of emotional and behavioural difficulties.
- Providing a direct service to children and young people and their families, in an accessible and less stigmatizing
Main duties of the job
- Assess and deliver outcome focused, evidence-based interventions to children and young people.
- Work in partnership with children, young people, and families in the development of plans for the intervention and agreed outcomes.
- Support and empower children, young people, and families to make informed choices about the intervention.
- Always operate from an inclusive values base, which recognises and respects diversity.
- Undertakes accurate assessment of risk to self and others.
- Through close case management and supervision, escalate cases where the level of need becomes beyond scope.
- Provide a range of information and support for evidence based psychological treatments, primarily guided self-help.
- Attend multi-disciplinary meetings relating to CYP in treatment, where appropriate.
- To be able to initiate referrals to other health professional specialist services and agencies.
- To provide patients and relatives with information and education.
- To act as an autonomous, registered practitioner.
Working for our organisation
Probationary Period
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).
Starting with NELFT
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 focussing in engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes. The induction will be held at our head office in Rainham, Essex.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Assess and deliver outcome focused, evidence-based interventions to children and young people experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties recognising own limitations and seeking advice when necessary.
- Working in partnership, support children, young people experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties and their families in the self-management of presenting difficulties.
- Work in partnership with children, young people, and families in the development of plans for the intervention and agreed outcomes. This will include continuously evaluating and acting on outcomes and activity.
- Support and empower children, young people, and families to make informed choices about the intervention.
- Always operate from an inclusive values base, which recognises and respects diversity.
- Undertakes accurate assessment of risk to self and others.
- Through close case management and supervision, escalate cases where the level of need becomes beyond scope, or more severe ensuring adherence to other relevant elements of service delivery.
- Provide a range of information and support for evidence based psychological treatments, primarily guided self-help. This work may be face-to-face or by telephone.
- Attend multi-disciplinary meetings relating to CYP in treatment, where appropriate.
- To be able to initiate referrals to other health professional specialist services and agencies.
- To provide patients and relatives with information and education thus ensuring they have meaningful choices that promote dignity, independence, and quality of life.
- To act as an autonomous, registered practitioner who is legally and professionally accountable for their own unsupervised actions. Practitioners will be guided by the professional code of conduct.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Successful completion of the HEE/NHSE commissioned 1yr Education Mental Health Practitioner’ course/Childrens Wellbeing Practitioner course.
- Appropriate registration with either the BABCP or BPS as a low intensity practitioner.
- NVQ level 2 or equivalent standard of literacy and numeracy
Trust Values
Essential criteria
- Demonstration of Trust values
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working with children and young people, and their families
- Experience of working and liaising with a variety of agencies and stakeholders
- Experience of working with children and young people who have social, emotional and/or behavioural difficulties
- Experience of the delivery of specific therapeutic interventions to children, young people, or their families (e.g. CBT, solution focused brief therapy)
- Ability to carry out 1:1 therapeutic mental health intervention with children and families
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- An awareness of NHS priorities
- Knowledge of safeguarding issues
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of educational environments
Skills
Essential criteria
- Basic awareness of IT and IT skills
- Knowledge of capacity and consent issues including Gillick competence
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Marlene Raji
- Job title
- Operational Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07808 364 474
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