Set Camhs Practitioner - Chelmsford, United Kingdom - NELFT NHS Foundation Trust

NELFT NHS Foundation Trust

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Chelmsford, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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We are looking for a graduate-trained professionals (e.g nurses, social workers, occupational therapists, creative therapists, counsellors) or professionals with extensive (2 years or more) clinical experience of working with children or adults with learning disabilities.

To come and work in a Clinical Practitioner role within NELFT's SET CAMHS Learning Disabilities team.

The team provides mental health services to children, young people with severe to profound learning disabilities who additionally may also have a range of related complex developmental disorders.

As a result much of our work is with parents/ carers/ and external supporters of the young person. A very high percentage of the children in the service also have an additional Autistic Spectrum diagnosis. The team offers a specialist therapeutic community based services across Essex.

We are part of NELFT's SET CAMHS service who is for anybody aged between 0-18, living in the Southend, Essex and Thurrock areas and is free at the point of entry

There is:

1 Children's Single Point of Access (CSPA), 7 Locality Teams, 3 Crisis Teams and a specialist Eating Disorders Team additional to our Team located across Southend, Essex and Thurrock.

The team based in Chelmsford, provides Community based mental health services to children and young people with severe to profound learning disabilities (and their family and carers) who may have related developmental disorders including Autistic Spectrum Disorder across Essex.

The service is driven by principles of The Thrive model with the latest in evidence based NICE compliant psychological interventions, appropriate to the individual circumstances of each individual, child and their system.

As a member of the team you will:

Routinely measure clinical outcomes and deliver evidence-based clinical interventions, both in-line with the Thrive model, receiving clinical supervision from a Senior Clinician within the Learning Disability team.
Promote the mental and emotional health of children, young people, and families in the community through clinical interventions, in accessible and less stigmatizing environments, based on best available research evidence, within clinical governance.
Undertake assessment and a range of interventions to support children and young people with a range of emotional and psychological difficulties. Interventions will primarily be focused on enabling those around the young person to increase understanding of contributing factors to the difficulties presented, and then develop (in partnership) goals to address these factors, enabling improvement in the young person's emotional wellbeing.

COVID-19 Vaccination
We continue to encourage all staff to ensure that they have been double vaccinated and received their booster.

We recognise that taking the vaccine provides the best defence against COVID 19 for our patients, our staff and their families.

Probationary Period

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 focusing in engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes.

The induction will be held at our head office in Rainham, Essex.

NELFT is an experienced provider of Mental Health Services for Children and Young People, already providing these services across Essex.

It is also one of England's largest NHS Foundation Trusts.

We provide community health services for children and young people with physical health needs in south West Essex and in the four London boroughs of Barking and Dagenham, Havering, Redbridge and Waltham Forest.

Our priority is providing the highest standard of care to all of our service users.

About NELFT's SET CAMHS

NELFT's SET CAMHS is for anybody aged between 0-18, living in the Southend, Essex and Thurrock areas and is free at the point of entry.

Any young person experiencing emotional wellbeing or mental health problems,

Structure of NELFT's SET CAMHS

There are:

a Children's Single Point of Access (CSPA), seven Locality Teams, an Intensive Support Services and a specialist Eating Disorders Team, Specialist Learning Disability Team.

These are located across Southend, Essex and Thurrock.

What difficulties can be referred to the service?