- Effective triaging of referrals across the Black Country.
- Provide specialist assessments of children and young people referred to the service.
- Develop, implement and review a range of evidence based treatment plans informed by clinical assessment and the specific needs of the individual within their wider social context.
- Provide clinical supervision, leadership to the assigned MHST and staff from all locality teams where appropriate.
- Contribute to the development and delivery of CPD programmes for staff.
- Working with MHST Team Leads to ensure delivery of the MHST action plan, highlight risk and plan mitigation, escalating where necessary
- Reviewing the referral pathways, ensuring they are informed and being effectively utilised
- Lead on developing relationships with other services that support CYP
- Working closely with other professionals in schools, developing referral pathways and planning engagement with the schools.
- Contribute and support strategic planning, ensuring the needs of children, young people, their parents/carers and schools is informing the development of the service. Job description
MHST Clinical Lead - Walsall, United Kingdom - Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Description
Job summary
Specialist Education Mental Health Team Clinical Lead
Band 7 £40,057 - £45,839 pa
Location Post is to work across the Black Country but candidate can choose preferred base locality from Walsall, Wolverhampton, Dudley or Sandwell
Hours
JOB OVERVIEW
We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced mental health practitioner who holds a qualification in CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy) to be part of the Children's and Young People's Mental Health Support Teams across the Black Country.
The mental health support team (MHST) has the opportunity to further develop work within the field of young people's mental health and wellbeing and provides CBT, guided self-help, parenting, with a focus on development of whole school approaches to mental health and wellbeing and the development of the think family approaches within the schools environment.
Main duties of the job
This post will form part of a Mental Health Support Team service across the Black Country. The post holder will be working as part of the MHST service, leading the teams in partnership with the other Clinical and Team Leaders to ensure the service provides early intervention and promotes good mental well-being to children and young people. This is an exciting opportunity for the Specialist Educational Mental Health Team Clinical Lead to provide high level expertise and knowledge of mental health problems and psychiatric disorders and support the development and successful delivery of the service in schools. The post holder will be expected to work in partnership with professionals in schools and parents/carers to affectively plan support for children and young people beyond one to one intervention for example assembly's and supportive training. The post holder will be responsible for developing strong relationships with CYP MH services across the Black Country including CAMHS to ensure the most informed care pathways for children and young people. The post holder will be responsible for the day to day clinical supervision of staff with BABCP accreditation and those working towards it and leadership to the assigned MHST.
About us
Main Duties of the Job
Job responsibilities
We are looking for a highly motivated mental health practitioner who is experienced in mental health problems and psychiatric disorders, accredited by the BABCP and will be expected to carry out in-depth mental health assessments including risk assessments where required. Applicants must have a passion for developing and working closely with other professionals in schools in order to develop referral pathways. The post holder must have experience of working with a wide variety of children and young people in a range of clinical settings.
Experience in leadership role is important however we are looking for a candidate with the essential skills and values required to clinically lead and proactively support a busy team which is always adapting and changing according to need. This is an exciting time to join the service and this role will be key in driving forward the service and developing whole school approaches to mental health. Experience of recent working with schools and delivering mental health promotional collaborative work in such an arena is vital in order to be able to fulfill the role. Applicants must also have experience of providing case management supervision to CAMHS staff, student or other team professionals.
Applicants will be need to have a genuine interest in working within Children and Young peoples mental health and wellbeing within the schools environment. Applicants must have excellent communication skills and be able to network and show enthusiasm when working with other agencies such as Schools, Public Health, Local Authorities amongst others as and when required.
We are committed to equal opportunities and the development of our staff and will provide a robust induction programme. We also provide regular supervision and training for all our staff.
As a service we are committed to being representative of the communities we serve and overcoming any barriers women may have in accessing our service. We welcome and encourage applications from all backgrounds who meet the specific criteria of the post, regardless of ethnicity, age, gender, disability, religion/ belief or sexual orientation.
The post holder will be required to work flexibly across the Black Country and remotely from home.
We are open to secondments both internally and externally to the Trust.
This post is subject to an enhanced childrens and adults barred list