Camhs Practitioners - Bedford, United Kingdom - East London NHS Foundation Trust

East London NHS Foundation Trust

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Bedford, United Kingdom

4 days ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Band 6 CAMHS Practitioner

In 2017, the Government published its Green Paper for Transforming children and young people's mental health, which detailed proposals for expanding access to mental health care for children and young people, building on the national NHS transformation programme which was already underway.

This led to the delivery of Mental Health Support Team's (MHSTs) within schools, who have three core functions:

To deliver evidencebased interventions for mildtomoderate mental health issues in children and young people.
To support the Mental health lead in each school/college to introduce or develop whole school or college approach.
To give consultations to each school. Consultations can consist of, advice giving, signposting or referrals to help get children and young people the right support at the right time.

The MHSTs are part of an exciting trailblazer project funded by NHS England, Health Education England and partners, with 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 MHSTs will be fully integrated with community CAMHS and educational settings.

You would be joining a comprehensive and dynamic CAMHS service, delivering a substantial stepped model of care following the needs-led i-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 people's 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 postholder will supervise more junior colleagues.

There may be an option of supervisor training at Reading University in the future.

We are looking for a confident CAMHS professional with experience of providing evidence-based interventions.

You will be a CYP mental health practitioner (Family & Systemic Psychotherapist / Clinical Psychologist / Counselling Psychologist / Educational Psychologist /Occupational Therapist / Registered Nurse / Social Worker/ Senior CWP or EMHP).The MHST focuses on early interventions, working closely with schools and our partners to improve access to services for children and young people to mental health services.

The team will focus on the needs of the community to help reduce health inequalities whilst delivering our whole school approach.

The community served is multi-ethnic and culturally diverse and we welcome applicants who are skilled at working with the richness and complexity of this multicultural context.

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.

You will be supported by regular, separate clinical and management supervision sessions, access to a variety of CPD sessions, and annual performance appraisal.

You will also participate in weekly clinical discussions with the team.

East London NHS Trust prioritizes staff wellbeing, and we are introducing a range of staff wellbeing initiatives to support this.

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.

For a more detailed job description and person specification please see attached JD & PS.

For contact details please see below.