Clinical Service Lead for Mental Health Support - London, United Kingdom - South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

beBee Recruiter

Description

Lewisham CAMHS Mental Health Support Team (MSHT) is a new early intervention service designed to help meet the mental health needs of children and young people (CYP) in education settings.

The post holder will provide operational and strategic leadership across the three MHST core functions:

Delivering evidence-based interventions for mild-to-moderate mental health issues
Supporting the senior mental health lead in each education setting to introduce or develop their whole school approach to mental health and wellbeing
Giving timely advice to school and college staff, and liaising with external specialist services to help children and young people get the right support and stay in education.

The post holder will further be responsible to support local workforce development in the line with local and national transformation plans.

Operational: covers the structural management of the teams, including clear lines of reporting and how they function in line with education and mental health governance.
Quality assurance: ensuring the MHST Hubs are delivering consistent, highquality mental health support, care and interventions, with appropriate and adequate clinical supervision;
Strategic: monitoring key outcomes and implementing regular evaluations to allow for continued learning, innovation and improvement.
Work in collaboration with stakeholders, partners and school communities towards systemic change that supports advancing mental health equality and narrowing health inequalities and disadvantage.
Having oversight of training relevant to the MHST workforce and linking in regularly with the HEI
Providing service assurance of placement suitability for EMHP in training.
Planning, developing, delivering and evaluating services in partnership with CYP, parents/carers, schools through participation and coproduction.

We aspire to bring education, health and families together, working collaboratively to support the mental health and wellbeing of children and young people based on their own life experiences and the uniqueness of their school community, whether they are thriving, coping or would benefit from getting help.

Our service is underpinned by principles from the MHST Manual (NHS England, 2019) and Children and Young People - Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (CYP-IAPT):

Value and facilitate authentic participation of young people, parents, carers and communities at all levels of the service
Provide evidencebased practice and are flexible and adaptive to changes in evidence
Are committed to raising awareness of mental health issues in children and young people, and are active in decreasing stigma around mental illhealth
Demonstrate that they are accountable by adopting the rigorous monitoring of the clinical outcomes of the service, and
Actively work to improve access and engagement with services

Clinical and Client Care

To provide assessments, formulations and interventions for clients referred to the Mental Health Support Team and /or to offer supervision to other members of the team in providing those.
Support and empower children, young people and families to make informed choices about the intervention.
To support children and young people experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties and their families in the selfmanagement of presenting difficulties.
To work in partnership with families to provide culturally appropriate psychological interventions with carers or families of referred clients when required.
To assess and monitor risk and draw up appropriate risk management plans.
To act as care coordinator taking responsibility for the oversight of cases within the Mental Health Support team.
Provide support for EMHP's and CWP's in using CYP IAPT compliant routine outcome measures.
Ensure clear objectives are identified, discussed and reviewed with EMHP's and CWP's on a regular basis as part of their continuing professional development.

Contributing to team or service clinical functioning

To contribute to the effective working of the team or service and to a psychologically informed framework for the service.
To contribute to the team or service's delivery of accessible and acceptable services to diverse local communities.
To be proactive in challenging discrimination and support the development of culturally competent services.
To advise other members of the service on specialist psychological care of clients.
Where appropriate to liaise with referrers, GPs and other professionals concerned with clients in order to develop and review care plans.
To utilise theory, evidencebased literature and research to support evidence based practice in individual work and work with other team members.

Policy and service development

To implement policies and procedures in own area of work, and to propose improvements or beneficial changes.
To contribute to service development through undertaking and participati