Job summary
- Main area
- Specialist Clinician
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- 37.5 hours per week (Full time, however part time hours will be considered)
- Job ref
- 260-TP-647
- Employer
- Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Office base is Eversholt St and Tavistock & Portman. However, community role/based in Camden Schools.
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £51,488 - £57,802 pa Inclusive of HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 19/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
MHST Specialist Clinician and Supervisor
NHS AfC: Band 7
It is a condition of this employment that you must live in and remain a resident of the United Kingdom during your employment with the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust.
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The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health trust with a focus on training and education alongside a full range of mental health services and psychological therapies for children and their families, young people and adults.
We are committed to improving mental health and emotional wellbeing, believing that high quality mental health services should be available for all who need them. We bring a distinctive contribution based on the importance we attach to social experience at all stages of people’s lives, and our focus on psychological and developmental approaches to the promotion of health and the prevention and treatment of mental ill health
We contribute to the pool of ideas through our own research and development, but are also committed to bringing together the best ideas of the time, old and new, from inside and out, together with the most gifted and able professionals in our fields of endeavour. We aim to share our ideas and practice through as many routes as possible.
As a Trust we aim constantly to be evolving in nature and form in relation to the environment in which we work, to ensure that our contribution remains relevant.
The Trust uses electronic new starter forms on Trac to collect personal details. Information collected is securely stored and used to set up the employee record on the ESR HR system.
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Job overview
Camden was a national trailblazer site for the mental health support team (MHST) in school initiative. We are a well-established multi-disciplinary team that provides high quality support to children, young people, and families, presenting with mild to moderate concerns.
A key remit of Camden MHST is helping schools develop their approach to mental health. Our work endeavors to join with schools in the promotion of a positive ethos and culture surrounding the social, emotional, and mental health of the entire school community.
The role of Specialist Clinician and Supervisor includes consultation, assessment, therapy/intervention, supervision, service development, evaluation and training.
All MHST Specialist Clinicians and supervisors have their own caseload befitting to their professional training and experience. You will also be involved in service development projects. Your career professional development will be taken seriously with robust supervisory support and training available.
Another key aspect to your role will be providing clinical supervision to band 4 or 6 School Practitioners through individual and group supervision.
This will be a community-based post, with most of the work taking place in school settings or other community settings. The post holder must be able to work collaboratively with other members of the team, staff from other teams as well as with our allied partners across education, health, social care and the charity sector.
Main duties of the job
- Delivering individual, group and whole class interventions
- Take delegated responsibility for service as well as school/community related projects and initiatives
- Provide supervision to MHST school practitioners.
- Provide consultation to Schools/GP’s/Local Authorities as required
- Work with the MHST Managers and Specialist Service Managers on intake and referral coordination
- Comprehensive Assessment of service users
- Consultation to the cross sector stakeholders
- Formulation of care plans for service user
- Communications and completed correspondence
- Engage with the internal and external network as appropriate
- Participate in Multi Disciplinary Team activities
- Risk assessment and risk management
- Safeguarding responsibilities
- Make referrals as appropriate to other providers
- Responsible for timely and accurate clinical record keeping
- Responsible for the outcome of appointments
- Report writing and GP letter writing
- To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner
- To keep up to date with knowledge of legislation, national and local policies and issues of relevance to the service and client group
- To undertake any such other duties and responsibilities appropriate to the grade of the post as agreed by the Team Manager
- Attendance at Team Meetings
- Autonomous working
Please see the attached Job Description and Person specification for more information on the role requirements and duties.
Working for our organisation
The Tavistock & Portman NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health
Trust with a focus on Training and Education alongside a full range of Child
and Adolescent Mental Health Services and Psychological Therapies. The
Trust is committed to improving mental health and emotional wellbeing,
believing that high quality mental health services should be available for all
who need them.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description and Person specification for more information on the role requirements and duties.
Person specification
Qualification/Training/Education
Essential criteria
- Appropriate qualification as either a Clinical/Counselling/Educational Psychologist (Doctoral level training and relevant UK Professional Registration (HCPC/BPS).
- Or as a Systemic Family Psychotherapist (MA/MSc qualification with full registration as a Systemic Psychotherapist with UKCP)
- Or Cognitive Behavioural Therapist with relevant UK Professional registration (e.g. BABCP)
- Or Appropriate qualification to be an existing CAMHS clinician at band 7 for example, clinical nurse specialist or mental health social worker. This must equate to a Master’s degree in the relevant clinical area
Desirable criteria
- Post-graduate qualification in a relevant field of mental health or social welfare and demonstrate significant practice
- CYP IAPT Trainings, e.g. CBT, Systemic Family Therapy, Interpersonal Therapy [IPT], Under 5’s, Parent Training.
- Other post-graduate qualifications in: CBT, Systemic Foundation and Diploma, Mindfulness.
- Additional training and qualification in providing supervision
- Additional Training in Group intervention such as Incredible Years, Solihull Approach, etc.
Previous Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of undertaking delegated leadership tasks and supervising junior staff/trainees effectively
- Experience of working with and within schools (primary and secondary).
- Experience of working with evidence based approaches to low mood, anxiety and behavior problems
- An enthusiasm for using Routine Outcome Measures. Ability to develop, manage and lead on outcomes data and data reporting for the service.
- Experience of providing brief interventions.
- Experience of working with children, young people and parents presenting with a range of mental health difficulties and challenging behaviour.
- Formulation and treatment of children and young people with mental health difficulties.
- Experience of multidisciplinary and multiagency working and co-working assessments and treatment.
- Experience of providing a culturally sensitive service.
- Working autonomously with families providing an assessment and treatment service.
- Contributing to multidisciplinary team meetings and coworking assessments and treatment within community and / or clinic-based settings.
- Experience in managing child protection concerns.
- Good level knowledge of the theory and practice of psychological interventions.
- Skills in the assessment of mental health factors for young children and their parents.
- Experience of providing supervision/coaching role
- Experience of providing training
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working with other a range of different agencies across health, education, social care and/or charities.
- Experience of working with Health Visitors, Family Support
Skills & Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Knowledge and understanding of child and adolescent mental health difficulties, their assessment, and current evidence based intervention strategies.
- Skills in the assessment of mental health for children young people and their parents.
- An ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing to convey highly complex and clinically sensitive information to family members of all ages, students and to a wide range of professional people within and outside the NHS.
- An awareness of current issues in service delivery within community CAMHS and other settings and an ability to contribute to service development.
- Ability to work autonomously, managing and planning own workload.
- High level skills in working with professional networks and the ability to advocate for and advance the mental health needs of parents and their children.
- Ability to form excellent working relationships with colleagues and work flexibly with others in multidisciplinary and multi-agency settings.
- Skills in providing consultation and support regarding mental health needs to other professionals.
- Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice
- Ability to manage/supervise clinical staff (Band 4, 5 and/ or 6).
- An awareness of relevant legislation and its implications for clinical practice
- Knowledge and understanding of issues relating to safeguarding children (child protection policies and procedures), integrated working and ISA (information sharing and assessment) procedures.
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
- Claire Vaughan
- Job title
- MHST Manager for South Camden
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
Email contact is preferable, we will contact you back by phone if required.
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