Job summary
Calling all CAMHS Core professions such as CBT practitioners, clinical/ counselling psychologists, family systemic psychotherapists, mental health nurses, CAMHS occupational therapists, child psychotherapists or CAMHS social workers!
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced clinical manager to join the Hounslow Mental Health Support Team (MHST). We would like to hear from confident CAMHS professionals with significant experience of day to day operational leadership, and offering supervision and line management to clinicians.
It is essential you hold a relevant clinical qualification and have previous experience of working in a specialist or early help CAMHS team; experience of working in an educational setting would be a bonus. You will be responsible for the delivery of a high quality and responsive CAMHS service, including implementation and review of systems, policies, standards and procedures within frameworks agreed by the Trust, partner agencies and commissioners.
Main duties of the job
This role is a chance to make a difference in young lives, and as such includes both operational management and clinical duties.
The main focus is to:
- Provide day to day senior operational management and leadership for the clinical functioning of the East MHST whilst working alongside service leaders to develop and implement a wide range of interventions and projects with local schools.
- Lead on and directly provide comprehensive assessment, risk management and interventions for young people experiencing emotional and mental health difficulties.
- Work with school staff and cultures in developing school environments that are more conducive to supporting sustainably better emotional health and wellbeing.
This is a challenging and rewarding role that will provide a talented and ambitious manager with real scope to develop and influence practice. If you are interested in working with schools and want to help shape new models of evidence-based support for CYP, this job could be for you.
About us
West London NHS Trust is one of the most diverse providers of mental health, community and social care in the UK.
Our 3,982 staff care for people in hospital and in the community, helping them to recover and go on to lead full and productive lives. We aim to be the best organisation of our kind in the country.
We provide care and treatment for more than 800,000 people living in the London boroughs of Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham and Hounslow, delivering services in the community (at home, in GP surgeries and care homes), hospital, specialist clinics and forensic (secure) units.
We'rerated good overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
Together, we're committed to promoting hope and wellbeing, working with patients, service users, carers, families and partners across the communities we serve.
We are keen to ensure that our workforce reflects the community it serves, particularly in terms of ethnicity, gender, disability, LGBTQ+ and experience of mental illness.
The regulations mandating vaccination for in-scope roles in the NHS have now been removed. The Trust does however continue to encourage and support staff to be vaccinated as this remains the best line of defence against COVID19. Vaccination data will be collected by our recruitment team during your on-boarding if you are happy to provide a copy of your COVID pass.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The successful applicant will be supported to maintain their professional registration and will have access to support/supervision from colleagues from within their discipline, if applicable. We offer high quality supervision, with excellent CPD and career development opportunities.
The post holder will cover Hounslow East MHST and work closely with the Central and West Team Leads on service wide projects. The role has an office base in Ivy Bridge Primary School and will require some travel to partner schools and Trust sites. In line with the Trusts Agile Working Policy, the team are currently taking a blended approach by working remotely and face to face, as required.
For full details about this Band 8a MHST Lead role, please see the uploaded job description and person specification.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The successful applicant will be supported to maintain their professional registration and will have access to support/supervision from colleagues from within their discipline, if applicable. We offer high quality supervision, with excellent CPD and career development opportunities.
The post holder will cover Hounslow East MHST and work closely with the Central and West Team Leads on service wide projects. The role has an office base in Ivy Bridge Primary School and will require some travel to partner schools and Trust sites. In line with the Trusts Agile Working Policy, the team are currently taking a blended approach by working remotely and face to face, as required.
For full details about this Band 8a MHST Lead role, please see the uploaded job description and person specification.
Person Specification
TRAINING & QUALIFICATIONS
Essential
- Qualification in an appropriate mental health profession (such as Nursing, Social Work, OT, Counselling or Clinical Psychology, Family Therapy or Child Psychotherapy) and registration with relevant UK governing body. or To be fully accredited by the BABCP as a CBT practitioner.
- Specialist knowledge acquired at masters' level, or equivalent experience (e.g. short specialist courses, clinical supervision or further specialist training).
Desirable
- Parenting qualification and parenting supervision qualification.
- Specific therapeutic modality training and qualification e.g. CBT, DBT, IPT etc.
- Management or leadership training
EXPERIENCE
Essential
- Substantial post qualification experience
- Experience of working with children, young people and parents presenting with a range of mental health difficulties and challenging behaviour
- Experience of working with evidence based approaches to low mood, anxiety and behaviour problems.
- Assessment, formulation and treatment of children and young people with mental health difficulties
- Previous experience of supervising clinicians and operational leadership functions
- Experience of collaborative multidisciplinary working across a variety of settings (e.g., education & social care).
- Experience of providing a culturally sensitive service.
- Experience in managing child protection concerns
Desirable
- Experience of working within a multiagency context.
- Experience of developing and delivering whole school approaches in line with the recently published Mental health support teams for children and young people in education manual.
KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS
Essential
- High level knowledge of the theory and practice of psychological interventions
- Skills in the assessment of mental health factors for children young people and their parents.
- Ability to work autonomously
- 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 chair team meetings and support the MHST Manager with delegated management tasks.
- Ability to form excellent working relationships with colleagues and work flexibly with others in multidisciplinary and multi-agency settings.
- Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice
- Knowledge and skills in effective communication including highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues.
- Effectively manage a reduced clinical caseload, complete outcome measures routinely, and update clinical records in line with team, service and Trust requirements.
- Ability to develop, manage and lead on outcomes data and data reporting for the service.
- Knowledge of the relevant clinical research literature and ability to apply it to field of parent/child mental health for each service area.
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health, education and the children Act and Child protection.
- Ability to form good working relationships and work flexibly with others in multi-disciplinary and multi-agency settings.
Desirable
- Delivery of parenting programmes - Webster- Stratton, Triple P, NVR etc.
- Supervision of clinicians delivering parenting programme.
- Supervising Children's Wellbeing Practitioners as part of IAPT programme.
- Experience of working in a culturally diverse inner city area
OTHER
Essential
- Ability to form good working relationships and work flexibly with others in multi-disciplinary and multi-agency settings
- Ability to design and deliver training, in using multi-media materials, to a range of audiences in different settings.
- Motivated, innovative and keen to contribute to service development.
- An enthusiasm for brief interventions
Person Specification
TRAINING & QUALIFICATIONS
Essential
- Qualification in an appropriate mental health profession (such as Nursing, Social Work, OT, Counselling or Clinical Psychology, Family Therapy or Child Psychotherapy) and registration with relevant UK governing body. or To be fully accredited by the BABCP as a CBT practitioner.
- Specialist knowledge acquired at masters' level, or equivalent experience (e.g. short specialist courses, clinical supervision or further specialist training).
Desirable
- Parenting qualification and parenting supervision qualification.
- Specific therapeutic modality training and qualification e.g. CBT, DBT, IPT etc.
- Management or leadership training
EXPERIENCE
Essential
- Substantial post qualification experience
- Experience of working with children, young people and parents presenting with a range of mental health difficulties and challenging behaviour
- Experience of working with evidence based approaches to low mood, anxiety and behaviour problems.
- Assessment, formulation and treatment of children and young people with mental health difficulties
- Previous experience of supervising clinicians and operational leadership functions
- Experience of collaborative multidisciplinary working across a variety of settings (e.g., education & social care).
- Experience of providing a culturally sensitive service.
- Experience in managing child protection concerns
Desirable
- Experience of working within a multiagency context.
- Experience of developing and delivering whole school approaches in line with the recently published Mental health support teams for children and young people in education manual.
KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS
Essential
- High level knowledge of the theory and practice of psychological interventions
- Skills in the assessment of mental health factors for children young people and their parents.
- Ability to work autonomously
- 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 chair team meetings and support the MHST Manager with delegated management tasks.
- Ability to form excellent working relationships with colleagues and work flexibly with others in multidisciplinary and multi-agency settings.
- Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice
- Knowledge and skills in effective communication including highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues.
- Effectively manage a reduced clinical caseload, complete outcome measures routinely, and update clinical records in line with team, service and Trust requirements.
- Ability to develop, manage and lead on outcomes data and data reporting for the service.
- Knowledge of the relevant clinical research literature and ability to apply it to field of parent/child mental health for each service area.
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health, education and the children Act and Child protection.
- Ability to form good working relationships and work flexibly with others in multi-disciplinary and multi-agency settings.
Desirable
- Delivery of parenting programmes - Webster- Stratton, Triple P, NVR etc.
- Supervision of clinicians delivering parenting programme.
- Supervising Children's Wellbeing Practitioners as part of IAPT programme.
- Experience of working in a culturally diverse inner city area
OTHER
Essential
- Ability to form good working relationships and work flexibly with others in multi-disciplinary and multi-agency settings
- Ability to design and deliver training, in using multi-media materials, to a range of audiences in different settings.
- Motivated, innovative and keen to contribute to service development.
- An enthusiasm for brief interventions
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
