Job summary
Do you want to be part of the expanding Mental Health Support Teams (MHST) in schools? We are delighted to announce that Surrey was successful in obtaining additional MHST sites. Our current MHST areas are Epsom, Spelthorne, Reigate and Banstead, Elmbridge and Surrey Heath. We currently have both qualified EMHPs and trainee EMHPs in each of these sites. We have now also been successful in obtaining four more MHSTs to begin in September 2022. These sites are Woking, Runnymede, Guildford and Waverley. We are hoping to recruit to these new MHST sites and may have upcoming vacancies in existing teams.
We invite you to consider being involved in this exciting opportunity to help to deliver the governments vision and commitment to develop integrated mental health teams in schools.
Building on existing 'whole school approaches to mental health and wellbeing, Surrey is developing new MHSTs to work with selected primary and secondary schools to increase access to mental health interventions for children and young people up to the age of 18 years.
Our MHSTs will support families and young people with an emerging or mild mental health problem and will deliver evidence-based interventions based on the Cognitive Behavioural Therapeutic (CBT) approach in schools. Each MHST will be co-located in schools, operating from the four main geographical hubs, with services delivered across the cluster of schools for each area.
Main duties of the job
This exciting opportunity means we are
looking to recruit Senior Early Intervention Clinicians to join our MHSTs in
Surrey. As a senior clinician you will be responsible for supporting management and supervision of the EMHPs, as
well as providing consultation, advice, training and delivering interventions.
The clinician will be a professional who has experience providing supervision
or support to more junior staff.
We are looking to build a multi-disciplinary
MHST team whose strength will come from the variety of skills and experience
brought by each team member. As such we would welcome applications from
candidates with a range of experience and from range of professional
backgrounds including but not exclusively, CBT Therapy, Social Work,
Psychology, Occupational Therapists, Child Psychotherapy and Mental Health
Nurses.
We are looking for measured, inspiring,
motivated dynamic, experienced, forward-thinking clinicians who are flexible
and able to work effectively with partners in education, multiagency partners,
children, young people and their families.
GOLDEN HELLO
We are pleased to announce that we are in a position to offer a Golden Hello payment of £3,000 (pro rata) for this vacancy eligible to the external candidates only. Payment would be made in three instalments. Further details can be found in the supporting documents.
About us
Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is the leading
provider of health and social care services for people of all ages with mental
ill-health and learning disabilities in Surrey and North East Hampshire. We
also provide social care services for people with a learning disability in
Croydon and ASD and ADHD assessment services in Hampshire.
We actively
seek to engage people who use our services and our communities in improving the
mental wellbeing of the local population. We work closely with other NHS and
voluntary sector organisations who provide services and support people who use
services and carers.
Surrey is a
beautiful county lying just 30 minutes away from Central London and from the
South Coast.
Our historic
market towns and bustling districts are enveloped in wonderful countryside, and
our excellent road and rail networks bring the rest of the country within easy
reach.
For
international travel, both Gatwick and Heathrow airports are nearby.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Key elements of the role include:
- Work in partnership with schools to assess and deliver a range of
mental health interventions within school settings. This may involve group
work or direct work with children/young people as well as offering
specialist mental health-based consultation, and advice around mental
health to teaching staff.
- Be responsible and ensure the effective co-ordination of clinical
care provided within schools including consideration to safeguarding and
clinical risk issues when indicated
- Work with teachers and school staff to identify, support and
provide consultation for children and young people with emerging mental
health needs, as part of a whole school approach to mental health and
wellbeing
- Build relationships across services to ensure joint delivery of
care
- Support with
the clinical leadership of the team, providing caseload management
supervision to the EMHPs.
- Delivering
Whole School Approach Training Packages
The service will be available all year around, Monday
to Friday 9-5pm, though there may be times when workshops or community work are
required in evenings or at weekends and it is essential that the post holder is
flexible.
The principal
purpose of the job will be to provide consultation, collaborative support and evidence-based
interventions for children and young people up to 18 years. The post holder will be expected to develop and maintain networks
of support with schools and alliance colleagues and build and promote whole
school approaches to support young people with emotional wellbeing needs. They
may lead in the development of training initiatives in collaboration with colleagues from Surrey Emotional Wellbeing Services, the
Wellbeing Partnership Alliance, education, health and social care teams. They
will foster a culture that encourages and enables individuals to have an
active role in identifying, planning, and meeting their individual needs.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Key elements of the role include:
- Work in partnership with schools to assess and deliver a range of
mental health interventions within school settings. This may involve group
work or direct work with children/young people as well as offering
specialist mental health-based consultation, and advice around mental
health to teaching staff.
- Be responsible and ensure the effective co-ordination of clinical
care provided within schools including consideration to safeguarding and
clinical risk issues when indicated
- Work with teachers and school staff to identify, support and
provide consultation for children and young people with emerging mental
health needs, as part of a whole school approach to mental health and
wellbeing
- Build relationships across services to ensure joint delivery of
care
- Support with
the clinical leadership of the team, providing caseload management
supervision to the EMHPs.
- Delivering
Whole School Approach Training Packages
The service will be available all year around, Monday
to Friday 9-5pm, though there may be times when workshops or community work are
required in evenings or at weekends and it is essential that the post holder is
flexible.
The principal
purpose of the job will be to provide consultation, collaborative support and evidence-based
interventions for children and young people up to 18 years. The post holder will be expected to develop and maintain networks
of support with schools and alliance colleagues and build and promote whole
school approaches to support young people with emotional wellbeing needs. They
may lead in the development of training initiatives in collaboration with colleagues from Surrey Emotional Wellbeing Services, the
Wellbeing Partnership Alliance, education, health and social care teams. They
will foster a culture that encourages and enables individuals to have an
active role in identifying, planning, and meeting their individual needs.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Professional qualification relevant to the specialist field
- 2 or more years experience working therapeutically, clinically or consultatively within a CYP Educational or Mental Health Setting, with children and young people with mental health difficulties and their families
- Experience of delivering CBT informed practice
- Experience of multi-agency collaborative working
- Experience of monitoring performance and outcomes
- Membership/registration of relevant professional body or EMHP/CWP qualification.
- Relevant post-qualification training
- Experience of delivering mental health interventions in education settings
- CBT qualification
- A minimum of 2 years experience in a CYP mental health setting post-qualification
Desirable
- Experience of working in a CBT model.
- Experience of early OCD case management.
- Training in other MH presentations
Experience
Essential
- Knowledge of CYP IAPT & the benefits of low intensity work
- Knowledge of CYP IAPT outcome measures
- Demonstrable knowledge of relevant safeguarding and mental health legislation
- Ability to motivate, guide and support staff to develop
- Ability to provide culturally sensitive support and supervision
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Ability to teach, train and provide clear consultation
- Ability to think clinically/therapeutically about client need
- Ability to improve services to increase efficiency and enhance patient experience
- Ability to write concise and informative reports and letters
- Ability to use and interpret outcome measures to monitor intervention effectiveness. Competent ICT skills in order to
- collect and interpret data, for reports, presentations and service performance
- Provide online support
- Engage in online meetings
- Record keeping, report writing, note taking etc
Desirable
- Familiarity with electronic patient management systems such as System1.
- Experience of delivering supervision
- Awareness of relevant initiatives and frameworks, including MHSTs, Thrive and CYP IAPT.
- Awareness of relevant data monitoring requirements
- Experience of assessing/working with complex cases
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Professional qualification relevant to the specialist field
- 2 or more years experience working therapeutically, clinically or consultatively within a CYP Educational or Mental Health Setting, with children and young people with mental health difficulties and their families
- Experience of delivering CBT informed practice
- Experience of multi-agency collaborative working
- Experience of monitoring performance and outcomes
- Membership/registration of relevant professional body or EMHP/CWP qualification.
- Relevant post-qualification training
- Experience of delivering mental health interventions in education settings
- CBT qualification
- A minimum of 2 years experience in a CYP mental health setting post-qualification
Desirable
- Experience of working in a CBT model.
- Experience of early OCD case management.
- Training in other MH presentations
Experience
Essential
- Knowledge of CYP IAPT & the benefits of low intensity work
- Knowledge of CYP IAPT outcome measures
- Demonstrable knowledge of relevant safeguarding and mental health legislation
- Ability to motivate, guide and support staff to develop
- Ability to provide culturally sensitive support and supervision
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Ability to teach, train and provide clear consultation
- Ability to think clinically/therapeutically about client need
- Ability to improve services to increase efficiency and enhance patient experience
- Ability to write concise and informative reports and letters
- Ability to use and interpret outcome measures to monitor intervention effectiveness. Competent ICT skills in order to
- collect and interpret data, for reports, presentations and service performance
- Provide online support
- Engage in online meetings
- Record keeping, report writing, note taking etc
Desirable
- Familiarity with electronic patient management systems such as System1.
- Experience of delivering supervision
- Awareness of relevant initiatives and frameworks, including MHSTs, Thrive and CYP IAPT.
- Awareness of relevant data monitoring requirements
- Experience of assessing/working with complex cases
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
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).
