SET CAMHS Senior Practitioner- CP&R

NELFT North East London Foundation Trust

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Job summary

We welcome applications from mental health nurses, psychologists, socialworkers, psychotherapists, family therapists, and other qualified professional staff for the role of senior practitioner within SET CAMHS Mid-Essex.

CP&R SET CAMHS are looking to recruit a qualified professional from nursing, social work, psychology, family therapy or psychotherapy to join a busy community CAMHS team based in Thundersley, Essex (covering Rochford, Rayleigh and Canvey). SET CAMHS works to the iThrive model, with this role sitting within the Getting More Help and System Support sections. We are seeking candidates with experience ofmanaging risk and managing a caseload of more complex presentations. The successful candidate will also have experience of supervising and supporting colleagues at band 6.The band 7 role sits within the Multi-disciplinary Team (MDT) to take a lead on urgent and high-risk assessments, to support the team in formulating risk plans and to be able to provide a range of NICE recommended and evidence based treatments.The role will support the senior leadership team in monitoring quality ofinterventions and processes through effective supervision.

Main duties of the job

To complete assessments of children and young people's mental health with their families and carers.
To complete risk and safety plans, care planning including CPA processes post discharge from Inpatient care.
To provide evidence based treatments individually and/or via groups for a range of presentations to include CBT/DBT, trauma informed practice, EMDR, reflective therapies.
To provide treatment and interventions for children and young people with additional neurodevelopmental needs and co-morbid mental health issues.
To provide supervision to band 6 staff

About us

Starting with NELFT

NELFT place a great deal of importance on new starters being properly welcomed and inducted into the Trust. All new starters will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and will undertake a comprehensive induction of up to two weeks which will include mandatory training, systems training and the allocation of equipment. As part of the process, new starters will have the opportunity to also meet the executive team, senior managers and attend a number of drop in sessions focusing in engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes. The induction will be held at our head office in Rainham, Essex.

Probationary Period

This post will be subject to a probationary period. Internal applicants are exempt from the probationary period (unless you are an internal applicant currently part way through a probationary period or currently a bank member of staff)

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Date posted

03 February 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£46,148 to £52,809 a year per annum (pro rata)

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

395-EC041-25

Job locations

Thundersley Clinic

8 Kenneth Road

Thundersley

SS7 3AT

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification when completing your application

We welcome newly qualified, or applications from about to be qualified, Psychologists as well as those with previous experience who are passionate and motivated to work with young people and families. We pride ourselves on working within a strong and supportive multi-disciplinary team with opportunities for learning, development, and progression.

Professional registrations accepted:

RCN, BABCP, HCPC, Social Work England, UKCP.

Locality Teams in CAMHSThe aim of our new CAMHS is to respond earlier to children and young peoples needs in order to help prevent, reduce or delay the need for more specialist interventions. This transformation of children and young peoples mental health services has a clinical focus, integrated with local authorities to deliver a long term collaborative approach to planning and delivering services.The service is driven by the principles underpinning the national CYP-IAPT programme (Children and Young Peoples Improving Access to Psychological Therapies); evidence based interventions, routine measurement of outcomes, access to high quality training and supervision for professionals and co-production with children and young people

Applications for this role should be written by the applicant. If artificial intelligence (AI) programmes are used then the application may be rejected due to this document being an important part of the assessment process. This does not prevent applicants seeking appropriate support with applications should they need to for the purposes of any declared disability.

If you are an overseas qualified nurse and wanting to start your journey to becoming a UK based registered nurse with the NMC, you can check whether you are eligible to be supported through our Capital Nurse consortium. Please visit; https://www.capitalnurselondon.co.uk/how-to-apply/. Whilst NELFT is happy to welcome overseas nurses we are unable to consider your application directly. You should submit your interest and apply through the Capital Nurse London group.

Although we are a registered sponsor organisation, we are unable to offer sponsorship for some job roles, and this will be identified through filtering questions at the start of any job application on the Trac recruitment system.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification when completing your application

Professional registrations accepted:

RCN, BABCP, HCPC, Social Work England, UKCP.

Person Specification

Qualification

Essential

Qualificantion in a Core profession (Social Worker, Mental Health Nursing, Psychotherapy, Clinical Psychology)
To have registration as a full member of the appropriate professional body (e.g. HCPC, NMC, UKCP, BABCP)
Experience in a relevant NHS setting or similar with Young people with mental health presentations.

Desirable

2- 3 years post qualifying experience
Must be able to travel across the Mid Essex area.

Experience

Essential

Experience of working with complex and high risk mental health presentations in children and young people.
Experience of providing evidence based mental health interventions to children and young people including neurodiversity.
Experience of supervising staff providing mental health treatments to children and young people

Desirable

Experience of providing specialist individual interventions with a wide variety of children and young people, from 3 to 19 years old- presenting problems at the most severe end of the spectrum
Experience of managing teams

Skills

Essential

Multi-Agency working experience
Assessment, formulation risk management and safety planning
Evidenced based treatments e.g DBT, CBT, Trauma informed.
Knowledge of relevant legislation. (Childrens Act, Mental Health Act, mental capacity)

Person Specification

Qualification

Essential

Qualificantion in a Core profession (Social Worker, Mental Health Nursing, Psychotherapy, Clinical Psychology)
To have registration as a full member of the appropriate professional body (e.g. HCPC, NMC, UKCP, BABCP)
Experience in a relevant NHS setting or similar with Young people with mental health presentations.

Desirable

2- 3 years post qualifying experience
Must be able to travel across the Mid Essex area.

Experience

Essential

Experience of working with complex and high risk mental health presentations in children and young people.
Experience of providing evidence based mental health interventions to children and young people including neurodiversity.
Experience of supervising staff providing mental health treatments to children and young people

Desirable

Experience of providing specialist individual interventions with a wide variety of children and young people, from 3 to 19 years old- presenting problems at the most severe end of the spectrum
Experience of managing teams

Skills

Essential

Multi-Agency working experience
Assessment, formulation risk management and safety planning
Evidenced based treatments e.g DBT, CBT, Trauma informed.
Knowledge of relevant legislation. (Childrens Act, Mental Health Act, mental capacity)

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).