Job summary
This is an exciting opportunity to work with an innovative psychology led multi-agency team to provide mental health support to children and young people in and around their educational setting in line with the government green paper and NHSE long term plan.
The Senior School Link will hold regular review meetings with the Senior Mental Health Lead in school to support them to further develop their whole school emotional wellbeing and trauma informed offer; providing school based care plans to support the most vulnerable children and young people; coordinating and supporting direct work with children and young people with the EMHPs; offering consultation, training, reflective practice to school staff and MHST staff and EMHP case management supervision.
Regular line management and clinical supervision from an experienced Clinical Psychologist will be available alongside peer supervision with multi-agency colleagues. Post holders will be expected to attend a one year post graduate course in EMHP supervision course with the University of Sheffield and further training will be available.
The post will best fit someone interested in community-based work, who is able to apply their psychological knowledge to an educational context and who can manage to be both responsive and innovative alongside being clear about service boundaries and evidence based, theory led practice.
Main duties of the job
- Supporting the Senior Mental Health Lead within school through regular review meetings to further develop their whole school emotional wellbeing and trauma informed offer: through review, assessment, analysing survey data, report writing, and action planning; consultation; triage; development of resources and training for school staff, children and young people and parents and carers; reflective practice
- Assessment, formulation and development of school-based care plans to support the school in being able to meet the needs of the most vulnerable children and young people within school
- Clinical supervision, training and reflective practice to the Education Mental Health Practitioners (EMHPs) within the team.
- Service evaluation
- Service user engagement
- Taking a specific lead role within the service
- Recording and reporting on activity and outcomes
- When required to deliver group and one to one evidence based, theory informed interventions.
About us
The post holder will work within the Healthy Minds Mental Health Support Team which currently has twenty-two staff, delivered by Sheffield CAMHS as part of Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation Trust.
Sheffield Children's is one of three independent, specialist paediatric hospitals in the country, providing dedicated healthcare for children and young people across community, mental health and acute specialist settings.
We have three overarching aims that set the direction for the Trust in our vision to create a healthier future for children and young people.
- Outstanding patient care
- Brilliant place to work
- Leader in children's health
Our commitment to rewarding colleagues is demonstrated through our brilliant reward and benefits offer including; generous annual leave entitlement and pension scheme and access to salary sacrifice schemes such as cycle to work and lease cars.
We are committed to supporting colleagues from different heritages and lifestyles while at work. This is supported through the offer we have in place for flexible working and the three equality network groups we have in place.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see Job description and personal specification for main responsibilities for this role.
Inclusive Recruitment & Selection
We are committed to being an inclusive employer and accurate data capture is an important part of that to ensure we are supportive and representative. Our aim is to ensure that all applicants can see themselves in the available categories on our application form, but we recognise that some of our data capture fields are not inclusive. We have flagged this with our system provider to ask for change.
We offer encouragement and active support to applicants with additional needs, including those from ethnic minorities, with disabilities and members of the LGBTQ+ community. If you wish to adjust any aspect of the recruitment process or wish to find out more about our recruitment & selection processes, please get in touch with our Recruitment Manager: Catherine.Gilbert7@nhs.net
We are continually reviewing our recruitment & selection process to support the long-term aim of Sheffield Childrens being a champion of Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion. If you have any ideas for improvement, please get in touch with Catherine Gilbert at Catherine.Gilbert7@nhs.net
Trust Values
The Trust is committed to providing great quality patient care and keep children, young people and families at the heart of what we do by following our CARE values:
- Compassion leading by kindness and showing empathy, understanding and respect
- Accountability striving to do the right thing and owning responsibility
- Respect value differences, tackling inequality and fostering a culture of inclusion
- Excellence delivering a high-quality standard of care
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see Job description and personal specification for main responsibilities for this role.
Inclusive Recruitment & Selection
We are committed to being an inclusive employer and accurate data capture is an important part of that to ensure we are supportive and representative. Our aim is to ensure that all applicants can see themselves in the available categories on our application form, but we recognise that some of our data capture fields are not inclusive. We have flagged this with our system provider to ask for change.
We offer encouragement and active support to applicants with additional needs, including those from ethnic minorities, with disabilities and members of the LGBTQ+ community. If you wish to adjust any aspect of the recruitment process or wish to find out more about our recruitment & selection processes, please get in touch with our Recruitment Manager: Catherine.Gilbert7@nhs.net
We are continually reviewing our recruitment & selection process to support the long-term aim of Sheffield Childrens being a champion of Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion. If you have any ideas for improvement, please get in touch with Catherine Gilbert at Catherine.Gilbert7@nhs.net
Trust Values
The Trust is committed to providing great quality patient care and keep children, young people and families at the heart of what we do by following our CARE values:
- Compassion leading by kindness and showing empathy, understanding and respect
- Accountability striving to do the right thing and owning responsibility
- Respect value differences, tackling inequality and fostering a culture of inclusion
- Excellence delivering a high-quality standard of care
Person Specification
Qualifications and Training
Essential
- A registerable mental health qualification such as Registered Mental Health Nurse (RMN), a registerable social work qualification such as Social Worker, or a registerable psychotherapy qualification such as Art, Drama, Music or Family Therapist
- Accredited practitioner status with the HCPC or relevant governing body
- Evidence of Continuing Professional Development in Psychotherapies.
- Ability to work at postgraduate level
Desirable
- To be educated to MSc level or have equivalent Clinical / Managerial experience
- Postgraduate psychotherapy qualification such as PG Dip in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, MA Art Therapy, MA Drama Therapy, MA Music Therapy, MSc Family Therapy
- Qualification in supervision of practitioners in delivering psychotherapies
Experience
Essential
- Significant post registration experience, within a CAMHS / Mental
- Experience of working with a wide variety of child mental health and well being problems, across the whole age range, reflecting all levels of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems and verbal and physical abuse.
- Working in a multi-disciplinary team and across multi-agency partners
- Multi-agency working
- Clinical practice relevant to the specialty
- Legal Frameworks relevant to CAMHS MH Clinical Risk
Desirable
- Developing and delivering mental health training
- Offering consultation and supervision / reflective practice
- Experience of early intervention and prevention
- Setting and auditing clinical standards
- Experience of working with schools and / or communities
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Knowledge / Skills and an understanding of a range of psychological theory and models of care and treatment.
- An understanding of Safeguarding and its application in practice. Clinical Risk Assessment and Management and its application in practice
- Clinical Governance and its application in practice
- Self-Management and organization
- Excellent Communication / interpersonal skills (verbal and written)
- Communicate complex and sensitive information effectively to patients, carers/families and all members of the multidisciplinary team
- Work effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team, with school staff, parents / carers and pupils and multi-agency colleagues.
- Use multimedia materials for presentations and training and report writing
- Hold a current UK driving license and have access to a vehicle
- Ability to link psychological theory to practice
Desirable
- Ability to link psychological theory to practice and how this can apply to educational settings
- Knowledge of working systemically with teams to promote psychological approaches.
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialized psychological therapies in children within the post's specific client group.
- High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies.
Personal qualities
Essential
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- An ability to apply sustained and intense concentration both within the clinical work, and in order to plan workload and liaise effectively with multiple partners.
- An ability to interact with children, young people and school staff and their carers and families.
- Ability to personally manage a sensitive, traumatic and potentially emotionally distressing caseload
- An understanding of the role
- Ability to self reflect
Desirable
- Proven commitment to continuous professional development.
- An interest in working within schools
Person Specification
Qualifications and Training
Essential
- A registerable mental health qualification such as Registered Mental Health Nurse (RMN), a registerable social work qualification such as Social Worker, or a registerable psychotherapy qualification such as Art, Drama, Music or Family Therapist
- Accredited practitioner status with the HCPC or relevant governing body
- Evidence of Continuing Professional Development in Psychotherapies.
- Ability to work at postgraduate level
Desirable
- To be educated to MSc level or have equivalent Clinical / Managerial experience
- Postgraduate psychotherapy qualification such as PG Dip in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, MA Art Therapy, MA Drama Therapy, MA Music Therapy, MSc Family Therapy
- Qualification in supervision of practitioners in delivering psychotherapies
Experience
Essential
- Significant post registration experience, within a CAMHS / Mental
- Experience of working with a wide variety of child mental health and well being problems, across the whole age range, reflecting all levels of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems and verbal and physical abuse.
- Working in a multi-disciplinary team and across multi-agency partners
- Multi-agency working
- Clinical practice relevant to the specialty
- Legal Frameworks relevant to CAMHS MH Clinical Risk
Desirable
- Developing and delivering mental health training
- Offering consultation and supervision / reflective practice
- Experience of early intervention and prevention
- Setting and auditing clinical standards
- Experience of working with schools and / or communities
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Knowledge / Skills and an understanding of a range of psychological theory and models of care and treatment.
- An understanding of Safeguarding and its application in practice. Clinical Risk Assessment and Management and its application in practice
- Clinical Governance and its application in practice
- Self-Management and organization
- Excellent Communication / interpersonal skills (verbal and written)
- Communicate complex and sensitive information effectively to patients, carers/families and all members of the multidisciplinary team
- Work effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team, with school staff, parents / carers and pupils and multi-agency colleagues.
- Use multimedia materials for presentations and training and report writing
- Hold a current UK driving license and have access to a vehicle
- Ability to link psychological theory to practice
Desirable
- Ability to link psychological theory to practice and how this can apply to educational settings
- Knowledge of working systemically with teams to promote psychological approaches.
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialized psychological therapies in children within the post's specific client group.
- High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies.
Personal qualities
Essential
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- An ability to apply sustained and intense concentration both within the clinical work, and in order to plan workload and liaise effectively with multiple partners.
- An ability to interact with children, young people and school staff and their carers and families.
- Ability to personally manage a sensitive, traumatic and potentially emotionally distressing caseload
- An understanding of the role
- Ability to self reflect
Desirable
- Proven commitment to continuous professional development.
- An interest in working within schools
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).
