Job summary
Coventry and Warwickshire Emotional Wellbeing and Mental Health (CAMHS)
Job title/role will be CAMHS NVR informed practitioner until level 2 training is complete
Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust is further developing its Family Therapy Services.
We are building the team yet again and are delighted to be recruiting a Band 6 NVR practitioner to join the existing NVR clinicians in the existing Family Therapy Team.
This whole initiative has arisen from the Trust's commitment to systemic strategic management of service delivery. The successful candidate will be contributing to innovative developments within CAMHS and across stakeholder agencies.
Although the post holder will cover Coventry and Warwickshire, there will be a mix of online and face to face working.
Clinical supervision and management supervision will be available to support development and maintaining any professional registrations.
If you are excited about change and want to be part of this innovative service development with the aspiration to really make a difference we would very much welcome your application.
Main duties of the job
- Create and lead groups or workshop interventions to parents, carers and families.
- Using online platforms and working creatively to support engagement and participation of families in NVR
- Lead telephone, online and face to face reviews with parents/carers
- Support and participate in the management of the treatment waiting list
- Once trained, to deliver NVR individual work and lead consultations within the NVR clinic
- Be a reflecting team member within the Family Therapy training clinic and consultations
- Work independently according to the processes and structures within the NVR clinic and within the overall framework of the team's and Trust's policies and procedures
- Carry out clinically related administration
- Undertake NVR training as required to support the role
- Participate in MDT meetings and lead as appropriate
About us
At Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust (CWPT), we deliver a wide range of physical, mental health, learning disability and autism services, and are proud to serve communities across Coventry, Warwickshire and beyond.
We put 'people at our heart'; this ethos is at the centre of everything we do and how we do it. We care for our staff and colleagues as much as they care for others and offer a wide range of benefits and development opportunities.
These include:
- generous annual leave entitlement which increases during your time with us
- excellent learning and development opportunities, including apprenticeship frameworks, distance learning, internal training, coaching and mentoring, and much more
- salary sacrifice schemes for lease car/ vehicle, Cycle to Work, home and electronics, gym membership and more
- discounts with a range of retailers, restaurants and entertainment venues through our Employee Assistance Programme and NHS discount schemes
- wellbeing support, including an in-house counselling service, external helpline and more
- staff networks and support group
We're always on the lookout for people who share our passion for improving the lives and wellbeing of people in our community, as well as our values of compassion, collaboration, excellence, integrity and respect.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Supporting the creation and maintenance of spread sheets to record data and developing clinical audits for the service
- Exporting reports and creating graphs and presentations to a very high standard, often used at senior managerial meetings.
- Researching workshop and group materials and subsequently creating workshop and group presentations
- To lead on the delivery of what is NVR at the trust staff induction
- Creating leaflets and information booklets to promote the service
- Ensuring client data is accurately recorded; mistakes corrected and brought to Team Lead attention.
- Leading workshop and group therapeutic NVR interventions
- Monitoring care pathway movements of clients including treatment waiting list
- Expanding systemic knowledge by reading relevant literature
- Attending regular supervision sessions with qualified NVR supervisor (clinical) and Team Leader (management)
- Overseeing the recording and monitoring routine outcome measures and feedback to the Team Lead and Clinical Lead
- Delivery of NVR individual work and leading NVR consultations
For more information on this role please see the attached support information. This will give you a better overview of the job role and requirements.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Supporting the creation and maintenance of spread sheets to record data and developing clinical audits for the service
- Exporting reports and creating graphs and presentations to a very high standard, often used at senior managerial meetings.
- Researching workshop and group materials and subsequently creating workshop and group presentations
- To lead on the delivery of what is NVR at the trust staff induction
- Creating leaflets and information booklets to promote the service
- Ensuring client data is accurately recorded; mistakes corrected and brought to Team Lead attention.
- Leading workshop and group therapeutic NVR interventions
- Monitoring care pathway movements of clients including treatment waiting list
- Expanding systemic knowledge by reading relevant literature
- Attending regular supervision sessions with qualified NVR supervisor (clinical) and Team Leader (management)
- Overseeing the recording and monitoring routine outcome measures and feedback to the Team Lead and Clinical Lead
- Delivery of NVR individual work and leading NVR consultations
For more information on this role please see the attached support information. This will give you a better overview of the job role and requirements.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Professional registration such as Mental health Nurse, Learning Disability Nurse, Childrens Nurse, Social Worker, Occupational Therapist
- Experience of working therapeutically with children and families
- NVR foundation training
Knowledge
Essential
- Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, relating to complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
- Participate and undertake audit evaluation and research. Completed clinical audits within a service
- Ability to function in an autonomous fashion, subject to suitable supervision
- Appropriate understanding of confidentiality in a mental health context
- Demonstrates a knowledge of the issues surrounding work and the impact it can have on mental health / benefits & employment systems
- knowledge of child protection issues and other relevant legislation
Experience
Essential
- Relevant experience of working therapeutically with families
- Relevant experience of working with Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS), or equivalent Child and Family Services
- Experience of delivering therapeutic group intervention
- Experience of working individual with parents/carers
- Ability to meet agreed / specified service targets. Working in a manner consistent with the service.
- Working and liaising with other professional groups
- Working as a member of a team or team environment.
- Worked in a service where agreed targets are in place demonstrating clinical outcomes
Personal Attributes
Essential
- Ability to use clinical supervision and personal development positively and effectively
- To be open to flexible working hours to meet reasonable client needs
- To engage and foster good professional relationships with all health professionals in promoting the good integration of this service with the wider health care system
- Able to quickly initiate and establish a positive rapport
- Able to be appropriately self aware and interpersonally skilled
- Able to appropriately manage stresses arising from the job
- Ability to work on own initiative
Other
Essential
- Ability to work both at home or on site
- Car driver to have access to independent means of transport for work purposes and willingness to travel to locations throughout the organisation
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Professional registration such as Mental health Nurse, Learning Disability Nurse, Childrens Nurse, Social Worker, Occupational Therapist
- Experience of working therapeutically with children and families
- NVR foundation training
Knowledge
Essential
- Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, relating to complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
- Participate and undertake audit evaluation and research. Completed clinical audits within a service
- Ability to function in an autonomous fashion, subject to suitable supervision
- Appropriate understanding of confidentiality in a mental health context
- Demonstrates a knowledge of the issues surrounding work and the impact it can have on mental health / benefits & employment systems
- knowledge of child protection issues and other relevant legislation
Experience
Essential
- Relevant experience of working therapeutically with families
- Relevant experience of working with Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS), or equivalent Child and Family Services
- Experience of delivering therapeutic group intervention
- Experience of working individual with parents/carers
- Ability to meet agreed / specified service targets. Working in a manner consistent with the service.
- Working and liaising with other professional groups
- Working as a member of a team or team environment.
- Worked in a service where agreed targets are in place demonstrating clinical outcomes
Personal Attributes
Essential
- Ability to use clinical supervision and personal development positively and effectively
- To be open to flexible working hours to meet reasonable client needs
- To engage and foster good professional relationships with all health professionals in promoting the good integration of this service with the wider health care system
- Able to quickly initiate and establish a positive rapport
- Able to be appropriately self aware and interpersonally skilled
- Able to appropriately manage stresses arising from the job
- Ability to work on own initiative
Other
Essential
- Ability to work both at home or on site
- Car driver to have access to independent means of transport for work purposes and willingness to travel to locations throughout the organisation
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.
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
