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The Trust has award winning equality and diversity initiatives and staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest heavily in your development, because when you are valued and supported, we provide the best care to our patients. We are a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, have been featured in the Working Families Top 10 Employers benchmark for five consecutive years, and we have achieved a Carers UK Level 1 Accreditation. Along with our staff networks and training opportunities, we work hard to embed a just and compassionate culture here at NELFT.
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Job overview
Come and work for NELFT’s Children and Young People's Mental Health Service (CYPMHS) in Tunbridge Wells, Kent and be part of one of the UK’s most innovative healthcare Trusts.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Experienced Mental Health professional (Social Worker, RMN, Clinical Psychologist, Occupational Therapist) or Post-Graduate Qualified Therapist to join our dynamic multi-disciplinary team working within our Behaviour & Conduct Pathway as the Pathway Lead. We are particularly keen to hear from applicants with a background in Systemic Family Therapy, Clinical/Forensic Psychology, Social Work or therapists with training in NVR, DBT and/or EMDR.
Main duties of the job
1. Be responsible for managing the referrals within the Behaviour and Conduct Pathway
2. You will undertake mental health assessments and routinely measure clinical outcomes and deliver evidence-based clinical interventions in line with the CYP-IAPT programme within CYPMHS
3. Promote the mental and emotional health of children, young people and families in the community through clinical interventions in the care pathway
4. Undertake assessments and deliver a range of therapeutic interventions, such as NVR, DBT or family work, to children and young people with a range of emotional and psychological difficulties where appropriate
5. Assess and develop plans of care to meet the complex needs of patients with a variety of conditions.
Working for our organisation
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).
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 focussing in engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes. The induction will be held at our head office in Rainham, Essex.
Use of AI
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
We are a community mental health service that support children and young people with the following difficulties:
• Mood and anxiety disorders
• Behavioural and conduct disorders
• Emerging personality and attachment disorders
• Psychotic disorders
• Deliberate self-harm and suicidal ideation
• Substance misuse with co-existing mental health needs (dual diagnosis)
• Autistic spectrum disorder (ASD) - with co-occurring mental health needs
• Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) - with co-occurring mental health needs
• Neurodevelopmental disorders
• Prolonged bereavement problems
All referrals to the service are assessed using a care pathways approach, developed in line with the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence guidance criteria (NICE) and based on a best practice model of treatment.
The aim of our service is to respond earlier to children and young people’s needs in order to help prevent, reduce or delay the need for more specialist interventions. This transformation of children and young people’s mental health services has a clinical focus, integrated with local authorities to deliver a long term collaborative approach to planning and delivering services.
CYPMHS focuses on emotional wellbeing as well as mental health and includes access to self-help tools and services based in schools and the community. The CAMHS Tier II and Tier III service no longer exist, replaced with an integrated CYPMHS. Training and support is available to other professionals and agencies. We are creating a modern service that fits with children’s lives in a way that best suits them. Key new features include a Children’s Single Point of Access (SPA) into the service, clear early signposting, and use of digital channels such as Big White Wall to access support and services. The locality team have care pathways. Each care pathway is clinically led, with care pathway leads operationally managing all practitioners working in that care pathway. With the support of the team manager, care pathway leads are responsible for assessment, treatment and systematic outcome measurement in that care pathway.
Care pathway leads and practitioners ensure that a high quality, timely, accessible and evidence-based service is available to all children and young people who need it. This means establishing and maintaining excellent working relationships with wider social, health and voluntary services. If working in our CYPMHS team in Tunbridge Wells is for you and you are excited by a modern approach then we would very much like to hear from you.
Person specification
Qualification
Essential criteria
6. Core professional registration
7. Post grad development and training in CYPMHS
Desirable criteria
8. Qualification in Family Therapy/NVR/DBT/EMDR
Experience
Essential criteria
9. 3 plus years experience in working with CYPMHS
10. Theraputic work undertaken with complex cases
11. Experience of working with difficult, disturbed or challenging children/young people requiring skilled and complex interventions
12. Experience of working therapeutically with parents/carers/families of children and young people with complex mental health problems
Skills
Essential criteria
13. Evidence of groups work or ability to run groups
Knowledge
Essential criteria
14. Knowledge of legislation in relation to children and adolescents and safeguarding procedures and policies
15. Knowledge of risk management and ability to monitor and assess risk and act accordingly to ensure safety
Benefits
We believe in bringing your authentic and best self to work, in order to deliver the best care to our patients. We are committed to supporting our employees holistically. Here is a snapshot of what is on offer at NELFT:
16. A long-standing and award-winning approach to equality and diversity with supportive networks for ethnic minority staff, staff with disabilities or long term/chronic conditions and LGBT staff.
17. A commitment to supporting colleagues to achieve a work life balance, through flexible working opportunities and our effortsto support our working parents and carers. This has resulted in us being recognised as a ‘Top 10 Family Friendly Employer’ from the Working Families Charity.
18. Proactive health and wellbeing support, including access to our employee assistance programme, staff psychological support, individual wellbeing conversations and a network of health and wellbeing ambassadors.
19. Detailed information about our wellbeing and benefits offer can be found in this link.
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s a job share, part time hours or another flexible pattern.