Job summary
Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health and community health services trust. Rated 'outstanding' by the CQC, committed to providing the best possible care to people across Berkshire.
Are you passionate about working somewhere you can make a real change to people's lives?
Does an Outstanding rated trust who takes its staffs wellbeing seriously sound like somewhere you would like to work?
They support children and young people to understand what is being said to them, express themselves and produce the sounds needed for clear speech. In some cases, speech and language therapists alsowork to help children with their eating and drinking.
They also help with social communication skills and interacting with others, as well as specific conditions such as stammering or hearing impairment.
Main duties of the job
Clinical assessments for young people up to the age of 18 years, presenting with mild to moderate mental health problems
Short-term, evidence-basedtherapeutic interventions (individual, group, family, as appropriate)
To offer training, consultation and supervision to external agencies with regards to the mental health presentation of children and young people who are accessing the GHT and MHST.
Ensuring liaison and joint working between the Getting Help / MHST and the locality Early Help Hub and specialist CAMHS services.
Use of routine outcome measuresto promote active participation from young people and evaluate the effectiveness of interventions.
Training to professionals
Supervision
About us
Here at NHS Professionals, we run England's largest NHS staff bank and are experts at putting people in places to care. Every year we help thousands of dedicated and highly skilled NHS workers enjoy better career opportunities, more flexible shifts, and a healthier work-life balance across our partnered Trusts.
Career Progression access to Learning & Development opportunities, so that you can take on new roles and challenges
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Job description
Job responsibilities
JOB SUMMARY
1. To offer a specialist perspective to the multi-disciplinary team through therapeutic work, consultation, supervision, joint work and participation in team meetings and training.
2. Provide specialist assessments and interventions to child and young people accessing the Getting Help Team and Mental Health Support Team. Participate in the review of clinical policies and guidelines relevant to the area and support and implement changes to practice; liaise with other organisations and professionals to promote communication and good practice; be able to undertake audit activity and supervision of staff. Understand psychosocial interventions to include psychoeducation, wellness recovery action plans and discharge planning.
3. As a member of a multi-disciplinary team to maintain a caseload and provide direct clinical work that demonstrates a high level of specialist skill in treating clients with an early onset of mental health concerns.
4. To offer training, consultation, and supervision to external agencies with regards to the mental health presentation of children and young people who are accessing the GHT/ MHST.
5. To contribute to core Getting Help/ MHST duties such as triage, consultations and providing initial assessments.
6. Ensuring liaison and joint working between the Getting Help / MHST and the locality Early Help Hub and specialist CAMHS services.
7. To support, participate and promote the appropriate data outcome collection of all children and young people accessing the service.
8. To provide leadership to the Getting Help / MHST practitioners as per service need.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Clinical
1. To provide specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the team based upon the appropriate use, formulation, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the clients care, as appropriate and commensurate with skill.
2. To plan and implement formal Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) psychological treatment and/or management of a clients mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the clients problems, and employing methods of proven efficiency.
3. To implement a range of CBT psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
4. To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.
5. To be responsible and accountable for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based care plans.
6. To provide specialist psychological advice guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.
7. To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management.
8. To act as lead clinician/ professional, where no other team member is involved, taking responsibility for initiating planning and review of care plans including clients, their carers, referring agents and others involved the network of care.
9. To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care and to monitor progress during the course of both uni- and multi-disciplinary care.
10. To maintain the highest standards of clinical record keeping including electronic data entry and recording, report writing and the responsible exercise of professional self-governance in accordance with relevant professional codes of practice and Trust policies and procedures.
11. Adhere to an agreed activity contract relating to the number of client contacts offered, and clinical sessions carried out per week in order to minimise waiting times and ensure treatment delivery remains accessible and convenient.
12. Complete all requirements relating to data collection within the service including use of routine outcome and patient experience measures.
Teaching, training, and supervision
1. To receive regular clinical CBT professional supervision and if appropriate, to provide supervision to other senior professional colleagues.
2. To gain additional specialist experience and skills relevant to the discipline and the service and as agreed with the Operational Lead.
3. To provide advice, consultation and training to staff working within the Locality across a range of professions, agencies and settings, where appropriate.
Management, recruitment, policy and service development
1. To advise the Clinical Team Lead on those aspects of the service where psychological and/or organisational matters need addressing.
2. To manage the workloads of trainees, within the framework of the team/services policies and procedures, as appropriate to the postholders own level of experience.
3. To be involved, as appropriate, in the shortlisting and interviewing of Getting Help/ MHST and other early intervention services staff.
Research and service evaluation
1. To contribute to the development, evaluation and monitoring of the teams operational policies and services and participate in the development of high quality, responsive and accessible services.
2. To utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence based practice in individual work and work with other team members.
3. To undertake appropriate research and provide research advice to other staff undertaking research as appropriate to own level of experience and within agreed service objectives.
4. To undertake project management, including complex audit and service evaluation, with colleagues using research methodology to address a clinical question or improve services.
General and Professional
Undertake CBT clinical work, training and personal development to maintain and develop clinical, CBT and leadership skills.
Work at all times within Professional Code of Practice for your relevant professional body, whilst maintaining current registration status.
Participate in appraisal and objective setting process and identify and meet PDP needs.
Seek and receive regular planned management and clinical supervision.
To complete mandatory training as required in Berkshire Healthcare.
GENERAL
1. This is a varied role where youll be expected to undertake the range of responsibilities specified above, working together with your line manager and colleagues to ensure that the activities of this post make a real difference to our patients. Your line manager may ask you to undertake other reasonable duties to facilitate the smooth running of your service or team.
2. We are an equal opportunities employer and youll be expected to role model equality of opportunity, live the values and always operate in accordance with our Equal Opportunities Policy.
3. Health and Safety at work is important to us and we would like you to role model the highest standards of behaviour and go above and beyond by adopting excellent practice where it links to the health and wellbeing of our colleagues. It is important that you cooperate with us to ensure that statutory and departmental safety regulations are adhered to.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
9. Appropriate qualification as either a Clinical/Counselling/Educational Psychologist (Doctoral) level training and relevant UK Professional Registration (HCPC/BPS) or equivalent
Desirable
10. Postgraduate qualification in a relevant field of mental health and able to demonstrate significant practice.
Experience
Essential
11. Experience of multidisciplinary and multiagency working eg: with local authorities, education settings and other community services.
12. Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the relevant professional body.
13. Car driver / owner able to travel to other locations within the trust using own vehicle (mileage paid)
14. Enhanced DBS
Desirable
15. CYP IAPT Training CBT, low intensity EMHP or CWP training Systemic Family Therapy, Attachment based training Interpersonal Therapy [IPT].