Job overview
An exciting opportunity has come up in the Wellbeing in Newham Schools Team (WINS) for a qualified EMHP Supervisor to join Newham’s Mental Health Support Team (MHST) delivering support to pupils, their families and teaching staff in education environments across the borough.
This role is a mix of clinical interventions, supervision, collaboration with partners and transformation, with the possibility of embedding your own ideas around what will work for pupils.
We are looking for confident CAMHS professionals who are keen to develop their skills in providing evidence based interventions to children and young people both within schools and in CAMHS clinic settings. You will have a demonstrable track record of providing collaborative and supportive interventions with children, young people, families, and parents/carers. You will have professional registration within your chosen profession, for example Social work, Psychology, or alternative therapies, or be a CWP / EMHP with at least 2 years experience post-qualification & an EMHP supervisor post graduate diploma. The community served is multi-ethnic and culturally diverse and we welcome applicants who are skilled at working with the richness and complexity of this multicultural context.
Main duties of the job
The WINS Clinical Supervisor will be responsible for the caseload management & supervision of the EMHPs. The post holder will also work with and support other senior colleagues in developing service structures to support the delivery of EMHP skills and facilitate wider service transformation within the local child mental health system – this will be done in conjunction with and local service leads and managers.
The Clinical Supervisor will support the strategic development of the team, under the direction of the overall Clinical Leads. They will work closely with all clinical and operational leaders across Newham to ensure that the WINS team is well established and integrated into our CAMHS service.
In addition to providing supervision the post also involves holding your own case load of mild to moderate cases, offering comprehensive consultation, assessment, risk management and interventions for young people experiencing emotional and mental health difficulties. This post is an opportunity to work with education staff and other partners to develop school environments that are more conducive to supporting sustainably better emotional health and wellbeing.
Working for our organisation
Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To build and maintain the following Key Relationships:
1. WINS colleagues, Specialist School Staff and parents/carers
2. Children, young people and their families
3. General Manager CAMHS
4. CAMHS Senior Management Group
5. Multidisciplinary colleagues in CAMHS
6. Other professionals working with children and young people in social services, health, education, youth justice system and the voluntary sector
7. Trust corporate departments including Human Resources, Training and Development, IM&T etc.
To work in partnership with schools to assess and deliver a range of mental health interventions within school settings. This may involve group work or direct work with children/young people as well as offering specialist mental health-based consultation, and advice around mental health to teaching staff.
Be responsible and ensure the effective co-ordination of clinical care provided within schools including consideration to safeguarding and clinical risk issues where indicated
Work with teachers and school staff to identify, support and provide consultation for children and young people with emerging mental health needs, as part of a whole school approach to mental health and wellbeing
Build relationships across services to ensure joint delivery of care
Contribute to the clinical leadership of the team, providing good quality CBT based clinical and line management supervision and caseload management to the EMHP trainees and will continue this provision once the EMHP trainees have successfully completed their training
Deliver Whole School Approach Training Packages
Person specification
Education/ Qualification/ Training
Essential criteria
8. •Qualification in appropriate mental health/social welfare profession such as: Family & Systemic Psychotherapist / Clinical Psychologist / Counselling Psychologist / Occupational Therapist / Clinical Nurse Specialist (Mental Health) / Social Worker / Art Therapist / Teacher or CWP / EMHP with at least 2 years experience post-qualification
9. •Appropriate level of qualification for your profession e.g. BSc, Masters or Doctoral level
10. •Registration with your appropriate body (e.g. UKCP, NMC, HCP etc.)
11. •Evidence of continuous and relevant professional training and development (CPD), as appropriate with qualification period
12. •CYP-IAPT Supervision training or equivalent
Experience
Essential criteria
13. •Previous experience of working in CAMHS
14. •Experience of supervising clinicians and trainees
15. •Experience of working with evidence based approaches to low mood, anxiety and behaviour problems
16. •Experience delivering CBT based interventions for low mood, anxiety and other mild mental health issues
17. •An enthusiasm for using Routine Outcome Measures
18. •Experience of undertaking delegated leadership tasks and managing trainee staff effectively
19. •Ability to develop, manage and lead on outcomes data and data reporting for the service
20. •Experience of providing a culturally sensitive service
21. •Working autonomously with families providing an assessment and treatment service
22. •Experience in managing child protection concerns
23. •Experience of risk assessment and risk management
Desirable criteria
24. •Experience of working in a school setting
25. •Work in a multi-cultural setting, including working with interpreters
26. •Experience of working with children, young people and parents presenting with a range of mental health difficulties and challenging behaviour
27. •Clinical experience of outcomes based practice
28. •An enthusiasm for brief interventions in schools
29. •Formulation and treatment of children and young people with mental health difficulties
30. •Experience of multidisciplinary and multiagency working and co-working assessments and treatment
31. •Experience of working with families, school and other partner organisation to support young people who may be displaying behaviours that challenge.
32. •Experience of delivering evidence based Parent groups and specialist groups.
33. •Experience of working with children, young people and families in emotional crisis.
34. •Knowledge and experience with working with Child Protection issues and serious mental health problems, including challenging behaviour
35. •Experience of working in a culturally diverse Inner city area
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
36. •Knowledge of practice of guided self-help, drawing on principles of CBT and behavioural therapy
37. •Knowledge of evidence informed interventions for low mood, self-harm, anxiety and common behaviour problems in young children in education settings
38. •High level skills in working with professional networks and the ability to advocate for and advance the mental health needs of parents and their children
39. •Presentation/ teaching skills •Keyboard skills
40. •Ability to chair team meetings, undertake delegated management tasks and support the Clinical Lead in general team tasks/development as required
41. •Ability to form excellent working relationships with colleagues and work flexibly with others in multidisciplinary and multi-agency settings
42. •Knowledge and skills in effective communication, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS (e.g. schools)
43. •Effectively manage a clinical caseload, complete outcomes measures routinely, update clinical records in line with team, service and Trust requirements
44. •Able to work effectively across •organisational boundaries
45. •Ability to recognise own limits and seek support re supervision as appropriate
46. •The ability to empathise in a complex sensitive or emotional environment.
Desirable criteria
47. •Knowledge of current development in CAMHS
48. •An interest of developing some area of expertise
49. •Acquaintance with parenting literature
50. •Knowledge of the relevant clinical research literature and ability to apply it to field of parent/child mental health for each service area
51. •Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health, education and the children Act and Child protection
Other
Essential criteria
52. •Commitment to equal opportunities •Self-motivated, assertive and flexible.
53. •Interest and ability to contribute to the MHST service development
Desirable criteria
54. •Proven qualities in sustaining the mental, emotional and physical demands of specialized therapeutic work with disturbed and distressed children, adolescents and their families/carer networks.