Joining #TeamNELFT means you’ll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We’re CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London, Essex, Kent and Medway. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.
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 three 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
We are looking to recruit a full time assistant psychologists within the Mental Health Support Team in North East Essex. These posts will be based in Colchester and Tendring.
Mental Health Support Teams (MHSTs) are a new service designed to support children and young people with mild to moderate mental health and emotional wellbeing in education settings. They are made up of Children and Young People’s Mental Health Practitioners and Education Mental Health Practitioners.
MHSTs aims to:
1. support children and young people with mild to moderate mental health problems through evidence-based interventions
2. support schools in developing their whole school approach to mental health
3. provide timely advice to school staff and to liaise with other services in order to help children and young people get the right help and stay in education.
This advert is likely to attract a high number of applicants and will close early once a maximum number of applicants has been reached.
We are asking candidates to utilise the person specification to outline: What experience you have working with children in a community setting and as part of a multi-disciplinary team
Main duties of the job
1. To assist, under the supervision of a qualified practitioner psychologist or other appropriately qualified team member, in the coordination and running of therapeutic groups.
2. To undertake, under the supervision of a qualified practitioner psychologist or other appropriately qualified team member, protocol-based psychological assessments of clients, including the use of self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured
observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client’s care.
3. To assist in the formulation and delivery of routine care plans involving the psychological treatment and/or management of a client’s problems, under the direct supervision of a qualified practitioner psychologist or other appropriately qualified team member.
4. To manage an ongoing programme of audit of MHST outcomes involving measures completed by children, young people and families.
5. To analyse this data and contribute to the production of reports of outcomes for the team and for commissioners.
6. To support the multi-disciplinary team at all stages of the research process including writing grant applications, data collection, data analysis and write up of results
7. To attend and contribute to appropriate internal and external meetings.
8. To be responsible for organising and prioritising own workload.
Working for our organisation
COVID-19 Vaccination
We continue to encourage all staff to ensure that they have been double vaccinated and received their booster. We recognise that taking the vaccine provides the best defence against COVID 19 for our patients, our staff and their families.
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 focusing in engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes. The induction will be held at our head office in Rainham, Essex.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for further details on this vacancy.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
4. Psychology Qualification - An Upper second class honours degree or higher. Entitlement to graduate membership of the British Psychological Society
Desirable criteria
5. Further post graduate training in relevant areas of psychology, mental health practice and/or research design and analysis.
Experience
Essential criteria
6. Working with children and young people with mental health problems and/or other disabilities
7. Working within the community setting
Desirable criteria
8. Working within school
9. Systmone knowledge
10. car driver/ use of a car
Attitude
Essential criteria
11. Within the personal statement there will be clear statements around having an interest in working in Children's Mental Health Services.
Desirable criteria
12. Additional information around commitment to working in a mental health setting.
knowledge
Essential criteria
13. Knowledge of the educational system in England
14. Knowledge of children and young people gained through academic study in child development, child wellbeing or mental health
Desirable criteria
15. Additional training relating either to child development or mental health
16. Personal statement reflects significant interest in children's mental health
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:
17. 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.
18. 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.
19. 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.
20. 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.