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 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.
Find out more about NELFT careers and what makes our Trust a great place to work, in this video
Job overview
We are seeking a Mental Health Worker to join our busy and dynamic CAMHS team in Barking and Dagenham. This post has been created following a recent consultation as the service moves to a new i-THRIVE informed model of delivery. We have a growing and supportive multi disciplinary team and looking for someone who is passionate about young people’s mental health and well-being to join us in the delivery of high quality and effective CAMHS interventions.
Main duties of the job
·The post holder will be responsible for delivering clinical interventions within individual care pathways within CAMHS, receiving clinical supervision from Care Pathway Workers or a senior psychological practitioner within CAMHS.
·To routinely measure clinical outcomes and deliver evidence-based clinical interventions, both in-line with the CYP-IAPT programme within CAMHS.
·Promoting the mental and emotional health of children, young people and families in the community through clinical interventions in the care pathway
·To undertake initial school based and community-based assessments and to deliver arange of early interventions to children and young people with a range of emotional and psychological difficulties
·Providing a direct service to children and young people and their families, in an accessible and less stigmatizing environment, based on the best available research evidence, within clinical governance
Working for our organisation
Our Values 2025 - 2030
Working with our colleagues, patients and carers we have co-produced three new values that we aim to embed within our culture here at NELFT.
They are:
1. We are kind.
2. We are respectful.
3. We work together with our communities.
These three values help us to strive to provide the best care by the best people.
Probationary Period
This post will be subject to a probationary period.
Starting with Us
NELFT places great importance on new starters being properly welcomed into the Trust. All new starters will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and undertake a comprehensive induction of up to two weeks, including mandatory training, systems training and the allocation of equipment. As part of the process, new starters will also have the opportunity to meet the executive team, senior managers, and attend several drop-in sessions focusing on engagement, health and wellbeing, and key processes. The induction will be held at our head office in Rainham, Essex.
High Cost Area Supplement - Outer London
This post also attracts payment for High Cost Area Supplement of 15% of the basic salary (with a minimum of £4,313 to a maximum of £5,436 pro rata for part time).
High Cost Area Supplement - Fringe
This post also attracts payment for High Cost Area Supplement of 5% of the basic salary (with a minimum of £1,192 to a maximum of £2,011 pro rata for part time).
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
·To act as an autonomous, registered practitioner who is legally and professionally accountable for own unsupervised actions guided by the professional code of conduct and Trust guidelines and protocols
·The post-holder will be a graduate qualified health care professional ( nurse, social worker, occupational therapist), or will have substantial CAMHS clinical experience and where appropriate will be fully registered with the appropriate professional or regulatory body ( HCPC, NMC).
·Toberesponsible,andaccountable,forservicedeliverytoclients/patients,viaNICE compliant pathways.
·To be able to assess and develop plans of care to meet the complex needs of patients with a variety of conditions. This includes brief and longer-term intervention through talking therapies, recognising own limitations and seeking advice when necessary.This willinclude continuously evaluating and acting on outcomes and activity.
·Tobeabletoinitiatereferralstootherhealthprofessionalspecialistservicesand agencies.
To provide patients and relatives with information and education thus ensuring they have meaningful choices
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
4. Successful completion of a graduate training ( nursing, social work, occupational therapy) or equivalent substantial CAMHS clinical experience
5. To be eligible for registration as a full member of the appropriate professional body ( HCPC, NMC) where appropriate
Experience
Essential criteria
6. Experience of working with difficult, or challenging children/young people requiring skilled and complex interventions
7. Experience of working therapeutically with parents/carers/ families of children and young people with complex mental health problems
8. Experience of carrying out generic assessment with other colleagues in the multi-disciplinary team
9. Experience of assessments carried out autonomously in order to determine the most appropriate treatment plan from a range of options for the child/young person
10. Experience of providing individual interventions with a wide variety of presenting problems at the most severe end of the spectrum
11. Experience of providing clinical interventions in different cultural contexts
Knowledge
Essential criteria
12. An awareness of NHS priorities
13. An awareness of NHS Plan, NSF and clinical governance priorities
14. Knowledge of the theory and practice of short term and long term clinical interviews in CAMHS
15. Knowledge of Legislation in relation to children and adolescents and safeguarding procedures and policies
16. Knowledge of NHS, Social Care and Education structures, national policies and frameworks, evidence based practice including NICE guidelines
17. Knowledge of risk management and ability to monitor and assess risk and act accordingly to ensure safety
Skills
Essential criteria
18. Ability to communicate clearly and effectively highly complex and sensitive matters to patients, which give rise to psychological distress
19. An ability to integrate complex clinical information into a coherent formulation.
20. Skills in the ability to communicate effectively, verbally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues
21. Ability to tolerate anxiety without recourse to premature action whilst appreciating the role of the supervisor
22. Capacity to write clear records and observe policies, procedures and guidelines
23. Ability to plan and organise own workload and time
24. Ability to use outcome monitoring across all clinical work
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:
25. 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.
26. 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.
27. 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.
28. 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.