Job Summary
Band 5 MHST EMHP/CWP Practitioners work closely with young people and families, parents and carers, and staff in schools. They contribute to the quality of the services provided by being kind, responsive, professional and informative, while aiming to keep people using the service as safe as possible through sound clinical skills and risk assessments, and by working within evidence-based policies and procedures.
As a Band 5 Practitioner you will work alongside more experienced mental health practitioners, other health professionals and EMHP/CWP peers delivering a service to schools, in collaboration with multidisciplinary teams to provide seamless care.
For an informal discussion please contact Jonah Seto (Service Lead) j.seto@nhs.net or Rebecca Ward (Senior Clinical Supervisor) rebecca.ward92@nhs.net.
Main duties
* Delivering low intensity evidence-based intervention for children and young people in education settings with mild to moderate mental health problems.
* Helping children and young people within these settings who present with more severe problems to rapidly access more specialist services.
* Supporting and facilitating staff in education settings to identify and, where appropriate, manage issues related to mental health and wellbeing.
* Working with and within education environments to afford better access to specialist mental health services.
* Group/Whole school approach implementation and consultation on referrals.
* Use the acquired skills, knowledge and abilities to deliver a service based within education settings that builds on and reinforces but does not replace existing initiatives within these environments.
Qualifications and experience
Essential
* Qualified Education Mental Health Practitioner (EMHP) or CYP Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner, or Mental Health Nurse, Occupational Therapist, Social Worker with additional CBT qualification.
* Experience of working with children and young people, their families and others in a healthcare or school setting.
* Experience of liaising with a wide variety of agencies and stakeholders.
* Experience of working with children and young people who have social, emotional and/or behavioural difficulties.
* Experience of working with anxiety disorders and affective disorders.
* Experience of delivering specific low intensity therapeutic interventions to children, young people or their families (e.g. CBT, solution-focused brief therapy).
* Ability to conduct other group therapeutic interventions with children and their families.
Desirable
* A further relevant degree qualification.
* Teaching qualification.
* Experience of working with children and young people in an education setting.
* Experience of monitoring and recording outcome measures for children's emotional wellbeing.
* Experience of navigating complex social systems with conflicting priorities.
* Experience of working with looked after children and other vulnerable groups.
Skills
Essential
* Able to communicate with the team, present to young people, note actions, update others in the team, and participate effectively in team meetings; communicate face-to-face, by telephone and in writing.
* Maintaining accurate, timely, concise and legible clinical records in line with CNWL policies.
* Care planning: assess young people, develop, implement and evaluate a care plan.
* Understanding the Mental Capacity Act and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards and their impact on work and service users.
* Understanding quality improvement to improve safety, clinical outcomes and patient experience.
* Ability to carry out 1:1 therapeutic mental health interventions with children and with families.
* Ability to assess risk and communicate it appropriately.
* Ability to work within educational settings to increase mental health awareness among staff.
Desirable
* Ability to teach others about mental health issues.
Knowledge
Essential
* Knowledge of educational environments.
* Knowledge of safeguarding issues.
* Knowledge of capacity and consent issues including Gillick competence.
Desirable
* Knowledge of the functional operation of specialist CAMHS teams.
Attitudes, aptitudes, personal characteristics
Essential
* Caring for the people who use our services, their families and carers, and other staff.
* Respectful of others and treating people as you would want to be treated.
* Able and willing to work with service users, families and carers, and other staff in a way that empowers and supports others.
* Able and willing to work in partnership with service users, their friends and family, and other healthcare professionals.
Other
* Access to a car or other motor vehicle for work purposes.
* Team player.
* Excellent time management and organisational skills.
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check: This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and requires a Disclosure to be made to the DBS to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship: Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled Worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications.
Employer details: Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust, Monks Park Clinic, 4 Monks Park, London, HA9 6JE. Website: https://www.cnwl.nhs.uk/work
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