Job overview
The Senior Clinical Supervisor / Service Lead MHST will provide the clinical leadership to ensure the implementation and delivery of our MHST provision in selected schools within Harrow. These posts will provide management and leadership for staff within the MHSTs.
This post will work in partnership with the Service Manager and will further develop the partnership working that is currently taking place between education, the Local Authority and ICB. This post will report to the relevant partnership meetings.
We are recruiting to 0.5 WTE working 18.75 hours a week which is being offered as an internal secondment initially.
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Main duties of the job
1. Work in partnership with Senior leaders in schools to set up and deliver the MHST
2. With Senior CAMHS Practitioner and Clinical Supervisor be responsible and ensure the effective co-ordination of clinical care provided within schools including consideration to safeguarding and clinical risk issues where indicated
3. Build relationships across local services to ensure joint delivery of care
4. Provide clinical leadership of the team, providing supervision and caseload management to the Senior CAMHS Practitioner and Clinical Supervisor.
The service will be available Monday to Friday from 9am to5pm, though there may be times when workshops or community work are required in evenings or at weekends and it is essential that the post holder is flexible.
The post holder will act in support with fellow team leaders in providing clinical Leadership and advice across the MHST Service.
Working for our organisation
The Mental Health in Schools Team (MHST) is an exciting opportunity to deliver evidence-based early interventions for children and young people, working across both educational settings and healthcare sectors.
The postholder will work as a specialist member of the clinical multi-disciplinary team in providing the highest quality care and treatment for young people, their families and/carers within the school’s project areas. The post holder will work closely with other team members from a variety of clinical and service backgrounds to provide a psychological perspective to cases as well as ensuring the effective delivery of the Mental Health in Schools project. The postholder will be expected to travel and work from various locations as required, and will work closely with the CAMHS EI Service Manager and other Clinical Leads for the MHSTs in Brent, Harrow and Hillingdon.
We are building a multi-disciplinary MHST team whose strength will come from the variety of skills and experience brought by each team member. As such we would welcome applications from candidates from a range of professional backgrounds including but not exclusively limited to Social Work, Psychology, Mental Health Nurses, Occupational Therapists, Child Psychotherapy and other Allied Health Professionals.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
5. Lead on the service design and implementation of the educational mental health support teams in schools across the agreed locality bases
6. Be a source of child mental health knowledge and expertise and be able to provide direct support and guidance to the Senior Early Intervention Clinician and Educational Mental Health Practitioners in their day to day management of young people that may present with psychological and mental health problems
7. To maintain a high clinical profile, being highly visible, accessible and approachable to staff, children and young people, stakeholders and the public to ensure that open and honest communication channels are created and sustained
8. To ensure the provision of highly specialised and consistent clinical care packages; including minimisation of risk of harm across the service, maintaining an overview of the standards of care being delivered and instigating remedial action if necessary and in accordance with current legislation and Trust policy and procedure
9. Take a strategic lead in developing the team taking a whole school perspective and planning ahead in order to future-proof capacity and effectiveness
10. To monitor all clinical incidents within defined area, observing for trends and need for service or staff development and working with senior leads to inform strategy and service development improvements
11. Effectively manage the performance of staff ensuring that policies and procedures are followed and best practice is maintaine
12. To work with relevant senior leads in assessing the clinical skills required to deliver a safe and high quality service, identifying gaps and supporting developing programmes to address these issue
13. To act as a coach; mentor and resource to staff. To guide and support developmental projects and advise on further resources as appropriate
14. To ensure the delivery of the service within a safeguarding children framework
15. To actively involve young people and their families in the delivery of care
16. To be a ‘champion’ of multidisciplinary and multi-agency working, ensuring strong working relationships with partner agencies
Service Delivery and Development
17. To lead in the development and review of the MHST Schools provision and related policies and protocols as the clinical lead and the manager of the service
18. Identify and escalate any risk within service development and escalate within the CYPS governance process
19. Manage the complex programme of work including all people and financial resources within the remit of the programme
20. Work within a collaborative style both with senior managers within the Trust, and relevant partners
21. To work in partnership with the key stakeholders, and undertake a defined role, in the development of improved pathways of care for young people, supporting choice and flexibility and identifying gaps in service provision
22. To actively participate, and lead in the recruitment and selection of clinical and non-clinical staff ensuring appropriate skill mix for the service
23. To negotiate and agree priorities, deliverables and timescales for the development of the project and ensure that work is delivered on time and to agreed standard
24. To present information on all aspects of the service implementation and delivery activities in a clear and understandable way tailored to suit the needs of the audience. This could be in written, verbal and presentation formats as require
25. To oversee the tracking of progress against plans and milestones, ensuring appropriate processes are in place to flag issues, risks and concerns with relevant stakeholder
26. Be responsible for ensuring that patient contact data is diligently collected and recorded so that the effectiveness of the pilot can be comprehensively evaluated and that specific performance data meets reporting requirement
Vaccination
The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.
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