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
e are seeking an experienced individual to support the next stages in the development of the newly established CAMHS transitions service. This role will be a pilot, and it will run for 12 months initially, but the hope is that this role will become permanent, so we can continue to support young people from our CAMHS inpatient settings to the next stage in their recovery.
As a team we adopt a holistic approach, not only focusing on mental health but also addressing the physical, social, educational, and motivational needs of the young people we work with. By employing the "social prescribing" model, we help young people engage with life through activities that promote community connections, sports, education, employment, housing, and more. Your role will empower young people to build confidence, improve wellbeing, and work towards their long-term health goals.
We work in both the inpatient and community settings. We work from Kent and Medway Adolescent Hospital. We work with multiple services, and we will often have daily communications with community CAMHS, Children’s Services, education providers, third-party services, adult services.
Main duties of the job
The purpose of this role is:
·To liaise with relevant agencies in the delivery of care to young people and their families.
·To provide time limited evidence based therapeutic interventions and to provide support to young people and their families/carers following discharge from inpatient care.
·To promote and facilitate the participation of service users and carers in their own care and in the planning and development of services.
·To take clinical lead and full line management responsibility for transition service ensuring they deliver a high quality, young person focused service.
·To lead and manage referrals into the Transition Service.
·To lead on and undertake outreach and group work to support young people and families.
·To work with colleagues within Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services to ensure delivery of comprehensive after care from inpatient admission.
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:
We are kind. We are respectful. We work together with our communities.
These three values help us to strive to provide the best care by the best people.
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 on engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes. The induction will be held at our head office in Rainham, Essex.
Probationary Period
This post will be subject to a probationary period.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early should sufficient applications be received.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The purpose of this role is:
·To liaise with relevant agencies in the delivery of care to young people and their families.
·To provide time limited evidence based therapeutic interventions and to provide support to young people and their families/carers following discharge from inpatient care.
·To promote and facilitate the participation of service users and carers in their own care and in the planning and development of services.
·To take clinical lead and full line management responsibility for transition service ensuring they deliver a high quality, young person focused service.
·To lead and manage referrals into the Transition Service.
·To lead on and undertake outreach and group work to support young people and families.
·To work with colleagues within Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services to ensure delivery of comprehensive after care from inpatient admission.
Certificates of Sponsorship
Although we are a registered sponsor organisation, we are unable to offer sponsorship for all job roles. Please check your eligibility under the UKVI points-based system. When calculating the basic salary for sponsorship, HCAS (High-Cost Area Supplement) is not included to ensure fairness and consistency within our Trust.
Use of AI
Please see attached document regarding acceptable use of AI during the recruitment process.
Person specification
Qualification
Essential criteria
1. Core professional registration
2. Post grad dveleopment and training in CYPMHS
Experience
Essential criteria
3. experience in working with CYPMHS
4. Theraputic work undertaken with complex cases
Skills / Knowledge
Essential criteria
5. Knowldge of Nice guidelines and therapputic interventions
6. Evidence of groups work or ability to run groups
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:
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. 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.