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There’s a place for you at CNWL. We’re passionate about delivering first‑class patient‑centred, safe and effective care, whether it is in a hospital setting, in a community clinic or in the patient’s own home. Patients are at the heart of everything we do.
Providing top quality care depends on our ability to employ the best people. We’re always looking to recruit outstanding people who will go the extra mile to support our patients, colleagues, teams and the Trust. With every new employee we hope to find our future leaders and we’ll support our staff by providing opportunities to develop your career.
With a diverse culture and equally diverse range of opportunities across mental health, community services, addictions, eating disorders, learning disabilities and more – whatever stage of your career you’re at, there's always a place for you at CNWL.
NHS AfC: Band 5
Main area EMHP, CYPWP, CWP, WP, MHCYP, CYP, CYP IAPT, CBT, Brent, Schools, MHST, band 5 Grade NHS AfC: Band 5 Contract Permanent Hours
* Full time
* Part time
* Flexible working
37.5 hours per week
Job ref 333-G-CA-1615
Job Summary
Site Monks Park Clinic. Town London. Salary £35,763 - £43,466 per annum incl. Outer HCAS.
Salary period: Yearly. Closing 03/11/2025 23:59.
CNWL (Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust) has almost 8,000 staff providing integrated healthcare to a third of London’s population, Milton Keynes and areas beyond. We involve service users, carers, the public, staff and partner organisations in the way we are run.
Our catchment area spans diverse communities, with over 100 first languages spoken. It contains areas of great affluence as well as areas of much deprivation. We are committed to providing services that meet the needs of the people who use them, and we actively encourage involvement from local people who can help make a difference. We’re proud of our diversity and we continue to undertake new initiatives to advance equality for LGBT+, BME and people with disabilities to promote good relations and understanding between our staff.
We are recognised locally, nationally and internationally for providing high‑quality, innovative healthcare. We aim to employ only the best people, and our experts are frequently called upon to contribute to national health strategy and policy, and many models of our care have been adapted for use in other countries.
We offer a generous relocation package (subject to eligibility assessment) and flexible working options, including bank assignments for most roles. For more information on these and other benefits of working for us, see our Benefits, Reward and Wellbeing page.
CNWL NHS Foundation Trust is committed to safeguarding all children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We follow safe recruitment practices to protect children and vulnerable adults.
Main duties of the job
Applicants must be a qualified Education Mental Health Practitioner (EMHP) or an equivalent qualification with experience of working with Children and Young People in Mental Health Services or Schools in the provision of individual and group treatments.
Brent Mental Health Support Team is looking for qualified EMHPs with experience of working with Children and Young People in Mental Health Services in the delivery of individual and group treatments in school settings. We are seeking to appoint enthusiastic and dynamic practitioners who are creative in their approach and passionate about improving health outcomes for children and young people.
You will work alongside EMHPs, Mental Health Practitioners and a Senior Clinical Leads to support the wellbeing and mental health of children and young people based in participating schools in Brent.
Brent MHST works with children and young people with mild to moderate mental health presentations attending schools in the area.
CNWL are committed to progressing and supporting their staff with career development and training, and ensuring staff health and wellbeing and job satisfaction.
For an informal discussion please contact Jonah Seto (Service Lead) j.seto@nhs.net or Rebecca Ward (Senior Clinical Supervisor) rebecca.ward92@nhs.net
Working for our organisation
Central and North West London NHS Trust expects all Band 5 Practitioners to act in a way that shows you understand our core values and are willing to put them into practice with young people, their friend’s family, carers, teachers and other staff members.
As a Band 5 Practitioner we expect you to show COMPASSION, contribute to a caring and kind environment and recognise that what you do and say helps can make the lives of others better.
We expect you to RESPECT everyone and acknowledge and welcome people’s differences rather than ignore them or see them as problematic.
We expect you to EMPOWER others and continually try to provide information, resources and support to help others make their own decisions and meet their own needs.
We expect you to work in PARTNERSHIP and behave in a way that shows that you recognise that commissioners and users of our services are the people who generate and pay for our work.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To allow the post holder, with appropriate supervision, to work as an autonomous and responsible practitioner as their training affords and within the scope of their local job description, to engage in:
* Delivering low intensity evidence‑based intervention for children and young people in education setting 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.
* Using acquired skills, knowledge and abilities to deliver a service based within education settings that builds on and reinforces but does not replace existing initiatives in those environments.
Person specification
Education and Qualifications
* Qualified Education Mental Health Practitioner or CYP Psychological Well‑being Practitioner or Mental Health Nurse, Occupational Therapist, Social Worker with additional CBT qualification.
* Teaching qualification.
Previous Experience
* Experience of working with children and young people, their families and others in a healthcare or school setting.
* Experience of working and 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.
* Experience of working with 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.
* Experience of working with children and their families in an education setting.
* Experience of monitoring and recording outcome measures for children’s emotional wellbeing.
* Experience of navigating complex social systems and environments, who may have conflicting priorities or agendas.
* Experience of working with looked after children.
* Experience of working with other vulnerable groups.
Skills
* Able to communicate with the team, present to young people, take note of actions, update others in the team and use team meetings effectively. Speaking face‑to‑face but also by telephone and writing letters and reports.
* Maintaining accurate, timely, concise, and legible clinical records, both electronic and handwritten, adhering to CNWL policies.
* Care planning: assessing young people, developing, implementing and evaluating a care plan.
* Understanding how the Mental Capacity Act and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards impact on their work and the people they are working with.
* Understanding the concept of quality and their role in improving safety, clinical outcomes, and patient experience.
* Ability to carry out 1:1 therapeutic mental health interventions with children.
* Ability to carry out 1:1 therapeutic mental health interventions with families.
* Ability to make an assessment of risk and to record and communicate it appropriately.
* Ability to work within educational settings to increase mental health awareness within the staff group.
* Ability to teach others about mental health issues.
Knowledge
* Knowledge of educational environments.
* Knowledge of safeguarding issues.
* Knowledge of capacity and consent issues including Gillick competence.
* Knowledge of the functional operation of specialist CAMHS teams.
* Caring for the people who use our services, their families and carers, and other staff.
* Respectful of others and genuinely treating them how you would want to be treated.
* Able and willing to work with service users, family and carers, and other staff in a way which empowers and supports others and makes them feel better about themselves.
* Able and willing to work in partnership with service users, their friends and family as well as other healthcare professionals.
* Proven commitment to continuous professional development.
Other
* Access to a car or other motor vehicle for work purposes.
* Team player.
* Excellent time management and organisational skills.
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.
* Due to the high response levels we receive for some vacancies, we may expire any of them prior to the advertised closing date and advise you to submit your application as soon as possible.
* Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. Before submitting your application and to avoid disappointment please check that you are eligible under the UKVI points‑based system.
* Our Agenda for Change employment contracts are subject to a contractual 13‑week probationary period.
* If you are offered a job, information will be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Name: Jonah Seto
Job title: Senior Clinical Supervisor & Service Lead
Email: j.seto@nhs.net
Telephone: 07484060040
Name: Rebecca Ward
Job title: Senior Clinical Supervisor
Email: rebecca.ward92@nhs.net
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