Children's Wellbeing Practitioner (CWP) Supervisor
The Children and Young People's Improving Access to Psychological Therapies programme (CYP IAPT) is a service transformation programmedelivered by Health Education England and partners that aims to improve existing children and young people's mental health services (CYP MHS)working in the community.
Islington Community CAMHS is an integrated multi disciplinary service providing a child and family mental health service to the population of Islington across the 0-18 year age range. The Children's Wellbeing Service is located within the Social Emotional Mental Health Pathwayalongside CAMHS, Local Authority and 3rd Sector Mental Health Service providers. Referrals are received through a Central Point of Access.
Main duties of the job
The postholder will work as a clinician in the Children's Wellbeing Practitioner (CWP) Team, working alongside the service leads in coordinatingand developing the CWP Team. This post will involve contributing towards the provision of intensive supervision and clinical caseloadmanagement for CWPs in the service, joining the CWPs in clinical sessions where appropriate.
The postholder will supervise a max of 3 trainee Children's Well-Being Practitioners (CWPs; Band 4 practitioners). The CWPs deliver CBT informedguided self-help for children and young people (2-18 years) experiencing mild to moderate anxiety, low mood and behavioural problems in avariety of forms and settings, e.g. 1:1 work, group work, psycho-educational workshops. The postholder will deliver both group and individualsupervision and support the trainees to pass their CYP-IAPT training.
We warmly welcome applications from all under-represented groups and protected characteristics.
NB: Working days are fixed to Monday and WednesdayFor further information or discussion about this post, please contact Lauren Hassan-Leslie or Siobhan Kelly on 020 3316 1824.
If you need any assistance with the application process, please contact: lauren.hassan1@nhs.net
About us
To support staff development and wellbeing we offer monthly all staff Lunchtime Learning CPD, BME Forums and reflective spaces for staffidentifying as ethnically marginalised and under-represented. We have an Equality Diversity and Inclusion Lead within our service.
Job responsibilities
Clinical Supervision
* To oversee the formulation and treatment and management plans for parents, children and young people being treated by the CWPs using arange of specialist psychological interventions appropriate to the service; individual and group.
* Working in Partnership, support children, young people experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties and their families in the self-management of presenting difficulties.
* Work in partnership with children, young people and families in the development of plans for the intervention and agreed outcomes.
* To support and empower children, young people and families to make informed choices about the intervention.
* To operate at all times from an inclusive values base, which recognises and respects diversity.
* Accept referrals within agreed national and local protocols.
* Undertakes accurate assessment of risk to self and others.
* Adhere to the service referral protocols. Under supervision signpost unsuitable referrals to the relevant service as necessary.
* Through close case management and supervision, elevate cases where the level of need becomes beyond scope, or more severe ensuring adherence to other relevant elements of service delivery.
* Provide a range of information and support for evidence based psychological treatments, primarily guided self-help. This work may be face-to-face, by telephone or via other media.
* Adhere to an agreed activity contract relating to the overall number of children and young people contacts offered, and sessions carried out per week in order to improve timely access and minimise waiting times.
* Keep coherent records of all activity in line with service protocols and use these records and outcome data to inform decision-making. Completeall requirements relating to data collection.
* Assess and integrate issues relating to transitions, education and training/employment into the overall therapeutic process.Work within a collaborative approach involving a range of relevant others when indicated.
* Work in collaboration with children, young people and communities to enhance and widen access to support health promotion.
* To provide joint specialist mental health assessments and treatments to parents, children and young people with the CWP supervisees. Following attendance at the CWP courses the interventions will be based on the low intensity evidence based interventions for the treatment oflow mood, anxiety, and behaviour problems.
* To provide clinical supervision of the intervention work of the CWPs when they are working independently
* To judge when the CWPs are able to work independently with specific clients and interventions
* To support the CWPs to provide reports and communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients.
* To support the CWPs to liaise with other education, health, social care and voluntary sector staff from a range of agencies, in the care provided to clients.
* Engage in and respond to personal development supervision to improve competences and practice.
* Co-develop a supervision contract with CWPs
* To induct CWPs into appropriately using supervision, including looking at data and videos in supervision
Service development Management and policy.
* To assist in managing and screening referrals into the CWP service.
* To regulate and manage the case load of the trainee CWPs
* To contribute to the development, evaluation and monitoring of the teams operational policies and services, through the deployment ofprofessional skills in research, service evaluation and audit.
* To assist the service manager by undertaking delegated routine team-based functions, as required, such as: chairing meetings, overseeingevaluations/audits, etc.
* To advise both service and professional management on those aspects of the service where psychological and/or organisational matters needaddressing.
* To be involved, as appropriate, in the recruitment, short listing and interviewing of band 4/5 CWPs
* To attend, as required, a range of interagency meetings to represent the service, in a delegated role, offering guidance, where appropriate,ensuring that issues relating to the service are noted and brought to the attention of the service manager.
* To assist, in the integration and development of user participation, outcomes measures, and evidence-based treatment approaches in line with thewider CAMHS strategy for service improvement.
* To assist in the development of the CWP service, such as joint working with other agencies and developing new interventions within the service.
* To ensure that CWPs are covered by the clinical governance arrangements for the service. This would include reviewing policies relating to riskmanagement and sole working and ensuring that these policies are adhered to by the CWP workforce.
Service evaluation and research
* To utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence-based practice in individual work and work with other teammembers.
* To assist in CWP project management, including audit and service evaluation, with colleagues within the service to help develop and evaluateservice provision.
* Work with service managers to ensure outcomes data is collected, used clinically and submitted to the CYP IAPT collaborative
Person Specification
Education & Qualifications
* Appropriate qualification to be an existing CAMHS clinician with CBT informed experience.
* Meets Supervision Requirements - CWP/EMHP Supervisor PG Certificate or Senior Wellbeing Practitioner PG Cert/Diploma
Skills & Abilities
* High level knowledge of the theory and practice of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy and psychological interventions. Actively practicing and using CBT-informed approaches.
* Skills in the assessment of mental health for children young people and their parents.
* High level skills in working with professional networks and the ability to advocate for and advance the mental health needs of parents and their children.
* Ability to chair team meetings, undertake delegated management tasks and support the CAMHS Service Manager in general team tasks/development as required.
* Ability to form excellent working relationships with colleagues and work flexibly with others in multidisciplinary and multi-agency settings.
* Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice.
* Ability to manage/supervise clinical staff on band 4/5
* Knowledge and skills in effective communication, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
* Effectively manage a clinical caseload, complete outcomes measures routinely, update clinical records in line with team, service and Trust requirements.
* Ability to form good working relationships and work flexibly with others in multi-disciplinary and multi-agency settings.
* Ability to identify areas for, and contribute, to Service Development
* Ability to work autonomously.
* Competent in the delivery of core CWP interventions
* Competent overseeing caseloads, and maintaining high fidelity to the supervisee's role while ensuring efficiency and safety in clinical practice.
Knowledge & Experience
* An enthusiasm for using Routine Outcome Measures.
* An enthusiasm for brief interventions
* Experience of working with children, young people and parents presenting with a range of mental health difficulties and challenging behaviour.
* Formulation and treatment of children and young people with mental health difficulties.
* Experience of multidisciplinary and multiagency working and co-working assessments and treatment.
* Experience of providing a culturally sensitive service.
* Working autonomously with families providing an assessment and treatment service.
* Contributing to multidisciplinary team meetings and co- working assessments and treatment within clinic-based settings.
* Experience in managing child protection concerns
* High level knowledge of the theory and practice of psychological interventions.
* Skills in the assessment of mental health factors for young children and their parents
* Knowledge of the relevant clinical research literature and ability to apply it to field of parent/child mental health for each service area.
* Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health, education and the children Act and Child protection.Desirable criteria
* 2 yrs of post qualifying clinical experience
* Knowledge and experience in the provision of low intensity CBT interventions with children/young people with low mood, anxiety and behaviour problems
* Experience of supervising CAMHS clinicians.
* Experience of undertaking delegated leadership tasks and managing staff effectively.
* Ability to develop, manage and lead on outcomes data and data reporting for the service.
Personal Qualites
* Ability to form good working relationships and work flexibly with others in multi-disciplinary and multi-agency settings.
* Confident speaking with a range of audiences in different setting.
* Motivated and innovative
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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