Senior Mental Health Worker - Barnet CAMHS in Specialist Schools

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Thank you for your interest for the North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT), it is an exciting time to join us and being part of our journey to improve mental health care across North London and deliver excellent services to our local people. We will achieve this through the North London Way, as we:

• Collaborate at every level by living our Values to create the right conditions for us all to work together.
• Develop our new Trust culture, to help make our new Trust a great place to work and to receive great care.
• Empower our teams to lead the planned improvements in our services, by skilling them and giving them the tools to make the changes.
• Focus on delivering excellence at every level to improve our performance and ensure consistently high-quality care across all our services.
• Ensure that research, Quality Improvement, and technology lead the way and are embedded in our services.
• Take a trauma informed approach to everything we do

We proactively welcome diversity in our workforce and pride ourselves on being an inclusive employer. We aim to recruit from our local communities and provide opportunities to all including apprenticeships, veterans, care leavers and more.

The North London Way to deliver, Better Mental Health, Better Lives, Better Communities.

Our trust website is: https://www.northlondonmentalhealth.nhs.uk/

Job overview

The Barnet CAMHS in Specialist Schools team is a small dynamic community based team; that sits within the local Specialist schools provision

The team also provides outreach home treatment and support in community settings.

'The Pavilion' is the umbrella name for the Specialist schools provision set within Borough Barnet and refers to the following sites:
• Meadway: Pupils year 7 to 11 who have been out of mainstream school for some time as a result of medical and/or mental health challenges. The provision works towards reintegrating the pupils back into their mainstream schools or support them to make the transition into a new setting.
• Whetstone: Pupil's year 7 to 11 who have been permanently or temporarily excluded from school. Pupils year 10 and 11 have usually been permanently excluded and are unlikely to reintegrate back into mainstream school due to continuing behavioural, emotional, social difficulties.
• Primary PRU: Provided support for Pupils from Reception - Year 6, who have been temporarily or permanently excluded from their mainstream school.
• Outreach Service: Pupils who are not able to access education outside of their homes because of medical and/or mental health needs.
• Oak Hill Campus: a specialist provision for years 7 to 11, all pupils have an Education Health Care Plan (EHCP).

Main duties of the job

The role of the Senior Mental Health Worker in this setting is to act as an interface between Primary, Secondary and Specialist Education Provision in Barnet and specialist (tier 3) CAMH services with the aims of:
• Delivering assessment and treatment in Barnet CAMHS clinical settings and in Education/ Community settings including Specialist Educational Provision at Tier 2,3 and 4.
• Supporting and strengthening Tier 1 and 2 CAMHS provision through building capacity and capability within Education, in relation to early identification and intervention for children's and young peoples mental health needs.
• Promoting the mental health and emotional health of children and families in the community, in line with guidance from the NSF 2004 and 'Future in Mind'.
• Early identification of the development of mental health problems in children and young people.
• Working across boundaries to develop a co-ordinated response to children's and young people's mental health needs between agencies
• Facilitating appropriate access to specialist CAMHS and other relevant provision according to level and nature of need.
• Providing a direct service to children and their families, in an accessible and less stigmatising environment.

Working for our organisation

North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.

In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

***Please review the attached Job Description and Person Specification for further details regarding this role. ***

Person specification

TRAINING & QUALIFICATIONS

Essential criteria

• A relevant Professional Qualification representing a core training in child and adolescent mental health and disorders.
• In depth training and knowledge of various models of understanding mental health and mental disorders in children

Desirable criteria

• Post graduate certificates and diplomas in relevant specialities

EXPERIENCE

Essential criteria

• A minimum of 3 years post graduate experience in CAMHS or a related professional field
• Experience of specialist assessment and treatment of children across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community and primary care
• Experience of working with children and young people presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
• Demonstrate further specialist training/experience

Desirable criteria

• Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
• Experience of obtaining user views and involving users in the design, delivery and evaluation of service provision

KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS

Essential criteria

• Skills in the use of complex methods of assessment and intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
• Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to children, their families, carers and other professional colleagues in education and both within and outside the NHS.
• Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
• Skills in interpreting complex facts/ situations requiring analysis and considering a range of options
• Evidence of continuing professional development
• Skills in implementing clinical and service outcome measures and participation in service audit and evaluation .

Desirable criteria

• Knowledge and experience of collecting statistically robust data e.g., understanding methodology used for statistical analysis

OTHER

Essential criteria

• Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
• Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
• Ability to act independently within appropriate operational guidelines, trust policies and established parameters (Clinical governance and NICE) deciding when to refer to team leader.
• The ability to exercise a high degree of self management and work within time deadlines.

Desirable criteria

• Personal experience of mental health problems.
• Experience of working within a multicultural framework.

References will be required to cover your last 3 years of employment/training. One has to be from your current or most recent employer and the others from your previous employer. The references should be from persons with management responsibility or HR.

If you have been unemployed for a period of four years or more, please give the details of your last employer and one character referee of your choice (not members of your family). If more applicable, references will be requested from your teacher or head of faculty. Please ensure you provide full contact details.

Vacancies that are advertised as Fixed Term Contracts will also be available as secondment opportunities for substantive internal staff.

Please be aware that your documents eg. Passport/NI Card, will be electronically scanned using Home Office accredited Verification System.

Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts, we will close vacancies before the stated closing date once the first 50 applications are received. Therefore, please apply as soon as possible.

All non-medical posts with the Trust are subject to a probationary period of six months, during which time you will be required to demonstrate to the Trust's satisfaction, your suitability for the position in which you will be employed.

Should you not hear from us within three working weeks of the closing date for this post, then regretfully in this instance, you have not been shortlisted.

By applying for this role, you accept in the event you are successful that your personal data may be transferred from the Trust to another NHS organisation where your employment transfers within the NHS. This is in accordance with the streamlining programme which is aimed at improving efficiencies within the NHS both to make costs savings for NHS organisations but also to save you time when your employment transfers.

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Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

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.

Documents to download

• JD and Person Spec (PDF, 592.3KB)
• Functional Requirements (PDF, 536.5KB)