SET CAMHS Senior Practitioner

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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 three 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

SET CAMHS Senior Practitioner Band 7

North SET-CAMHS has an exciting opportunity for a qualified professional to step into an established role within a diverse and experienced team. We are a large, friendly and innovative team that cover the areas of North Essex (Colchester and Tendring). Children and young people who are referred to SET-CAMHS may present with a range of mental health difficulties which may include: low mood, anxiety, trauma and other emotional difficulties.

We welcome interest and applications from experiencedpost-graduate qualified psychological practitioners (e.g. psychologist, family therapist, child and adolescent psychotherapist) or graduate qualified health care professional (e.g. nurse, social worker, occupational therapist), fully registered with the appropriate professional or regulatory body (e.g. HCPC, NMC). We also welcome applications from practitioners who are in the process of obtaining their full accreditation with their regulatory body as part of a preceptorship programme (a band 6 role for 1 year, with the aim of progressing to band 7 after 1 year provided all requirements of preceptorship are fulfilled, including full accreditation with relevant regulatory body)

Main duties of the job

Working as a Senior CAMHS Practitioner in North Essex you would have a high standard of knowledge and experience of working with young people in CAMH services who are experiencing a range of mental health presentations. We are looking for a dynamic individual who is passionate about helping young people and their families. You would ideally have experience of supervising and managing others, although support and training can be given for this to the right candidate. You would also have a keen interest in developing innovative strategies to support young people and their families.

The role of a Senior Practitioner is to support the development and implementation of a range of interventions such as parent work, group work, school observations of children, short term CAMHS input and specialist psychological treatments, as indicated by the SET-CAMHS and NICE guidance. You will be responsible for assessment, treatment and systematic outcome measurement within the team.

As well as holding your own case load, the senior practitioner supports their clinical team to deliver therapeutic interventions through supervision, teaching, and mentoring. Knowledge and experience of delivering interventions within child mental health is essential. Additional therapeutic skills and training such as CBT, EMDR, Family / Systemic, DBT and other therapeutic approaches is desirable.

Working for our organisation

COVID-19 Vaccination

We continue to encourage all staff to ensure that they have been double vaccinated and received their booster. We recognise that taking the vaccine provides the best defence against COVID 19 for our patients, our staff and their families.

Probationary Period

This post will be subject to a probationary period. Internal applicants are exempt from the probationary period (unless you are an internal applicant currently part way through a probationary period or currently a bank member of staff).

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 in engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes. The induction will be held at our head office in Rainham, Essex.

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

About NELFT's SET-CAMHS
NELFT's SET-CAMHS is for anybody aged between 0-18, living in the Southend, Essex and Thurrock areas and is free at the point of entry. The service is also for young people with special educational needs (SEN) up to the age of 25. The EWMHS service no longer exists and has been replaced by SET-CAMHS.

SET-CAMHS services have included:
• Advice, training and support for other health and social services
• A range of services including parenting and family groups, short psychological treatments and mindfulness in schools
• More in-depth psychological treatments, which are evidence based and delivered by highly skilled practitioners in specialist teams
• Help and support for all young people at times of crisis
• Online and digital services such as Togetherall

All referrals to the service are assessed using a care pathways approach, developed in line with the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence guidance criteria (NICE) and based on a best practice model of treatment.

Locality Teams in CAMHS

SET-CAMHS focuses on emotional wellbeing as well as mental health and includes access to self-help tools and services based in schools and the community. Training and support is available to other professionals and agencies. We are creating a modern service that fits with children's lives in a way that best suits them.

The service is driven by the principles underpinning the national CYP-IAPT programme (Children and Young People's Improving Access to Psychological Therapies); evidence based interventions, routine measurement of outcomes, access to high quality training and supervision for professionals and true co-production with children and young people.

Senior practitioners, along with the rest of the team, ensure that a high quality, timely, accessible and evidence-based service is available to all children and young people who need it. This means establishing and maintaining excellent working relationships with wider social, health and voluntary services.

Person specification

Experience

Essential criteria

• Application to show experience

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Qualification relevant to role

Experience

Essential criteria

• Experience of working with difficult, disturbed or challenging children/young people requiring skilled and complex interventions.

Desirable criteria

• Experience of providing specialist individual interventions with a wide variety of children and young people, from 3 to 19 years old- presenting problems at the most severe end of the spectrum
• Experience of managing teams

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:

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

Supporting our Armed Forces

We recognise the valuable contribution that the Armed Forces community make to our organisation. We have signed the Armed Forces Covenant and achieved Gold Award under the Armed Forces Employer Recognition Scheme. We have supportive policies, guaranteed interview schemes for veterans. reservists and military spouses and give additional leave to our Reservists so that they can attend their annual camp.

Equal opportunities employer

We are committed to equal opportunities and diversity and positively encourage applications from all sections of the community regardless of any protected characteristic.

We are a Disability Confident employer and have made the pledge to commit to employing more people with disabilities. If you require this application in another format i.e. Braille or audio tape please contact the recruitment team on 0300 300 1530 or email recruitment@nelft.nhs.uk.

Correspondence with us

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In the event of a high number of responses to any advert, NELFT reserves the right to close the vacancy early. If you do not hear from us within three weeks of the closing date then please assume you have not been successful on this occasion.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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

• Band 7 Senior Practitioner JD (PDF, 611.6KB)
• NELFT Application - Hints and Tips (PDF, 38.4KB)