CAMHS/MHST Practitioner Band 7 London, England
Job description
CAMHS/MHST Practitioner Band 7 - Clinical/Counselling/Educational Psychologist, CBT Therapist, Family Therapist, Social Worker, Nurse (37.5hrs, permanent)
We are seeking to recruit an experienced CAMHS practitioner to join the Tower Hamlets Education Wellbeing Service (THEWS).
THEWS is a Mental Health Support Team (MHST) established following the government Green Paper: Transforming Children & Young People’s Mental Health Provision. The service has undergone recent expansion.
The three core functions of a Mental Health Support Team (MHST) are:
1. Delivering evidence-based interventions for children and young people (CYP) with mild-to-moderate mental health problems.
2. Supporting the senior mental health lead in each education setting to introduce, develop and deliver the whole school/college approach.
3. Giving timely advice to school and college staff, and liaising with external specialist services, to help CYP to get the right support and stay in education.
The role involves delivering all three MHST functions. The role involves providing clinical supervision and line management to practitioners within the team, holding a small caseload of clinical work (based on the postholder’s training and interests), acting as a senior link supporting school leads to develop their whole school approach to wellbeing, with other tasks as required.
THEWS is part of the Tower Hamlets Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS). This service is based in a newly refurbished office in the vibrant borough of Whitechapel.
As a result of the COVID pandemic, the service has adopted a hybrid clinical working model of direct face to face and remote working as appropriate.
The service embraces continual improvement and wellbeing of the staff and has a high degree of enthusiasm for quality improvement and working together with partner agencies to provide the highest quality service to the population we serve.
For further information about this role, please contact Joint Team Leads: Ify [email protected] Dr Lisa [email protected]
The three core functions of a Mental Health Support Team (MHST) are:
1. Delivering evidence-based interventions for children and young people (CYP) with mild-to-moderate mental health problems.
2. Supporting the senior mental health lead in each education setting to introduce, develop and deliver the whole school/college approach.
3. Giving timely advice to school and college staff, and liaising with external specialist services, to help CYP to get the right support and stay in education.
The role involves delivering all three MHST functions. The role involves providing clinical supervision and line management to practitioners within the team, holding a small caseload of clinical work (based on the postholder’s training and interests), acting as a senior link supporting school leads to develop their whole school approach to wellbeing, with other tasks as required.
CAMHS/MHST Practitioner Band 7 - Clinical/Counselling/Educational Psychologist, CBT Therapist, Family Therapist, Social Worker, Nurse (37.5hrs, permanent)
We are seeking to recruit an experienced CAMHS practitioner to join the Tower Hamlets Education Wellbeing Service (THEWS).
THEWS is a Mental Health Support Team (MHST) established following the government Green Paper: Transforming Children & Young People’s Mental Health Provision. The service has undergone recent expansion.
Clinical supervision responsibilities
- Supportingand developing the abilities of practitioners to deliver CBT-informed interventions for mild to moderate anxiety, low mood, low self-esteem, OCD and behaviour difficulties to parents and young people in secondary and primary schools.
- Supporting practitioners with risk assessment and management plans, including safeguarding.
- Overseeing the assessments, formulations and intervention plans for the parents, children and young people the practitioners work with; holding in mind a wider range of therapeutic modalities (e.g. systemic), in order to maximise outcomes.
- Ensuring that the recording and reporting of clinical work by practitioners is consistent with the policies and protocols of the NHS and Trust, and that clinical and goal-based outcome measures are being used as required by MHSTs.
- Providing line management to practitioners within the team. This is likely to include monitoring leave, sickness, training needs, and performance.
- Providing evidence-based interventions (in line with professional training and interests) to a small caseload of young people and/or families with moderate mental health difficulties.
- To act as a senior link for schools, supporting senior leads to develop their whole school approach to wellbeing.
- Providing signposting and consultation and liaising with external specialist services, to help CYP to get the right support and stay in education.
- To be involved with audit and service development projects as and when required.
- To attend regular line management, clinical supervision and CPD, in line with professional guidelines.
- To be aware of current policies and legislation regarding CYP.
- Tower Hamlets Schools (primary and secondary)
- Tower Hamlets CAMHS
- Voluntary/partner organisations – Step Forward, Dockands Outreach
- The THEWS team, consisting of the following staff:
o Trainee Education Wellbeing Practitioners (TEWPs) – band 4 practitioners who are currently undertaking the training course above
o Senior Education Wellbeing Practitioners – band 6 practitioners completing further training
o THEWS seniors - HCP C qualified band 7 practitioners
o THEWS joint team leads
o Psychological Therapies Lead (PTL) – oversight of THEWS
o Project Manager
o Assistant Psychologist
o Administrator/Referrals Coordinator
This job description is intended as a guide to the main duties of the post and is not intended to be a prescriptive document. Duties and base of work may change to meet the needs of the service or because of the introduction of new technology. This job description may be reviewed from time to time and changed, after consultation with the postholder.
