Job summary
- Main area
- Mental Health Clinician
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 306-BEH-2270
- Employer
- Barnet, Enfield & Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Baytree House
- Town
- Enfield
- Salary
- £49,178 - £55,492 Per annum, inclusive of Outer London HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 27/09/2024 23:59
Employer heading
MHST Clinical Supervisor
Band 7
Join us at an exciting time for Barnet, Haringey and Enfield Mental Health NHS Trust and Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust. After three years working in Partnership, we are due to create a new Trust, to be known as the North London NHS Foundation Trust on 1 November 2024, subject to Secretary of State approval. Join us to be part of 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 look forward to welcoming you to the new North London NHS Foundation Trust, where we work in the North London Way to deliver: Better Mental Health, Better Lives, Better Communities.
Our new trust website is: Home | North London Mental Health Partnership
Job overview
The MHST Clinician and Supervisor will have several key roles within the team. They will offer supervision to trainee and qualified Education Mental Health Practitioners or Children’s Wellbeing Practitioners, who are part of a new workforce within CAMHS to deliver early intervention work, and some aspects of clinical service delivery, including direct psychological interventions and consultation to schools. Alongside supervision, overtime the post holder’s caseload will include children and adolescents with mild moderate emotional and mental health difficulties and will deliver evidence-based 1:1 and group interventions, employing the principles underpinning the national CYP-IAPT programme (Children and Young Peoples Improving Access to Psychological Therapies).
Applicants must have a core profession in relevant field such as Psychology, Mental Health Nurse, Social worker, Therapist and must be registered with UK relevant professional body. Training will be provided for applicant without supervision training.
The intended closing date for this post is Friday 27th September, however, we reserve the right to close this post early should there be high demand. You are therefore encouraged to submit your application early.
Main duties of the job
1. To provide specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation, and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client’s care, when and where appropriate.
2. To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client’s mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client’s problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
3. To be responsible for implementing a range of psychotherapeutic interventions for individuals, carers, families, and groups, including adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining several provisional hypotheses.
4. To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options considering both theoretical and therapeutic models.
Refer to JD / PS for full details.
• A requirement to undertake, complete and pass the supervisors course at Kings (KCL).
• The course is based at Kings College London, at Denmark Hill campus with some sessions also online.
Working for our organisation
Why choose to join the Partnership?
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We believe that by working together, our two Trusts can achieve more for the residents of North Central London and our patients than we can by working apart.
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Deliver the best care using the most up-to-date practise in supporting those with mental health illnesses.
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Transforming and creating a positive environment for our service users, staff and visitors.
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Creating and working together to become a great place to work for all our staff.
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We offer flexible working, a wide range of health and wellbeing initiatives, NHS Pension and so much more.
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Generous Annual Leave Allowance
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NHS Discounts in a large variety of retail stores and services.
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We have excellent internal staff network support groups.
The postholder will need to be comfortable working in an environment of complex matrix management arrangements and will at all times behave and align with our Trusts’ values and cultural pillars:
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We are kind
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We are respectful
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We work together
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We keep things simple
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We empower
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We are proudly diverse
In order to meet the needs of the new Partnership services you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the attached Job description and Person Specification for main responsibilities of the role.
Person specification
Education & Qualification
Essential criteria
- The post holder must have a core profession and as a Clinical or Counselling Psychologist, Systemic Therapist or Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist
Desirable criteria
- Masters, higher or equivalent qualification
- Teaching / supervision / mentoring training or qualification
- Additional qualification/training in a relevant area of practice
- Training in an area related to CYP IAPT, for example – CBT, Systemic or parenting approaches. This may be covered within the primary therapeutic training qualification or supplement it.
Experience & Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Candidates will need evidence working therapeutically/ clinically or consultatively within a CYP Education or Mental Health Setting with children and young people with mental health difficulties.
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across a range of care settings
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the life course
- Experience of working with diverse communities and within a multi-cultural setting, and reflective practice
- Experience of working with children and young people in mental health services, including the application of risk assessment and safeguarding procedures in this area
- Experience of providing evidence based psychological interventions relevant to the client group
- Experience of using routine outcome monitoring
Desirable criteria
- Previous experience of supervising clinicians
- Supervising CYP IAPT trainees or Children’s Wellbeing Practitioners
- Knowledge and experience of delivering whole-school approaches to mental health
Skills And Abilities
Essential criteria
- Skills in the use of complex methods of assessment and intervention, 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 clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
- Ability to contain, explore and formulate an understanding of high levels of distress, both directly with patients and indirectly via supervision of other staff.
- Capacity to maintain a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, and situations where there may be resistance, verbal aggression or the threat of physical aggression
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies with children, young people and families
- Ability to undertake clinical risk assessment and to work within safeguarding procedures
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health
- Understanding of the need and rationale for using evidence based psychological therapies
- Ability to meet agreed/specified service targets
- Ability to manage own caseload and time
- Skills in using IT, including office applications, clinical record systems (e.g. RiO) and database/statistical applications e.g. Excel, SPSS)
Desirable criteria
- Skills in undertaking Quality Improvement projects and service evaluation
- Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
- A commitment to service user participation across the levels of clinical practice, team/service, and the organisation
- High level of enthusiasm and motivation
- Ability to work within a team and foster good working relationships
- Ability to use clinical supervision and personal development positively and effectively
- Regard for others and respect for individual rights of autonomy and confidentiality
- Ability to be self-reflective whilst working with service users, in own personal and professional development, and in supervision
Other Requirements
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.
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
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Linda Adedayo
- Job title
- Team Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 02082137776
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