Band 6 CAMHS Supervising Mental Health Practitioner MHST

We are offering an exciting opportunity to join our expanding Mental Health Support Team's within CNWL Brent and Hillingdon CAMHS. In line with 2017 Green Paper this is a role to support Education Mental Health Practitioners in schools working with Children, Young People and Families.

We currently have four vacancies we are recruiting to. Two of these posts will be to our new wave 11 teams, 1 of these posts is in Brent MHST and the other is in our Hillingdon MHST.  A further post is to support our existing MHST in Hillingdon. The final post is a secondment opportunity for twelve months within the Hillingdon team and would suit an internal candidate to CNWL who is looking for a change or, a step into a more senior role.

Would suit qualified CBT Therapist, mental health nurse, social worker or, other discipline with CAMHS experience and some experience of supervising others. Applications will also be considered from Experienced CWPs / EMHPs with substantial CAMHS and Supervision Experience.

The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.

The Mental Health Practitioner will be responsible for delivering interventions within Mental Health Support Teams (MHSTs) in schools and colleges, whilst receiving clinical supervision and be expected to work in schools closely with school staff to support CYP, their families and staff to foster a whole school approach to mental well-being. The mental health practitioner will play a key role in ·       Forming strong working relations with a variety of stakeholders ·       Providing consultations to education colleagues and support education setting to embed a whole school approach to wellbeing ·       Developing and delivering evidence-based individual and group time limited interventions to young people within education settings ·       Evidencing the outcomes of the MHST service ·       Providing clinical supervision to trainee Education and Mental Health practitioners

The Mental Health Practitioner in the Mental Health Support Team will provide therapeutic interventions to families and young people in school settings. The role may include day to day clinical and supervisory support for the Education Mental Health Practitioners and Trainees (EMHPs/CWP’s).

The post holder will ensure the efficient and effective delivery of the MHST, providing high quality, safe and responsive evidence based mental health services to children, young people, parents/carer’s and professionals provided in accordance with Children and Young People’s IAPT principles, in partnership with service users and partner agencies, working as part of a multi-agency system.

The Mental Health Practitioner will have clinical supervisory responsibility for EMHP within the MHST provide clinical supervision to the education mental health trainees/practitioners in line with the university training on supervising and will also work as part of a senior team, supporting the Senior practitioner and service development leads to set up the new pathway.

The post holder will work alongside community partners and develop relationships between the MHST and educational settings offering advice and consultation to schools. The Mental Health Practitioner will be one of the first points of contact for the MHST for many partner agencies and contribute to the formation and delivery of care plans for young people within the MHST team in line with the agreed clinical thresholds. They will facilitate referral to other services where appropriate but will support and work with colleagues in schools and Wellbeing partnership boards to manage children and young people’s needs without specialist referral whenever possible.

It is desirable for the post holder to have successfully completed supervision training or be willing to successfully undertake and successfully complete the CYP-IAPT supervisory training course if appropriate and if this training becomes available.