Job summary
- Main area
- Mental Health
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 222-LS-CAMHS-504-A
- Employer
- West London NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Hounslow MHST CAMHs
- Town
- Hounslow
- Salary
- £32,720 - £39,769 per annum inclusive
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 09/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Educational Mental Health Practitioner
Band 5
West London NHS Trust provides a full range of mental health, community and physical healthcare services for children, adults and older people living in the London boroughs of Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham and Hounslow.
We also provide some specialist services that are commissioned regionally, such as our medium secure services; and nationally, such as the Cassel Hospital for people with complex and severe personality disorder and our high secure services at Broadmoor Hospital.
Job overview
We are seeking to fill Education Mental Health Practitioner (EMHP) / Educational Wellbeing Practitioner (EWP) vacancies in Hounslow that are arising due to staff progression. We are looking for applications from qualified EMHP / EWP or those at the end of their EMHP/ EWP training. Full time, part time and job share opportunities will be considered / are available.
This is an exciting time to join a rapidly growing and dynamic new workforce in West London NHS Trust CAMHS. We offer high quality supervision, with excellent CPD and career development opportunities. If you are interested in partnership working (notably with schools) and you want to help shape new models of evidence-based support to promote the emotional wellbeing of children and young people, this job could be for you.
The post holders will offer assessment and guided self-help interventions (individual and group-based) to children and young people (aged 4-18) and their families. You will also play a pivotal role in the development of the service including whole school approach, participation and co production with the schools, the children and young people of Hounslow.
Hounslow was one of the initial trailblazer sites which began setting up mental health support teams in January 2019. There are now three teams (West, Central, and East) each working with schools in the corresponding Hounslow early help areas. Hundreds of children and young people have accessed guided self- help and group work support, with very encouraging feedback and clinical outcomes. The Tier 2 services have a good interface with Tier 3 CAMHS and partner organisations, and friendly, busy, borough-located services that operate as part of a three-borough CAMH service within West London NHS.
For informational purposes, please note the following:
Wider Psychological Workforce Registration with BABCP or BPS required for this role
Main duties of the job
With appropriate supervision, to work as an autonomous and responsible practitioner as their training affords and within the scope of their local job description, to engage in;
Delivering evidence-based intervention for children and young people in education setting with mild to moderate mental health problems
Helping children and young people within these settings who present with more severe problems to rapidly access more specialist services
Supporting and facilitating staff in education settings to identify and where appropriate manage issues related to mental health and wellbeing
Working with and within education environments to afford better access to specialist mental health services
And to use the acquired skills, knowledge and abilities to deliver a service based within education settings that builds on and reinforces but does not replace those initiatives that already exist within these environments.
Working for our organisation
West London NHS Trust is one of the most diverse providers of mental health, community and social care in the UK.
Our 3,982 staff care for people in hospital and in the community, helping them to recover and go on to lead full and productive lives. We aim to be the best organisation of our kind in the country.
We provide care and treatment for more than 800,000 people living in the London boroughs of Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham and Hounslow, delivering services in the community (at home, in GP surgeries and care homes), hospital, specialist clinics and forensic (secure) units.
We’re rated good overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
Together, we’re committed to promoting hope and wellbeing, working with patients, service users, carers, families and partners across the communities we serve.
We are keen to ensure that our workforce reflects the community it serves, particularly in terms of ethnicity, gender, disability, LGBTQ+ and experience of mental illness.
Please click this link for more insight into working with CAMHS
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The post holders will offer assessment and guided self-help interventions (individual and group-based) to children and young people (aged 4-18) and their families. You will also play a pivotal role in the development of the service including whole school approach, participation and co production with the schools, the children and young people of Hounslow.
Assess and deliver outcome focused, evidence-based interventions in educational settings for children and young people experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties, working at all times in collaboration with and giving respect to the education function of the setting in which the post-holder is deployed.
Work in partnership to support children and young people experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties and their parents/carers, families and educators in the self-management of presenting difficulties.
Work in effective, evidence-based partnership with children, young people, their families and their educators in the development of plans for the intervention and agreed outcomes.
Support and empower children, young people, their parents/carers and families and their educators to make informed choices about the interventions being offered.
Operate at all times from an inclusive values base, which recognises and respects diversity.
Accept referrals within educational settings according to agreed local and national and local protocols.
Undertake and record accurate assessments of risk and operate clear risk management processes in line with locally agreed procedures including the safeguarding protocols of the educational setting and Local Safeguarding Board guidance.
Adhere to all regulations, processes and procedures within the educational service to which the potholder is attached within the educational setting where the post-holder working including (but not limited to) HR policies, training requirements, referral protocols, and emergency procedures. Signpost referrals of children with more complex needs to a locally identified appropriate relevant service
Through case management, supervision and any other relevant local pathway, escalate cases where the level of need or risk is beyond the scope of practice of the potholder.
Provide a range of information and support for evidence based psychological treatments, primarily guided self-help.
Practice, evidence and demonstrate an ability to manage one’s own caseload in conjunction with the requirements of the team.
Attend multi-disciplinary and multi- agency meetings relating to referrals or children and young people in treatment, where appropriate.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Successful completion of the HEE commissioned
- 1yr Education Mental Health Practitioner (EMHP) / Educational Wellbeing Practitioner (EWP) / Children’s Wellbeing Practitioner (CWP) course
Desirable criteria
- A further relevant degree qualification
- Teaching qualification
- Youth Mental Health First Aid trained
Skills/Competencies
Essential criteria
- Ability to carry out 1:1 therapeutic mental health interventions with children
- Ability to carry out 1:1 therapeutic mental health interventions with families
- Ability to conduct group parenting programmes
- Ability to work within educational settings to increase mental health awareness within the staff group
- Ability to conduct mental health assessments of children and young people
- Ability to make an assessment of risk and to record and communicate it appropriately
- Ability take appropriate action to mitigate or manage risk
Desirable criteria
- Ability to teach others about mental health issues
- Ability to conduct other group therapeutic interventions with children and their families
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of educational environments
- Knowledge of safeguarding issues
- Knowledge of capacity and consent issues including Gillick competence
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of the functional operation of specialist CAMHS teams
Previous Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working with children and young people, their families and others.
- Experience of working and liaising with a wide variety of agencies and stakeholders
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working with children and their families in a healthcare setting
- Experience of working with children and their families in an education setting
Specialist Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working with children and young people who have social, emotional and/or behavioural difficulties
- Experience of working with anxiety disorders
- Experience of working with affective (mood) disorders
- Experience of the delivery of specific therapeutic interventions to children, young people or their families (e.g. CBT, solution focused brief therapy)
Desirable criteria
- Experience of monitoring and recording outcome measures for children’s emotional wellbeing
- Experience of navigating complex social systems and environments, who may have conflicting priorities or agendas
- Experience of working with looked after children
- Experience of working with other vulnerable groups
Specific Attributes
Essential criteria
- Full, enhanced and current satisfactory DBS disclosure for the role
- Ability to personally manage a sensitive, traumatic and potentially emotionally distressing caseload
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
Desirable criteria
- Proven commitment to continuous professional development
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
- Self-motivated
- Able to travel to meet the requirements of the post
- Team player
- Excellent time management and organisational skills
- Able to meet the physical requirements of the role after reasonable adjustments have been made for any illness or disability
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
- Lesley OConnell
- Job title
- Mental Health Practitioner, CAMHS Service
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
Please email Lesley O’Connell (Team Lead) [email protected] for further information or to arrange an informal chat about the role.
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