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.

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Job overview

We are looking for a either a Clinician with a professional registration ( Nurse, Social Worker, Occupational Therapist) or two years or more experience of working directly with children or adults with a learning disability to come and work within NELFT’s Essex wide SET CAMHS Learning Disabilities team. 

The team provides mental health services to children and young people with severe to profound learning disabilities who may also have related complex developmental disorders often including an additional Autistic Spectrum Disorder diagnosis. The team is based in Chelmsford and offers a specialist community Mental Health service across Essex to children/ young people, their parents and professionals who support them in all environments. As a clinician you will be expected to be able to under supervision, support skilled assessments and provide interventions to this client group and the systems that support them and their families, around their mental health issues.

The service provides evidence based NICE compliant psychological interventions to children/ young people with severe to profound learning disabilities and their families experiencing emotional wellbeing and mental health difficulties, taking into account the individual circumstances of each individual, child and their system.

Main duties of the job

Main Duties of the Job –

As a Children's Wellbeing Practitioner (CWP),

·The post holder will be responsible for delivering clinical interventions within SET CAMHS, receiving clinical supervision from a Mental Health Practitioners or a Senior Practitioner within SET CAMHS.

·To routinely measure clinical outcomes and deliver evidence-based clinical interventions, both in-line with the Ithrive Model within CAMHS.

·Promoting the mental and emotional health of children, young people and families in the community through clinical interventions in the care pathway

·To undertake initial school based and community-based assessments and to deliver a range of early interventions to children young people and their families with a range of emotional and psychological difficulties

·Providing a direct service to children and young people and their families, in an accessible and less stigmatizing environment, based on the best available research evidence, within clinical governance.

Working for our organisation

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

Use of AI

Applications for this role should be written by the applicant. If artificial intelligence (AI) programmes are used then the application may be rejected due to this document being an important part of the assessment process. This does not prevent applicants seeking appropriate support with applications should they need to for the purposes of any declared disability.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Clinical Skills

·To act as an autonomous, registered practitioner who is legally and professionally accountable for own unsupervised actions guided by the professional code of conduct and Trust guidelines and protocols

·To be responsible, and accountable, for service delivery to clients/patients, via NICE compliant pathways.

·To be able to assess and develop plans of care to meet the complex needs of patients with a variety of conditions. This includes brief and longer term interventions, recognising own limitations and seeking advice when necessary. This will include continuously evaluating and acting on outcomes and activity.

·To be able to initiate referrals to other health professional specialist services and agencies.

·To provide patients and relatives with information and education thus ensuring they have meaningful choices that promote dignity, independence and quality of life.

·To ensure practice is supported by research, evidence based practice, literature and peer review.

Leadership

·To be part of an effective team and the development of productive working relationships throughout the Trust

·To actively promote integrated health professional working internally and externally

·To facilitate the development of a positive and ‘supportive’ team culture by taking responsibility for dealing effectively with potential conflict.

·To participate in the audit process, linking in with the clinical governance agenda

Administration

·To promote agile working

·To ensure accurate recording of actions, and updating patient’s records, maintaining

·confidentiality at all times.

·To take part, and assist, in the planning and administration relating to day to day running of the caseload.

·To collect Routine Outcome data routinely

Communication

·To develop a broad range of relationships with both internal and external colleagues and partner agencies

·To have a wide range of knowledge in approaches to communicating and managing patient care and be able to communicate complex patient related information.

·To be able to effectively communicate with colleagues, peers, senior managers and

·clinical leads within the Trust.

Training

·To ensure own continued professional development and support a culture of lifelong learning in self and others.

·To undertake a regular appraisal, developing a personal development plan that includes clinical competencies reflecting the health needs of the local population and relates to Trust strategy.

·To support training as part of the role including changes to professional development and implementation of new policies and guidelines.

Specific tasks directly related to the post

·Supporting Mental Health Practitioners, and Senior Practitioners in providing consultations to internal and external clinicians/ professionals. Please see full Job description for further information.

If you are an overseas qualified nurse and wanting to start your journey to becoming a UK based registered nurse with the NMC, you can check whether you are eligible to be supported through our Capital Nurse consortium. Please visit; . Whilst NELFT is happy to welcome overseas nurses we are unable to consider your application directly. You should submit your interest and apply through the Capital Nurse London group.

Although we are a registered sponsor organisation, we are unable to offer sponsorship for some job roles, and this will be identified through filtering questions at the start of any job application on the Trac recruitment system.

Person specification

Demonstration of Trust Values

Essential criteria

• Putting people first • Prioritising quality • Being progressive, innovative, and continually improve • Being professional and honest • Promoting what is possible, independence, opportunity, and choice

Qualifications

Essential criteria

NVQ level 2 or equivalent standard of literacy and numeracy Clinician with a professional registration ( Nurse, Social Worker, Occupational Therapist) Appropriate registration with either the BABCP or BPS as a low intensity practitioner.

Desirable criteria

Successful completion of the HEE commissioned 1yr Children's Wellbeing Practitioner course.

Experience

Essential criteria

Evidence of working with People (Children or Adults) with a severe learning disability Experience of working in a community Team with children with a learning disability and additional mental health difficulties Experience of carrying out generic assessment with other colleagues in the multi-disciplinary team. Experience of providing individual interventions with a wide variety of children and young people, from 3 to 19 years old Experience of assessment carried out autonomously in order to determine the most appropriate treatment plan from a range of options for the child/young person

Desirable criteria

Experience of working in mental health or related services Worked in a service where agreed targets in place to demonstrating outcomes Experience of working therapeutically with parents/carers/families of children and young people with a learning disability.

Knowledge

Essential criteria

An awareness of NHS priorities. Knowledge of the theory and practice of short term and long term clinical interventions in CAMHS Knowledge of legislation in relation to children and adolescents and safeguarding procedures and policies Knowledge of NHS, Social Care and Education structures, national policies and frameworks, evidence-based practice including NICE guidelines Knowledge of risk management and ability to monitor and assess risk and act accordingly to ensure safety

Desirable criteria

Knowledge of the impacts that learning disability and Autistic Spectrum Conditions, can have on a persons emotional well being

Skills

Essential criteria

Basic awareness of IT and IT skills Ability to communicate clearly and effectively highly complex and sensitive matters to patients, which give rise to psychological distress. An ability to integrate complex clinical information into a coherent formulation Skill in the ability to communicate effectively, verbally and in writing complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside CAMHS Ability to tolerate anxiety without recourse to premature action whilst appreciating the role of the supervisor Capacity to work alone, involving colleagues and manger as relevant Capacity to write clear records and observe policies, procedures, and guidelines. Ability to plan and organise own workload and time Ability to use outcome monitoring across all clinical work

Other

Essential criteria

To be able to work within the Professional Code of Conduct and Ethics Full, enhanced and current satisfactory DBS disclosure for the role To be able to travel efficiently throughout the area To be able to work autonomously within the overall framework of the Trust’s policies and procedures Able to form good working relationships with others in multi-disciplinary and inter-agency settings Evidence of personal resilience and aptitude for dealing with challenging, potentially distressing and highly emotional clinical work

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.