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NELFT NHS Foundation Trust
London
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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.

Find out more about NELFT careers and what makes our Trust a great place to work, in this video

Job overview

The Senior Wellbeing Practitioner works with schools and colleges to provide expert emotional wellbeing and mental health support as part of plans to transform children and young people’s mental health through the NHS Long- Term Plan.

The post-holder will be a graduate qualified health care professional ( nurse, social worker, occupational therapist), or have completed EMHP/CWP qualification and will be fully registered with the appropriate professional or regulatory body ( HCPC, NMC, BPS, BABC). They will have extensive clinical experience working with children and young people with emotional wellbeing and mental health difficulties. Post holders will have completed or be supported to complete the Senior Wellbeing Practitioner course or CYP IAPT Low Intensity Supervisor course.

The post holder will be an effective team member whilst working on their own initiative. They will have a commitment to collaborative working with other health and social care professionals and agencies.

The MHSTs build on the support already in place from school counsellors, nurses, educational psychologists and the voluntary sector to support those with mild to moderate mental health issues in school and will help children and young people with more severe needs to access the right support and provide a link to the CAMHS services. The post-holder will routinely measure clinical outcomes and deliver evidence-based interventions.

Main duties of the job

The Post holder will work as part of an MHST delivering, under supervision, high-quality, brief outcome focused evidence-based interventions for children and young people experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties in and around schools The post holder will be responsible for delivering clinical interventions within the MHST and will receive clinical supervision from a more senior psychological practitioner. 

To routinely measure clinical outcomes. 

Promoting the mental and emotional health of children, young people and families in the community through evidenced based clinical interventions. 

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

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

Working for our organisation

Working at NELFT offers several benefits, including:

1.Career Development: NELFT provides opportunities for professional growth and advancement. Staff can access training, workshops, and mentoring programs.

2.Competitive Salaries: NELFT offers competitive pay scales and benefits packages

3.Work-Life Balance: The organization promotes a healthy work-life balance, with flexible working arrangements and support for well-being.

4.Employee Assistance Programs: Staff have access to counselling services, mental health support, and other resources.

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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The post-holder will be a graduate qualified health care professional ( nurse, social worker, occupational therapist), or will be a qualified low intensity practitioner (CWP/EMHP) with substantial post qualification experience and CPD and will be fully registered with the appropriate professional or regulatory body ( HCPC, NMC, (BPS/BABCP for CWP/EMHP)). They will have extensive clinical experience working with children and young people with emotional wellbeing and mental health difficulties. 

Further professional knowledge will have been gained through accredited courses workshops, study and in house training programmes ( CYP-IAPT training). 

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 within MHSTs to meet the needs of children and young people with a variety of conditions. This includes brief and longer-term interventions through talking therapies, 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 children, young people 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. 

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.

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.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

Successful completion of a graduate training ( nursing, social work, occupational therapy) or have completed a low intensity EMHP/CWP Qualification. To be eligible for registration as a full member of the appropriate professional body ( HCPC, NMC) or… …Successful CYP- IAPT Low Intensity CBT training (CWP/EMHP) with substantial post qualified experience and CPD alongside BPS or BABCP registration.

Experience

Essential criteria

Substantial experience in delivering low intensity CBT treatments. Experience of working therapeutically with Parents/carers/families of children and young people with complex mental health problems Experience of initiating, organising and planning inter-agency meetings aimed at setting in place a treatment package tailored to the individual needs of a child/young person.

Knowledge

Essential criteria

High level knowledge of the theory and practice of short term and long- term clinical interventions in children's mental wellbeing services Knowledge of risk management and ability to monitor and assess risk and act accordingly to ensure safety.

Skills

Essential criteria

Skill in the ability to communicate effectively, verbally and inwritingcomplex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside children's mental wellbeing services Ability to use outcome monitoring across all clinical work and organise own workload and time.

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.

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