Clinical Lead - Psychologist/ Family Therapist/ Psychotherapist inSheerness Kent inSheerness Kent PUBLISHED 17 OCT 2024
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Children & Young People's Mental Health Services (CYPMHS)
Come and work for NELFT's Children & Young People's Mental Health Service (CYPMHS), and be part of one of the UK's most innovative healthcare Trusts
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a senior clinical psychologist, family therapist or Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist or professional with appropriate skills and experience to join our Swale CYPMHS. The service provides the latest in evidence based NICE recommended Positive Behaviour Support and other psychological interventions to children, young people and their families experiencing emotional wellbeing and mental health difficulties.
You will be a highly motivated and innovative individual with extensive clinical experience of working with children and young people with emotional wellbeing and mental health difficulties including challenging behaviour who have a diagnosis of moderate to severe and profound learning disability.
You will have a significant impact on the delivery and development of services for this vulnerable client group, which involves representing the service at commissioning and strategic level with key agencies.
To be the clinical lead for the Swale CYPMHS.
To lead on service development and delivery including research opportunities.
To develop partnership working with all key agencies'.
To ensure the service is delivering the most clinically effective interventions in line with current research and clinical guidelines.
To ensure the service is routinely measuring clinical outcomes and delivering evidence-based practice and auditing the service delivered.
To ensure staff team have relevant skills and CPD, including opportunities to further their experience and training for example CYP-IAPT courses.
To promote the mental and emotional health of children, young people and families in the community through clinical interventions in the care pathway.
To assess and develop plans of care to meet the complex needs of all young people referred to the Swale CYPMHS.
To provide clinical leadership and specialist treatment and assessment within your professional sphere of expertise in the service and will be responsible for the extensive clinical supervision of clinicians.
To ensure an excellent standard of care is provided in line with trust values and CQC.
About usYou will:
- Routinely measure clinical outcomes and deliver evidence-based clinical interventions in line with the CY-IAPT programme within EWMHS
- Promote the mental and emotional health of children, young people and families in the community through clinical interventions in the care pathway
- Undertake initial school based and community based assessments and deliver a range of early interventions to children and young people with a range of emotional and psychological difficulties where appropriate
- Assess and develop plans of care to meet the complex needs of patients with a variety of conditions.
About NELFTs Children & Young Peoples Mental Health Services (CYPMHS)
NELFTs CYPMHS is for anybody aged between 0-18, living in Kent and is free at the point of entry. The service is also for young people with special educational needs (SEN) up to the age of 25. The CAMHS Tier II and Tier III services no longer exist, replaced with an integrated CYPMHS.
Structure of Children & Young Peoples Mental Health Services (CYPMHS)
There is one Childrens Single Point of Access (SPA), a Neurodevelopmental & Learning Disabilities Service, six Locality Teams and a Crisis Team. These are located across North Kent (Dartford), West Kent (Maidstone & Tunbridge Wells), South Kent (Folkestone & Dover), East Kent (Thanet), Swale, Ashford and Canterbury and Coastal.
What difficulties can be referred to the service?
- Mood and anxiety disorders
- Behavioural and conduct disorders
- Emerging personality and attachment disorders
- Psychotic disorders
- Deliberate self-harm and suicidal ideation
- Substance misuse with co-existing mental health needs (dual diagnosis)
- Autistic spectrum disorder (ASD) - with co-occurring mental health needs
- Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) - with co-occurring mental health needs
- Neurodevelopmental disorders
- Prolonged bereavement problems
All referrals to the service are assessed using a care pathways approach, developed in line with the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence guidance criteria (NICE) and based on a best practice model of treatment.
Locality Team in Children & Young Peoples Mental Health Services (CYPMHS)
The aim of our new CYPMHS is to respond earlier to children and young peoples needs in order to help prevent, reduce or delay the need for more specialist interventions. This transformation of children and young peoples mental health services has a clinical focus, integrated with local authorities to deliver a long term collaborative approach to planning and delivering services.
CYPMHS focuses on emotional wellbeing as well as mental health and includes access to self-help tools and services based in schools and the community. The CAMHS Tier II and Tier III service no longer exist, replaced with an integrated CYPMHS. Training and support is available to other professionals and agencies. We are creating a modern service that fits with childrens lives in a way that best suits them. Key new features include a Childrens Single Point of Access (SPA) into the service, clear early signposting, and use of digital channels such as Big White Wall to access support and services.
Each locality team have care pathways. Each care pathway is clinically led, with care pathway leads operationally managing all CYPMHS practitioners working in that care pathway. With the support of the team manager, care pathway leads are responsible for assessment, treatment and systematic outcome measurement in that care pathway. CYPMHS multi-disciplinary pathway workers and mental health workers may work across more than one care pathway in a locality team.
Care pathways include; Mood and anxiety Early Help Complex Behavioural and conduct, Neurodevelopmental & Learning Disability.
Person specification Qualifications Essential criteria Maximum score 4- Successful completion of a graduate training (e.g. nursing, social work, occupational therapy, speech and language therapy)
- To be eligible for registration as a full member of the appropriate professional body (e.g. HCPC, NMC)
- Experience of working with patients with neurodevelopmental and learning disabilities
- Experience of carrying out generic assessment with other colleagues in the multi-disciplinary team
- Experience of providing clinical interventions in different cultural contexts
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; www.jobsincare.com/job/jbnsgWsK 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.
Children & Young People's Mental Health Services (CYPMHS)
Come and work for NELFT's Children & Young People's Mental Health Service (CYPMHS), and be part of one of the UK's most innovative healthcare Trusts
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a senior clinical psychologist, family therapist or Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist or professional with appropriate skills and experience to join our Swale CYPMHS. The service provides the latest in evidence based NICE recommended Positive Behaviour Support and other psychological interventions to children, young people and their families experiencing emotional wellbeing and mental health difficulties.
You will be a highly motivated and innovative individual with extensive clinical experience of working with children and young people with emotional wellbeing and mental health difficulties including challenging behaviour who have a diagnosis of moderate to severe and profound learning disability.
You will have a significant impact on the delivery and development of services for this vulnerable client group, which involves representing the service at commissioning and strategic level with key agencies.
To be the clinical lead for the Swale CYPMHS.
To lead on service development and delivery including research opportunities.
To develop partnership working with all key agencies'.
To ensure the service is delivering the most clinically effective interventions in line with current research and clinical guidelines.
To ensure the service is routinely measuring clinical outcomes and delivering evidence-based practice and auditing the service delivered.
To ensure staff team have relevant skills and CPD, including opportunities to further their experience and training for example CYP-IAPT courses.
To promote the mental and emotional health of children, young people and families in the community through clinical interventions in the care pathway.
To assess and develop plans of care to meet the complex needs of all young people referred to the Swale CYPMHS.
To provide clinical leadership and specialist treatment and assessment within your professional sphere of expertise in the service and will be responsible for the extensive clinical supervision of clinicians.
To ensure an excellent standard of care is provided in line with trust values and CQC.
About us
You will:
- Routinely measure clinical outcomes and deliver evidence-based clinical interventions in line with the CY-IAPT programme within EWMHS
- Promote the mental and emotional health of children, young people and families in the community through clinical interventions in the care pathway
- Undertake initial school based and community based assessments and deliver a range of early interventions to children and young people with a range of emotional and psychological difficulties where appropriate
- Assess and develop plans of care to meet the complex needs of patients with a variety of conditions.
About NELFTs Children & Young Peoples Mental Health Services (CYPMHS)
NELFTs CYPMHS is for anybody aged between 0-18, living in Kent and is free at the point of entry. The service is also for young people with special educational needs (SEN) up to the age of 25. The CAMHS Tier II and Tier III services no longer exist, replaced with an integrated CYPMHS.
Structure of Children & Young Peoples Mental Health Services (CYPMHS)
There is one Childrens Single Point of Access (SPA), a Neurodevelopmental & Learning Disabilities Service, six Locality Teams and a Crisis Team. These are located across North Kent (Dartford), West Kent (Maidstone & Tunbridge Wells), South Kent (Folkestone & Dover), East Kent (Thanet), Swale, Ashford and Canterbury and Coastal.
What difficulties can be referred to the service?
- Mood and anxiety disorders
- Behavioural and conduct disorders
- Emerging personality and attachment disorders
- Psychotic disorders
- Deliberate self-harm and suicidal ideation
- Substance misuse with co-existing mental health needs (dual diagnosis)
- Autistic spectrum disorder (ASD) - with co-occurring mental health needs
- Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) - with co-occurring mental health needs
- Neurodevelopmental disorders
- Prolonged bereavement problems
All referrals to the service are assessed using a care pathways approach, developed in line with the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence guidance criteria (NICE) and based on a best practice model of treatment.
Locality Team in Children & Young Peoples Mental Health Services (CYPMHS)
The aim of our new CYPMHS is to respond earlier to children and young peoples needs in order to help prevent, reduce or delay the need for more specialist interventions. This transformation of children and young peoples mental health services has a clinical focus, integrated with local authorities to deliver a long term collaborative approach to planning and delivering services.
CYPMHS focuses on emotional wellbeing as well as mental health and includes access to self-help tools and services based in schools and the community. The CAMHS Tier II and Tier III service no longer exist, replaced with an integrated CYPMHS. Training and support is available to other professionals and agencies. We are creating a modern service that fits with childrens lives in a way that best suits them. Key new features include a Childrens Single Point of Access (SPA) into the service, clear early signposting, and use of digital channels such as Big White Wall to access support and services.
Each locality team have care pathways. Each care pathway is clinically led, with care pathway leads operationally managing all CYPMHS practitioners working in that care pathway. With the support of the team manager, care pathway leads are responsible for assessment, treatment and systematic outcome measurement in that care pathway. CYPMHS multi-disciplinary pathway workers and mental health workers may work across more than one care pathway in a locality team.
Care pathways include; Mood and anxiety Early Help Complex Behavioural and conduct, Neurodevelopmental & Learning Disability.
Person specification Qualifications Essential criteria Maximum score 4- Successful completion of a graduate training (e.g. nursing, social work, occupational therapy, speech and language therapy)
- To be eligible for registration as a full member of the appropriate professional body (e.g. HCPC, NMC)
- Experience of working with patients with neurodevelopmental and learning disabilities
- Experience of carrying out generic assessment with other colleagues in the multi-disciplinary team
- Experience of providing clinical interventions in different cultural contexts
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; www.jobsincare.com/job/jbnsgWsK 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.
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