Clinical Psychologist/CBT Therapist/Senior Clinician

Clinical Psychologist/CBT Therapist/Senior Clinician

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

MHST Senior Clinician/Supervisor - Band 7 - Full Time -Runnymede and Spelthorne - base is Unither House in Chertsey.

We invite you to consider being involved in this exciting opportunity to help to deliver the governments vision and commitment to develop integrated mental health teams in schools.

Building on existing 'whole school approaches' to mental health and wellbeing, Surrey is developing new MHSTs to work with selected primary and secondary schools to increase access to mental health interventions for children and young people up to the age of 18 years.

Our MHSTs have 3 core functions; supporting families and young people with mild to moderate mental health difficulties by delivering evidence-based interventions in schools; providing timely advice and consultation to schools, and supporting schools to deliver whole school approaches to mental health and wellbeing. Each MHST is co-located in schools, operating from the four main geographical hubs, with services delivered across the cluster of schools for each area.

Main duties of the job

As a Senior Clinician you will be mentoring and/or supervising the development of EMHPs in your team, building a culture of high-quality clinical practice. You will grow and nurture trainees and newly qualified EMHPs, utilising your experience and skills to ensure they develop into well rounded clinicians.

You will take the lead in building relationships with senior leaders in schools, providing regular case consultation, support and advice, and being a 'link' to the wider children's mental health services. Together with the Clinical Lead and educational psychologists, you will develop programmes of work to support schools with their whole school approach goals, enabling more sustainable, holistic change. Finally, you will hold a small caseload, delivering direct interventions to CYP and families.

We are looking to build a multi-disciplinary team whose strength comes from the variety of skills and experience brought by each team member. Thus, we welcome applications from candidates from range of professional backgrounds including, but not exclusively, CBT Therapy, Clinical Psychologist, Family Therapists, Social Work, Psychology, Occupational Therapists, Child Psychotherapy and Mental Health Nurses.

We are looking for inspiring, motivated, forward-thinking clinicians who are flexible and able to work effectively with partners in education, multiagency partners, children, young people and their families.

About us

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is the leading provider of health and social care services for people of all ages with mental ill-health and learning disabilities in Surrey and North East Hampshire. We also provide social care services for people with a learning disability in Croydon and ASD and ADHD assessment services in Hampshire.

We actively seek to engage people who use our services and our communities in improving the mental wellbeing of the local population. We work closely with other NHS and voluntary sector organisations who provide services and support people who use services and carers.

Surrey is a beautiful county lying just 30 minutes away from Central London and from the South Coast.

Our historic market towns and bustling districts are enveloped in wonderful countryside, and our excellent road and rail networks bring the rest of the country within easy reach.

For international travel, both Gatwick and Heathrow airports are nearby.

Please note that we reserve the right to close posts as soon as sufficient applications are received.

Working from home contracts do not attract high cost area payments.

We look forward to receiving your application!

Job responsibilities

Please check the job description & person specification document for more information on the requirements for this job.

There will also be an opportunity to attend a fully funded Supervision training (Supervision of Therapeutic Practice) at either Sussex or Southampton University for clinicians who meet the course entry requirements.

We are a fast growing service, with multiple teams across Surrey, enabling us to draw on a wider variety of skills and clinical experience. We have many opportunities for staff development and training, and welcome staff who are seeking an opportunity to be part of a growing, supportive, exciting and innovative service.

Person Specification

Skills and knowledge

• Knowledge of CYP IAPT & the benefits of low intensity work
• Knowledge of CYP IAPT outcome measures
• Demonstrable knowledge of relevant safeguarding and mental health legislation
• Ability to motivate, guide and support staff to develop
• Ability to provide culturally sensitive support and supervision
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Ability to teach, train and provide clear consultation
• Ability to improve services to increase efficiency and enhance patient experience
• Ability to write concise and informative reports and letters
• Ability to use and interpret outcome measures to monitor intervention effectiveness. Competent ICT skills to collect and interpret data, for reports, presentations, and service performance
• Able to Engage in online meetings
• Ability to think clinically/ therapeutically about client need
• Provide online support
• Evidence of clinical expertise in evidence based practice.
• Familiarity with electronic patient management systems such as IAPTus, RIO, SystmOne etc
• Awareness of relevant initiatives and frameworks, including MHSTs, Thrive and CYP IAPT.
• Awareness of relevant data monitoring requirements
• Experience of assessing/working with complex case
• Experience of developing clinical policies/procedures

Qualifications

• Professional degree qualification relevant to the specialist field (Including but not limited to Psychologist, CBT Therapist, Nurse, Social Worker, OT, Art Therapist etc.)
• Membership/registration of relevant professional body
• Supervision Qualification

Experience

• 2 or more years' experience working therapeutically, clinically, or consultatively within a CYP Educational or Mental Health Setting, with children and young people with mental health difficulties and their families, post qualification.
• Experience of leading on / driving multi-agency collaborative working
• Experience of monitoring performance and outcomes
• Experience of Supervising or mentoring junior members of staff
• Experience conducting complex formulation and managing clinical complexity.
• Experience of delivering CBT informed practice
• Experience of delivering mental health interventions in education settings
• Experience of delivering CBT informed supervision at low intensity level
• Experience in whole school approaches to mental health in education settings
• Experience of providing professional consultation and advice
• Experience of leading clinical practice/ service development / project work

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

£48,270 to £54,931 a yearIncl. 5% Fringe HCAS, pa, pro rata.