Band 6 CAMHS Supervising Mental Health Practitioner MHST

We are offering an exciting opportunity to join our expanding Mental Health Support Team's within CNWL Brent and Hillingdon CAMHS. In line with 2017 Green Paper this is a role to support Education Mental Health Practitioners in schools working with Children, Young People and Families., We currently have four vacancies we are recruiting to. Two of these posts will be to our new wave 11 teams, 1 of these posts is in Brent MHST and the other is in our Hillingdon MHST. A further post is to support our existing MHST in Hillingdon. The final post is a secondment opportunity for twelve months within the Hillingdon team and would suit an internal candidate to CNWL who is looking for a change or, a step into a more senior role., The Mental Health Practitioner will be responsible for delivering interventions within Mental Health Support Teams (MHSTs) in schools and colleges, whilst receiving clinical supervision and be expected to work in schools closely with school staff to support CYP, their families and staff to foster a whole school approach to mental well-being.

The mental health practitioner will play a key role in

Forming strong working relations with a variety of stakeholders

Providing consultations to education colleagues and support education setting to embed a whole school approach to wellbeing

Developing and delivering evidence-based individual and group time limited interventions to young people within education settings

Evidencing the outcomes of the MHST service

Providing clinical supervision to trainee Education and Mental Health practitioners

Would suit qualified CBT Therapist, mental health nurse, social worker or, other discipline with CAMHS experience and some experience of supervising others. Applications will also be considered from Experienced CWPs / EMHPs with substantial CAMHS and Supervision Experience.

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We ask the employee to adhere to our Trust Values:

Compassion: Our staff will be led by compassion and embody the values of care outlined inour Staff Charter.Respect: We will respect and value the diversity of our patients, service users and staff, tocreate a respectful and inclusive environment, which recognises the uniqueness of eachindividual.Empowerment: We will involve, inform and empower our patients, service users, carers andtheir families to take an active role in the management of their illness and adopt recoveryprinciples. We will ensure our staff receive appropriate direction and support, to enablethem to develop and grow.Partnership: We will work closely with our many partners to ensure that our combinedefforts are focused on achieving the best possible outcomes for the people we serve.