Post Graduate Course for a SMHP specialising in LD / ASC

St Helens CYPMHS have a fantastic opportunity for 1 WTE B6 MHP. The successful applicant will part of an initiative for developmental posts in CYP Mental Health and will be recruited to train in a Post Graduate Therapy within the Children and Young People' Improving Access to Psychological Therapies programme (CYP IAPT) . Applicants must be core and registered with a regulatory body e.g NMC. The training programme on offer is:
Post Graduate Certificate in spealist clinical practice- LD and Autism
The successful applicant will work within CYPMH as part of a multi-disciplinary team delivering, under supervision, high-quality, outcome informed, focused and evidence-based interventions for CYP in accordance with the competency framework for their therapeutic modality.
Applicants need to be able to start the Post Graduate training programme taught academic dates in January 2025 and commit to attendance at all university based taught and self-study days required by Manchester University. You will work in the service for the remaining days of the week using your newly developed skills to ensure you gain the necessary clinical practice hours to fulfil the academic programme. This is 200 hours of modality and case specific practice for the full time courses.
Interested candidates are encouraged to review course information on the national website:
Learning Disability & Autism Pathway (CYP IAPT) Postgraduate Certificate | Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS FT (gmmh.nhs.uk), Those successful applicants appointed at Band 6 will on successful completion of the programme, return to the service where you will have as part your job plan opportunity to deliver interventions aligned to your therapeutic modality training alongside generic CAMHS work for a minimum of 1 year. This will be supported by a skills and competency framework for Band 6, you will also be required to be registered with a professional body or have undertaken the accreditation process and maintain this with the relevant body for your therapeutic modality.
We are seeking enthusiastic individuals with a passion for working with children who will want to develop their skills and knowledge as part of future career progression and personal development.
We strive to provide excellent quality evidence based mental health care and are therefore committed to on-going quality and service improvements. We are committed to the meaningful participation of children, young people and their families in the design and development of our services. The training posts will be based in the St Helens CYP Teams. This will enable the successful applicants to work with children in a variety of community settings with support from their colleagues to identify young people with the level of needs suited to the requirements of the academic programme.

Working for our organisation
The post holder will be expected to provide interventions to children and young people and their families/carers referred into the service.
As the post is identified within the CYPMH strategy, it is expected the role will continue to develop in line with national and local initiatives. The post holder will demonstrate an attitude which respects and values service users' and their carers.
The post holder will embrace the core values of the organisation and adopt the principles of Recovery and THRIVE. These principles will recognise the need to:
Promote safe practices
Value the aims of service users
Work in partnership and offer meaningful choice
Be optimistic about the possibilities of meaningful change
Value social inclusion, To hold a caseload of assessments, treatment upon a conceptual framework and employing research based evidence.
To provide direct therapeutic interventions in line with the grading of the post, including assessments, formulation and therapeutic input into children, young people and families referred into the service.
Undertake risk assessments and care plans accordingly, in line with the THRIVE framework
To work in ways that are sensitive to the needs of children and young people and families from a wide range of racial, cultural and religious backgrounds.
To participate directly in the teams duty rota's in line with the grading of the post.
To exercise responsibility within supervisory, managerial and accountability structures, for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients
To produce a clinical formulation and intervention plan founded on evidence based practice in cooperation with the child young person and carers
To hold responsibility for standards of clinical practice within area of work.
To work jointly and collaboratively with other team members in order to enhance and develop the provision of services to young people and their families. To have an effective knowledge base of other modalities so as to engage and work effectively with colleagues in other disciplines.
Undertake risk management for all children including the protective and risk factors present in the network of significant relationships.
Identify and respond appropriately to child protection issues, as described with the guidelines of Local Safeguarding Children's Board and the Trust safeguarding policies
Maintain clear and comprehensive electronic clinical records, to ensure information is accurate and complies with Data Protection Act and professional body and Trust standards.
To engage with using routine outcome measures as clinically appropriate including their use in clinical practice and inputting data into clinical records.
To work collaboratively with children, young people and their families and contribute to the trust's service user participation agenda.