RTT Parent Training Trainee

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The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health trust with a focus on training and education alongside a full range of mental health services and psychological therapies for children and their families, young people and adults.
We are committed to improving mental health and emotional wellbeing, believing that high quality mental health services should be available for all who need them. We bring a distinctive contribution based on the importance we attach to social experience at all stages of people's lives, and our focus on psychological and developmental approaches to the promotion of health and the prevention and treatment of mental ill health
We contribute to the pool of ideas through our own research and development, but are also committed to bringing together the best ideas of the time, old and new, from inside and out, together with the most gifted and able professionals in our fields of endeavour. We aim to share our ideas and practice through as many routes as possible.
As a Trust we aim constantly to be evolving in nature and form in relation to the environment in which we work, to ensure that our contribution remains relevant.
The Trust uses electronic new starter forms on Trac to collect personal details. Information collected is securely stored and used to set up the employee record on the ESR HR system., Camden CAMHS Wellbeing Team are recruiting for 1x recruit to train parenting practitioner. This is an NHSE funded training post as part of the CYP Psychological Trainings (formerly CYP-IAPT) which involves some time working as a practitioner in The Camden CAMHS Wellbeing Team and some time studying with KCL/Anna Freud undertaking a programme of training in Parent Training.
Recruit to Train is a government-funded initiative aiming to grow the child mental health workforce to meet much needed demand. To help reach this goal, NHSE covers salary and training costs for a 1-year post, allowing services to employ trainees to aid in implementing new or expanding existing specialist pathways to bridge the gaps in CYP mental health support.
This is a unique opportunity to apply your learning from weekly teaching into practical clinical interventions working with clients in the service making a direct impact in the lives of children, young people and their families., This full-time training will begin in January 2025 with around 2.5 days a week for academic work (teaching and personal study), and 2.5 days based at the service seeing clients related to training assignments. Trainees will be both an employee of the service and an enrolled student with King's College London. Upon completion, qualified trainees will receive a KCL Postgraduate Diploma. Successful candidates will be required to complete assignments outside work time.
Please note: The position will be based at The Tavistock Centre but successful candidates will be expected to travel to Denmark Hill Campus of King's College London for teaching during the training year.
This is a dual application process. You must also complete a KCL application for the Course Team to review. The Course Team will liaise with us on whether you meet the academic requirements for the course during the recruitment process. You will only be offered a KCL training place if you are successful in securing this post and you meet the university training requirements (such as academic background, relevant experience, visa approval). As you also apply for a training course that is delivered by Kings College London, your data may be shared with them for the purpose of processing your application (shortlisting) and enrolling you onto this Programme.
Please read the application guidance and course brochure attached and find more information at https://www.kings-cyp.com/page/recruit-to-train,

• In submitting an application form, you authorise the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process should you be appointed to the post

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The Tavistock and Portman is caring, compassionate and committed co-creating the care and training we offer.
We are passionate about the quality of our work and committed to openness, the use of evidence and the application of improvement science.
We value all our staff, are concerned for their well being, and seek to foster leadership, innovation and excellence in our workforce.
We embrace diversity in our workforce and work to make our services and training as accessible as possible.
We have made a firm commitment to being and anti-racist, anti-homophobic and anti- transphobic organisation.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The Wellbeing Team is an emotional wellbeing pathway which is part of Camden CAMHS Service. The Wellbeing Team provides evidence-based CBT and parenting interventions to children and families with mild to moderate mental health concerns via:
Assessment and formulation of mild to moderate mental health concerns
Brief, evidence-based Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
Group interventions for parents and young people including the Incredible Years Group
1:1 guided self-help parenting interventions
Personalised individual parenting interventions
The team includes 3 CWP's, 4 Trainee CWP's, a parenting practitioner, CBT Therapists, a supervisor and service lead.
This intensive training post will equip the post-holder to provide interventions for parents and families using the core principles of the CYP Psychological Training Programme and consistent with the evidence base in parenting intervention including The Incredible Years Group Programme and Personalised Individual Parent Training (PIPT). The post-holder will work in the service, for at least 2.5 days of the week using the newly developed skills whilst attending the training programme or undertaking self-study days for the remaining days, as required by the education provider.
The post holder will hold an appropriate training case load and complete the necessary assignments to meet the course requirements.
Please see attached job description and person specification for more details on main responsibilities.