Job summary
LOOKING FOR A NEW, VARIED AND EXCITING ROLE IN CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE'S MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES?

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our multi award winning Mental Health Support Team as a CBT Therapist in Spalding and South Holland. This is a diverse and enjoyable role, in which the successful applicants will support a small caseload of children and young people (CYP), alongside supporting our low intensity CBT practitioners with Public Health England's Whole School Approach activities within our designated education settings. This includes CYP and parent/carer drop ins, training to education staff and workshops with CYP / parents / carers.

The Mental Health Support Teams (MHSTs) support children and young people aged 5-18 within school and college settings who are presenting with mental health or emotional health problems which are of a mild to moderate level of complexity and/or intensity.

You will receive regular group and 1:1 clinical supervision, alongside monthly management supervision and support from the wider team. MHST also work closely with our CAMHS and Healthy Minds Lincolnshire colleagues for support and shared learning.

MHST working hours are Monday to Friday 9-5, however, part-time and flexible working patterns are always considered. For more information, please contact sam.white19@nhs.net

Main duties of the job
You will provide assessment and cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) for a range of presenting difficulties for which CBT is demonstrated to be clinically effective.

We have various teams across the MHST, all in various stages of training. This role will therefore give you a great opportunity to work with both qualified staff and trainees. The role also offers a flexible style of working, as the team use a hybrid model, offering support both face-to-face and virtually to education staff, children, young people and their families.

You will need to be enthusiastic and very well organised and able to travel across Lincolnshire as needed to provide services. The post holder will be expected to be able to work on their own initiative as well as work well within a multi-disciplinary setting. They will need to be an excellent communicator and team player.

About us
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,800 staff, and serving a population of over 766,000, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.

You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England, in an area heralded as a fantastic place to live and work. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of 'outstanding' for well-led and 'good' overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We're really proud of this!

We are also leading the way in transforming care, with multi-million-pound transformation of patient environments and radical redesign of community services.

This is the time to join and help redesign our services of the future. We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.

Job responsibilities
Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for complete details regarding this post.

When completing your application, please demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.

We can also offer you many staff benefits to help support you which include:

• Early access to Psychological Therapies and Physiotherapy
• Competitive annual leave allowance
• Car leasing scheme
• NHS pension scheme
• Free eye tests
• Money saving options through our salary sacrifice scheme
• Discounts on major high street retailers and restaurants

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Qualifications
Essential

• Post graduate diploma in CBP and Accreditation with BABCP
• Professional qualification as Clinical Psychologist, Nurse, Social Worker Occupational Therapist or psychological therapy

Desirable

• Clinical Supervision Training

Experience
Essential

• Experience of working with Children and Young People and their carers
• Experience of offering CBT assessments and interventions - individual and group
• Worked in a service where agreed targets in place demonstrating clinical outcome

Desirable

• Experience of working in CYP IAPT informed services
• Experience of working in school and college settings
• Experience of offering clinical and caseload management supervision

Skills
Essential

• Ability to meet agreed/specified service targets.
• Ability to manage own caseload and time.
• Demonstrates high standards in written communication.
• Able to write clear reports and letters to referrers.
• Computer literate.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Has received training and carried out risk assessments within scope of practice.
• Understanding of issues surrounding clinical risk.
• Able to develop good therapeutic relationships with clients
• Completed clinical audits within a service
• High level of enthusiasm and motivation
• Ability to work within a team and foster good working relationships
• Ability to use clinical supervision and personal development positively and effectively
• Ability to work under pressure
• Regard for others and respect for individual rights of autonomy and confidentiality
• Ability to be self-reflective, whilst working with service users, & in own personal and professional development and in supervision

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.
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).