CAMHS Practitioner - Leighton Buzzard MHST | East London NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 18 January 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £37,338 - £44,962 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 05 March 2025 |
| Location: | Leighton Buzzard, LU7 2TD |
| Company: | East London NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6887291/363-SSLB6887291 |
Summary
We have an exciting opportunity for you at Bedfordshire CAMHS within our Leighton Buzzard Mental Health Support Team (MHST). The service is a part of our wider CAMHS Access Services (CAS) delivering care through the most accessible points in the community.
Integrated with other partner agencies across Central Bedfordshire Borough and South Bedfordshire CAMHS, you will support schools in the Leighton Buzzard area by providing;
- Direct interventions to children, young people and their families, through 1:1, group and whole classroom interventions.
- Support to the designated senior mental health lead in education settings to introduce or develop their whole school or college approach.
- Timely advice to school, college and community staff, and liaise with external specialist services, to help children and young people to get the right support and stay in education.
Bedfordshire has a diverse and vibrant community, which will require candidates to show an awareness of, and interest in, supporting these communities, and to deliver evidence based and innovative care to suit the needs of the local communities.
You will provide consultations, triage, mental health assessments, effective brief therapeutic support, including evidence-based low intensity/high intensity early interventions, group work and workshops to prevent moderate to severe mental health problems developing, using the iThrive model.
You will deliver this to children and young people, working across Leighton Buzzard and will be required to be flexible, and be able to travel across Bedfordshire.
The post is embedded in the community, and you will have an attached base in CAMHS, and be an integrated part of the CAMHS Access Services multi-disciplinary services and the wider CAMH Specialist Service.
You will need a relevant professional qualification, with excellent interpersonal, written and oral communication skills. You will need experience in working with children and families, preferably in a school or community setting. You will need to be able to operate confidently in an environment where IT is the main method of record keeping, communication and program management.
You will be supported by regular, separate clinical and management supervision sessions, access to a variety of CPD sessions, and annual performance appraisal. You will also be required to provideregular supervision and line management to junior clinical colleagues.
Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.
For further information regarding this post, please contact:
Laura Gill (Intergrated Service Lead Central Beds CAMHS Access Service )
This advert closes on Monday 17 Feb 2025