MHST Practitioner Psychologist
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 27 Awst 2025 |
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| Cyflog: | £56,276.00 i £63,176.00 bob blwyddyn |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £56276.00 - £63176.00 a year |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 07 Medi 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Lewisham, SE6 4JF |
| Cwmni: | NHS Jobs |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | C9334-25-0865 |
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KR 1 Clinical and Client Care To enhance accessibility to mental health services for children and young people in Lewisham schools. To provide high quality consultation to school staff, parents, other professionals and where appropriate children and young people, focused on mental health and wellbeing. To identify and address systemic barriers to change related to mental health and wellbeing in schools. To provide assessments, formulations and interventions for children, young people and families in the MHST. To provide training and coaching to school staff to support children and young people with a range of mental health needs, including developing their whole school approach to mental health and wellbeing. To support and empower children, young people and families to make informed choices about intervention. To support children and young people experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties and their families in the self-management of presenting difficulties. To work in partnership with families to provide culturally appropriate psychological interventions. To assess and monitor risk and draw up appropriate risk management plans. To use routine outcome measures. To develop and help deliver workshops, groups and other psychologically informed activities for children, young people and families in schools. KR 2 Contributing to team or service clinical functioning To contribute to the effective working of the team or service and to a psychologically informed framework for the service. To contribute to the team or services delivery of accessible and acceptable services to diverse local communities. To be proactive in challenging discrimination and support the development of culturally competent services. To advise other members of the service on both specialist psychological care and universal approaches for all children and young people. To advise other members of the service on working systemically in an education context. To utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence-based practice in individual work and work with other team members. To work in partnership with schools and colleges to develop and deliver activities related to their whole school approach to mental health and wellbeing. Contribute to enabling other staff, service users and carers from diverse backgrounds to flourish by working to create a psychologically safe environment. To liaise with referrers, educational psychologists and other professionals to contribute to support plans for children and young people. To liaise with multi-agency teams to support schools in developing and delivering their whole school approach to mental health and wellbeing. KR 3 Policy and service development To implement policies and procedures in own area of work, and to propose improvements or beneficial changes. To contribute to service development through undertaking and participating in appropriate projects related to the MHST Team. To contribute to the consultation and engagement of children, young people, families and school communities in planning and delivering services which meet the needs of local communities. To contribute to service evaluation appropriately. Supporting cross agency initiatives to improve outcomes for children and young people with SEND. KR 4 Care or management of resources To take care of, and use carefully, the Trusts equipment and physical resources. To ensure that the post-holder has sufficient resources by estimating future needs and requesting or ordering supplies as needed. KR 5 Management and supervision To be responsible for supervision of junior colleagues if required, under supervision from a more senior psychologist. To act as care co-ordinator taking responsibility for the oversight of cases within the MHST, when required. To contribute to group supervision within the MHST. To support EWPs and other MHST team members in the assessment and formulation of cases To support EWPs and other MHST team members in the assessment and formulation of whole class and whole school themes. To contribute to the training of the MHST team. Manage relationships with stakeholders, including school senior mental health leads, head teachers, educational psychologists outside of the MHST and other agencies. KR 6 Teaching and Training To undertake teaching and training within the MHST. To develop and deliver training for schools, universal and targeted services. To contribute to the development of the knowledge and skills base within the MHST service by maintaining an active awareness of current developments and by implementing knowledge gained in training to practice. To disseminate research and service evaluation findings through presentations and published articles. KR 7 Record-keeping and Information Governance To ensure that all information generated by own work is recorded as required by Trust policies and local procedures. To maintain the highest standards of clinical record keeping and report writing, according to professional and Trust guidelines, including electronic data entry. KR 8 Research and development To undertake regular complex service evaluation, audits or research relevant to service needs.