Do you have the ambition, creativity and clinical skills to contribute to the development of new mental health services for children and young people?
With the National conversation increasingly focused on young people's mental health, this is the time to be at the forefront of the development of these services. We are excited to be recruiting a
Psychological Therapist
to work in our innovative service in Suffolk: the Mental Health Support Team (MHST). MHSTs are based within education settings, ensuring children and young people receive faster access to earlier mental health support. You will provide clinical supervision and expertise to the team. You will work closely with the Clinical Team Manager and Clinical Lead in the team to support the clinical delivery of the service. This role will be based with our Central Suffolk MHST, which covers schools in Stowmarket, Stowupland, Hadleigh, East Bergholt and the surrounding area. We encourage applicants from varied backgrounds, including nursing, social work, occupational therapy, and psychology. Main duties of the job
In this role, you will be responsible for providing a high-quality service to children and young people (and their families) experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties, through early intervention and offering the right support at the right time. You will work across a range of education settings. You will be responsible for overseeing and delivering clinical supervision of the team. You will use your clinical skills and experience for direct delivery of evidence-based interventions to support children and young people referred to the service. You will need to utilize skills and knowledge of CBT and child and adolescent mental health practice. You will also implement whole school approaches to mental health through collaboration and coproduction with the school community. About us
A job in the Suffolk MHSTs will inevitably be challenging and demanding at times, but it will also be immensely rewarding and provide you with great opportunities to make a genuine difference to the lives of others. You will join a service that has developed a caring, creative, and hard-working environment; your ideas about how this new service continues to develop and grow will be highly valued. This is an exciting time of transformation of mental health services in Suffolk, which MHSTs are at the forefront of. These changes are driven by the needs of local communities, with the aim of embedding mental health services within the community and truly bringing the expertise to where it is needed. NSFT, in collaboration with the Suffolk alliance partners, are striving to deliver services within the Thrive framework. We would welcome any informal conversations about these roles. Please do contact us for more information. Job responsibilities
Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities. If you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY! Some of the benefits you can expect: a comprehensive in-house & external training programmes career progression starting annual leave of 27 days per annum, increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays) NHS discounts and many more. Interview dates are yet to be set; you will be contacted via email and invited to book a time. These emails may go to your SPAM, so please keep checking all your emails if applying. Person Specification
Qualifications
Health or Social Care professional qualification RMN, Dip OT, Clinical Psychology, Diploma in Social Work or equivalent Registration with a professional body Training and ability to deliver other therapeutic approaches e.g. DBT, EMDR, IPT Experience
Experience of working with children with mental health problems Experience of working in a Mental Health Service Disclosure and Barring Service Check
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. £46,148 to £52,809 a year gross per annum (pro rata)
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With the National conversation increasingly focused on young people's mental health, this is the time to be at the forefront of the development of these services. We are excited to be recruiting a
Psychological Therapist
to work in our innovative service in Suffolk: the Mental Health Support Team (MHST). MHSTs are based within education settings, ensuring children and young people receive faster access to earlier mental health support. You will provide clinical supervision and expertise to the team. You will work closely with the Clinical Team Manager and Clinical Lead in the team to support the clinical delivery of the service. This role will be based with our Central Suffolk MHST, which covers schools in Stowmarket, Stowupland, Hadleigh, East Bergholt and the surrounding area. We encourage applicants from varied backgrounds, including nursing, social work, occupational therapy, and psychology. Main duties of the job
In this role, you will be responsible for providing a high-quality service to children and young people (and their families) experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties, through early intervention and offering the right support at the right time. You will work across a range of education settings. You will be responsible for overseeing and delivering clinical supervision of the team. You will use your clinical skills and experience for direct delivery of evidence-based interventions to support children and young people referred to the service. You will need to utilize skills and knowledge of CBT and child and adolescent mental health practice. You will also implement whole school approaches to mental health through collaboration and coproduction with the school community. About us
A job in the Suffolk MHSTs will inevitably be challenging and demanding at times, but it will also be immensely rewarding and provide you with great opportunities to make a genuine difference to the lives of others. You will join a service that has developed a caring, creative, and hard-working environment; your ideas about how this new service continues to develop and grow will be highly valued. This is an exciting time of transformation of mental health services in Suffolk, which MHSTs are at the forefront of. These changes are driven by the needs of local communities, with the aim of embedding mental health services within the community and truly bringing the expertise to where it is needed. NSFT, in collaboration with the Suffolk alliance partners, are striving to deliver services within the Thrive framework. We would welcome any informal conversations about these roles. Please do contact us for more information. Job responsibilities
Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities. If you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY! Some of the benefits you can expect: a comprehensive in-house & external training programmes career progression starting annual leave of 27 days per annum, increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays) NHS discounts and many more. Interview dates are yet to be set; you will be contacted via email and invited to book a time. These emails may go to your SPAM, so please keep checking all your emails if applying. Person Specification
Qualifications
Health or Social Care professional qualification RMN, Dip OT, Clinical Psychology, Diploma in Social Work or equivalent Registration with a professional body Training and ability to deliver other therapeutic approaches e.g. DBT, EMDR, IPT Experience
Experience of working with children with mental health problems Experience of working in a Mental Health Service Disclosure and Barring Service Check
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. £46,148 to £52,809 a year gross per annum (pro rata)
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