Clinical Associate in Psychology/ Senior Well-being Practitioner

Job summary

City & Hackney CAMHS are excited to be recruiting to 1 x band 6 full time 1 year fixed term post within the Mental Health Support Team in schools (MHST).

This is a role for either a Qualified Senior Well-being Practitioner or a Clinical Associate in Psychology who has existing experience of working in a Mental Health Support Team (MHST) in schools. The post holder will work within schools providing training, consultation, assessment, formulation and interventions for children, young people and families. They will also offer supervision to junior colleagues (Education Mental Health Practitioners (EMHPs) and Child Wellbeing Practitioners (CWPs).

Main duties of the job

The Mental Health Support Teams aim to improve the mental health and wellbeing of children and young people in the community. There is a specific focus on developing more access to helping and improving the general culture of emotional support within all primary and secondary schools including special educational provisions and PRU's. Working alongside community partners, the Mental Health Support Teams will be fully integrated with community CAMHS and educational settings.

We are ideally looking for confident and trained EMHP or CWP who has undertaken further training as a Clinical Associate in Psychology or as a Senior Well-being Practitioner and who continues to be keen to develop their skills in providing evidence based interventions to children and young people both within schools and in CAMHS clinic settings. You will have a demonstrable track record of providing collaborative and supportive interventions with children, young people, families, and parents/carers.

About us

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.

In line with Trust policy, the service has adopted a hybrid clinical working model of direct face to face and remote working as appropriate.

The service embraces continual improvement and well-being of the staff and has a high degree of enthusiasm for quality improvement and working together with partner agencies to provide the highest quality service to the population we serve.