Person Specification

Education and Qualifications

Essential

• Qualified Education Mental Health Practitioner or CYP Wellbeing Practitioner, Or / Mental Health Nurse, Occupational Therapist, Social Worker with additional CBT or other relevant therapy postgraduate qualification

Desirable

• A further relevant degree qualification
• Teaching qualification

Previous Experience

Essential

• Experience of working with children and young people, their families, and others in a healthcare or school setting
• Experience of working and liaising with a wide variety of agencies and stakeholders
• Experience of working with children and young people who have social, emotional, and/or behavioural difficulties
• Experience of working with anxiety disorders
• Experience of working with affective disorders
• Experience of the delivery of specific low-intensity therapeutic interventions to children, young people, or their families (e.g., CBT, solution-focused brief therapy
• Ability to conduct other group therapeutic interventions with children and their families

Desirable

• Experience of working with children and their families in an educational setting
• Experience in monitoring and recording outcome measures for children’s emotional well-being
• Experience in navigating complex social systems and environments, who may have conflicting priorities or agendas
• Experience of working with looked-after children
• Experience of working with other vulnerable groups

Skills

Essential

• Able to communicate with the team, present to young people, take notes of actions, update others in the team, and use team meetings effectively. Speaking face to face, by telephone, and writing letters and reports.
• Maintaining accurate, timely, concise, and legible clinical records, both electronic and handwritten, which adhere to the CNWL policies
• Care planning: being able to assess young people, develop, implement, and evaluate a care plan
• Understanding how the Mental Capacity Act and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards impact their work and the people they are working with
• Understanding the concept of quality and its role in improving safety, clinical outcomes, and the patient experience
• Ability to carry out 1:1 therapeutic mental health interventions with children
• Ability to carry out 1:1 therapeutic mental health interventions with families
• Ability to make an assessment of risk and to record and communicate it appropriately.
• Ability to work within educational settings to increase mental health awareness within the staff group

Desirable

• Ability to teach others about mental health issues

Knowledge

Essential

• Knowledge of educational environments
• Knowledge of safeguarding issues
• Knowledge of capacity and consent issues, including Gillick competence

Desirable

• Knowledge of the functional operation of specialist CAMHS teams

Attitudes, aptitudes, personal characteristics

Essential

• Caring for the people who use our services, their families and carers, and other staff
• Respectful of others and genuinely treating them as you would want to be treated
• Able and willing to work with service users, family and carers, and other staff in a way which empowers and supports others and makes them feel better about themselves
• Able and willing to work in partnership with service users, their friends and family, as well as other health care professionals

Desirable

• Proven commitment to continuous professional development

Other

Essential

• Access to car or other motor vehicle for use for work purposes.
• Team player
• Excellent time management and organisational skills

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).