Job Description
This is an exciting opportunity to work with an innovative psychology led multi-agency team to provide mental health support to children and young people in and around their educational setting in line with the government green paper and NHSE long term plan.
The Senior School Link will hold regular review meetings with the Senior Mental Health Lead in school to support them to further develop their whole school emotional wellbeing and trauma informed offer; providing school based care plans to support the most vulnerable children and young people; coordinating and supporting direct work with children and young people with the EMHPs; offering consultation, training, reflective practice to school staff and MHST staff and EMHP case management supervision.
Regular line management and clinical supervision from an experienced Clinical Psychologist will be available alongside peer supervision with multi-agency colleagues. Post holders will be expected to attend a one year post graduate course in EMHP supervision course with the University of Sheffield and further training will be available.
The post will best fit someone interested in community-based work, who is able to apply their psychological knowledge to an educational context and who can manage to be both responsive and innovative alongside being clear about service boundaries and evidence based, theory led practice.
Key tasks will include:
- Supporting the Senior Mental Health Lead within school through regular review meetings to further develop their whole school emotional wellbeing and trauma informed offer: through review, assessment, analysing survey data, report writing, and action planning; consultation; triage; development of resources and training for school staff, children and young people and parents and carers; reflective practice
- Assessment, formulation and development of school-based care plans to support the school in being able to meet the needs of the most vulnerable children and young people within school
- Clinical supervision, training and reflective practice to the Education Mental Health Practitioners (EMHPs) and Assistant Psychologists within the team.
- Service evaluation
- Service user engagement
- Taking a specific lead role within the service
- Recording and reporting on activity and outcomes
- When required to deliver group and one to one evidence based, theory informed interventions.
The post holder will work within the Healthy Minds Mental Health Support Team which currently has twenty-two staff, delivered by Sheffield CAMHS as part of Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation Trust.
Sheffield Children's is one of three independent, specialist paediatric hospitals in the country, providing dedicated healthcare for children and young people across community, mental health and acute specialist settings.
We have three overarching aims that set the direction for the Trust in our vision to create a healthier future for children and young people.
- Outstanding patient care
- Brilliant place to work
- Leader in children's health
Our commitment to rewarding colleagues is demonstrated through our brilliant reward and benefits offer including; generous annual leave entitlement and pension scheme and access to salary sacrifice schemes such as cycle to work and lease cars.
We are committed to supporting colleagues from different heritages and lifestyles while at work. This is supported through the offer we have in place for flexible working and the three equality network groups we have in place.
We will consider applications from current Trainee Clinical Psychologists
Please see Job description and personal specification for main responsibilities for this role.
Inclusive Recruitment & Selection
We are committed to being an inclusive employer and accurate data capture is an important part of that to ensure we are supportive and representative. Our aim is to ensure that all applicants can see themselves in the available categories on our application form, but we recognise that some of our data capture fields are not inclusive. We have flagged this with our system provider to ask for change.
We offer encouragement and active support to applicants with additional needs, including those from ethnic minorities, with disabilities and members of the LGBTQ+ community. If you wish to adjust any aspect of the recruitment process or wish to find out more about our recruitment & selection processes, please get in touch with our Recruitment Manager: [email protected]
We are continually reviewing our recruitment & selection process to support the long-term aim of Sheffield Children’s being a champion of Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion. If you have any ideas for improvement, please get in touch with Catherine Gilbert [email protected]
Trust Values
The Trust is committed to providing great quality patient care and keep children, young people and families at the heart of what we do by following our CARE values:
- Compassion – leading by kindness and showing empathy, understanding and respect
- Accountability – striving to do the right thing and owning responsibility
- Respect – value differences, tackling inequality and fostering a culture of inclusion
- Excellence – delivering a high-quality standard of care