21 Oct
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
Brixton
This full-time training will begin in January 2025 with around 2.5 days a week for academic work (teaching and personal study), and 2.5 days based at the service seeing clients related to training assignments. The Trainee will be both an employee of the service and an enrolled student with King’s College London. Upon completion, qualified trainees will receive a KCL Postgraduate Diploma.
Our service has an exciting opportunity for a Recruit to Train Trainee (Cognitive Behaviour Therapy- CBT) to join our team as part of the NHS England (NHSE) funded Children and Young People (CYP) Psychological Training Programmes (formerly CYP-IAPT).
Recruit to Train is a government-funded initiative aiming to grow the child mental health workforce to meet much needed demand. To help reach this goal, NHSE covers salary and training costs for a 1-year post, allowing services to employ trainees to aid in implementing new or expanding existing specialist pathways to bridge the gaps in CYP mental health support.
This is a unique opportunity to apply your learning from weekly teaching into practical clinical interventions working with clients in the service making a direct impact in the lives of children, young people and their families.
We are looking for a committed and enthusiastic EMHP/CWP/CAMHS Practitioner who would like to undertake training in CBT. You may be a nurse, social worker or occupational therapist or other professional with experience of working in CAMHS or transferrable skills. The successful post-holder will complete a post-graduate diploma through Kings College London, whilst working in the Lambeth MHST. You will be expected to carry a clinical caseload, including delivering therapy according to your training modality.
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust(SLaM) provide the widest range of NHS mental health services in the UK as well as substance misuse services for people who are addicted to drugs and alcohol. We work closely with the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN), King's College London and are part of King's Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre. There are very few organisations in the world that have such wide-ranging capabilities working with mental illness. Our scope is unique because it is built on three major foundations: care and treatment, science and research, and training.
SLaM employ around 5000 staff and serve a local population of 1.1 million people.
We have more than 230 services including inpatient wards, outpatient and community services. Currently, provide inpatient care for approximately 5,300 people each year and treat more than 45,000 patients in the community in Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark; as well as substance misuse services for residents of Bexley, Bromley and Greenwich.
By coming to work at SLaM, you will gain experience of being part of an organisation with a rich history and international reputation in mental health care. You will have access to professional development and learning opportunities, and have the chance to work alongside people who are world leaders in their field.
This intensive training post will equip the post-holder to provide interventions for children,
young people or families using the core principles of the CYP Psychological Training Programme and consistent with the evidence base in the area of CBT. The post-holder will work in the service, for at least 2.5 days of the week using the newly developed skills whilst attending the training programme or undertaking self-study days for the remaining days, as required by the education provider.
The post holder will hold an appropriate training case load and complete the necessary assignments to meet the course requirements.
With the assistance of their clinical supervisor accept appropriate referrals; · Assess clients for suitability for the treatment for which modality specific training is provided;
· Make decisions on suitability of new referrals,
adhering to the department’s referral protocols, and refer unsuitable clients on to the relevant service or back to the referral agent as necessary;
· Formulate, implement and evaluate therapeutic intervention for clients in line with their training modality and experience;
· Involve the system around the child in treatment as appropriate, e.g. parent/carer, school, conveying therapy formulations with sensitivity in easily understood language;
· Attend multi-disciplinary meetings relating to referrals or clients in treatment, where appropriate;
· Complete all requirements relating to data collection within the service;
· Keep coherent records of all clinical activity in line with service protocols;
· Work closely with other members of the team ensuring appropriate step-up and step-down arrangements are in place to maintain a stepped care approach.
This advert closes on Monday 4 Nov 2024
▶️ CAMHS Practitioner /CYP-PT Therapy Trainee (CBT) | South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
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