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Salary: £27,780 (mid band 5 FTE) + staff benefits including health insurance, life insurance, generous annual leave allowance, opportunities for flexible working and commitment to relevant training & development

Hours: 37.5 hours per week (inc. 2 days a week study in London/IW)

Contract: Fully funded for one year training with a view to full time appointment on completion of training subject to securing funding

The Isle of Wight Youth Trust has an exciting opportunity to join our team as a Recruit to Train ASC/LD IAPT Practitioner, part of the Health Education England (HEE) funded Recruit to Train Programme in partnership with the Anna Freud Centre and University College London.

The post-holder will be training on the Children & Young People Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (CYP IAPT) Therapy Course and carrying out clinical work in our IW Service to compliment your studies and use your newly developed skills.

We are seeking highly motivated and enthusiastic mental health practitioners to work and train within our service. The training post will equip the post-holder to provide interventions for children, young people or families using evidence-based intervention consistent with the course they are attending.

The post holder will work with people with different cultural backgrounds and ages, using interpreters when necessary and should be committed to equity, diversity and inclusion.

For more than 35 years, the Isle of Wight Youth Trust has been a trusted and outstanding, independent local charity delivering confidential, professional counselling, therapeutic and wellbeing services to children and young people aged 4-25 years.

Our work also includes mental health education and training to professionals, parents and young people, as well as advocacy work in seeking the voice of children and young people to influence improvements to mental health services on the Island.

Contract: Fully funded for one year training with a view to full time appointment on completion of training subject to securing funding

Information about the Training & the Job Role
This is a full-time post with a training year funded by HEE. After successful completion of the course, it is hoped that you will continue your employment within the IOWYT using the new skills you have developed.

This role will be best suited for applicants that are able to balance a very busy work and study schedule. You will be an employee at the IOWYT but also enrolled on a Postgraduate Diploma course. As this is a Postgraduate level training, you will be required to study and perform at academic level 7. Applicants must be prepared to work towards their studies outside of protected study time (such as on weekends and after work).

Protected study time or teaching days are typically two days a week during term (with possibility of extra university days near the start) and will be a mixture of in person and online sessions. Applicants must be willing to travel into London weekly to attend their lectures. Travel expenses are covered.

More information about the courses and how the training works can be found here including the course brochures, and we strongly recommend you read the FAQs.

HEE are also expecting to implement a new rule regarding beneficiaries of their training year funding. We recommend you read this if you plan to apply for future trainings.

On days not in study you will hold a caseload of clients to work with aged 4-25 years to embed your taught practice. You will have designated weekly clinical supervision and monthly clinical case management alongside the support of the wider Youth Trust team and leaders.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

CLINICAL

1. Accept referrals via agreed protocols within the service
2. Assess clients for suitability for the treatment for which training is provided.
3. 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.
4. Formulate, implement and evaluate therapy programmes for clients.
5. Involve family members and others in treatment as necessary, conveying therapy formulations with sensitivity in easily understood language.
6. Adhere to an agreed activity contract relating to the number of client contacts offered, and clinical sessions carried out per week in order to minimise waiting times and ensure treatment delivery remains accessible and convenient.
7. Attend multi-disciplinary meetings relating to referrals or clients in treatment, where appropriate.
8. Complete all requirements relating to data collection within the service.
9. Keep coherent records of all clinical activity in line with service protocols
10. 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.
11. Assess and integrate issues surrounding work and employment into the overall therapy process

TRAINING AND SUPERVISION

1. Attend and fulfil all the requirements of the training element of the post.
2. Apply learning from the training programme in practice
3. Prepare and present clinical information for all patients on their caseload to clinical case management supervisors within the service on an agreed and scheduled basis, in order to ensure safe practice and the clinical governance obligations of the worker, supervisor and service are delivered
4. Receive supervision from educational providers in relation to course work to meet the required standards.

PROFESSIONAL

1. Ensure the maintenance of standards of practice according to the employer and any regulating, professional and accrediting bodies (eg BPS, UKCP, BABCP), and keep up to date on new recommendations/guidelines set by the department of health (e.g Future in Mind ).
2. Ensure that client confidentiality is protected at all times.
3. Be aware of, and keep up to date with advances in the spheres of care pathway
4. Ensure clear professional objectives are identified, discussed and reviewed with senior therapists on a regular basis as part of continuing professional development.
5. Attend clinical/managerial supervision on a regular basis as agreed with Manager.
6. Participate in individual performance review and respond to agreed objectives.
7. Keep up to date all records in relation to Continuous Professional Development and ensure personal development plan maintains up to date specialist knowledge of latest theoretical and service delivery models/developments.
8. Attend relevant conferences / workshops in line with identified professional objectives.

GENERAL

1. To contribute to the development of best practice within the service.
2. To maintain up-to-date knowledge of legislation, national and local policies and procedures in relation to children’s mental health and social care needs.
3. All employees have a duty and responsibility for their own health and safety and the health of safety of colleagues, patients and the general public.
4. All employees have a responsibility and a legal obligation to ensure that information processed for both patients and staff is kept accurate, confidential, secure and in line with the Data Protection Act (1998) and Security and Confidentiality Policies.
5. It is the responsibility of all staff that they do not abuse their official position for personal gain, to seek advantage of further private business or other interests in the course of their official duties.

The core responsibilities are not an exhaustive list of duties, only a general guide to the post. In consultation with the post holder, the duties and responsibilities may be adapted to reflect the changing needs of the service.

Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential:

• Minimum 2:1 BA Degree in a relevant subject (e.g. psychology, social work etc).
• Qualifications that demonstrate a capacity to complete academic work at postgraduate diploma level

Desirable
A training in a mental-health related profession (e.g. psychology, nursing, health visiting; social-work, occupational therapy, speech and language therapy, special needs teaching, psychiatry, other psychotherapy, counselling).

Knowledge
Essential

• Demonstrates an understanding and appreciation of the unique challenges associated with ASC and/or LD for children, young people and their families.
• Demonstrates awareness of the significantly increased risk of co-morbid mental health and other neuro-developmental problems in this population.
• Knowledge and understanding of the key features and symptoms associated with ASC and/or LD.
• Knowledge and understanding of importance to modify, adapt methods of communication and intervention for this population.
• Knowledge and understanding of issues relating to safeguarding children

Desirable:

• Demonstrates an appreciation of the range of factors that can impact on emotional well-being of children and young people with ASC and/or LD and their families.
• Demonstrates an appreciation of the MDT approach and involving other agencies, such as education and social care in order to ensure that the needs of children and young people with ASC and/or LD are well understood and effectively met.

Experience
Essential

• Minimum of 2 years experience of working within a professional setting concerned with the mental health of children and young people or families (e.g. as a mental health worker).
• Basic level of clinical competence and experience of having worked with this clinical group for at least one year.

Desirable

• Experience of working as part of the multi-disciplinary team with children and young people with ASC and/or LD and their families.
• Experience of working within a professional setting concerned with the mental health, development and wellbeing of children and young people with ASC and/or LD and their families.

Skills & Abilities
Essential

• Ability to be flexible and creative in facilitating engagement with children and young people with ASC and/or LD and their families.
• Ability to adapt communication style according to the varying needs and levels of comprehension of children and young people with ASC and/or LD.
• Ability to maintain a reflective stance in emotive/challenging interactions with children and their carers.
• Ability to use supervision to reflect on practice.
• Ability to organise own time and diary
• Ability to follow policy and make proposal for change
• Ability to maintain accurate records
• Capability to complete academic work at postgraduate diploma level, including IELTS or equivalent to the appropriate level for students with English as a foreign language (Level: GOOD) https://www.ucl.ac.uk/prospective-students/graduate/english-language-requirements

Desirable

• Ability to adopt a multi-agency working, especially in relation to complex cases with multiple needs, where a more systemic approach is required.
• Ability to advocate for the needs for children and young people with ASC and/or LD and their families.
• Ability to maintain an observational stance, particularly in relation to children and young people with ASC and/or LD who do not express themselves verbally.
• Understanding of evidence based practice and the ability to demonstrate how this influences clinical practice

Other Requirements/ Factors

• Able to work between office and home and other locations as required.
• A full UK driving licence and vehicle for business use; however reasonable adjustments will be made for disabled individuals in line with the Equality Act 2010
• DBS check as appropriate

Information about how to Apply
This is a training position and so all candidates will need to apply for both the trainee role with the Youth Trust and the UCL Post Graduate Diploma in Child and Young Person IAPT Therapy in order to be shortlisted (for more information about the course and minimum entry criteria, please see the course page and brochures).

Please complete your university application using the UCL University Application Guidance supplied.

If you want to join our dedicated team, please send us a CV and supporting statement to [email protected]. It is essential that you outline how you meet the requirements of the post in your supporting statement.

The role involves regulated activity with children and young people and is therefore subject to an enhanced plus barring DBS check. Anyone on the Barred List for working with children and young people is legally barred from the role. The successful candidates will undertake an enhanced DBS check and any offer of employment made is conditional subject to full company Safer Recruitment checks.

Closing date: Monday 14th November 2022 at 12 noon

UCL covers the modalities of ASC/LD, Under 5s, IPT-A and CBT, Please ensure you apply for the correct course and it is very important to mention which modality/modalities you are applying for and why you are qualified & interested in them in your personal statement as this will be assessed by the course team to determine course/modality suitability.
Please note that when you apply to this role, your name will be shared with the Higher Education Institute (HEI) running the course. The service will usually be the Course Team’s main way of contacting you until you have been sent an Offer, and so the Course Team at the HEI may ask for information if it is relevant to deciding course eligibility. Other information that might be shared:

• Reason behind ineligibility for the course.
• Queries regarding application
• Name change – confirm with service to ensure that they are reviewing the correct candidate.

This is an integral part of the process to confirm that you have applied to the University and that you meet their course requirements. You must apply to the course at the same time as this job.

If you apply to this job, you are giving permission that information relevant to establishing eligibility can be shared between the HEI and the Service. No irrelevant information will be disclosed or discussed.

As these are training positions, please be aware that this is a dual application process where you must be employed in a Recruit to Train funded job to also receive a place on the course, and vice-versa. If you are ineligible for the University Course, we will be unable to be offer the role. If you withdraw from an employment offer but you have accepted a university offer, you will be unable to join the course.
Please note in this instance the course is not optional; the roles are dependent on meeting all course requirements.

The starts date is Tuesday 3rd January 2023. Applicants for this training at UCL will need to be available to start by the 9th of January at the latest (with the course starting on the 16th January).