CYP Clinical Lead

The Brighton and Hove Wellbeing Service is recruiting for a Clinical Lead to work within our innovative Children and Young People's (CYP) service in Brighton. We are looking for a Practitioner Psychologist or Psychological Therapist with experience of

• working with children and young people
• providing leadership within mental health settings.

We are looking to find a candidate who can fill this role for 2.5 days per week (18.75 hours per week)/ 0.5 WTE.

Our CYP Service Provides Primary Care Mental Health Interventions For Children And Young People Up To 25. We Offer a Range Of Short-term Interventions Tailored To People's Presenting Needs And Age. These Include Counselling, CBT, Low Intensity Psychological Interventions, Groups, Creative Therapies And Social Prescribing. For More Information, Please Visit

Support for Children & Young People (CYP) — Brighton and Hove Wellbeing Service

The CYP service sits alongside our NHS Talking Therapies Service for adults.

You will work closely with our CYP Service Manager, the existing part time CYP Clinical Lead and the wider CYP leadership team.

Together with the existing CYP Clinical Lead you will provide clinical leadership to this important part of our service.

You will support in forming close working relationships with local services, including CAMHS and the Schools Mental Health Service, and provide advice around suitability of referrals / appropriate treatment pathways.

Other Responsibilities Include

• Liaising with children and young people, their parents, families and carers
• Working with staff members to ensure effective & practical support for service users.
• Clinical supervision and line management
• Working with the YCMA Service Manager to ensure safe clinical practice, and that safeguarding practice across the CYP service adheres to the current safeguarding policies and procedures
• Working with the YMCA Service Manager to ensure the safe and effective triaging of referrals made to the service
• Delivery of a Psychological Therapy tailored to the needs of children and young people and evidence based national guidelines.

The Brighton and Hove Wellbeing service delivers primary care interventions to adults and children across. Led by Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (SPFT) working in partnership with YMCA Downslink Group (YMCA), the service provides a community-based range of evidence-based or evidence-informed therapeutic and clinical interventions to support people with mild to moderate mental health needs.

Role

The CYP service is made up of staff working for SPFT and YMCA. In this role you would be able to draw on the strengths of both organisations:

• SPFT provides mental health and learning disability services for children, young people and adults.
• YMCA provides youth advice, community / school counselling services and family mediation services.

Working In Sussex

• Travel easily between coast and countryside, with a blend of picturesque villages and seaside towns
• Embrace city life with great access to London
• Easy access to Gatwick and Heathrow and excellent railway links across the UK

We’d love you to join SPFT, which is an organisation rated ‘good’ overall and ‘outstanding’ for caring by the CQC.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Conrad Foote Job title: Wellbeing & Therapeutic Services Manager Email address: ***email_hidden*** Telephone number: View phone number on uk.workus.org

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Stuart Clark, Clinical Lead for Brighton and Hove Wellbeing Service

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We would warmly welcome informal discussion about the role ahead of application deadline.