Recruit to Train LD|ASD CYP|IAPT Trainee

Job description
Mindworks has an exciting opportunity to join our team as a Recruit to Train ASC/LD Trainee, part of the Health Education England (HEE) funded Recruit to Train Programme in partnership with the Anna Freud Centre, University College London, and Kings 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 service to complement their studies and use their 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 evidence-based interventions for children and young people with Autism Spectrum Conditions and/or Learning Disabilities, their families, schools and wider systems. 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.

The successful candidates would be working within the Specialist Schools Mental Health Support Team (MHST) as part of the wider School Based Needs Team. The team offer support to schools in Surrey boroughs. This county-wide service ensures children and young people receive the most appropriate help and support at the right time in alignment with the ITHRIVE model. You will mainly cover Special Schools in the East of the county. As part of a wide Alliance of partners including Tavistock and Portman, the Surrey Wellbeing Partnership, Barnardo’s and others, the School Based Need teams will be supporting young people more locally in their schools and communities in collaboration with other agencies driven by a needs-led, outcome-focused framework.

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is the leading provider of health and social care services for people of all ages with mental ill-health and learning disabilities in Surrey and North East Hampshire. We also provide social care services for people with a learning disability in Croydon and ASD and ADHD assessment services in Hampshire.

We actively seek to engage people who use our services and our communities in improving the mental wellbeing of the local population. We work closely with other NHS and voluntary sector organisations who provide services and support people who use services and carers.

Surrey is a beautiful county lying just 30 minutes away from Central London and from the South Coast.

Our historic market towns and bustling districts are enveloped in wonderful countryside, and our excellent road and rail networks bring the rest of the country within easy reach.

For international travel, both Gatwick and Heathrow airports are nearby.

Please note that we reserve the right to close posts as soon as sufficient applications are received.

Working from home contracts do not attract high cost area payments.

We look forward to receiving your application!

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Alison McGivern Job title: Clinical Lead Email address: alison.mcgivern@sabp.nhs.uk