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Whole School Approach Practitioner

<h2>Job summary</h2>
  <p>This is a fantastic opportunity to be part of a new service which we are delivering across Bolton: The Mental Health Support Team (MHST).</p>
<p>We are looking for skilled practitioners, with mental health experience, who can provide low intensity evidenced based CBT interventions, manage risk and are passionate about young person-centred practice.</p>
<p>Successful candidates will play an important part in the in the delivery of high-quality service provision that promotes and improves the mental health and well-being of young people in education settings.</p>
<p>As part of a new team, you will be empowered to shape and build the service with further education settings in Bolton. You will help build and maintain positive working relationships with colleagues and the wider network.</p>



  <h3>Main duties of the job</h3>
  <p>The Mental Health Practitioner will be an integral part of the MHST in Bolton. You will use your clinical skills to listen to the needs of the child, young person and family to provide meaningful evidenced based interventions. You will provide support, advice and consultation to families/carers and other professionals in the life of the child/young person. You will work closely with education professionals to foster a whole school/college approach to mental well-being.</p>
<p>The MHST Mental Health Practitioner will play a key role in</p>
<ul>
<li>Forming strong working relations with education settings</li>
<li>Providing consultations to education colleagues and support education settings to embed a whole school approach to wellbeing</li>
<li>Developing and delivering evidence-based individual and group time limited interventions to young people within education settings</li>
<li>Evidencing the outcomes of the MHST service</li>
<li>Providing clinical supervision to Education Mental Health practitioners</li>
</ul>



  <h3>About us</h3>
  <p>Greater Manchester Mental Health (GMMH) Foundation Trust employs over <strong>7,000</strong> members of staff, who deliver services from more than <strong>120 </strong>locations.</p>
<p>We provide inpatient and community-based mental health care for people living in Bolton, the city of Manchester, Salford,Trafford and the borough of Wigan, and a wide range of specialist mental health and substance misuse services across Greater Manchester, the north west of England and beyond.</p>
<p>Greater Manchester is one of the world's most innovative, original and exciting places to live and work. From the beauty of the surrounding countryside to the heart of the vibrant inner city with great shopping, entertainment and dining options.</p>
<p>Wherever you go you will experience a great northern welcome with people famed for their warmth, humour and generosity.</p>
<p>Our people enjoy their work, have opportunities to learn and develop their skills and are encouraged to generate new ideas that improve care for our service users.</p>


      
        
  <h2>Details</h2>
  <h3 id="date_posted_heading">Date posted</h3>
  <p>09 September 2025</p>

  
    <h3>Pay scheme</h3>
    <p>Agenda for change</p>

    
      
        <h3>Band</h3>
      
      <p>Band 6</p>
  
  

  
  
    <h3>Salary</h3>
    <p>
      £38,682 to £46,580 a year
      
        per annum pro rata
      
    </p>
  
  

  <h3 id="contract_type_heading">Contract</h3>
  <p>Permanent</p>

  

  
    <h3 id="working_pattern_heading">Working pattern</h3>
    <p>
      
        
          Full-time
        
      
    </p>
  

  <h3 id="reference_number_heading">Reference number</h3>
  
  <p>437-6986542</p>
  

  
    
      
        <h3 id="employer_location_heading">Job locations</h3>
      
      
      <p>Horwich Health and Wellbeing Hub</p>
      <p>Bolton Hospital</p>
      <p>Bolton</p>
            <p>BL6 5PY</p>
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    <h2>Job description</h2>
    <h3>Job responsibilities</h3>
    <p>See attached detailed job description and person specification:</p> <p><strong>Staff benefits</strong></p> <ul>  <li>Pay Enhancements 30% additional for Evenings (8pm onwards) and Saturdays and 60% additional for Sundays and Bank holidays.</li>  <li>27 days annual leave plus bank holidays rising to 29 after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years</li>  <li>Excellent pension</li>  <li>Cycle to work scheme</li>  <li>Salary sacrifice car scheme</li>  <li>Wellbeing programme</li>  <li>Blue Light Card Discounts</li> </ul>
  

  
    
      
        Job description
      
    
    
      <h3>Job responsibilities</h3>
      <p>See attached detailed job description and person specification:</p> <p><strong>Staff benefits</strong></p> <ul>  <li>Pay Enhancements 30% additional for Evenings (8pm onwards) and Saturdays and 60% additional for Sundays and Bank holidays.</li>  <li>27 days annual leave plus bank holidays rising to 29 after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years</li>  <li>Excellent pension</li>  <li>Cycle to work scheme</li>  <li>Salary sacrifice car scheme</li>  <li>Wellbeing programme</li>  <li>Blue Light Card Discounts</li> </ul>
    
  


      
  
    <h2>Person Specification</h2>
    
    
      <h3 id="skill_category_1">
        
          Qualifications
        
      </h3>
      
      <h4>Essential</h4>
      <ul>
        
        <li>oCore profession with valid registration of professional body e.g. RMN, Social Work or equivalent post graduate accreditable qualification CBT, EMHP, CYWP.   oEvidence of continuing professional development in the field of child and adolescent mental health</li>
        
      </ul>
      
      
        <h4>Desirable</h4>
        <ul>
          
          <li>Completion of a CYP improving access to psychological therapies certificate.</li>
          
        </ul>
      
    
    
      <h3 id="skill_category_2">
        
          Experience
        
      </h3>
      
      <h4>Essential</h4>
      <ul>
        
        <li>The post holder should:  oExperience of assessment and delivering evidence based mental health interventions including low intensity cognitive behavioural therapy interventions.    oExperience of Multi-disciplinary working within a CAMHS setting    oExperience and knowledge of implementing safeguarding procedures for children and adults.   oExperience in utilising and interpreting routine outcome measures in practice.    oExperience of peer supervision, supervising colleagues in the multi-disciplinary team and consultation in other agency settings.</li>
        
      </ul>
      
      
        <h4>Desirable</h4>
        <ul>
          
          <li>oExperience of supporting young people in an educational setting</li>
          
        </ul>
      
    
    
      <h3 id="skill_category_3">
        
          Knowledge
        
      </h3>
      
      <h4>Essential</h4>
      <ul>
        
        <li>oUnderstanding of child and adolescent development.     oKnowledge of risk assessment and safety planning.     oKnowledge of legislation related to children and/or adolescent's mental health and social care e.g. Mental Health Act, Child Protection and Safeguarding of Vulnerable Children etc   oUnderstanding and knowledge of psychological models of brief intervention.</li>
        
      </ul>
      
      
        <h4>Desirable</h4>
        <ul>
          
          <li>oAbility to teach and train others using multi-media materials suitable for presentation within public. oLevel of knowledge of research methodology and data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of child and adolescent mental health.</li>
          
        </ul>
      
    
    
      <h3 id="skill_category_4">
        
          Skills
        
      </h3>
      
      <h4>Essential</h4>
      <ul>
        
        <li>oAbility to utilise CYP assessment skills and routine outcome measures effectively including suitability and risk assessments. oAbility to apply therapeutic knowledge to clinical practice.  oEffective communication skills in respond to a variety of needs and situation.  oGood organisational/time management skills with the ability to manage own workload, organise own time and diary, and meet deadlines. oAbility to work autonomously in the community and use own initiative and make appropriate decisions. oMust demonstrate a commitment to the overall vision of the development of the professional group of mental health practitioners in education settings. oKnowledge and experience of using Microsoft word applications, including PowerPoint and excel.</li>
        
      </ul>
      
      
        <h4>Desirable</h4>
        <ul>
          
          <li>oExperience of database use</li>
          
        </ul>
      
    
  


  
    
      
        Person Specification
      
    
    
      
      
        <h3 id="skill_category_1">
          
            Qualifications
          
        </h3>
        
        <h4>Essential</h4>
        <ul>
          
          <li>oCore profession with valid registration of professional body e.g. RMN, Social Work or equivalent post graduate accreditable qualification CBT, EMHP, CYWP.   oEvidence of continuing professional development in the field of child and adolescent mental health</li>
          
        </ul>
        
        
          <h4>Desirable</h4>
          <ul>
            
            <li>Completion of a CYP improving access to psychological therapies certificate.</li>
            
          </ul>
        
      
      
        <h3 id="skill_category_2">
          
            Experience
          
        </h3>
        
        <h4>Essential</h4>
        <ul>
          
          <li>The post holder should:  oExperience of assessment and delivering evidence based mental health interventions including low intensity cognitive behavioural therapy interventions.    oExperience of Multi-disciplinary working within a CAMHS setting    oExperience and knowledge of implementing safeguarding procedures for children and adults.   oExperience in utilising and interpreting routine outcome measures in practice.    oExperience of peer supervision, supervising colleagues in the multi-disciplinary team and consultation in other agency settings.</li>
          
        </ul>
        
        
          <h4>Desirable</h4>
          <ul>
            
            <li>oExperience of supporting young people in an educational setting</li>
            
          </ul>
        
      
      
        <h3 id="skill_category_3">
          
            Knowledge
          
        </h3>
        
        <h4>Essential</h4>
        <ul>
          
          <li>oUnderstanding of child and adolescent development.     oKnowledge of risk assessment and safety planning.     oKnowledge of legislation related to children and/or adolescent's mental health and social care e.g. Mental Health Act, Child Protection and Safeguarding of Vulnerable Children etc   oUnderstanding and knowledge of psychological models of brief intervention.</li>
          
        </ul>
        
        
          <h4>Desirable</h4>
          <ul>
            
            <li>oAbility to teach and train others using multi-media materials suitable for presentation within public. oLevel of knowledge of research methodology and data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of child and adolescent mental health.</li>
            
          </ul>
        
      
      
        <h3 id="skill_category_4">
          
            Skills
          
        </h3>
        
        <h4>Essential</h4>
        <ul>
          
          <li>oAbility to utilise CYP assessment skills and routine outcome measures effectively including suitability and risk assessments. oAbility to apply therapeutic knowledge to clinical practice.  oEffective communication skills in respond to a variety of needs and situation.  oGood organisational/time management skills with the ability to manage own workload, organise own time and diary, and meet deadlines. oAbility to work autonomously in the community and use own initiative and make appropriate decisions. oMust demonstrate a commitment to the overall vision of the development of the professional group of mental health practitioners in education settings. oKnowledge and experience of using Microsoft word applications, including PowerPoint and excel.</li>
          
        </ul>
        
        
          <h4>Desirable</h4>
          <ul>
            
            <li>oExperience of database use</li>
            
          </ul>
        
      
    
  



      
  
    <h3 id="dbs-message">Disclosure and Barring Service Check</h3>
    <p>This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.</p>
  

  
    <h3 id="tier-two-sponsorship">Certificate of Sponsorship</h3>
    <p>Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/uk-visas-and-immigration" target="_blank"> UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab)</a>.</p>
    <p>From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/criminal-records-checks-for-overseas-applicants" target="_blank"> Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab)</a>.</p>
  

  
    <h3 id="uk-registration">UK Registration</h3>
    <p>
      Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see 
      <a href="https://www.healthcareers.nhs.uk/working-health/overseas-health-professionals" target="_blank">NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).</a>
    </p>
  


 
  
    
      
        Additional information
      
    
    
      
        <h3 id="dbs-message">Disclosure and Barring Service Check</h3>
        <p>This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.</p>
      

      
        <h3 id="tier-two-sponsorship">Certificate of Sponsorship</h3>
        <p>Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/uk-visas-and-immigration" target="_blank"> UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab)</a>.</p>
        <p>From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/criminal-records-checks-for-overseas-applicants" target="_blank"> Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab)</a>.</p>
      

      
        <h3 id="uk-registration">UK Registration</h3>
        <p>
          Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see 
          <a href="https://www.healthcareers.nhs.uk/working-health/overseas-health-professionals" target="_blank">NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).</a>
        </p>
      
    
  


      
  
    <h2>Employer details</h2>
    <h3>Employer name</h3>
    <p>Greater Manchester Mental Health NHSFT</p>
    <h3>Address</h3>
    
      
      <p>Horwich Health and Wellbeing Hub</p>
      <p>Bolton Hospital</p>
      <p>Bolton</p>
            <p>BL6 5PY</p>
    
  

  
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    <h3 id="employer_website_heading">Employer's website</h3>
      
        <p><a href="https://www.gmmh.nhs.uk/" target="_blank">https://www.gmmh.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)</a></p>
      
  

  
    
    
      
      
      
      
      
    
  



  
      
        <h2>Employer details</h2>
        <h3>Employer name</h3>
        <p>Greater Manchester Mental Health NHSFT</p>
        <h3>Address</h3>
        
          
          <p>Horwich Health and Wellbeing Hub</p>
          <p>Bolton Hospital</p>
          <p>Bolton</p>
                    <p>BL6 5PY</p>
        
      

      
        <br>
        <h3 id="employer_website_heading">Employer's website</h3>
          
            <p><a href="https://www.gmmh.nhs.uk/" target="_blank">https://www.gmmh.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)</a></p>

Mental Health Practitioner -MHST

<h2>Job summary</h2>
  <p>Modality Partnership Nottingham Division has a full-time vacancy for a skilled and motivated Mental Health Practitioner to join our multi-disciplinary team working at Windmill Practice. The role is primarily based in practice, with some remote working likely as part of flexible service delivery.</p><p>We are seeking dedicated postholders to join our team and who can display our CARE values: Commitment, Accountability, Respect and Excellence. Salary for this role is £46,000 per annum WTE.</p><p>This job is suitable for individuals who can demonstrate safe and effective patient interactions ensuring the delivery of high-quality patient care whilst working alongside the wider nursing team and practice team.</p><p><strong>As an employee with us you can benefit from:</strong></p><p>Enrolment to the NHS pension scheme</p><p>Annual leave minimum 27 days, plus 8 days bank holiday pro rata</p><p>Employee discounts and benefits scheme</p><p>Employee assistance programme (EAP)</p><p>Education and career pathways</p><p>Enhanced Family friendly policies</p><p>Flexible working</p><p>Wellbeing support and initiative</p><p>If you are interested in learning more, please read on.</p>



  <h3>Main duties of the job</h3>
  <p>This is a hands-on patient facing role; we are seeking individuals to join our team who are caring, compassionate and confident. Applications are welcome from candidates with a background in mental health nursing, social work, allied health professions, or other relevant fields, with a proven ability to provide safe, effective, and person-centred mental health care.</p><p>This practice-based role enhances timely, holistic mental health care for our diverse inner-city population through a 'first contact mental health worker' model embedded within primary care. You will be a first contact mental health worker embedded in general practice, delivering holistic care through triage, assessment, brief interventions, and reviews. You will work autonomously while collaborating with GPs, PCN mental health colleagues and local services, improving access to mental health support for our diverse inner-city population of 22,000 patients. If you are passionate about improving mental health in primary care and want to be part of an innovative and supportive team, we would love to hear from you.</p>



  <h3>About us</h3>
  <p>We are one of the largest GP super-partnerships in the UK, serving over 450,000 patients and with a workforce of 1500+. We are unique, we are always looking at ways to improve our delivery of services through the implementation of new and innovative solutions that we can scale across the organisation. Your job is to work directly within the healthcare team and support us to harmonise ways of working and improve working practices to improve patient satisfaction. This is a role that will equip you with a portfolio of skills in primary care with career advancing opportunities.</p><p>Modality Nottingham operates across Wellspring Surgery and Windmill Practice, serving a population of 22,000 patients in inner city Nottingham. We are committed to providing innovative, integrated, and patient-centred primary care. This role is central to enhancing access to mental health care across our practices.</p><p>All employees are welcomed to enrol in our employee benefits scheme and NHS pension scheme. We are committed to developing our people through education and career pathways and who align to our organisational values of CARE.</p><p>Modality Partnership is an Equal Opportunities Employer and is committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities for all our potential applicants in line with the Equality Act, 2010.</p>


      
        
  <h2>Details</h2>
  <h3 id="date_posted_heading">Date posted</h3>
  <p>05 September 2025</p>

  
    <h3>Pay scheme</h3>
    <p>Other</p>

    
  

  
    <h3>Salary</h3>
    <p>
      £46,000 a year
      
    </p>
  
  
  

  <h3 id="contract_type_heading">Contract</h3>
  <p>Permanent</p>

  

  
    <h3 id="working_pattern_heading">Working pattern</h3>
    <p>
      
        
          Full-time
        
      
    </p>
  

  <h3 id="reference_number_heading">Reference number</h3>
  
  <p>E0281-25-0153</p>
  

  
    
      
        <h3 id="employer_location_heading">Job locations</h3>
      
      
        <p>The Windmill Practice</p>
      
      <p>Beaumont Street</p>
            <p>Nottingham</p>
            <p>NG2 4PJ</p>
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    <h2>Job description</h2>
    <h3>Job responsibilities</h3>
    <p>Please refer to the supporting documents section to retrieve the JD detailing the core responsibilities of this role.</p><p>You will love this job if you are seeking career development opportunities that can help you grow and build your nursing career. you have a passion for supporting patients by promoting health and well-being within the practice population, and you are able to carry out all relevant tests required to ensure patients such as those with long term conditions, or those that require tests as part of other medical conditions or referrals are supported.</p><p>If you feel this is the ideal career advancing opportunity for you and you want to rise to the challenge of this opportunity, we welcome an application for you to join our growing team of likeminded people.</p><p><em><strong>Please note: Modality Partnership reserves the right to close this vacancy at any point during the recruitment stage</strong>.</em></p><p><strong>Pre-employment</strong></p><p><strong>Vaccinations</strong></p><p>As part of recruitment to the Modality Partnership, we will be checking the vaccination status of all new starters so that we can manage individual and environmental risks. We will offer support to those who may be undecided about vaccinations. Some vaccinations for certain roles are mandatory, and you will be asked to provide evidence of this where there is a mandatory requirement.</p><p><strong>Right to work checks</strong></p><p>All applicants invited for interview will need to prove their right to work in the UK at the interview stage.</p><p><strong>References</strong></p><p>References must be secured prior to beginning employment, one must be your current or most recent employer.</p><p><strong>Employment history</strong></p><p>You must notify us of any employment gaps of 6 weeks or more.</p>
  

  
    
      
        Job description
      
    
    
      <h3>Job responsibilities</h3>
      <p>Please refer to the supporting documents section to retrieve the JD detailing the core responsibilities of this role.</p><p>You will love this job if you are seeking career development opportunities that can help you grow and build your nursing career. you have a passion for supporting patients by promoting health and well-being within the practice population, and you are able to carry out all relevant tests required to ensure patients such as those with long term conditions, or those that require tests as part of other medical conditions or referrals are supported.</p><p>If you feel this is the ideal career advancing opportunity for you and you want to rise to the challenge of this opportunity, we welcome an application for you to join our growing team of likeminded people.</p><p><em><strong>Please note: Modality Partnership reserves the right to close this vacancy at any point during the recruitment stage</strong>.</em></p><p><strong>Pre-employment</strong></p><p><strong>Vaccinations</strong></p><p>As part of recruitment to the Modality Partnership, we will be checking the vaccination status of all new starters so that we can manage individual and environmental risks. We will offer support to those who may be undecided about vaccinations. Some vaccinations for certain roles are mandatory, and you will be asked to provide evidence of this where there is a mandatory requirement.</p><p><strong>Right to work checks</strong></p><p>All applicants invited for interview will need to prove their right to work in the UK at the interview stage.</p><p><strong>References</strong></p><p>References must be secured prior to beginning employment, one must be your current or most recent employer.</p><p><strong>Employment history</strong></p><p>You must notify us of any employment gaps of 6 weeks or more.</p>
    
  


      
  
    <h2>Person Specification</h2>
    
    
      <h3 id="skill_category_1">
        
          Experience
        
      </h3>
      
      <h4>Essential</h4>
      <ul>
        
        <li>Experience working in general practice or primary care settings.</li>
        
        <li>Experience in developing group-based mental health services.</li>
        
        <li>Experience of delivering or contributing to hybrid or online mental health services.</li>
        
        <li>Experience in the assessment and management of people presenting with mental health needs.</li>
        
        <li>Proven ability to develop holistic management plans for patients.</li>
        
        <li>Experience delivering psycho-social interventions in mental health.</li>
        
        <li>Experience working collaboratively within multi-disciplinary teams.</li>
        
        <li>Knowledge and understanding of safeguarding practices and processes.</li>
        
        <li>Have experience in acute mental health assessment and management.</li>
        
      </ul>
      
      
    
    
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          Personal Qualities
        
      </h3>
      
      <h4>Essential</h4>
      <ul>
        
        <li>Ability to travel between sites as required and work remotely where appropriate.</li>
        
        <li>Commitment to own professional development and reflective practice.</li>
        
        <li>Highly motivated.</li>
        
        <li>Flexibility.</li>
        
        <li>Enthusiasm.</li>
        
        <li>Team player.</li>
        
        <li>Ability to work across boundaries.</li>
        
      </ul>
      
      
    
    
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          Qualifications
        
      </h3>
      
      <h4>Essential</h4>
      <ul>
        
        <li>Current professional registration with NMC, HCPC or other relevant UK professional body.</li>
        
        <li>Additional training in specific therapeutic interventions (CBT, solution-focused therapy, motivational interviewing, trauma-informed approaches).</li>
        
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          Skills
        
      </h3>
      
      <h4>Essential</h4>
      <ul>
        
        <li>Ability to triage, assess and manage mental health presentations in a primary care or community setting.</li>
        
        <li>Strong communication and interpersonal skills.</li>
        
        <li>Ability to build therapeutic relationships while maintaining professional boundaries.</li>
        
        <li>Ability to provide specialist clinical advice to GPs and colleagues.</li>
        
        <li>Effective time management and ability to work independently.</li>
        
        <li>Competent IT skills, with the ability to use clinical systems and digital tools.</li>
        
      </ul>
      
      
    
    
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          Knowledge
        
      </h3>
      
      <h4>Essential</h4>
      <ul>
        
        <li>Awareness of local mental health pathways and community resources.</li>
        
        <li>Understanding of the social determinants of health and impact on mental wellbeing.</li>
        
        <li>Understanding of quality improvement processes in healthcare.</li>
        
        <li>Knowledge of AI-supported clinical tools and digital health innovation.</li>
        
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        <h3 id="skill_category_1">
          
            Experience
          
        </h3>
        
        <h4>Essential</h4>
        <ul>
          
          <li>Experience working in general practice or primary care settings.</li>
          
          <li>Experience in developing group-based mental health services.</li>
          
          <li>Experience of delivering or contributing to hybrid or online mental health services.</li>
          
          <li>Experience in the assessment and management of people presenting with mental health needs.</li>
          
          <li>Proven ability to develop holistic management plans for patients.</li>
          
          <li>Experience delivering psycho-social interventions in mental health.</li>
          
          <li>Experience working collaboratively within multi-disciplinary teams.</li>
          
          <li>Knowledge and understanding of safeguarding practices and processes.</li>
          
          <li>Have experience in acute mental health assessment and management.</li>
          
        </ul>
        
        
      
      
        <h3 id="skill_category_2">
          
            Personal Qualities
          
        </h3>
        
        <h4>Essential</h4>
        <ul>
          
          <li>Ability to travel between sites as required and work remotely where appropriate.</li>
          
          <li>Commitment to own professional development and reflective practice.</li>
          
          <li>Highly motivated.</li>
          
          <li>Flexibility.</li>
          
          <li>Enthusiasm.</li>
          
          <li>Team player.</li>
          
          <li>Ability to work across boundaries.</li>
          
        </ul>
        
        
      
      
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            Qualifications
          
        </h3>
        
        <h4>Essential</h4>
        <ul>
          
          <li>Current professional registration with NMC, HCPC or other relevant UK professional body.</li>
          
          <li>Additional training in specific therapeutic interventions (CBT, solution-focused therapy, motivational interviewing, trauma-informed approaches).</li>
          
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            Skills
          
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        <h4>Essential</h4>
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          <li>Ability to triage, assess and manage mental health presentations in a primary care or community setting.</li>
          
          <li>Strong communication and interpersonal skills.</li>
          
          <li>Ability to build therapeutic relationships while maintaining professional boundaries.</li>
          
          <li>Ability to provide specialist clinical advice to GPs and colleagues.</li>
          
          <li>Effective time management and ability to work independently.</li>
          
          <li>Competent IT skills, with the ability to use clinical systems and digital tools.</li>
          
        </ul>
        
        
      
      
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            Knowledge
          
        </h3>
        
        <h4>Essential</h4>
        <ul>
          
          <li>Awareness of local mental health pathways and community resources.</li>
          
          <li>Understanding of the social determinants of health and impact on mental wellbeing.</li>
          
          <li>Understanding of quality improvement processes in healthcare.</li>
          
          <li>Knowledge of AI-supported clinical tools and digital health innovation.</li>
          
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    <p>This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.</p>
  

  

  
    <h3 id="uk-registration">UK Registration</h3>
    <p>
      Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see 
      <a href="https://www.healthcareers.nhs.uk/working-health/overseas-health-professionals" target="_blank">NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).</a>
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        Additional information
      
    
    
      
        <h3 id="dbs-message">Disclosure and Barring Service Check</h3>
        <p>This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.</p>
      

      

      
        <h3 id="uk-registration">UK Registration</h3>
        <p>
          Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see 
          <a href="https://www.healthcareers.nhs.uk/working-health/overseas-health-professionals" target="_blank">NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).</a>
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    <h2>Employer details</h2>
    <h3>Employer name</h3>
    <p>Modality Partnership</p>
    <h3>Address</h3>
    
      
      <p>The Windmill Practice</p>
      
      <p>Beaumont Street</p>
            <p>Nottingham</p>
            <p>NG2 4PJ</p>
    
  

  
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    <h3 id="employer_website_heading">Employer's website</h3>
      
        <p><a href="https://www.modalitypartnership.nhs.uk/" target="_blank">https://www.modalitypartnership.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)</a></p>
      
  

  
    
    
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
    
  



  
      
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        <h3>Employer name</h3>
        <p>Modality Partnership</p>
        <h3>Address</h3>
        
          
          <p>The Windmill Practice</p>
          
          <p>Beaumont Street</p>
                    <p>Nottingham</p>
                    <p>NG2 4PJ</p>
        
      

      
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        <h3 id="employer_website_heading">Employer's website</h3>
          
            <p><a href="https://www.modalitypartnership.nhs.uk/" target="_blank">https://www.modalitypartnership.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)</a></p>

Mental Health Practitioner - Nottingham Division

Hospice Nurse

<h2>Job summary</h2>
  <p><strong>8a Family Therapist - Adult Eating Disorders Service</strong></p>
<p>Are you:</p>
<p>Feeling passionate about improving the wellbeing and lives of people with eating disorders?</p>
<p>Seeking to develop specialist skills to assess, formulate and deliver evidence-based clinical interventions for this client group?</p>
<p>Interested in supporting and empowering the wider team?</p>
<p>Norfolk &amp; Suffolk Foundation Trust (NSFT) Suffolk Community Adult Eating Disorders Service are looking for a suitably experienced Family and Systemic Psychotherapist with a desire to develop their specialist skills in eating disorders.</p>
<p>We are passionate about service improvement and taking our clinical practice to a level of excellence - and we would like you to be part of this!</p>



  <h3>Main duties of the job</h3>
  <p>This is an exciting new job role which will afford you the opportunity to offer specialist systemic input within a team, and help us enhance our clinical support and practice to the community that we serve. You will be a valued part of the multi-disciplinary team working within the county-wide Suffolk Adult Eating Disorders Service with bases in Ipswich and Bury St Edmunds.</p>
<p>As the successful candidate you will be directly systemic interventions for individuals, carers and families, as well as providing systemic consultation to the wider care system, including acute hospital trusts and other secondary care mental health services. You will be supported to fulfil this specialist role through training and regular clinical and management supervision. We are eager for you to play a key part in the transformation and development of our service.</p>
<p>You will be skilled in the use of complex methods of systemic assessment, intervention and management, and have the ability to communicate highly complex information in a sensitive and compassionate manner.</p>



  <h3>About us</h3>
  <p>Working for this organisation</p> <p>Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive. In addition to consolidating our NICE-recommended treatment offer, we also welcome innovative treatment approaches to delivering eating disorder care. We will support you to access relevant specialist training and contribute to treatment evaluation.</p> <p>Recognising the value of our psychological workforce, you will be part of a psychology-led care group, which is currently offering a competitive recruitment incentive.</p> <p><strong>Benefits included with this role are:-</strong></p> <ul>  <li>NHS pension</li>  <li>a comprehensive in house &amp; external training programmes</li>  <li>career progression</li>  <li>starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays)</li>  <li>staff physio service</li> </ul> <p>NHS discounts and many more</p>


      
        
  <h2>Details</h2>
  <h3 id="date_posted_heading">Date posted</h3>
  <p>11 September 2025</p>

  
    <h3>Pay scheme</h3>
    <p>Agenda for change</p>

    
      
        <h3>Band</h3>
      
      <p>Band 8a</p>
  
  

  
  
    <h3>Salary</h3>
    <p>
      £55,690 to £62,682 a year
      
        gross per annum (pro rata)
      
    </p>
  
  

  <h3 id="contract_type_heading">Contract</h3>
  <p>Permanent</p>

  

  
    <h3 id="working_pattern_heading">Working pattern</h3>
    <p>
      
        
          Part-time,
        
      
        
          Flexible working
        
      
    </p>
  

  <h3 id="reference_number_heading">Reference number</h3>
  
  <p>246-WSU7394924-A</p>
  

  
    
      
        <h3 id="employer_location_heading">Job locations</h3>
      
      
      <p>Resource Centre</p>
      <p>Walker Close</p>
      <p>Ipswich</p>
            <p>IP3 8LY</p>
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    <h2>Job description</h2>
    <h3>Job responsibilities</h3>
    <p>The post holder will have experience of working with a range of complex and challenging behaviours exercising full clinical responsibility for psychological treatment.</p> <p>You will be skills in use of complex methods of systemic assessment, intervention and management and possess well developed communication skills. You will be working closely with the already established systemic workforce in the service, as well as the senior leadership teams.</p> <p><strong>Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY!</strong></p> <p><strong>* Previous applicants need not apply *</strong></p>
  

  
    
      
        Job description
      
    
    
      <h3>Job responsibilities</h3>
      <p>The post holder will have experience of working with a range of complex and challenging behaviours exercising full clinical responsibility for psychological treatment.</p> <p>You will be skills in use of complex methods of systemic assessment, intervention and management and possess well developed communication skills. You will be working closely with the already established systemic workforce in the service, as well as the senior leadership teams.</p> <p><strong>Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY!</strong></p> <p><strong>* Previous applicants need not apply *</strong></p>
    
  


      
  
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          Qualifications
        
      </h3>
      
      <h4>Essential</h4>
      <ul>
        
        <li>Postgraduate qualification in  appropriate mental  health/social welfare profession</li>
        
        <li>Masters or Doctoral  level qualification in  Systemic  Psychotherapy</li>
        
        <li>Eligibility for UKCP registration</li>
        
        <li>Training in teaching  Systematic  Psychotherapy</li>
        
      </ul>
      
      
    
    
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          Experience
        
      </h3>
      
      <h4>Essential</h4>
      <ul>
        
        <li>Evidence of  continuing  professional  development as  required by  UKCP/AFT  guidelines</li>
        
      </ul>
      
      
    
    
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          Skills
        
      </h3>
      
      <h4>Essential</h4>
      <ul>
        
        <li>Skills in applying  systemic theory to work  with individuals,  couples, family  systems, groups and organisations</li>
        
        <li>Ability to support  development of  profession though  participation in  professional bodies  and activities</li>
        
        <li>Ability to contain and  work with  organisational stress  and ability to hold the  stresses of others</li>
        
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            Qualifications
          
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        <h4>Essential</h4>
        <ul>
          
          <li>Postgraduate qualification in  appropriate mental  health/social welfare profession</li>
          
          <li>Masters or Doctoral  level qualification in  Systemic  Psychotherapy</li>
          
          <li>Eligibility for UKCP registration</li>
          
          <li>Training in teaching  Systematic  Psychotherapy</li>
          
        </ul>
        
        
      
      
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            Experience
          
        </h3>
        
        <h4>Essential</h4>
        <ul>
          
          <li>Evidence of  continuing  professional  development as  required by  UKCP/AFT  guidelines</li>
          
        </ul>
        
        
      
      
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            Skills
          
        </h3>
        
        <h4>Essential</h4>
        <ul>
          
          <li>Skills in applying  systemic theory to work  with individuals,  couples, family  systems, groups and organisations</li>
          
          <li>Ability to support  development of  profession though  participation in  professional bodies  and activities</li>
          
          <li>Ability to contain and  work with  organisational stress  and ability to hold the  stresses of others</li>
          
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    <h3 id="dbs-message">Disclosure and Barring Service Check</h3>
    <p>This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.</p>
  

  
    <h3 id="tier-two-sponsorship">Certificate of Sponsorship</h3>
    <p>Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/uk-visas-and-immigration" target="_blank"> UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab)</a>.</p>
    <p>From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/criminal-records-checks-for-overseas-applicants" target="_blank"> Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab)</a>.</p>
  

  
    <h3 id="uk-registration">UK Registration</h3>
    <p>
      Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see 
      <a href="https://www.healthcareers.nhs.uk/working-health/overseas-health-professionals" target="_blank">NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).</a>
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        Additional information
      
    
    
      
        <h3 id="dbs-message">Disclosure and Barring Service Check</h3>
        <p>This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.</p>
      

      
        <h3 id="tier-two-sponsorship">Certificate of Sponsorship</h3>
        <p>Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/uk-visas-and-immigration" target="_blank"> UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab)</a>.</p>
        <p>From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/criminal-records-checks-for-overseas-applicants" target="_blank"> Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab)</a>.</p>
      

      
        <h3 id="uk-registration">UK Registration</h3>
        <p>
          Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see 
          <a href="https://www.healthcareers.nhs.uk/working-health/overseas-health-professionals" target="_blank">NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).</a>
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    <h2>Employer details</h2>
    <h3>Employer name</h3>
    <p>Norfolk &amp; Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust</p>
    <h3>Address</h3>
    
      
      <p>Resource Centre</p>
      <p>Walker Close</p>
      <p>Ipswich</p>
            <p>IP3 8LY</p>
    
  

  
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    <h3 id="employer_website_heading">Employer's website</h3>
      
        <p><a href="https://www.nsft.nhs.uk/Pages/Home.aspx" target="_blank">https://www.nsft.nhs.uk/Pages/Home.aspx (Opens in a new tab)</a></p>
      
  

  
    
    
      
      
      
    
  



  
      
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        <h3>Employer name</h3>
        <p>Norfolk &amp; Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust</p>
        <h3>Address</h3>
        
          
          <p>Resource Centre</p>
          <p>Walker Close</p>
          <p>Ipswich</p>
                    <p>IP3 8LY</p>
        
      

      
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        <h3 id="employer_website_heading">Employer's website</h3>
          
            <p><a href="https://www.nsft.nhs.uk/Pages/Home.aspx" target="_blank">https://www.nsft.nhs.uk/Pages/Home.aspx (Opens in a new tab)</a></p>

Systemic Family Therapist

<h2>Job summary</h2>
  <p><strong>4 x Trainee Children's Wellbeing Practitioner [CWP]Band 4</strong></p> <p><strong>JOB TITLE: </strong>Trainee CWP</p> <p><strong>HOURS</strong>: 10 sessions / 37.5 hours</p> <p><strong>DURATION: </strong>1 Year Fixed Term Contract</p> <p><strong>LOCATION: </strong>Tavistock Centre, 120 Belsize Lane, London, NW3 5BA.</p> <p>Camden CAMHS Wellbeing Team are recruiting 4 trainee CWPs to continue to improve children and young people's mental health services in Camden. The training forms part of the service transformation initiative delivered by NHS England as part of the Children and Young People's Mental Health CYP Psychological Trainings (PT) (formerly CYP IAPT) programmes.</p> <p>Camden CAMHS Wellbeing Team, work with children and families aged 4-18. We provide group and individual CBT and parent training interventions to parents and young people with mild to moderate anxiety, low mood, or challenging behaviour. The Team also has an active role in community engagement, offering trainings to universal services and service user involvement projects. The team includes 3 CWP's, 4 Trainee CWP's, a parenting practitioner, systemic practitioner, CBT Therapists, a supervisor and service lead.</p> <p>Our team work closely with community multidisciplinary Teams. The Tavistock has a national and international reputation as a training centre and provides an excellent environment in which trainees.</p>



  <h3>Main duties of the job</h3>
  <p>This is a training position post holder will undertake training at Kings College London alongside working in service for The Wellbeing Team. They will be taught to deliver evidence based guided self-help interventions for children and young people experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties.</p> <p>Applicants will need to be ready to start work in early/mid-January 2026 and posts cannot be offered to candidates unless they can guarantee this start date.</p> <p>Please be aware the information on your application form (name and contact details, qualifications and prior relevant experience) will be shared with the Anna Freud staff team as part of the recruitment process. By submitting your application to this role, you are agreeing to your details being shared with Anna Freud. Candidates must ensure that they address each point of the person specification in the application. <em>Due to the high volume of applications, we may close this position before the closing date.</em></p> <p>Please note that an application to Kings College London Post Graduate Diploma Child Wellbeing Practice needs to be made alongside your application to the Wellbeing Team, Tavistock &amp; Portman NHS Foundation Trust. It is important that you read the attached guidance/linked guidance below:</p> <p>KCL CWP Jan 2026 - KCL Programme Brochure </p> <p>KCL CWP Jan 2026 - KCL Application Guidance</p>     <h3>About us</h3>
  <p>The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health trust with a focus on training and education alongside a full range of mental health services and psychological therapies for children and their families, young people and adults.</p>  <p>We are committed to improving mental health and emotional wellbeing, believing that high quality mental health services should be available for all who need them. We bring a distinctive contribution based on the importance we attach to social experience at all stages of people's lives, and our focus on psychological and developmental approaches to the promotion of health and the prevention and treatment of mental ill health</p>  <p>We contribute to the pool of ideas through our own research and development but are also committed to bringing together the best ideas of the time, old and new, from inside and out, together with the most gifted and able professionals in our fields of endeavour. We aim to share our ideas and practice through as many routes as possible.</p>  <p>As a Trust we aim constantly to be evolving in nature and form in relation to the environment in which we work, to ensure that our contribution remains relevant.</p>       
        
  <h2>Details</h2>
  <h3 id="date_posted_heading">Date posted</h3>
  <p>11 September 2025</p>

  
    <h3>Pay scheme</h3>
    <p>Agenda for change</p>

    
      
        <h3>Band</h3>
      
      <p>Band 4</p>
  
  

  
  
    <h3>Salary</h3>
    <p>
      £33,094 to £36,195 a year
      
        Per annum including HCAS
      
    </p>
  
  

  <h3 id="contract_type_heading">Contract</h3>
  <p>Fixed term</p>

  
    <h3 id="contract_duration_heading">Duration</h3>
    <p>12 months</p>
  

  
    <h3 id="working_pattern_heading">Working pattern</h3>
    <p>
      
        
          Full-time
        
      
    </p>
  

  <h3 id="reference_number_heading">Reference number</h3>
  
  <p>260-TP-983</p>
  

  
    
      
        <h3 id="employer_location_heading">Job locations</h3>
      
      
      <p>Tavistock and Portman Foundation Trust</p>
      <p>120 Belsize Lane</p>
      <p>London</p>
            <p>NW3 5BA</p>
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    <h2>Job description</h2>
    <h3>Job responsibilities</h3>
    <p>Please see the attached Job Description and Person specification for more information on the role requirements and duties.</p>
  

  
    
      
        Job description
      
    
    
      <h3>Job responsibilities</h3>
      <p>Please see the attached Job Description and Person specification for more information on the role requirements and duties.</p>
    
  


      
  
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          Essential
        
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      <h4>Essential</h4>
      <ul>
        
        <li>Undergraduate degree, upper second class or above, in Psychology OR related subject (e.g., Psychology, Education, Childhood development, Social Work etc), OR any subject with further training or experience in a relevant field (e.g., Teaching/TA; Learning Support; HCA; Youth Work; Counselling etc</li>
        
        <li>Previous experience of working with children and young people</li>
        
        <li>Knowledge of children and young people gained through academic study in child development, child wellbeing or mental health</li>
        
        <li>Ability to learn in a variety of settings and using a variety of learning methods, including remote delivery of teaching</li>
        
        <li>Ability to study as a self-motivated learner who can formulate their own progress towards learning objectives and negotiate pathways to achievement with supervisory teams</li>
        
        <li>Ability to personally manage a sensitive, traumatic and potentially emotionally distressing caseload</li>
        
        <li>Excellent oral and written communication skills</li>
        
        <li>Good time management and organisational skills</li>
        
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        <h4>Essential</h4>
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          <li>Undergraduate degree, upper second class or above, in Psychology OR related subject (e.g., Psychology, Education, Childhood development, Social Work etc), OR any subject with further training or experience in a relevant field (e.g., Teaching/TA; Learning Support; HCA; Youth Work; Counselling etc</li>
          
          <li>Previous experience of working with children and young people</li>
          
          <li>Knowledge of children and young people gained through academic study in child development, child wellbeing or mental health</li>
          
          <li>Ability to learn in a variety of settings and using a variety of learning methods, including remote delivery of teaching</li>
          
          <li>Ability to study as a self-motivated learner who can formulate their own progress towards learning objectives and negotiate pathways to achievement with supervisory teams</li>
          
          <li>Ability to personally manage a sensitive, traumatic and potentially emotionally distressing caseload</li>
          
          <li>Excellent oral and written communication skills</li>
          
          <li>Good time management and organisational skills</li>
          
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    <p>This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.</p>
  

  
    <h3 id="tier-two-sponsorship">Certificate of Sponsorship</h3>
    <p>Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/uk-visas-and-immigration" target="_blank"> UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab)</a>.</p>
    <p>From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/criminal-records-checks-for-overseas-applicants" target="_blank"> Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab)</a>.</p>
  

  


 
  
    
      
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        <h3 id="dbs-message">Disclosure and Barring Service Check</h3>
        <p>This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.</p>
      

      
        <h3 id="tier-two-sponsorship">Certificate of Sponsorship</h3>
        <p>Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/uk-visas-and-immigration" target="_blank"> UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab)</a>.</p>
        <p>From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/criminal-records-checks-for-overseas-applicants" target="_blank"> Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab)</a>.</p>
      

      
    
  


      
  
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    <p>Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust</p>
    <h3>Address</h3>
    
      
      <p>Tavistock and Portman Foundation Trust</p>
      <p>120 Belsize Lane</p>
      <p>London</p>
            <p>NW3 5BA</p>
    
  

  
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        <p><a href="https://tavistockandportman.nhs.uk/" target="_blank">https://tavistockandportman.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)</a></p>
      
  

  



  
      
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        <h3>Employer name</h3>
        <p>Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust</p>
        <h3>Address</h3>
        
          
          <p>Tavistock and Portman Foundation Trust</p>
          <p>120 Belsize Lane</p>
          <p>London</p>
                    <p>NW3 5BA</p>
        
      

      
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        <h3 id="employer_website_heading">Employer's website</h3>
          
            <p><a href="https://tavistockandportman.nhs.uk/" target="_blank">https://tavistockandportman.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)</a></p>

Trainee Children's Wellbeing Practitioner

<h2>Job summary</h2>
  <p>Would you like to work in a friendly and supportive Maternal Mental Health Service delivering a service across Hull, East Riding, North Lincolnshire and North East Lincolnshire to women experiencing maternal loss?</p>
<p>This is a new service and you will be working alongside other therapists delivering highly skilled psychological interventions at this difficult time in women's/families lives. We are looking to recruit a full time Family Therapist to lead with Systemic interventions.</p>
<p>Do you like the idea of using your skills in a rewarding and fulfilling way to help women at a crucial point in their lives? We know that providing person centred care and intervention can impact significantly on quality of life for women as well as that of their families and this post will add to our current well recruited CBT offer.</p>
<p>The successful candidate will be expected to deliver family based interventions across all 4 patches that we cover and also work alongside our CBT Therapists developing and delivering systemic psychological interventions within the Maternal Mental Health Service.</p>
  <h3>Main duties of the job</h3>
  <ul>
<li>To lead and provide specialist/expert Systemic Psychotherapy for clients and families with a range of severe and complex psychological presentations, as part of a multi-disciplinary approach</li>
<li>To provide specialist supervision, consultation and training to practitioners from a wide range of disciplines, teams and professional networks to enable them to work more effectively with clients and their families</li>
</ul>



  <h3>About us</h3>
  <p>We are an award winning and CQC rated good health and social care Trust delivering integrated services across Hull, East and North Yorkshire. Find out more on our website</p> <p>We are a forward thinking and dynamic Trust with a real commitment to staff development. We value our colleagues and invest in them to ensure they have the right skills to deliver outstanding care.</p> <p>We are proud to score above or equal to the average for all NHS People Promise theme areas demonstrating our commitment to improve the experience of working in the NHS for everyone. Wherever you work we know you will receive a warm welcome and all the support you'll need to get you started.</p> <p>We recognise the positive value of diversity and promotes equality whilst challenging discrimination. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.</p> <p>Work life balance is about having influence and flexibility over when, where and how you work. If the work pattern for this role does not meet your needs, we welcome an application and are happy to discuss working arrangements that differ from those advertised.</p> <p>We offer a unique range of benefits that go above and beyond other NHS Trusts including an enhanced leave package and health and wellbeing support.</p> <p>From city to countryside, market towns to moors you'll find a place to call home including some of the most affordable places to live in the UK.</p> <p>Find out more and search live jobs.</p>


      
        
  <h2>Details</h2>
  <h3 id="date_posted_heading">Date posted</h3>
  <p>06 August 2025</p>

  
    <h3>Pay scheme</h3>
    <p>Agenda for change</p>

    
      
        <h3>Band</h3>
      
      <p>Band 7</p>
  
  

  
  
    <h3>Salary</h3>
    <p>
      £47,810 to £54,710 a year
      
        Pa
      
    </p>
  
  

  <h3 id="contract_type_heading">Contract</h3>
  <p>Permanent</p>

  

  
    <h3 id="working_pattern_heading">Working pattern</h3>
    <p>
      
        
          Full-time
        
      
    </p>
  

  <h3 id="reference_number_heading">Reference number</h3>
  
  <p>338-7361848-25</p>
  

  
    
      
        <h3 id="employer_location_heading">Job locations</h3>
      
      
      <p>St Andrew's Place</p>
      <p>271 St Georges Road</p>
      <p>Hull</p>
            <p>HU3 3SW</p>
      <br>
      
        
      
    
  

      

      
  
    <h2>Job description</h2>
    <h3>Job responsibilities</h3>
    <p>For further information with regard to this vacancy please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification</p>
  

  
    
      
        Job description
      
    
    
      <h3>Job responsibilities</h3>
      <p>For further information with regard to this vacancy please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification</p>
    
  


      
  
    <h2>Person Specification</h2>
    
    
      <h3 id="skill_category_1">
        
          Qualifications
        
      </h3>
      
      <h4>Essential</h4>
      <ul>
        
        <li>Full understanding of relevant policy, legislation, drivers and their application to clinical and service area, e.g. Mental Capacity Act, Social Inclusion, NICE guidelines and Safeguarding</li>
        
        <li>Masters level of qualification in family and systemic psychotherapy as recognised by DOH and AFT</li>
        
        <li>Specialist training and experience in a wide range of therapeutic frameworks and interventions with clients and families</li>
        
      </ul>
      
      
        <h4>Desirable</h4>
        <ul>
          
          <li>Member of specialist interest group/network, locally or nationally</li>
          
        </ul>
      
    
    
      <h3 id="skill_category_2">
        
          Knowledge
        
      </h3>
      
      <h4>Essential</h4>
      <ul>
        
        <li>Demonstrate the ability to devise, implement and evaluate a wide range of evidence based therapeutic interventions and treatment plans for clients and their families/carers</li>
        
        <li>Full understanding of relevant policy, legislation, drivers and their application to clinical and service area, e.g. Mental Capacity Act, Social Inclusion, NICE guidelines and Safeguarding</li>
        
        <li>Skills in providing consultation and specialist advice to other professional and non-professional groups and work as part of a multi-disciplinary team</li>
        
        <li>Ability to recommend and contribute to changes in service delivery and procedures within the team or service context</li>
        
        <li>Full understanding/application of relevant clinical practice/standards/care pathways/audit within Adult Mental Health</li>
        
        <li>Basic IT skills</li>
        
      </ul>
      
      
        <h4>Desirable</h4>
        <ul>
          
          <li>Evidence of project work that has impacted on practice and demonstrates a higher level of communication/planning/change that impacts out of own area of work/responsibility</li>
          
          <li>Advanced/expert understanding of relevant clinical practice, standards and audits within identified clinical area.</li>
          
          <li>Working knowledge of relevant IT database systems necessary for recording clinical activity/reports</li>
          
        </ul>
      
    
    
      <h3 id="skill_category_3">
        
          Experience
        
      </h3>
      
      <h4>Essential</h4>
      <ul>
        
        <li>Ability to effectively chair meetings</li>
        
        <li>Experience of working with a variety of adults with severe, complex and enduring mental health difficulties and their families</li>
        
        <li>Experience of working within a multi-disciplinary, multi-agency context</li>
        
        <li>Professional networking locally and regionally</li>
        
      </ul>
      
      
        <h4>Desirable</h4>
        <ul>
          
          <li>Experience of teaching, training and/or clinical supervision within multi-disciplinary teams</li>
          
          <li>Experience of the application of psychotherapy in different cultural contexts</li>
          
        </ul>
      
    
    
      <h3 id="skill_category_4">
        
          Skills and Competencies
        
      </h3>
      
      <h4>Essential</h4>
      <ul>
        
        <li>Ability to demonstrate ethical values and attitudes within a culture of equality and diversity</li>
        
        <li>Effective inter-personal and communication skills and experience in managing in distressing, risky pressured circumstances</li>
        
        <li>Ability to lead and motivate staff to embrace change</li>
        
        <li>Good time management skills</li>
        
        <li>Work within the culture of improving working lives and working time directive</li>
        
      </ul>
      
      
    
  


  
    
      
        Person Specification
      
    
    
      
      
        <h3 id="skill_category_1">
          
            Qualifications
          
        </h3>
        
        <h4>Essential</h4>
        <ul>
          
          <li>Full understanding of relevant policy, legislation, drivers and their application to clinical and service area, e.g. Mental Capacity Act, Social Inclusion, NICE guidelines and Safeguarding</li>
          
          <li>Masters level of qualification in family and systemic psychotherapy as recognised by DOH and AFT</li>
          
          <li>Specialist training and experience in a wide range of therapeutic frameworks and interventions with clients and families</li>
          
        </ul>
        
        
          <h4>Desirable</h4>
          <ul>
            
            <li>Member of specialist interest group/network, locally or nationally</li>
            
          </ul>
        
      
      
        <h3 id="skill_category_2">
          
            Knowledge
          
        </h3>
        
        <h4>Essential</h4>
        <ul>
          
          <li>Demonstrate the ability to devise, implement and evaluate a wide range of evidence based therapeutic interventions and treatment plans for clients and their families/carers</li>
          
          <li>Full understanding of relevant policy, legislation, drivers and their application to clinical and service area, e.g. Mental Capacity Act, Social Inclusion, NICE guidelines and Safeguarding</li>
          
          <li>Skills in providing consultation and specialist advice to other professional and non-professional groups and work as part of a multi-disciplinary team</li>
          
          <li>Ability to recommend and contribute to changes in service delivery and procedures within the team or service context</li>
          
          <li>Full understanding/application of relevant clinical practice/standards/care pathways/audit within Adult Mental Health</li>
          
          <li>Basic IT skills</li>
          
        </ul>
        
        
          <h4>Desirable</h4>
          <ul>
            
            <li>Evidence of project work that has impacted on practice and demonstrates a higher level of communication/planning/change that impacts out of own area of work/responsibility</li>
            
            <li>Advanced/expert understanding of relevant clinical practice, standards and audits within identified clinical area.</li>
            
            <li>Working knowledge of relevant IT database systems necessary for recording clinical activity/reports</li>
            
          </ul>
        
      
      
        <h3 id="skill_category_3">
          
            Experience
          
        </h3>
        
        <h4>Essential</h4>
        <ul>
          
          <li>Ability to effectively chair meetings</li>
          
          <li>Experience of working with a variety of adults with severe, complex and enduring mental health difficulties and their families</li>
          
          <li>Experience of working within a multi-disciplinary, multi-agency context</li>
          
          <li>Professional networking locally and regionally</li>
          
        </ul>
        
        
          <h4>Desirable</h4>
          <ul>
            
            <li>Experience of teaching, training and/or clinical supervision within multi-disciplinary teams</li>
            
            <li>Experience of the application of psychotherapy in different cultural contexts</li>
            
          </ul>
        
      
      
        <h3 id="skill_category_4">
          
            Skills and Competencies
          
        </h3>
        
        <h4>Essential</h4>
        <ul>
          
          <li>Ability to demonstrate ethical values and attitudes within a culture of equality and diversity</li>
          
          <li>Effective inter-personal and communication skills and experience in managing in distressing, risky pressured circumstances</li>
          
          <li>Ability to lead and motivate staff to embrace change</li>
          
          <li>Good time management skills</li>
          
          <li>Work within the culture of improving working lives and working time directive</li>
          
        </ul>
        
        
      
    
  



      
  
    <h3 id="dbs-message">Disclosure and Barring Service Check</h3>
    <p>This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.</p>
  

  
    <h3 id="tier-two-sponsorship">Certificate of Sponsorship</h3>
    <p>Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/uk-visas-and-immigration" target="_blank"> UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab)</a>.</p>
    <p>From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/criminal-records-checks-for-overseas-applicants" target="_blank"> Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab)</a>.</p>
  

  
    <h3 id="uk-registration">UK Registration</h3>
    <p>
      Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see 
      <a href="https://www.healthcareers.nhs.uk/working-health/overseas-health-professionals" target="_blank">NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).</a>
    </p>
  


 
  
    
      
        Additional information
      
    
    
      
        <h3 id="dbs-message">Disclosure and Barring Service Check</h3>
        <p>This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.</p>
      

      
        <h3 id="tier-two-sponsorship">Certificate of Sponsorship</h3>
        <p>Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/uk-visas-and-immigration" target="_blank"> UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab)</a>.</p>
        <p>From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/criminal-records-checks-for-overseas-applicants" target="_blank"> Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab)</a>.</p>
      

      
        <h3 id="uk-registration">UK Registration</h3>
        <p>
          Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see 
          <a href="https://www.healthcareers.nhs.uk/working-health/overseas-health-professionals" target="_blank">NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).</a>
        </p>
      
    
  


      
  
    <h2>Employer details</h2>
    <h3>Employer name</h3>
    <p>Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust</p>
    <h3>Address</h3>
    
      
      <p>St Andrew's Place</p>
      <p>271 St Georges Road</p>
      <p>Hull</p>
            <p>HU3 3SW</p>
    
  

  
    <br>
    <h3 id="employer_website_heading">Employer's website</h3>
      
        <p><a href="https://www.humber.nhs.uk/" target="_blank">https://www.humber.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)</a></p>
      
  

  



  
      
        <h2>Employer details</h2>
        <h3>Employer name</h3>
        <p>Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust</p>
        <h3>Address</h3>
        
          
          <p>St Andrew's Place</p>
          <p>271 St Georges Road</p>
          <p>Hull</p>
                    <p>HU3 3SW</p>
        
      

      
        <br>
        <h3 id="employer_website_heading">Employer's website</h3>
          
            <p><a href="https://www.humber.nhs.uk/" target="_blank">https://www.humber.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)</a></p>

Family Therapist

Band 6 Mental Health Practitioner - North Somerset

<h2>Job summary</h2>
  <p>We are looking to recruit a Senior Cognitive Analytic Therapist (CAT) to lead our CAT pathway. This post plays a pivotal role in delivering specialist psychological care to adults with complex mental health needs. The post is an established position in Lewisham Integrated Therapies (LIT) and CAT has a long and valued history in the borough as well as in the Trust.</p>



  <h3>Main duties of the job</h3>
  <p>To lead on Cognitive Analytic Therapy in Lewisham. This involves being responsible for the provision of CAT in Lewisham for complex emotional needs, managing waiting lists, supervising junior staff, conducting assessments and offering Cognitive Analytic therapy. To also work closely with our stakeholders in the community mental health teams.</p>



  <h3>About us</h3>
  <p>South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust has a rich history, well-established community links and an international reputation. We deliver specialist services in the London boroughs of Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark.</p>
<p>We are committed to provide a high quality and specialist care to our service users and we are recognised for our care and treatment we provide.</p>
<p>We launched our five-year strategy, Aiming High; Changing Lives in 2021 together with Our Care Improvement System as our quality management system methodology to make a positive impact on patient care, outcomes and staff experience. By joining SLaM, all staff will get the opportunity to be part of this exciting improvement journey supported with learning and development to harness everyone's potential as change makers.</p>
<p>The trust recognises the unique and valuable contribution that people with lived experience of mental illness can bring to a role.We therefore welcome applications from people with lived experience and consider them as an asset to the Trust.</p>
<p><strong>Our Values</strong></p>
<p>We take pride in providing specialist care to our service users where our Trust values and our promise to be caring, kind, polite, prompt, honest, listen and do what I say I'm going to do is at the heart of everything we do. When you join us, you'll be part of something special.</p>
      
        
  <h2>Details</h2>
  <h3 id="date_posted_heading">Date posted</h3>
  <p>03 September 2025</p>

  
    <h3>Pay scheme</h3>
    <p>Agenda for change</p>

    
      
        <h3>Band</h3>
      
      <p>Band 8a</p>
  
  

  
  
    <h3>Salary</h3>
    <p>
      £64,156 to £71,148 a year
      
        per annum inclusive of HCAs
      
    </p>
  
  

  <h3 id="contract_type_heading">Contract</h3>
  <p>Permanent</p>

  

  
    <h3 id="working_pattern_heading">Working pattern</h3>
    <p>
      
        
          Part-time
        
      
    </p>
  

  <h3 id="reference_number_heading">Reference number</h3>
  
  <p>334-CLI-7371000</p>
  

  
    
      
        <h3 id="employer_location_heading">Job locations</h3>
      
      
      <p>The Lind Clinic Deptford</p>
      <p>St James Road, London SE8</p>
      <p>London</p>
            <p>SE8 3RA</p>
      <br>
      
        
      
    
  

      

      
  
    <h2>Job description</h2>
    <h3>Job responsibilities</h3>
    <p>Please see The Job description document for a more detailed description of the roles and responsibilities.</p>
  

  
    
      
        Job description
      
    
    
      <h3>Job responsibilities</h3>
      <p>Please see The Job description document for a more detailed description of the roles and responsibilities.</p>
    
  


      
  
    <h2>Person Specification</h2>
    
    
      <h3 id="skill_category_1">
        
          Qualifications
        
      </h3>
      
      <h4>Essential</h4>
      <ul>
        
        <li>A recognised qualification in a core mental health professions eg. psychiatric nursing or social work, doctoral level clinical or counselling psychology, qualified psychotherapist with demonstrable competence to practice in mental health in the NHS.</li>
        
        <li>ACAT accredited CAT Practitioner</li>
        
      </ul>
      
      
        <h4>Desirable</h4>
        <ul>
          
          <li>ACAT accredited supervisor</li>
          
        </ul>
      
    
    
      <h3 id="skill_category_2">
        
          Experience
        
      </h3>
      
      <h4>Essential</h4>
      <ul>
        
        <li>oEvidence of having worked as a clinical specialist under supervision in Cognitive Analytic Therapy. (A/I)</li>
        
        <li>oExperience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients with a range of psychological needs of a complex nature in Cognitive Analytic Therapy and complex emotional needs.  Experience of holding and managing a waiting list.</li>
        
        <li>oExperience of supervising assistants and trainees having completed the relevant training</li>
        
        <li>oExperience in offering clinical and managerial supervision to junior therapists.</li>
        
        <li>oExperience working with community mental health teams and other stakeholders</li>
        
      </ul>
      
      
    
    
      <h3 id="skill_category_3">
        
          Knowledge
        
      </h3>
      
      <h4>Essential</h4>
      <ul>
        
        <li>oTheoretical knowledge of psychopathology and the evidence base for the relevant treatment for those presenting with complex emotional needs.</li>
        
        <li>oKnowledge of factors affecting acceptability and accessibility of mental health care.</li>
        
        <li>oTo deliver psychological/psychotherapeutic therapy across cultural and other differences</li>
        
        <li>oTo select and administer specialist psychological assessments, interpreting and integrating complex data that require analysis, interpretation and comparison, drawn from several sources.</li>
        
        <li>oKnowledge of a range of a range of therapeutic ideas/approaches systemic models in assessment and treatment relevant to CAT discipline</li>
        
      </ul>
      
      
    
    
      <h3 id="skill_category_4">
        
          Skills
        
      </h3>
      
      <h4>Essential</h4>
      <ul>
        
        <li>oTo communicate skilfully and sensitively complex and sensitive information with clients, carers and colleagues overcoming barriers to communication including sensory, and emotional difficulties, cultural differences and hostility to or rejection of information.</li>
        
        <li>oTo plan and schedule assessment and interventions for individual clients and groups and carers</li>
        
        <li>oTo plan allocation of tasks to assistants/trainees as appropriates</li>
        
        <li>oWell-developed IT skills including entry and analysis of research data</li>
        
        <li>oConsultation skills to work with the multi-professional team or other professional groups and sensitively managing, a number of people's needs simultaneously within the context of therapeutic work/consultation.</li>
        
      </ul>
      
      
    
    
      <h3 id="skill_category_5">
        
          Ability
        
      </h3>
      
      <h4>Essential</h4>
      <ul>
        
        <li>oAbility to work effectively within a multi-disciplinary team, contributing to effective team functioning and holding team roles</li>
        
        <li>oAbility to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate</li>
        
        <li>oAbility to manage emotionally stressful situations such as working with victims of abuse or trauma, or with people who engage in severe self-harming or aggressive behaviour</li>
        
      </ul>
      
      
    
  


  
    
      
        Person Specification
      
    
    
      
      
        <h3 id="skill_category_1">
          
            Qualifications
          
        </h3>
        
        <h4>Essential</h4>
        <ul>
          
          <li>A recognised qualification in a core mental health professions eg. psychiatric nursing or social work, doctoral level clinical or counselling psychology, qualified psychotherapist with demonstrable competence to practice in mental health in the NHS.</li>
          
          <li>ACAT accredited CAT Practitioner</li>
          
        </ul>
        
        
          <h4>Desirable</h4>
          <ul>
            
            <li>ACAT accredited supervisor</li>
            
          </ul>
        
      
      
        <h3 id="skill_category_2">
          
            Experience
          
        </h3>
        
        <h4>Essential</h4>
        <ul>
          
          <li>oEvidence of having worked as a clinical specialist under supervision in Cognitive Analytic Therapy. (A/I)</li>
          
          <li>oExperience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients with a range of psychological needs of a complex nature in Cognitive Analytic Therapy and complex emotional needs.  Experience of holding and managing a waiting list.</li>
          
          <li>oExperience of supervising assistants and trainees having completed the relevant training</li>
          
          <li>oExperience in offering clinical and managerial supervision to junior therapists.</li>
          
          <li>oExperience working with community mental health teams and other stakeholders</li>
          
        </ul>
        
        
      
      
        <h3 id="skill_category_3">
          
            Knowledge
          
        </h3>
        
        <h4>Essential</h4>
        <ul>
          
          <li>oTheoretical knowledge of psychopathology and the evidence base for the relevant treatment for those presenting with complex emotional needs.</li>
          
          <li>oKnowledge of factors affecting acceptability and accessibility of mental health care.</li>
          
          <li>oTo deliver psychological/psychotherapeutic therapy across cultural and other differences</li>
          
          <li>oTo select and administer specialist psychological assessments, interpreting and integrating complex data that require analysis, interpretation and comparison, drawn from several sources.</li>
          
          <li>oKnowledge of a range of a range of therapeutic ideas/approaches systemic models in assessment and treatment relevant to CAT discipline</li>
          
        </ul>
        
        
      
      
        <h3 id="skill_category_4">
          
            Skills
          
        </h3>
        
        <h4>Essential</h4>
        <ul>
          
          <li>oTo communicate skilfully and sensitively complex and sensitive information with clients, carers and colleagues overcoming barriers to communication including sensory, and emotional difficulties, cultural differences and hostility to or rejection of information.</li>
          
          <li>oTo plan and schedule assessment and interventions for individual clients and groups and carers</li>
          
          <li>oTo plan allocation of tasks to assistants/trainees as appropriates</li>
          
          <li>oWell-developed IT skills including entry and analysis of research data</li>
          
          <li>oConsultation skills to work with the multi-professional team or other professional groups and sensitively managing, a number of people's needs simultaneously within the context of therapeutic work/consultation.</li>
          
        </ul>
        
        
      
      
        <h3 id="skill_category_5">
          
            Ability
          
        </h3>
        
        <h4>Essential</h4>
        <ul>
          
          <li>oAbility to work effectively within a multi-disciplinary team, contributing to effective team functioning and holding team roles</li>
          
          <li>oAbility to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate</li>
          
          <li>oAbility to manage emotionally stressful situations such as working with victims of abuse or trauma, or with people who engage in severe self-harming or aggressive behaviour</li>
          
        </ul>
        
        
      
    
  



      
  
    <h3 id="dbs-message">Disclosure and Barring Service Check</h3>
    <p>This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.</p>
  

  
    <h3 id="tier-two-sponsorship">Certificate of Sponsorship</h3>
    <p>Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/uk-visas-and-immigration" target="_blank"> UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab)</a>.</p>
    <p>From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/criminal-records-checks-for-overseas-applicants" target="_blank"> Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab)</a>.</p>
  

  
    <h3 id="uk-registration">UK Registration</h3>
    <p>
      Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see 
      <a href="https://www.healthcareers.nhs.uk/working-health/overseas-health-professionals" target="_blank">NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).</a>
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        Additional information
      
    
    
      
        <h3 id="dbs-message">Disclosure and Barring Service Check</h3>
        <p>This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.</p>
      

      
        <h3 id="tier-two-sponsorship">Certificate of Sponsorship</h3>
        <p>Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/uk-visas-and-immigration" target="_blank"> UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab)</a>.</p>
        <p>From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/criminal-records-checks-for-overseas-applicants" target="_blank"> Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab)</a>.</p>
      

      
        <h3 id="uk-registration">UK Registration</h3>
        <p>
          Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see 
          <a href="https://www.healthcareers.nhs.uk/working-health/overseas-health-professionals" target="_blank">NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).</a>
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    <h2>Employer details</h2>
    <h3>Employer name</h3>
    <p>South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust</p>
    <h3>Address</h3>
    
      
      <p>The Lind Clinic Deptford</p>
      <p>St James Road, London SE8</p>
      <p>London</p>
            <p>SE8 3RA</p>
    
  

  
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        <p>South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust</p>
        <h3>Address</h3>
        
          
          <p>The Lind Clinic Deptford</p>
          <p>St James Road, London SE8</p>
          <p>London</p>
                    <p>SE8 3RA</p>
        
      

      
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            <p><a href="https://www.slam.nhs.uk/" target="_blank">https://www.slam.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)</a></p>

Highly Specialist Cognitive Analytic Therapist

<h2>Job summary</h2>
  <p>An exciting position has arisen within our Cannock Mental Health Support Team. We are looking for an experienced &amp; enthusiastic Education Mental Health Practitioner/Children's Wellbeing Practitioner.</p> <p>Youwill continue to build on the fantastic work carried out within your allocated schools. The role is varied &amp; no two days are the same, you may be setting up and delivering group work &amp; assemblies one day to delivering assessment &amp; interventions the next, as well assupportingschools to develop their whole school approaches to mental health &amp; wellbeing.</p> <p>You will be skilled &amp; experienced in conducting mental health assessments of children and young people (CYP) presenting with common mental health difficulties such as anxiety and low mood. You will conduct risk assessments &amp; identify the right level of support for CYP you come into contact with.</p> <p>Alongside the clinical aspect of your role, you will play an integral part in supporting schools with their whole school approaches. There is scope for creativity and opportunities to work alongside CYP &amp; parents/carers to drive the whole school approach agenda.</p> <p>This is an opportunity to be involved in an established team within the wider CAMHS structure, as a joint initiative between health &amp; education. You will work across the Staffordshire locality as well as supporting other MHSTs across South Staffordshire. You will work deliver parent, staff well-being, 1:1 &amp; group work sessions. </p>



  <h3>Main duties of the job</h3>
  <ul>  <li>Assess and deliver outcome focused, evidence-based interventions in educational settings for children and young people experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties, working at all times in collaboration with and giving respect to the education function of the setting in which the post-holder is deployed.</li>  <li>Work in effective, evidence-based partnership with children, young people, their families and their educators in the development of plans for the intervention and agreed outcomes.</li>  <li>Support and empower children, young people, their parents/carers and families and their educators to make informed choices about the interventions being offered.</li>  <li>Operate at all times from an inclusive values base, which recognises and respects diversity</li>  <li>Accept referrals within educational settings according to agreed local and national and local protocols</li>  <li>Undertake and record accurate assessments of risk and operate clear risk management processes in line with locally agreed procedures including the safeguarding protocols of the educational setting and Local Safeguarding Board guidance</li>  <li>Adhere to all regulations, processes and procedures within the educational service to which the post holder is attached within the educational setting where the post-holder working including (but not limited to) HR policies, training requirements, referral protocols, and emergency procedures. Signpost referrals of children with more complex needs to a locally identified appropriate service</li> </ul>



  <h3>About us</h3>
  <p>By joining Team MPFT, you will be helping your communities and in return for this, we will support you by;</p>
<ul>
<li>Supporting your career development and progression</li>
<li>Excellent NHS Pension scheme</li>
<li>Generous maternity, paternity and adoption leave</li>
<li>Options for flexible working</li>
<li>Up to 27 days annual leave (increasing with service up to 33 days) and the opportunity to purchase additional leave</li>
<li>Extensive Health and Wellbeing support and resources</li>
<li>If you work in our community teams, we pay for your time travelling between patients</li>
<li>Lease car if you complete more than 500 business miles per annum, fully insured and maintained (including tyres), mileage paid at lease car rate</li>
<li>Salary sacrifice car - fully insured and maintained (including tyres), your gross pay is reduced by the cost of the vehicle before tax, NI and pension deductions are calculated, mileage paid at business rates</li>
<li>Salary sacrifice bikes up to £2k</li>
<li>Free car parking at all trust sites</li>
<li>Free flu vaccinations every year</li>
<li>Citizens Advice support linked with a Hardship Fund for one off additional support up to £250 (if the criteria is met)</li>
</ul>
<p>And more. We are proud to be a diverse and inclusive organisation and there is a choice of staff networks that help you meet like-minded people.</p>
<p><strong>Please note, we may be required to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications</strong></p>


      
        
  <h2>Details</h2>
  <h3 id="date_posted_heading">Date posted</h3>
  <p>05 September 2025</p>

  
    <h3>Pay scheme</h3>
    <p>Agenda for change</p>

    
      
        <h3>Band</h3>
      
      <p>Band 5</p>
  
  

  
  
    <h3>Salary</h3>
    <p>
      £31,049 to £37,796 a year
      
        Per Annum, Pro Rata
      
    </p>
  
  

  <h3 id="contract_type_heading">Contract</h3>
  <p>Permanent</p>

  

  
    <h3 id="working_pattern_heading">Working pattern</h3>
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          Full-time
        
      
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  <h3 id="reference_number_heading">Reference number</h3>
  
  <p>301-VA-25-7445102</p>
  

  
    
      
        <h3 id="employer_location_heading">Job locations</h3>
      
      
      <p>Anglesey House</p>
      <p>Wheelhouse Road</p>
      <p>Rugeley</p>
            <p>WS15 1UL</p>
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    <h2>Job description</h2>
    <h3>Job responsibilities</h3>
    <p>For this role you must be a qualified Education Mental Health Practitioner/Children's Wellbeing Practitioner &amp; have obtained the relevant EMHP Post Graduate Diploma qualification following the completion of a CYP IAPT approved training in Evidence-Based Psychological Treatment for Children &amp; Young People (C&amp;Y IAPT).</p> <p>For further information relating to this position please refer to the attached job description and person specification.</p>
  

  
    
      
        Job description
      
    
    
      <h3>Job responsibilities</h3>
      <p>For this role you must be a qualified Education Mental Health Practitioner/Children's Wellbeing Practitioner &amp; have obtained the relevant EMHP Post Graduate Diploma qualification following the completion of a CYP IAPT approved training in Evidence-Based Psychological Treatment for Children &amp; Young People (C&amp;Y IAPT).</p> <p>For further information relating to this position please refer to the attached job description and person specification.</p>
    
  


      
  
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          Qualifcations &amp; Training
        
      </h3>
      
      <h4>Essential</h4>
      <ul>
        
        <li>Successful completion of the HEE commissioned 1yr 'Education Mental Health Practitioner' course.</li>
        
        <li>CYP Wellbeing Practitioner Training</li>
        
      </ul>
      
      
        <h4>Desirable</h4>
        <ul>
          
          <li>A further relevant degree qualification</li>
          
          <li>Teaching qualification.</li>
          
          <li>Youth Mental Health First Aid trained.</li>
          
        </ul>
      
    
    
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          Experience
        
      </h3>
      
      <h4>Essential</h4>
      <ul>
        
        <li>Experience of working with children and young people, their families and others.</li>
        
        <li>Experience of working and liaising with a wide variety of agencies and stakeholders.</li>
        
        <li>Experience of working with children and young people who have social, emotional and/or behavioural difficulties.</li>
        
        <li>Experience of working with anxiety disorders.</li>
        
        <li>Experience of working with affective (mood) disorders.</li>
        
        <li>Experience of the delivery of specific therapeutic interventions to children, young people or their families (e.g. CBT, solution focused brief therapy).</li>
        
      </ul>
      
      
        <h4>Desirable</h4>
        <ul>
          
          <li>Experience of working with children and their families in a healthcare setting.</li>
          
          <li>Experience of working with children and their families in an education setting.</li>
          
          <li>Experience of monitoring and recording outcome measures for children's emotional wellbeing.</li>
          
          <li>Experience of navigating complex social systems and environments, who may have conflicting priorities or agendas.</li>
          
          <li>Experience of working with looked after children.</li>
          
          <li>Experience of working with other vulnerable groups.</li>
          
        </ul>
      
    
    
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          Skills
        
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      <h4>Essential</h4>
      <ul>
        
        <li>Ability to carry out 1:1 therapeutic mental health interventions with children &amp; families.</li>
        
        <li>Ability to conduct group parenting programmes.</li>
        
        <li>Ability to work within educational settings to increase mental health awareness within the staff group</li>
        
        <li>Ability to conduct mental health assessments of children and young people.</li>
        
      </ul>
      
      
        <h4>Desirable</h4>
        <ul>
          
          <li>Knowledge of the functional operation of specialist CAMHS teams.</li>
          
        </ul>
      
    
    
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          Personal Attributes
        
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      <h4>Essential</h4>
      <ul>
        
        <li>Ability to personally manage a sensitive, traumatic and potentially emotionally distressing caseload.</li>
        
        <li>Excellent oral and written communication skills.</li>
        
        <li>Able to travel to meet the requirements of the post.</li>
        
        <li>Excellent time management and organisational skills.</li>
        
      </ul>
      
      
        <h4>Desirable</h4>
        <ul>
          
          <li>Proven commitment to continuous professional development.</li>
          
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        <h3 id="skill_category_1">
          
            Qualifcations &amp; Training
          
        </h3>
        
        <h4>Essential</h4>
        <ul>
          
          <li>Successful completion of the HEE commissioned 1yr 'Education Mental Health Practitioner' course.</li>
          
          <li>CYP Wellbeing Practitioner Training</li>
          
        </ul>
        
        
          <h4>Desirable</h4>
          <ul>
            
            <li>A further relevant degree qualification</li>
            
            <li>Teaching qualification.</li>
            
            <li>Youth Mental Health First Aid trained.</li>
            
          </ul>
        
      
      
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            Experience
          
        </h3>
        
        <h4>Essential</h4>
        <ul>
          
          <li>Experience of working with children and young people, their families and others.</li>
          
          <li>Experience of working and liaising with a wide variety of agencies and stakeholders.</li>
          
          <li>Experience of working with children and young people who have social, emotional and/or behavioural difficulties.</li>
          
          <li>Experience of working with anxiety disorders.</li>
          
          <li>Experience of working with affective (mood) disorders.</li>
          
          <li>Experience of the delivery of specific therapeutic interventions to children, young people or their families (e.g. CBT, solution focused brief therapy).</li>
          
        </ul>
        
        
          <h4>Desirable</h4>
          <ul>
            
            <li>Experience of working with children and their families in a healthcare setting.</li>
            
            <li>Experience of working with children and their families in an education setting.</li>
            
            <li>Experience of monitoring and recording outcome measures for children's emotional wellbeing.</li>
            
            <li>Experience of navigating complex social systems and environments, who may have conflicting priorities or agendas.</li>
            
            <li>Experience of working with looked after children.</li>
            
            <li>Experience of working with other vulnerable groups.</li>
            
          </ul>
        
      
      
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            Skills
          
        </h3>
        
        <h4>Essential</h4>
        <ul>
          
          <li>Ability to carry out 1:1 therapeutic mental health interventions with children &amp; families.</li>
          
          <li>Ability to conduct group parenting programmes.</li>
          
          <li>Ability to work within educational settings to increase mental health awareness within the staff group</li>
          
          <li>Ability to conduct mental health assessments of children and young people.</li>
          
        </ul>
        
        
          <h4>Desirable</h4>
          <ul>
            
            <li>Knowledge of the functional operation of specialist CAMHS teams.</li>
            
          </ul>
        
      
      
        <h3 id="skill_category_4">
          
            Personal Attributes
          
        </h3>
        
        <h4>Essential</h4>
        <ul>
          
          <li>Ability to personally manage a sensitive, traumatic and potentially emotionally distressing caseload.</li>
          
          <li>Excellent oral and written communication skills.</li>
          
          <li>Able to travel to meet the requirements of the post.</li>
          
          <li>Excellent time management and organisational skills.</li>
          
        </ul>
        
        
          <h4>Desirable</h4>
          <ul>
            
            <li>Proven commitment to continuous professional development.</li>
            
          </ul>
        
      
    
  



      
  
    <h3 id="dbs-message">Disclosure and Barring Service Check</h3>
    <p>This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.</p>
  

  
    <h3 id="tier-two-sponsorship">Certificate of Sponsorship</h3>
    <p>Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/uk-visas-and-immigration" target="_blank"> UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab)</a>.</p>
    <p>From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/criminal-records-checks-for-overseas-applicants" target="_blank"> Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab)</a>.</p>
  

  
    <h3 id="uk-registration">UK Registration</h3>
    <p>
      Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see 
      <a href="https://www.healthcareers.nhs.uk/working-health/overseas-health-professionals" target="_blank">NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).</a>
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        Additional information
      
    
    
      
        <h3 id="dbs-message">Disclosure and Barring Service Check</h3>
        <p>This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.</p>
      

      
        <h3 id="tier-two-sponsorship">Certificate of Sponsorship</h3>
        <p>Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/uk-visas-and-immigration" target="_blank"> UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab)</a>.</p>
        <p>From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/criminal-records-checks-for-overseas-applicants" target="_blank"> Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab)</a>.</p>
      

      
        <h3 id="uk-registration">UK Registration</h3>
        <p>
          Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see 
          <a href="https://www.healthcareers.nhs.uk/working-health/overseas-health-professionals" target="_blank">NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).</a>
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    <h2>Employer details</h2>
    <h3>Employer name</h3>
    <p>Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust</p>
    <h3>Address</h3>
    
      
      <p>Anglesey House</p>
      <p>Wheelhouse Road</p>
      <p>Rugeley</p>
            <p>WS15 1UL</p>
    
  

  
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    <h3 id="employer_website_heading">Employer's website</h3>
      
        <p><a href="https://www.mpft.nhs.uk" target="_blank">https://www.mpft.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)</a></p>
      
  

  



  
      
        <h2>Employer details</h2>
        <h3>Employer name</h3>
        <p>Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust</p>
        <h3>Address</h3>
        
          
          <p>Anglesey House</p>
          <p>Wheelhouse Road</p>
          <p>Rugeley</p>
                    <p>WS15 1UL</p>
        
      

      
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        <h3 id="employer_website_heading">Employer's website</h3>
          
            <p><a href="https://www.mpft.nhs.uk" target="_blank">https://www.mpft.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)</a></p>

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