King's College London

About us:

Child and Young People’s Psychological Trainings (CYP-PT) are a national suite of service transformation and new workforce programmes led and contracted by NHS England Workforce, Training & Education (NHSE-WTE), of which a large part is training for managers, supervisors, and high and low intensity therapy practitioners in delivering evidenced based, accountable therapies. Students are staff from the NHS, Local Authority and Voluntary Organisations. The CYP-PT programmes follow National Curricula.

The Post Graduate Diploma in Child Wellbeing Practice (CWP) is one year’s vocational training for a role intended to create greater access to high quality evidence based early intervention for children and young people with common mild-moderate mental health problems, commissioned since 2017. The CWPs are based in accessible community services, delivering low intensity individual and group interventions.

About the role:

This role is a one-year maternity cover contract for one day a week (0.2 FTE).

The Senior Practice Tutor will enable students to be prepared to provide manualised low intensity mental health interventions in the setting they are employed.

The postholder will have a role in preparing and delivering tutoring, teaching and marking on the programme, and will also sometimes liaise with the settings in which the students are working.

Teaching is delivered through lectures to the full year of students, and practice tutor groups with smaller groups of students, where students bring video recordings of their assessment and intervention work, role play practice or practice group activities aimed at clinical skills development. A competencies framework is used to support trainees to self monitor their skills acquisition the year, and also as a structure for formative and summative assessment of clinical skills in their practice and assignments, and will support the tutor to guide and assess them.

  The postholder would be expected to bring to the attention of the module lead any concerns relating to students’ academic or clinical work and general welfare. They will also conduct formative and summative assessments, including marking a number of scripts of the eight assignments over the course of the year, and participate in marking and training moderation, within the timeframe agreed, and attending marking workshops, and regular group supervision with other course tutors. 

Another key responsibility of the role includes being a personal tutor of approximately ten students, which requires termly individual or group meetings where required, and being able to meet individual within their work hours on a responsive basis. The personal tutor role involves actively enquiring about students’ welfare and signposting students to relevant sources of support (welfare and academic) within working hours.

The postholder will be available on Fridays. If this is not possible for the applicant, they need not apply as there is no flexibility with working days due to the nature of the timetable within a larger system of programming.

About you:

To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates to have the following skills and experience:

Essential criteria

1. Good relevant first degree (2nd class or above) and/or professional training in a mental health setting and/or relevant postgraduate training
2. Experience tutoring/teaching or as a supervisor
3. Good knowledge of how mental health and/or wellbeing interventions operate effectively in community settings
4. Experience of leading, managing and/or supervising junior staff
5. Experience of translating curricula to the classroom
6. A good knowledge of safeguarding, child protection policies and good practice
7. A good working knowledge of multi-agency liaison in health and/or community settings
8. Well developed IT skills for teaching/tutoring
9. A flexible and enthusiastic team member, who is accustomed to working independently

Desirable criteria

1. Experience tutoring/teaching on clinical training programmes in a higher education setting
2. Experience of translating curricula to the classroom
3. Good working knowledge of a wide range of CBT interventions
4. Experience of marking and moderation

Downloading a copy of our Job Description

Full details of the role and the skills, knowledge and experience required can be found in the Job Description document, provided at the bottom of the page. This document will provide information of what criteria will be assessed at each stage of the recruitment process.

Further information:

We ask all candidates to submit a copy of their CV, and a supporting statement, detailing how they meet the essential criteria listed in the person specification section of the job description. If we receive a strong field of candidates, we may use the desirable criteria to choose our final shortlist, so please include your evidence against these where possible.

To find out how our managers will review your application, please take a look at our ‘How we Recruit’ pages.

Interviews are due to be held on 2nd March.