Band 6 Education Mental Health Practitioner and Supervisor - Bristol

Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust; Bristol; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A health service provider based in Bristol is looking for an Experienced Mental Health Practitioner to work as part of the Mental Health Support Teams initiative. The role includes delivering interventions for children and young people within educational settings and providing clinical supervision to colleagues. Candidates should possess relevant qualifications and experience in mental health interventions. This position requires teamwork, effective communication, and a strong commitment to safeguarding. Flexible working across multiple sites is expected.

Qualifications

• Experience in delivering evidence-based interventions for children and young people.
• Ability to work collaboratively with schools and educational staff.
• Strong understanding of safeguarding and clinical risk management.

Responsibilities

• Assess and deliver interventions for mental health difficulties in educational settings.
• Provide clinical supervision and management to trainee and qualified EMHPs.
• Coordinate clinical care and ensure adherence to MHST governance.

Skills

Therapeutic Assessment and Intervention

Clinical supervision

Interpersonal skills

Education

Relevant mental health qualification

Job description

Job overview

The Mental Health Support Teams (MHST) service is an exciting initiative in the Bristol, North Somerset, and South Gloucestershire (BNSSG) commissioning area. It is part of the Government’s response to the 2017 Green Paper to increase access to mental health support by delivering evidence-based early interventions in educational settings for children and young people (CYP) presenting with mild to moderate mental health difficulties.

The post holder will work as an autonomous and responsible EMHP while also offering supervision within the scope of the MHST initiative.

The post holder will work in partnership with schools to deliver a range of mental health interventions within school settings. This may involve group work or direct work with children and young people, as well as offering mental health-based consultation and advice to teaching staff.

The post holder will ensure the effective coordination of clinical care provided within schools, including consideration of safeguarding and clinical risk issues where indicated.

The post holder will contribute to the clinical leadership of the team, providing supervision and caseload management to trainee and qualified EMHPs.

The post holder will be responsible for clinical skills supervision and caseload management supervision of EMHPs within the MHST.

Main duties of the job

Therapeutic Assessment and Intervention:

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 inwhich the post-holder is working.

Facilitate fair access to services and promote social inclusion regardless of age, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation or disability.

Supervision:

Deliver clinical supervision to supervisee's on a scheduled basis to ensure safe practice and the governance obligations of the MHST service are adhered to.

Effort and Health & Safety Factors:

Working with service users in distress and who on occasion may have used coping strategies such as self-harm, or present as hostile, confused and have difficulty communicating and as a result may pose risks to themselves or the safety of others.

Frequent driving and working across multiple sites to deliver interventions and attend to administrative tasks. There is an expectation to work mainly out of allocated schools but the post holder must be prepared to attend satellite sites, our main office and some home working.