Mental Health Practitioner

Schools’ Choice; Walsall; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a Mental Health Practitioner to join their Family Safeguarding Mental Health Team. This hybrid role involves delivering individualized psychological interventions, focusing on complex adult cases, and requires a minimum of one year CBT experience and BACP registration.

Qualifications

• 1 year experience in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT).
• Registered with BACP.

Responsibilities

• Deliver psychological/systemic interventions on a 1-2-1 and group basis.
• Engage with parents regarding their mental health and well-being within social care.
• Provide clinical assessments and evidence-based interventions.

Skills

CBT experience

BACP registered

UK Driving License

Job description

Opus people solutions on behalf of Walsall Council have an exciting opportunity for a Mental Health Practitioner to join their team.

Job Title: Mental Health Practitioner
Length of assignment: 3 Months
Hours per week: 37
Hourly rate: £30-£40
Remote/Office based: Hybrid-all therapeutic appointments will be face to face

We are looking to recruit therapists to work within our Family Safeguarding Mental Health Team.

Responsibilities:

• You will be responsible for the delivery of psychological and/or systemic interventions with parents and carers within Walsall both on a 1-2-1 basis and within groups.
• Work with adults with significant and complex needs, with specific focus on engaging with parents in relation to their mental health and well-being whilst engaging with the wider social care system involved with the family.
• You will be responsible for clinical provision including assessment, formulation, and time-limited evidence-based interventions within the Family safeguarding mental health team.
• You will be required to identify the most appropriate form of mental health/psychological intervention for individuals to develop bespoke interventions to parents based on parental mental health need, informed by professional knowledge and practice skills relating to therapeutic intervention models (such as trauma informed CBT, DBT, EMDR, functional therapy, systemic family therapy)

Skills:

• 1 year CBT experience
• BACP registered
• UK Driving License
• Experience and qualification in delivering therapeutic interventions across a range of specialism to include but not exclusively trauma informed CBT, DBT, EMDR, functional family therapy, systemic family therapy.

If you thrive to make a difference, have experience and this is the role for you, then we would love to hear from you.