Senior Mental Health Practitioner

NHS; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Birmingham is seeking a Senior Mental Health Practitioner to join their community mental health service. The role involves conducting assessments, providing interventions, and collaborating with multi-disciplinary teams to support children's mental health. Candidates should have relevant qualifications and extensive experience in mental health care. This position offers a chance to make a significant impact on the lives of young people and their families.

Qualifications

• Extensive post registration experience in mental health care.
• Use of therapeutic interventions with children and young people.

Responsibilities

• Conduct holistic mental health assessments and provide specialist interventions.
• Liaise with local agencies and maintain accurate case records.

Skills

Communication

Teamwork

Risk Assessment

Education

Relevant Post qualifying qualification

Specific qualification in a relevant therapeutic speciality

Job description

Go back Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust

Senior Mental Health Practitioner

The closing date is 20 May 2025

We are looking for an experienced Band 6 to join our community mental health service.

The post will involve holistic mental health assessments, signposting and liaison, specialist clinical input to children and young people with physical health and co morbid mental health issues, working with parents schools and educating colleague's. You would need to be confident and competent in positive risk assessment and management with robust care plans and be able to provide brief solution-focused interventions to support children, young people, and their families.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be a member of the Multi-disciplinary Team and will carry continuing responsibility for the assessment, treatment and management of a defined caseload. Where appropriate, they will be required to liaise with other local agencies including Tier 4 inpatient and specialist centers, as well as the Mental Health Liaison Team and the home treatment team.

Provide specialist interventions for referred people within a therapeutic framework, both individually, with families and in groups. Also providing advice and support for other professionals as required.

Ensure that all case records are maintained accurately, legibly and contemporaneously and that all information acquired in the course of carrying out their duties is treated in the strictest confidence but is shared with all professional colleagues in line with information sharing policy/protocol

About us

Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust is the first of its type in the UK. Our Trust was formed in February 2017 to drive forward our commitment to provide the highest quality, world-class physical and mental health care for our women, children and families. Uniting our hospitals means more seamless care; more investment to make greater advances in our specialist treatment and world-leading neo-natal and fetal work. Importantly, it also gives us a greater voice in shaping the future of family-centred care.

Birmingham Children's Hospital is a UK leading specialist paediatric centre with an international reputation in several areas.

Birmingham Women's Hospital is one of two dedicated women's hospitals in the UK, with the busiest single site maternity unit, delivering more than 8,200 babies a year offering a full range of gynaecological, maternity and neonatal care.

Forward Thinking Birmingham (FTB) Mental Health Services are a unique, innovative community and inpatient mental health partnership. Alongside partners FTB offers care pathways of mental health assessment and treatment for young people aged 0-25 years old.

Our Trust is committed to creating the best place to work. We believe in promoting and enhancing inclusion, diversity and equality and encourage applications from all areas of the community, who meet the criteria for the role, regardless of age, gender identity, disability, race, religion or sexual orientation.

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification to view the full details for this opportunity at Birmingham Womens and Childrens NHS Foundation Trust.

When completing your application, please ensure you have evidenced how you meet the job description and person specification to include transferable experience, qualifications, skills along with professional registration details (if applicable).

Occasionally we receive a large number of applications for our roles and when that happens we sometimes bring the closing date forward, so please apply promptly to avoid disappointment.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Relevant Post qualifying qualification e.g. or be able to demonstrate an equivalent level of training
• Relevant Post graduate study or be able to demonstrate further skills based training
• Specific qualification in a relevant therapeutic speciality e.g. counselling, Family Therapy, CBT, substance misuse
• Nurse Prescriber

Experience

• Extensive post registration experience in mental health care
• Use of therapeutic interventions with children and young people i.e. 1:1, counselling, family therapy and group work
• Delivering teaching / training
• Providing consultation
• Liaison with inpatient settings
• Working in inpatient settings
• Providing care in community settings
• Developing a specialist area on behalf of the Service/ or local Team
• Developing policies and protocols
• Working in a multi-disciplinary Team
• Supervising less experienced members of staff

Knowledge

• Working knowledge of Health Service
• Working knowledge of mental health
• A good knowledge of own professional guidelines
• Good knowledge of recognised disorders and illnesses in the field of mental health
• Understanding of a range of communication styles when working with children, young people, young adults and families in distress
• Hold an interest in a specialist area
• Knowledge of the Mental Health Act

Skills & Abilities

• Ability to challenge poor behaviour
• A positive attitude and able to act on feedback
• Ability to praise and be supportive to others
• Appropriate and adaptable verbal and written communication
• Able to undertake audit
• Able to undertake risk assessments within the service
• Basic IT competency

Other Requirements

• Able to work independently
• Able to work as a member of a team
• Awareness of personal strengths and limitations
• Able to meet the travel requirements of the role

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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.

Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust