Senior Mental Health Team Practitioner

Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust; Beverley; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional healthcare provider in Beverley is looking for a compassionate Senior Practitioner to join their Mental Health Support Team. The successful candidate will lead initiatives in schools, delivering psychological interventions for children and young people. The role demands a recognized qualification and experience in mental health support. Benefits include enhanced leave and comprehensive wellbeing support, with a commitment to staff development.

Benefits

Enhanced leave package

Health and wellbeing support

Commitment to staff development

Qualifications

• Applicants must hold a recognised professional qualification, registration, and governing body membership.
• Experience working with children, young people, and families around social, emotional, and mental health needs is essential.

Responsibilities

• Lead for a group of schools within the MHST.
• Work closely with early intervention and Early Help services.
• Deliver low intensity psychological interventions.
• Collaborate with multi-disciplinary professionals to achieve positive outcomes.

Skills

Experience with children and young people

Strong communication skills

Ability to work in a multi-disciplinary team

Skill in low intensity psychological interventions

Education

Recognised professional qualification

Job description

We are seeking an enthusiastic, kind, and compassionate Senior Practitioner to join the East Riding Mental Health Support Team (MHST) at Band 6. This is an exciting opportunity for someone passionate about improving the social, emotional, and mental wellbeing of children and young people, and committed to supporting others to develop in their roles.

Acting as the identified lead for a group of schools within the MHST, you will work closely with early intervention and Early Help services, hold a small caseload, and deliver low intensity psychological interventions as part of a wider offer, working systemically to create sustainable change for children, young people, and their families. You will collaborate with multi-disciplinary professionals to achieve positive outcomes and, at Band 6, be expected to work with higher-complexity cases and offer supervision to colleagues.

Applicants must hold a recognised professional qualification, registration, and governing body membership, with experience of working with children, young people, and families around social, emotional, and mental health needs.

About the Team

The MHST is built on co-production, innovation, listening and learning to create a service that can meet the local population's needs. The MHST works directly into schools with children and young people between the ages of 5 to 18.

The team supports schools and the wider system and have a particular focus on whole school approach, advice, support, guidance and consultation. The team also deliver targeted low intensity CBT informed based 1:1 and group sessions, low intensity psychological interventions, Parent led workshops and creative based interventions to support mild to moderate social, emotional and mental health needs.

What We Offer

We are an award winning and CQC rated good health and social care Trust delivering integrated services across Hull, East and North Yorkshire. 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.

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. 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.

We recognise the positive value of diversity and promotes equality whilst challenging discrimination. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds. 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.