Senior Mental Health Team Practitioner

NHS; Kingston upon Hull; On-site; GBP 36,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

An esteemed NHS Trust is looking for a Senior Practitioner for the Hull Mental Health Support Team (MHST). The role involves mentoring and supporting children and young people in their social and emotional wellbeing, while leading initiatives for positive outcomes in educational settings. Ideal candidates should hold relevant qualifications and have a passion for delivering mental health support collaboratively across teams.

Benefits

Enhanced leave package

Health and wellbeing support

Flexible working arrangements

Qualifications

• At least two years' experience working with children, young people, and families.
• Experience with low to moderate therapeutic interventions.
• Leadership training or experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead schools within the Mental Health Support Team.
• Support and empower education, health, and social care professionals.
• Manage a caseload for children's mental health needs.

Skills

Compassion

Mentoring

Leadership

Therapeutic interventions

Communication

Education

Professional qualification and registration in relevant field

Post registration/graduate diploma or equivalent experience

Tools

Knowledge of CBT

Understanding of legislation (Mental Capacity Act)

Job description

We are looking to recruit a Senior Practitioner for the Hull Mental Health Support Team (MHST), who is enthusiastic, kind, and compassionate, with experience of supporting others to develop.

Are you passionate about working with children and young people? Do you have a real passion for education, social, emotional and the mental wellbeing needs of our young people? Do you want to make a real difference?

Can you evidence a minimum of two years' experience working with children, young people and their families around social, emotional and mental health needs? Do you hold a professional qualification, registration and belong to a recognised governing body?

We seek a Practitioner who has experience of working with multi-disciplinary professionals to achieve positive outcomes for children and their families and who can evidence an understanding of low to moderate based therapeutic interventions

The role will require the individual to be an identified lead for schools within the MHST and work closely with other early intervention and early help services.

The successful candidate will also hold a small caseload across the MHST to work systemically to create sustainable change for children, young people and families.

The successful candidate may have the opportunity to undertake a PG Certificate in supervision at either Sheffield or Northumbria university.

The post holder will be expected to independently travel across the locality.

Main duties of the job

The Role

The Mental Health Support Teams integrate into our already well established offer and compliments the many excellent teams and services out there to further enhance the early help and intervention offer.

The MHST is built on coproduction, innovation, listening and learning to create a service that can meet the local population's needs. The MHST works directly into educational provisions 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 model, advice, support, guidance and consultation. The team also deliver universal support, targeted low intensity CBT/therapy and group sessions alongside parent led workshops and creative interventions to support mild to moderate social , emotional and mental health needs.

As a senior Practitioner the successful candidate will work as part of the MHST to support and empower education, health , and social care to work collaboratively to support CYP's and families.

The senior practitioner will take a leadership role in managing the locality through supervision of EMHPs, developing and sustaining strong relationships with our partners in education, and ensuring collaborative working to meet the needs of the locality young people by delivering the MHST offer.

About us

We are an award winning and CQC rated good health and social care Trust delivering integrated services across Hull, East and North Yorkshire. Find out more on our website

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 are proud to score above or equal to the average for all NHS People Promise theme areas demonstrating our commitment to improve the experience of working in the NHS for everyone. Wherever you work we know you will receive a warm welcome and all the support you'll need to get you started.

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.

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.

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Job responsibilities

For further information with regard to this vacancy please see the attached job description and person specification.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Professional qualification and registration relevant to post (e.g. NMC, Social Worker, Therapist, AHP, CYP IAPT )
• Post registration/graduate diploma or equivalent experience in related work area, to demonstrate advanced level of practice
• Demonstrable experience of mentoring pre-registration students/ Trainee's/supervising staff etc.
• Leadership training/qualification/experience

Experience

• Evidence of continuing professional development (CPD) relevant to the clinical area at specialist level of care
• Evidence of development of specialist practice skills and able to demonstrate the impact of this on practice change/development
• Demonstrable experience of working in the specific field where the post is held
• Evidence of promoting/supporting active user/carer involvement/participation
• Leadership/management experience which has had a positive impact and created change within the service delivery/practice

Knowledge

• Full understanding of relevant policy, legislation, drivers and their application to clinical /professional and service area, e.g. Mental Capacity Act, Social Inclusion
• Understanding of CBT and Low Intensity Interventions
• Basic IT skills
• Full understanding/application of relevant clinical practice/standards/audit within identified clinical area

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.

Full-time,Flexible working,Compressed hours