Senior Practitioner.

South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust; Castleford; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional healthcare provider in Castleford is looking for an enthusiastic practitioner to support children and young people's mental health in educational settings. This role involves developing interventions, providing clinical supervision, and collaborating with education staff to ensure children receive the right support. Ideal candidates will have professional registration and experience in mental health, with additional knowledge of the education system being a plus.

Qualifications

• Professional registration with experience in mental health support.
• Ability to deliver training and support to professionals.
• Knowledge of the education system is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Develop strong working relationships with education settings.
• Deliver evidenced based interventions and psychoeducation sessions.
• Support schools in embedding whole-school mental health approaches.

Skills

Experience working with children and young people

Knowledge of mental health issues

Strong communication skills

Education

Professional registration in relevant field

Job description

Overview

Are you passionate about children and young peoples mental health? Do you enjoy sharing your knowledge of how to support children and young people with colleagues within the education sector?

Our Future in Mind (MHST) is a growing and developing service within Wakefield which aims to provide early intervention to improve the lives of children and young people experiencing mild to moderate emotional and mental health needs. Due to additional funding we are looking to recruit an enthusiastic practitioner to join our friendly and supportive team.

Responsibilities

• The successful applicant will be allocated a number of education settings in which they will have the opportunity to develop strong working relationships and provide support to the school community.
• Delivering evidenced based interventions to children, young people, parents/carers through individual and group work.
• Delivering psychoeducation sessions to children, young people, parents/carers through assemblies, classroom and parent sessions.
• Ensuring children/young people play an active part in decision making about the support they need.
• Providing advice/consultation to education staff to support children/young people getting the right help at the right time.
• Developing local knowledge of services particularly in relation to mental health issues to enable effective signposting and planning.
• Supporting education settings in developing and embedding whole school approaches to mental health through collaboration and coproduction with the school community.
• Participating in the delivery of training programmes for education settings and community services.
• Completing CYP-IAPT supervision training and providing clinical supervision to EMHPs.

Requirements

Applicants will need to hold a professional registration with post qualification experience of working with children and young people with emotional and mental health needs is essential whilst knowledge and experience of the education system is desirable.

About the Trust

We are a specialist NHS Foundation Trust that provides community, mental health and learning disability services for the people of Barnsley, Calderdale, Kirklees and Wakefield. We also provide low and medium secure services and are the lead for the west Yorkshire secure provider collaborative. Our mission is to help people reach their potential and live well in their communities, we do this by providing high-quality care in the right place at the right time. We employ staff in both clinical and non-clinical services who work hard to make a difference to the lives of service users, families and carers.

Equality, Diversity and Vaccination

We encourage and welcome applications from all protected characteristic groups, we value diversity and want our workforce to be reflective of our communities. All employees are strongly encouraged to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 to protect patients.

Notes for Applicants

We are aware that an increasing number of applicants are using AI technology to generate responses on NHS Job application forms. We strongly discourage this and will conduct a thorough screening process before selecting candidates to progress to the next stage. If you are using AI to enhance your application, please disclose this in your NHS Jobs application form.

Organisation

We are a specialist NHS Foundation Trust that provides community, mental health and learning disability services for the people of Barnsley, Calderdale, Kirklees and Wakefield. We also provide low and medium secure services and are the lead for the west Yorkshire secure provider collaborative.

Join Us

Join us and you will be one of over 4,500 staff committed to supporting and improving the mental, physical and social needs of the thousands of people we meet and help each year.