Senior Practitioner MHST

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust; Rickmansworth; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading mental health service provider in England seeks a Supervisor to enhance mental health support for children and young people. You will operationalize evidence-based interventions within Mental Health Support Teams, supporting the Team Leader and providing supervision. The ideal candidate is a graduate health care professional with CBT training and experience working with young people. This role offers a unique opportunity to make a significant impact in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• Experience working with young people with emotional and mental health issues.
• Ability to deliver evidence-based CBT interventions.
• Significant post-qualification practice required.

Responsibilities

• Support the Team Leader in operational management.
• Deliver evidence-based interventions in Mental Health Support Teams.
• Provide supervision for EMHPs.

Skills

Operational management

Clinical activity

Flexibility

Passion for working with young people

Evidence-based CBT interventions

Education

Graduate qualified health care professional

Formal CBT training (e.g. CYP-IAPT)

HEE Postgraduate Diploma in Education Mental Health Practice

HEE Postgraduate Certificate Children's Wellbeing Practice

Job description

Overview

As part of Hertfordshire CYPMHS transformation, our priority is simple: to increase access and availability of mental health and well-being support for children and young people. Driven by this goal and in line with NHS long term plans, we have exciting new opportunities for Supervisors to work at the forefront of innovation in Children's and Young People's Mental Health and to play an instrumental role in a forward-thinking service delivering interventions into schools and other settings in Hertfordshire. This role is a chance to make a difference in young lives, and as such duties will include elements of operational management in support of the Team Leader as well as clinical activity.

• You will be expected to support the Team Leader to contribute to the team with a unique opportunity to be part of a dynamic mental health team in a creative environment where evidence-based interventions, new ideas, ways of working and supporting children and young people are actively encouraged.
• This approach requires flexibility, dynamism and above all a passion for working with children and young people in educational settings whilst also motivating, inspiring and supporting your team to do the same.
• You will be responsible for operationalising the delivery of evidence based interventions within Mental Health Support Teams (MHSTs) in schools and colleges whilst providing supervision for EMHPs.

Qualifications

• Supervisors will be a graduate qualified health care professional and will:
• Have some level of formal CBT training (e.g. CYP-IAPT)
• Have previous consolidated post graduate experience of working with young people with emotional and mental health issues
• Have completed the HEE Postgraduate Diploma in Education Mental Health Practice or the HEE Postgraduate Certificate Children's Wellbeing Practice with significant post-qualification practice
• You will have experience in delivering evidenced-based CBT interventions for mild to moderate mental health issues such as anxiety, low mood and behavioural challenges to CYP and parent/carers, both individually and in groups.

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is an outstanding organisation with ambitions to match. We are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of 'Outstanding' from the Care Quality Commission, and our aim is to be the leading provider of mental health and specialist learning disability services in the country.

The care we provide makes a fantastic difference to the lives of our service users, their families and carers - everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout