Trainee Education Mental Health Practitioners

Cardiff and Vale University Health Board; Knowsley; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 34,000; Full time

Job summary

Mersey Care NHS Trust is offering a Training Post - Trainee Education Mental Health Practitioner in the Northwest. Under supervision, you will develop skills delivering guided self-help and evidence-based interventions for children and young people in education settings, with pathways to specialist services as needed.

You’ll work with teachers, parents and staff to promote whole-school mental health and maintain records for governance and evaluation.

Qualifications

• Requirement to study at degree level
• Proven record of previous academic attainment
• Literacy and numeracy at level 2 minimum
• Must complete PGDip Education Mental Health Practitioner training
• Experience with children and young people preferred
• Ability to manage own diary and coordinate appointments
• Collaborate with teachers/parents/staff
• Computer literate - Microsoft Office
• Ability to learn in diverse settings and learning methods
• Manage a sensitive, potentially distressing caseload
• Excellent oral and written communication
• Willingness to travel
• Team player with good time management
• Prioritise and organise workload
• Assess mild to moderate mental health issues in CYP
• Knowledge of safeguarding and risk assessment
• Familiarity with RiO/Attend Anywhere/OBS Studio

Responsibilities

• Deliver evidence-based interventions for children and young people in education settings under supervision
• Assist in identifying and referring more severe cases to specialist services
• Support schools staff to promote whole-school mental health approach
• Keep records and contribute to data collection and governance
• Attend multi-disciplinary meetings and prepare case load information
• Engage in supervision and training activities
• Collaborate with families and educators to co-produce care plans

Skills

Communication skills

Team player

Time management

Organisational skills

Self-motivated learner

Diary management

Education

Degree level study

Academic attainment

Level 2 literacy/numeracy

PGDip Education Mental Health Practitioner training

Safeguarding & risk assessment knowledge

Knowledge of England education system

Tools

RiO

Attend Anywhere

OBS Studio

Job description

Training Post - Trainee Education Mental Health Practitioner (Mental Health Support Teams in Schools) - Band 4 leading to Band 5 once qualified., To allow the postholder, under supervision and with support, to develop knowledge and practice skills in the following: Delivering evidence-based intervention for children and young people in education setting with mild to moderate mental health problems. Helping children and young people within these settings who present with more severe problems to rapidly access more specialist services. Supporting and facilitating staff in education settings to identify and where appropriate manage issues related to mental health and wellbeing. Working with and within education environments to afford better access to specialist mental health services. Working with and within education environments to promote a whole school approach to mental health wellbeing. To evidence development of those skills with associated knowledge acquisition to record and evidence progression towards an academic award and demonstrable practical ability., Developing skills in supporting children and young people experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties, their parents/carers, families, and educators in the self-management of presenting difficulties. Developing and practicing evidence-based skills under supervisory support of working in partnership with children, young people, their families, and educators in the development of plans for the specific intervention and agreeing outcomes. Developing and learning the skills required to enable children and young people in education, and where appropriate parents/carers to collaborate and coproduce their own agreed plan of care. Show evidence in a variety of forms that at all times assessment and intervention is provided from an inclusive values base, which recognises and respects diversity. Discuss with supervisors and agree to accept appropriate referrals for children and young people in educational settings, according to agreed local and national and local referral routes, processes and procedures. Under supervision, undertake accurate assessments of risk to self and others Learn, understand, rationalise, and adhere to the protocols within the educational service to which the postholder is attached. Engage along with more senior staff in the signposting of referrals for children and young people with more complex needs to the relevant service. Engage in robust managerial and clinical supervision, identifying the scope of practice of the individual postholder within the role and working safely within that scope. Gain and practice a range of interventions related to provision of information and support for evidence based psychological treatments, primarily guided self-help. Practice, evidence, reflect on and demonstrate an ability to manage ones own caseload in conjunction with the requirements of the team. Attend multi-disciplinary and multi-agency meetings relating to referrals or children and young people in treatment, where appropriate, both for personal educational benefit in discussion with supervisors, or to provide direct assistance. Keep coherent records of all training and clinical activity in line with both health and education service protocols and use these records and outcome data to inform decision making Complete all requirements relating to data collection. . Show evidence of working within a collaborative approach, involving a range of relevant others when indicated. Specifically, work in collaboration with teachers and other educational staff, parents, children, young people, and the wider community to enhance and broaden access to mental health services Contribute to the development of individual or group clinical materials or training materials and go on to develop further such materials as falls within own degree of competence. Training and Supervision Attend and fulfil all the requirements of the training element of the post including practical, academic and practice-based assessments. As well as attendance at the University for training, fulfil private study requirements to enhance learning and prepare assignments for examination, for at least one day a week. Apply learning from the training program directly to practice through the course. Receive practice tutoring from educational providers in relation to course work to meet the required standards.. Prepare and present case load information to supervisors within the service on an agreed and scheduled basis, in order to ensure safe practice and the governance obligations of the trainee, supervisor and service are delivered. Respond to and evidence the implementation of improved practice because of supervisor feedback. Engage in and respond to personal development supervision to improvecompetences and practice. Be involved in the evaluation of the course. Disseminate research and service evaluation findings through presentations and supervisory discussions.

• Requirement to study at degree level
• Proven record of previous academic attainment
• Good solid basic literacy and numeracy qualifications at a minimum of level 2
• Requirement to complete PGDip Education Mental Health Practitionertraining (CBT informed practice), It is desirable that the applicant will have previous experience of working with children and young people, Ability to learn in a variety of settings and using a variety of learning methods
• Ability to be responsible for management of own diary, booking roomsin education and community settings, arranging appointments, liaising with parents/careers, making changes/adapting diary depending on service pressures
• Ability to contribute to service development
• Computer literate - knowledge of Microsoft office
• Ability to study as a self-motivated learner who can formulate their own progress towards learning objectives and negotiate pathways to achievement with supervisory teams
• Ability to personally manage a sensitive,traumatic and potentially emotionally distressing caseload
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Able to travel to meet the requirements of the post
• Team player
• Excellent time management and organisational skill
• Ability to monitor own caseload
• Ability to participate in weekly clinical 1:1s
• Demonstrate high levels of concentration particularly for assessments, report writing, and university assignments
• Ability to prioritise and organise own workload
• Ability to manage expectations of children & young persons, parents, carers, professionals, and external stakeholders
• Ability to assess mild to moderate mental health issues of children and young people referred by education settings - identifying appropriate therapeutic offer to support cyp needs, under the supervision of clinical supervisor, and providing evidence to university as part of EMHP training programme (including video evidence of interventions offered, Knowledge of the educational system in England
• Knowledge of children and young people gained through academic study in child development, child wellbeing or mental health
• Knowledge of safeguarding, care planning, risk assessment, holistic assessment and supervision, Experience of using of RiO, Attend Anywhere (virtual interventions) and OBS studio

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the Northwest, serving more than 11 million people. We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction, and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities. At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' - care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We're currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.