MHST Senior Wellbeing Practitioner in Peterborough

We have an exciting opportunity for a Band 6 Senior Wellbeing Practitioner to join the Peterborough Mental Health Support Team with a team base in Hampton, Peterborough. The Senior Wellbeing Practitioner role is an opportunity to deliver evidence-based early interventions to parents and young people, working across both educational settings and healthcare sectors. This role also helps to develop and support colleagues by offering supervision and supporting trainee staff with their learning and understanding of the role. You will be part of the senior team helping to develop and improve our service to deliver effective interventions in a timely way. Mental Health Support Teams work in collaboration with education settings to provide early intervention to children, young people and their families/carers for mild to moderate mental health difficulties. The role requires the applicant to travel around the area to allocated schools.

Main duties of the job:

• You will be working in a creative environment where evidence-based interventions, new ideas, ways of working and supporting children and young people (CYP) are actively encouraged.
• The approach requires flexibility and adaptability, and a passion for working with CYP in education settings.
• The post holder will work as an autonomous Practitioner in education and health care settings alongside a team of mental health professionals and within the scope of their job description.
• The post holder will carry out assessments, develop and deliver evidence-based interventions to children, young people, parents and carers.
• The interventions address mild to moderate mental health difficulties (anxiety, worries and fears, behaviour, low mood).
• Supporting staff is also a key element of this role and the post holder will offer case management supervision and clinical skills supervision.
• The post holder will receive regular supervision to support them in their work.

About us:

Rated 'Outstanding' by the Care Quality Commission, we are proud to provide high quality innovative services across most of the east of England that enable people to receive care closer to home and live healthier lives. If you share our passion for innovative and high-quality care delivery, then please submit your application and join us on our exciting journey as a leading-edge specialist community provider.

Job responsibilities:

• To work in an exciting service which we will be delivering across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough: The Mental Health Support Team (MHST).
• MHSTs will be based within schools, ensuring children and young people receive faster access to earlier mental health support.
• You will be one of the key team members in the setup and running of this new service.
• In this role you will support and provide a high-quality service to students (and their families) experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties.
• This will be done through the supervision and line management of trainee and qualified Educational Mental Health Practitioners (EMHPs), and through direct delivery of evidence-based interventions to support the recovery of young people referred to the service.
• This work will be in accordance with clinical governance processes and professional standards.

Clinical Responsibilities:

• Under the direction of the MHST Senior Clinician, be accountable and responsible for a defined clinical caseload.
• Provide screening, assessment, psychosocial formulations and interventions for mild to moderate mental health difficulties in educational settings.
• Provide a service that is comprehensive and accessible to the whole school community.
• Support professionals in making appropriate referrals and in carrying out the mental health aspects of their own roles.
• Make appropriate referrals to other service providers in the statutory and voluntary sectors.
• Provide consultation as required to other professionals around mental health issues in children and young people in educational settings.
• Clinically develop the provision of group work for children/young people and training for teaching staff.
• Conduct risk assessments, prepare risk management plans and initiate appropriate action where indicated.
• Demonstrate appropriate understanding of the legal and ethical issues in providing mental health care to children and/or adolescents.

Person Specification:

• Essential: Educational Mental Health Practitioner (EMHP) Qualification, Core professional qualification relevant to mental health, Evidence of continued professional development.
• Desirable: A qualification in provision of supervision, Post Graduate qualification, Registration with relevant professional body.
• Experience: Two years+ experience as a Band 5 or equivalent clinician, Experience of providing supervision, Experience in the delivery of evidence-based interventions for children and adolescents.
• Knowledge & Skills: Excellent communication skills, Ability to use outcome measures for both clinical and audit purposes, Ability to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults.