Senior Mental Health Practitioner - MHST in Wigan

This is a fantastic opportunity to be part of the expanding Mental Health Support Team (MHST) service in Wigan. We are looking for skilled practitioners with mental health experience who can provide low intensity evidenced based CBT interventions, manage risk, and are passionate about young person-centred practice.

Successful candidates will play an important role in delivering high-quality service provision that promotes and improves the mental health and well-being of young people in educational settings. You will be empowered to shape and build the service with further education settings in Bolton and help maintain positive working relationships with colleagues and the wider network.

Main duties of the job:

• The Senior Mental Health Practitioner will be an integral part of the MHST in Wigan.
• You will use your clinical skills to listen to the needs of the child, young person, and family to provide meaningful evidenced based interventions.
• You will provide support, advice, and consultation to families/carers and other professionals in the life of the child/young person.
• You will work closely with education professionals to foster a whole school/college approach to mental well-being.
• You will use leadership skills to support, develop, and empower staff in the service as well as developing the service itself through quality improvement, audit, and evaluation.

Key responsibilities include:

• Forming strong working relations with education settings.
• Providing consultations to education colleagues and supporting education settings to embed a whole school approach to wellbeing.
• Developing and delivering evidence-based individual and group time limited interventions to young people within education settings.
• Evidencing the outcomes of the MHST service.
• Providing clinical supervision to Education Mental Health practitioners.

Experience required:

• Experience of assessment and delivering evidence based mental health interventions including low intensity cognitive behavioural therapy interventions.
• Experience of working with children’s Mental Health Services.
• Experience and knowledge of implementing safeguarding procedures for children and adults.
• Experience of supervising colleagues in the multi-disciplinary team and consultation in other agency settings.
• Experience of supporting young people in an educational setting.
• Experience of leading a team.

Knowledge required:

• Understanding of child and adolescent development.
• Knowledge of risk assessment and safety planning.
• Ability to teach and train others using multi-media materials suitable for presentation within public.
• Level of knowledge of research methodology and data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of child and adolescent mental health.

All positions within the Trust are subject to satisfactory pre-employment checks. The Trust mandates all post holders who require a DBS for their role to subscribe to the DBS Update Service. You will be required to enrol for this service for a fee of £16 per year and maintain registration throughout your employment with GMMH.

We are committed to safeguarding children, young people, and vulnerable adults and require all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We aim to ensure our workforce is representative of the diverse communities that we serve and are strongly committed to removing barriers to employment for candidates from under-represented groups.