Education Mental Health Practitioner in Stoke-on-Trent

Our Trust is on an incredible journey of innovation and we would like you to be part of it. To excel you will be an enthusiastic, caring and compassionate Registered Practitioner who is looking to work within a Trust that is ambitious to perform well and has been told by the Care Quality Commission that it is the fastest improving mental health Trust in the country. Whether you are about to qualify, newly qualified or an experienced practitioner, we want to meet you and discuss the possibility of you joining this great multi-disciplinary team.

Our vision is ‘To be Outstanding in all we do and how we do it.’ Our teams pride themselves on compassion, teamwork and resilience. The Trust supports you by offering a flexible shift system including twilight shifts and compressed hours to support working families and our staff parking is free on all our main sites. You can expect Continuing Professional Development (CPD) which is tailored to meet your professional development; individual CPD advice is available from our Practice Education Team. The CPD offer includes the option to rotate within the Trust to widen your breadth of experience, skills and knowledge.

You will be expected to provide support for the work of other members of the multidisciplinary team and signpost children, young people and families to appropriate support. Finally, to contribute where appropriate, to the service development and consultation to the wider MDT. This is a unique opportunity to be part of a developing service with high expectations for improving the outcomes for children and families in North Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent.

As an employee and representative of the Trust, you are required to demonstrate and uphold the Trust's Values. These are:

• Proud to CARE:
• Compassionate: Caring with compassion, it’s about how we listen, what we say, what we do.
• Approachable: Friendly, welcoming, sharing ideas and being open.
• Responsible: Taking personal and collective responsibility, being accountable for our actions.
• Excellent: Striving for the best, for high-quality safe care and continually improving.

Working for our organisation, as a Trust we remain bold and ambitious with plans for both service and system collaborative transformation over the coming years to improve the health and wellbeing of our local people through high-quality care. We pride ourselves on ensuring our team has their wellbeing put first and as such provide a range of wellness opportunities including flexible working. We are committed to the Greener NHS national ambition to becoming the world’s first ‘carbon net zero’ national health system by 2045. Sustainability is embedded in our strategy as one of our four key enablers.

In order to deliver on this commitment, we recognise that we need a workforce that is as passionate as we are about achieving these goals, for the benefit of our service users, workforce, local communities and the planet alike. For 2024/2025, we have launched our “Proud to be Green” engagement campaign which is aligned to the targets set out in our Green Plan.

North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust has opportunities for the right candidates to join our existing Mental Health Support Team (MHST), working alongside a team of Education Mental Health Practitioners and Senior Mental Health Practitioners to deliver, under supervision, high-quality; outcome-informed, focused, evidence-based interventions for children and young people experiencing mild to moderate anxiety, low mood and behavioural difficulties. In return, you will receive supervision and in line with the Trust values you will be offered the opportunity to develop your skills and knowledge as part of your Continuing Professional Development.

In the event of exceptionally high levels of response, we reserve the right to close the post before the date stated above in order to prevent the number of applications received being unmanageable. You are advised to submit your completed application form as soon as possible to have the best chance of being considered. Priority will be given to NHS staff across the region who are at risk of redundancy, where the vacancy is at the same band or one below their current band and candidates meet the essential criteria for this post.

All employees new to the Trust will be subject to a 6-month probationary period. All clinical staff bands 2-4 that are new to the Trust will be required to complete a Care Certificate. Canvassing of members of the Trust or of any Committee of the Trust directly or indirectly for any appointment under the Trust shall disqualify the candidate for such appointment. The Trust does not pay travel expenses for candidates attending interviews.

All posts involving access to persons in receipt of health services will be subject to a Disclosure & Barring Service disclosure. Please provide full contact details for all referees, especially their email addresses where possible. Failure to do so may result in significant delays in your application. There may also be a requirement to provide additional referee details.