Mental Health Practitioner

Job Title: Mental Health Practitioner

Length of assignment: 3 Months

Hours per week: 37

Hourly rate: £37

Remote/Office based: Hybrid—all therapeutic appointments will be face to face

Location: Walsall Council

The Role:

We are looking to recruit therapists to work within our Family Safeguarding Mental Health Team.

You will be responsible for the delivery of psychological and/or systemic interventions with parents and carers within Walsall both on a 1-2-1 basis and within groups.

Key Responsibilities:

• Work with adults with significant and complex needs, with specific focus on engaging with parents in relation to their mental health and well-being whilst engaging with the wider social care system involved with the family.
• Responsible for clinical provision including assessment, formulation, and time-limited evidence-based interventions within the Family safeguarding mental health team.
• Identify the most appropriate form of mental health/psychological intervention for individuals to develop bespoke interventions to parents based on parental mental health need, informed by professional knowledge and practice skills relating to therapeutic intervention models (such as trauma informed CBT, DBT, EMDR, functional therapy, systemic family therapy)

We are looking to recruit people with relevant experience and qualification in delivering therapeutic interventions across a range of specialism to include but not exclusively trauma informed CBT, DBT, EMDR, functional family therapy, systemic family therapy.

Driving will be essential for this role.

If you thrive to make a difference and have experience, then we would love to hear from you.