Job summary
Senior Mental Health Support Team Practitioner Band 6
Base: Doncaster
Rotherham Doncaster and South Humberside NHS Foundation Trust have successfully been delivering Mental Health Support Teams (With Me in Mind) in Rotherham, Doncaster and North Lincolnshire schools and colleges since 2019. Doncaster has continued to expand the service with additional teams joining in 2022, 2025 and next year (2026 Wave 14). Doncaster continues to implement 'New Ways of Working' within the local area. This project is underpinned by national strategies and initiatives for transforming children and young people's mental health.
We now have four established Mental Health Support Teams working across Doncaster's education settings. We have 2 exciting band 6 opportunities within our Doncaster team. We are looking to recruit a practitioner who is enthusiastic, kind, compassionate and resilient. We seek practitioners from multi-disciplinary backgrounds with a core profession such as social work, mental health nursing, or learning disability nursing with wide breath of mental health knowledge and experience.
Main duties of the job
Practitioners will work in both educational and health settings within Doncaster to support the implementation of the MHST model. The successful candidates will integrate into our already well-established mental health support team and compliment the early intervention offer within our local areas.
Should you have any queries or require any further information or assistance, please contact Richard Bryan, Clinical Lead Doncaster at richardbryan@nhs.net or 01302 796191.
We reserve the right to close a vacancy before the advertised closing date if necessary, so please apply as soon as you can
About us
Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust (RDaSH) employ around 4000 talented colleagues who are very much appreciated, valued, and respected.
We have a wide portfolio which includes mental health, physical health, learning disability and drug and alcohol services.
We are dedicated to the development of our our people and hold a learning half day every month for our colleagues.
We are passionate about enhancing the quality of our service and we work hard to attract and select the right colleagues for our organisation. Our goal is to employ those who share our passion for providing first class care while remaining committed to our vision and values. Please view our Strategy using the link below:
https://www.rdash.nhs.uk/documents/clinical-and-organisational-strategy-2023-to-2028/
To find out more about working for RDaSH and the fantastic benefits we offer visit our website:
https://workwithrdash.co.uk/
We are committed to inclusive cultures and really value people in our organisation, view our Allyship video on YouTube to find out more:
https://youtu.be/WMJSkLoTk4Q
The main terms and conditions of service can be found here:
https://www.nhsemployers.org/publications/tchandbook
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please view the attached job description and person specification to view the full details about the role
We reserve the right to close the vacancy early if there are a high amount of applications
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please view the attached job description and person specification to view the full details about the role
We reserve the right to close the vacancy early if there are a high amount of applications
Person Specification
Qulifications
Essential
- Relevant health/social care Degree or equivalent body e.g. RMN, Occupational Therapist, Social Worker, Clinical Psychologist, Psychotherapist with professional registration.
Desirable
- Specialist Qualification in CBT, FT or other appropriate therapy Degree or equivalent
- A qualification, or have undertaken a program of formal training in Supervision
Experience
Essential
- Demonstrable post qualification experience, including experience of working with young people with mild to moderate mental health problems and working with children and families in particular.
- Experience of managing and prioritising a high caseload
- Experience of Multi-Disciplinary Working
- Currently engaged in an advanced level of practice and able to demonstrate a degree of professional autonomy
- The ability to provide patient-centred assessment, care planning, implementation and evaluation with children, young people, parents and families using mental health nursing skills.
- Ability to undertake Risk Assessments and identify appropriate plans in partnerships with the young person, families and other agencies
- Experience of providing supervision to junior members of staff
Desirable
- Planning and delivering presentations and training to groups
- Experience in delivering comprehensive family work in a child and family setting
Knowledge
Essential
- Theoretical and practical knowledge in areas of child and adolescent mental health and good awareness of key drivers in the field
- Highly competent in making a decision regarding ongoing patient care based on clinical and risk factors
- High level of problem solving and planning skills
- Effective communication skills with all disciplines and agencies to optimise patient management
- Awareness of own competency level and how to seek appropriate help
- Understanding of confidentiality and risk management.
- Clinical audit, research and clinical governance principles
- Have a good understanding of child protection/safeguarding policies, recording and reporting any concerns to the appropriate agency including participate in case conferences as required.
Desirable
- Wider NHS and social care policy
- Importance of public relations
- Research, audit and quality improvement methodologies
- Understanding of assessment of children suspected of having ADHD/ ASD.
Skills
Essential
- Ability / Skills to support change and improvement, support and inspire colleagues / act as a role model
- Ability to motivate others Good planning and organizational skills
- Good Assessment skills selecting treatment from a range of options
- Able to manage caseload and to prioritise under time pressures for self and team
- Good clinical reasoning skills
- Ability to work autonomously
- Flexible approach to problem solving
- Multi-agency teamwork
- Effective communication skills with all disciplines and agencies to optimise patient management
- Effective communication skills both orally and in written form
- Providing clinical supervision
- Time management
- IT literate - use of Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and email and Internet
- Manage a varied workload and deliver to deadlines under pressure
Desirable
- Understanding of assessment of children suspected of having ADHD/ ASD.
Person Specification
Qulifications
Essential
- Relevant health/social care Degree or equivalent body e.g. RMN, Occupational Therapist, Social Worker, Clinical Psychologist, Psychotherapist with professional registration.
Desirable
- Specialist Qualification in CBT, FT or other appropriate therapy Degree or equivalent
- A qualification, or have undertaken a program of formal training in Supervision
Experience
Essential
- Demonstrable post qualification experience, including experience of working with young people with mild to moderate mental health problems and working with children and families in particular.
- Experience of managing and prioritising a high caseload
- Experience of Multi-Disciplinary Working
- Currently engaged in an advanced level of practice and able to demonstrate a degree of professional autonomy
- The ability to provide patient-centred assessment, care planning, implementation and evaluation with children, young people, parents and families using mental health nursing skills.
- Ability to undertake Risk Assessments and identify appropriate plans in partnerships with the young person, families and other agencies
- Experience of providing supervision to junior members of staff
Desirable
- Planning and delivering presentations and training to groups
- Experience in delivering comprehensive family work in a child and family setting
Knowledge
Essential
- Theoretical and practical knowledge in areas of child and adolescent mental health and good awareness of key drivers in the field
- Highly competent in making a decision regarding ongoing patient care based on clinical and risk factors
- High level of problem solving and planning skills
- Effective communication skills with all disciplines and agencies to optimise patient management
- Awareness of own competency level and how to seek appropriate help
- Understanding of confidentiality and risk management.
- Clinical audit, research and clinical governance principles
- Have a good understanding of child protection/safeguarding policies, recording and reporting any concerns to the appropriate agency including participate in case conferences as required.
Desirable
- Wider NHS and social care policy
- Importance of public relations
- Research, audit and quality improvement methodologies
- Understanding of assessment of children suspected of having ADHD/ ASD.
Skills
Essential
- Ability / Skills to support change and improvement, support and inspire colleagues / act as a role model
- Ability to motivate others Good planning and organizational skills
- Good Assessment skills selecting treatment from a range of options
- Able to manage caseload and to prioritise under time pressures for self and team
- Good clinical reasoning skills
- Ability to work autonomously
- Flexible approach to problem solving
- Multi-agency teamwork
- Effective communication skills with all disciplines and agencies to optimise patient management
- Effective communication skills both orally and in written form
- Providing clinical supervision
- Time management
- IT literate - use of Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and email and Internet
- Manage a varied workload and deliver to deadlines under pressure
Desirable
- Understanding of assessment of children suspected of having ADHD/ ASD.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
