Job summary
Are you passionate about
children and young peoples mental health? Do you enjoy sharing your knowledge
of how to support children and young people with colleagues within the
education sector?
Our Future in Mind (MHST) is a
growing and developing service within Wakefield which aims to provide early
intervention to improve the lives of children and young people experiencing
mild to moderate emotional and mental health needs. Due to additional funding
we are looking to recruit an enthusiastic practitioner to join our friendly and
supportive team.
The successful applicant will
be allocated a number of education setting in which they will have the
opportunity to develop strong working relationships and provide support to the
school community.
Applicants will need to hold a
professional registration with post qualification experience of working with
children and young people with emotional and mental health needs is essential
whilst knowledge and experience of the education system is desirable.
Informal enquires are
encouraged.
Please contact Sarah
Dixon Team Manager for more information.
At the time of advertising,
this role does meet the minimum requirements set by UK Visas and Immigration to
sponsor candidates to work in the UK. We look forward to receiving your
application.
Main duties of the job
Responsibilities
of the Senior Practitioner include:
Delivering
evidenced based interventions to children, young people, parents/carers through
individual and group work.
Delivering
psychoeducation sessions to children, young people, parents/carers through
assemblies, classroom and parent sessions.
Ensuring
children/young people play an active part in decision making about the support
they need.
Providing
advice/consultation to education staff to support children/young people getting
the right help at the right time.
Developing
local knowledge of services particularly in relation to mental health issues to
enable effective signposting and planning.
Supporting
education settings in developing and embedding whole school approaches to
mental health through collaboration and coproduction with the school community.
Participating
in the delivery of training programmes for education settings and community
services.
Completing CYP-IAPT supervision
training and providing clinical supervision to EMHPs.
All employees of the Trust are strongly encouraged to be
fully vaccinated against COVID-19 to protect patients.
We are aware that an increasing number of applicants are
using AI technology to generate responses on NHS Job application forms. We
strongly discourage this and will conduct a thorough screening process before
selecting candidates to progress to the next stage. If you are using AI to
enhance your application, please disclose this in your NHS Jobs application
form.
About us
We
are a specialist NHS Foundation Trust that provides community, mental health
and learning disability services for the people of Barnsley, Calderdale,
Kirklees and Wakefield. We also provide low and medium secure services and are
the lead for the west Yorkshire secure provider collaborative.
Our mission is
to help people reach their potential and live well in their communities, we do this
by providing high-quality care in the right place at the right time. We employ
staff in both clinical and non-clinical services who work hard to make a
difference to the lives of service users, families and carers.
We encourage
and welcome applications from all protected characteristic groups, we value
diversity and want our workforce to be reflective of our communities.
Being
a foundation Trust means were accountable to our
members, who can have a say in how were run. Around 14,300 local people
(including staff) are members of our Trust.
Join
us and you will be one of over 4,500 staff committed to supporting and improving
the mental, physical and social needs of the thousands of people we meet and
help each year.
We
are committed
to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and
vulnerable adults and expects all colleagues and volunteers to share this
commitment.
We do reserve to right to close vacancy before the advertised closing date if necessary, so please apply as soon as possible.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The
post-holder will:
Provide assessment and treatment to children
and young people with mental health needs;
Work autonomously and collaboratively within
the MDT, providing consultation for other agencies/professionals;
Promote the safeguarding and welfare of
children and young people.
To
provide routine and urgent assessment and interventions to young people with a
wide range of emotional and psychological problems who are referred to
specialist CAMHS, in keeping with evidence based practice with supervision from
a senior clinician within professional guidelines and within the overall
framework of the teams policies and procedures.
KEY RESULT AREAS:
1
To support the
ongoing process of delivering a comprehensive CAMHS system.
2
To provide
assessment, interventions, therapy to children, young people with the most
severe, complex and persistent mental health problems, including those who
are severely mentally ill or at suicidal risk and where appropriate, families
as both an autonomous practitioner and as part of a multidisciplinary team in
a variety of settings to address need. This will include working with the
CAPA model.
3
To apply a sound
knowledge of safeguarding children and guidelines in clinical work.
4
To be committed
to a quality approach for patient care.
5
The
post-holder will demonstrate high levels of concentration and provide
sustained effort in assessment of complex family issues.
6
To
manage own caseload, accessing support and guidance appropriate to individual
need.
7
To operate within the clinical and case management
supervision framework.
8
To provide training, consultation and supervision to
other service providers, partner agencies and junior members of staff as
required regarding intensive interventions with children, young people and
families.
9
To participate in the development, audit and
review of this extension to existing service provision.
10
To undertake extended hours of work alongside fellow
specialist CAMHS practitioners.
11
To work collaboratively with all services to provide
coherent and co-ordinated mental health services for children and young
people as well as other significant partners, ensuring timely transition and
relevant consultation, training and support to universal services and
targeted groups.
12
To use a range of Information Technology systems
(including Rio) ensuring high quality data is collected appropriately, kept
securely and confidentially
13
To participate in an agreed clinical audit programme
for the service, and ensure lessons learnt from both audit and clinical
incidents are reported.
14
To comply with both clinical and corporate governance
frameworks.
15
To
support the engagement of service stakeholders and users in the development
and monitoring of service delivery and identify opportunities for service
improvement and redesign.
16
To actively promote user/carer involvement in all
aspects of care planning/delivery whilst respecting the rights, capabilities
and wishes of the individuals concerned.
17
To work in an innovative and
child, young person and family centred way, in a culture of continuous
improvement and learning.
18
Apply Trust policies and procedures in instances of
aggression, acute distress and disturbed mental health presentations.
19
To maintain relevant professional registration
20
To identify and communicate any concerns through the
relevant management processes.
21
To demonstrate continued practice development and
engage in annual appraisal.
For further information, please see attached documentation.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The
post-holder will:
Provide assessment and treatment to children
and young people with mental health needs;
Work autonomously and collaboratively within
the MDT, providing consultation for other agencies/professionals;
Promote the safeguarding and welfare of
children and young people.
To
provide routine and urgent assessment and interventions to young people with a
wide range of emotional and psychological problems who are referred to
specialist CAMHS, in keeping with evidence based practice with supervision from
a senior clinician within professional guidelines and within the overall
framework of the teams policies and procedures.
KEY RESULT AREAS:
1
To support the
ongoing process of delivering a comprehensive CAMHS system.
2
To provide
assessment, interventions, therapy to children, young people with the most
severe, complex and persistent mental health problems, including those who
are severely mentally ill or at suicidal risk and where appropriate, families
as both an autonomous practitioner and as part of a multidisciplinary team in
a variety of settings to address need. This will include working with the
CAPA model.
3
To apply a sound
knowledge of safeguarding children and guidelines in clinical work.
4
To be committed
to a quality approach for patient care.
5
The
post-holder will demonstrate high levels of concentration and provide
sustained effort in assessment of complex family issues.
6
To
manage own caseload, accessing support and guidance appropriate to individual
need.
7
To operate within the clinical and case management
supervision framework.
8
To provide training, consultation and supervision to
other service providers, partner agencies and junior members of staff as
required regarding intensive interventions with children, young people and
families.
9
To participate in the development, audit and
review of this extension to existing service provision.
10
To undertake extended hours of work alongside fellow
specialist CAMHS practitioners.
11
To work collaboratively with all services to provide
coherent and co-ordinated mental health services for children and young
people as well as other significant partners, ensuring timely transition and
relevant consultation, training and support to universal services and
targeted groups.
12
To use a range of Information Technology systems
(including Rio) ensuring high quality data is collected appropriately, kept
securely and confidentially
13
To participate in an agreed clinical audit programme
for the service, and ensure lessons learnt from both audit and clinical
incidents are reported.
14
To comply with both clinical and corporate governance
frameworks.
15
To
support the engagement of service stakeholders and users in the development
and monitoring of service delivery and identify opportunities for service
improvement and redesign.
16
To actively promote user/carer involvement in all
aspects of care planning/delivery whilst respecting the rights, capabilities
and wishes of the individuals concerned.
17
To work in an innovative and
child, young person and family centred way, in a culture of continuous
improvement and learning.
18
Apply Trust policies and procedures in instances of
aggression, acute distress and disturbed mental health presentations.
19
To maintain relevant professional registration
20
To identify and communicate any concerns through the
relevant management processes.
21
To demonstrate continued practice development and
engage in annual appraisal.
For further information, please see attached documentation.
Person Specification
Personal Attributes
Essential
- Able to work autonomously and as part of a team
- Commitment to multi-agency approach
- Ability to work and make decisions under pressure.
- Calm, confident, innovative, creative
- and assertive
- Clarity of decision making
- Willingness to be flexible and adaptable in accordance with changing service priorities.
- Commitment to challenging discrimination and improving accessibility of services.
- Ability to cope calmly in a crisis
- To demonstrate good self-care and encourage the same in team members
- A current driving licence and access to a car during the working day is essential (reasonable adjustments will be considered for any applicants who are unable to drive due to a disability)
Special Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- A good understanding of evidence -
- based, low intensity interventions for
- mild to moderate mental health
- difficulties.
- An understanding of mental health
- and wellbeing support within community settings.
- Understanding of safeguarding
- responsibilities and the importance of
- multi-agency work for children and
- families in the community.
- Understanding of CYP-IAPT
- principles including the use of evidence-
- based therapies and Routine
- Outcome Measures
- Excellent communication skills including the ability to engage with children/young people of all ages experiencing a wide range of mental health presentations
- Ability to communicate with a wide range of professionals from various settings.
- Ability to work effectively with partner services & external partners to promote and adapt change processes.
- Good verbal and communication skills
- Ability to manage own caseload
- Good negotiation skills, and problem-solving skills
- Customer service orientation
- Effective record keeping and report writing skills to include care planning and risk assessments.
- IT skills.
- Have good team working skills. Be able to work across disciplines with an ability to predict and manage inter-disciplinary tensions and foster good working practices.
Desirable
- A good understanding of the green paper initiative and the function of a MHST.
Experience
Essential
- Substantial post qualification experience, some of which must be working with children, young people and their carers in a mental health or community setting.
- Experience of working in Primary Care/ MHST Services / or CAMHS.
- Experience of managing a case-
- load of children and young people
- with a range of moderate mental
- health needs.
- Experience in assessment and risk management and ability to implement evidence-based practice.
- Experience of delivering
- evidence-based psychological therapy e.g. CBT
- Experience of working with parents (or with adults).
- Experience of working in or inconjunction with an educational setting.
- Experience of providing clinical
- supervision.
- Proven ability to work with other agencies and disciplines and in partnership with other organisations.
- Experience working within Early
- Intervention and Prevention
- Services.
- Experience of service delivery via
- digital platform.
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Wellbeing Practitioner (Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners (PWP),Childrens Wellbeing Practitioners (CWP) & Education Mental Health Practitioners (EMHP).
- or
- Registered mental health practitioner (NMC, HCPC)
- or
- Registered social worker
- or
- KSA equivalent accreditation (www.babcp.com/Accreditation/Provisional-Accreditation/Knowledge-Skills-and-Attitudes).
Desirable
- Successful completion of the CYP-IAPT CBT/EMHP supervisor training or willing to undertake.
Physical Attributes
Essential
- Ability to undertake the duties and demands of the post. A satisfactory sickness record over the previous 2 years (subject to the need to act with fairness and equality of opportunity, particularly where the sickness is related to a disability and/or pregnancy).
Training
Essential
- Experience delivering training to a diverse audience (or group work).
Person Specification
Personal Attributes
Essential
- Able to work autonomously and as part of a team
- Commitment to multi-agency approach
- Ability to work and make decisions under pressure.
- Calm, confident, innovative, creative
- and assertive
- Clarity of decision making
- Willingness to be flexible and adaptable in accordance with changing service priorities.
- Commitment to challenging discrimination and improving accessibility of services.
- Ability to cope calmly in a crisis
- To demonstrate good self-care and encourage the same in team members
- A current driving licence and access to a car during the working day is essential (reasonable adjustments will be considered for any applicants who are unable to drive due to a disability)
Special Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- A good understanding of evidence -
- based, low intensity interventions for
- mild to moderate mental health
- difficulties.
- An understanding of mental health
- and wellbeing support within community settings.
- Understanding of safeguarding
- responsibilities and the importance of
- multi-agency work for children and
- families in the community.
- Understanding of CYP-IAPT
- principles including the use of evidence-
- based therapies and Routine
- Outcome Measures
- Excellent communication skills including the ability to engage with children/young people of all ages experiencing a wide range of mental health presentations
- Ability to communicate with a wide range of professionals from various settings.
- Ability to work effectively with partner services & external partners to promote and adapt change processes.
- Good verbal and communication skills
- Ability to manage own caseload
- Good negotiation skills, and problem-solving skills
- Customer service orientation
- Effective record keeping and report writing skills to include care planning and risk assessments.
- IT skills.
- Have good team working skills. Be able to work across disciplines with an ability to predict and manage inter-disciplinary tensions and foster good working practices.
Desirable
- A good understanding of the green paper initiative and the function of a MHST.
Experience
Essential
- Substantial post qualification experience, some of which must be working with children, young people and their carers in a mental health or community setting.
- Experience of working in Primary Care/ MHST Services / or CAMHS.
- Experience of managing a case-
- load of children and young people
- with a range of moderate mental
- health needs.
- Experience in assessment and risk management and ability to implement evidence-based practice.
- Experience of delivering
- evidence-based psychological therapy e.g. CBT
- Experience of working with parents (or with adults).
- Experience of working in or inconjunction with an educational setting.
- Experience of providing clinical
- supervision.
- Proven ability to work with other agencies and disciplines and in partnership with other organisations.
- Experience working within Early
- Intervention and Prevention
- Services.
- Experience of service delivery via
- digital platform.
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Wellbeing Practitioner (Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners (PWP),Childrens Wellbeing Practitioners (CWP) & Education Mental Health Practitioners (EMHP).
- or
- Registered mental health practitioner (NMC, HCPC)
- or
- Registered social worker
- or
- KSA equivalent accreditation (www.babcp.com/Accreditation/Provisional-Accreditation/Knowledge-Skills-and-Attitudes).
Desirable
- Successful completion of the CYP-IAPT CBT/EMHP supervisor training or willing to undertake.
Physical Attributes
Essential
- Ability to undertake the duties and demands of the post. A satisfactory sickness record over the previous 2 years (subject to the need to act with fairness and equality of opportunity, particularly where the sickness is related to a disability and/or pregnancy).
Training
Essential
- Experience delivering training to a diverse audience (or group work).
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.
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
