Job summary
This is an opportunity to work as part of a charity committed to our Vision of enabling everyone in our communities to achieve better mental health. TOG Mind is a fast-paced charity delivering a wide variety of mental health and emotional wellbeing services. In your role as CYPF Practitioner, you will work as part of the #Thrive Hub in Heywood which is a multi-agency service which focuses on providing support to children, young people and families.
Main duties of the job
You will be responsible for providinginitial discussion within a safe space to explore mental health related concerns and assess what type of support is appropriate. Using your experience, and knowledge you will build and manage a caseload of supporting children, young people and families using administrative systems and provide mild to moderate support. You will be responsible for managing issues relating with safeguarding children and young people from risks with the support of you team.Communicating effectively with your team, manager and external services will be a key component of your duties.
You will provide and effectively deliver early intervention, psychoeducation, solution focused and person-centred interventions with young people and their families, predominately based from our Heywood #Thrive office. As part of supporting the wider team, there may be times when support is provided from our other CYPF services across Greater Manchester.
About us
Here at Mind, we are proud to have been
delivering high-quality mental health services based on the needs of local
communities for over 40 years. The
work we do is vital in promoting accessible services to the people that need it
the most.
Our
vision is to enable everyone in our communities to achieve better mental health
by continuing to provide the best quality local mental health services in
prevention, early intervention and primary care; alongside empowering
individuals and our communities to live well. We offer various services across
the community and to individuals aiming to improve wellbeing and raise
awareness around the importance of mental health support.
Benefits:
We
offer a dynamic, stimulating environment that embraces change and is open to
new ways of working.
We
provide a real opportunity to influence meaningful change within our society
and for you to contribute your expertise to this process.
We
maintain a strong commitment to ethical standards of working within a socially
inclusive environment.
We
offer ongoing training and development to all staff and volunteers, enabling
you to gain qualifications and expertise in mental health and therapeutic
interventions.
We offer a degree of flexibility
around working hours, balancing work and personal commitments.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Duties specific to this role:
Work as an integral part of the CYPF TOG Mind team to deliver services directly to members of our community in partnership with the NHS services.
Provide support to people within the boundaries of our services, identify any additional support and sensitively help people to access other services as needed.
Be responsible for managing a caseload of people accessing the services.
Work alongside other staff and volunteers to ensure members of our community can access the services they need.
Maintain professional boundaries.
General duties:
Communicate effectively, verbally and in writing, to a wide range of people inside and outside the organisation.
Use IT systems including email, online systems, and Microsoft packages to record and share information.
Deliver and monitor a range of complex activities or programmes in your department.
Achieve service and project outcomes.
Work in partnership with a wide range of partners, stakeholders, and communities.
Carry out any other reasonable tasks relevant to the role.
Working pattern:
The core hours for this post are 8am 8pm weekdays
The role requires at least 1 evening until 8pm.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Duties specific to this role:
Work as an integral part of the CYPF TOG Mind team to deliver services directly to members of our community in partnership with the NHS services.
Provide support to people within the boundaries of our services, identify any additional support and sensitively help people to access other services as needed.
Be responsible for managing a caseload of people accessing the services.
Work alongside other staff and volunteers to ensure members of our community can access the services they need.
Maintain professional boundaries.
General duties:
Communicate effectively, verbally and in writing, to a wide range of people inside and outside the organisation.
Use IT systems including email, online systems, and Microsoft packages to record and share information.
Deliver and monitor a range of complex activities or programmes in your department.
Achieve service and project outcomes.
Work in partnership with a wide range of partners, stakeholders, and communities.
Carry out any other reasonable tasks relevant to the role.
Working pattern:
The core hours for this post are 8am 8pm weekdays
The role requires at least 1 evening until 8pm.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Experience of providing support services to members of the public.
- Experience in mental health/health and social care work sector preferred
- Experience in delivering in a group setting
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge of emotional wellbeing and mental health issues relating to children and young people.
- Knowledge of NHS Mental Health Support Teams and Whole School approach to Mental and emotional wellbeing
- Understanding of professional boundaries
- Excellent understanding of ethical boundaries in relation to the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy.
Qualifications
Essential
- Willingness to undertake training and qualifications relevant to role.
Desirable
- Qualification of higher education in psychological theory or therapeutic practice/ level 3 in health and social care/mental health is desirable
Abilities
Essential
- Excellent verbal and written communication.
- Respond to change and uncertainty positively.
- Organisation and planning.
- Solution focussed.
- Team working and collaboration with others.
- Persuading and advocating.
- Negotiation and influencing.
- Effective knowledge sharing
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Experience of providing support services to members of the public.
- Experience in mental health/health and social care work sector preferred
- Experience in delivering in a group setting
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge of emotional wellbeing and mental health issues relating to children and young people.
- Knowledge of NHS Mental Health Support Teams and Whole School approach to Mental and emotional wellbeing
- Understanding of professional boundaries
- Excellent understanding of ethical boundaries in relation to the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy.
Qualifications
Essential
- Willingness to undertake training and qualifications relevant to role.
Desirable
- Qualification of higher education in psychological theory or therapeutic practice/ level 3 in health and social care/mental health is desirable
Abilities
Essential
- Excellent verbal and written communication.
- Respond to change and uncertainty positively.
- Organisation and planning.
- Solution focussed.
- Team working and collaboration with others.
- Persuading and advocating.
- Negotiation and influencing.
- Effective knowledge sharing
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.
