Senior Mental Health Practitioner
Flexible working arrangements may be considered and discussions with the recruiting manager regarding this are encouraged.
Job overview
Senior Mental Health Practitioner – Mental Health Support Team – Early help Mental Health Children & Young People
Band 6
The Mental Health Support team (MHST) is part of the Early Help Division within Forward Thinking Birmingham.
The team provide assessment and individual and group mental health interventions to young people age 5-18 years old.
The team also provide consultation/advice to non mental health professionals working with young people in Birmingham. This is part of the Whole School Approach function, which also includes parent workshops, assemblies and training for school staff.
The aim of the Mental Health Support team is to embed preventative, early help mental health support in schools.
Main duties of the job
We are committed to increasing therapeutic interventions in CYP at the stage of early help, preventing them from needing care from secondary CAMHS service.
This innovative senior mental health practitioner post is a city wide post. On a day to day basis, you will work with a caseload of children and young people, providing therapeutic brief intervention within schools/ educational settings, to prevent these individuals requiring secondary care.You will also work with early help colleagues to provide creative interventions and support groups. Additionally, you will provide line management to band 5 practitioners within the team.
The post is a hybrid style of working between home and city wide.
The post is appropriate for Nurses, OTs and Social Workers with significant mental health experience as well as experienced CWPs/EMHPs or allied health professionals with mental health backgrounds. The role will include a supportive induction programme, as well as opportunities for career development.
Working for our organisation
Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust is the first of its type in the UK. Our Trust was formed in February 2017 to drive forward our commitment to provide the highest quality, world-class physical and mental health care for our women, children and families.
Uniting our hospitals means more seamless care; more investment to make greater advances in our specialist treatment and world-leading neo-natal and fetal work. Importantly, it also gives us a greater voice in shaping the future of family-centred care.
Birmingham Children's Hospital is a UK leading specialist paediatric centre with an international reputation in several areas. Birmingham Women's Hospital is one of two dedicated women's hospitals in the UK, with the busiest single site maternity unit, delivering more than 8,200 babies a year offering a full range of gynaecological, maternity and neonatal care.Forward Thinking Birmingham (FTB) Mental Health Services are a unique, innovative community and inpatient mental health partnership. Alongside partners FTB offers care pathways of mental health assessment and treatment for young people aged 0-25 years old.
Our Trust is committed to creating the best place to work. We believe in promoting and enhancing inclusion, diversity and equality and encourage applications from all areas of the community, who meet the criteria for the role, regardless of age, gender identity, disability, race, religion or sexual orientation.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification to view the full details for this opportunity at Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust.
When completing your application, please ensure you have evidenced how you meet the job description and person specification to include transferable experience, qualifications, skills along with professional registration details (if applicable).
Occasionally we receive a large number of applications for our roles and when that happens we sometimes bring the closing date forward, so please apply promptly to avoid disappointment.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria- Full driving license with full access to vehicle
Qualifications
Essential criteria- Registered Nurse (RSCN, RMN, RNLD), Therapist (must be accredited),Occupational Therapist, registered social worker
- Masters or post graduate qualification
- Experience within community mental health
- Experience within education/social care
Knowledge and Nature of Experience
Essential criteria- Direct experience working with children and parents or carers in a Health, Educational or Social care setting. Relevant experience within a VCS setting would also be considered
- Significant experience of assessing the mental health needs of children/young people in a community or inpatient setting
- Good communication skills in range of contexts; working directly with vulnerable children, parents and carers and a wide range of professionals
- Understanding of normal stages of child development
- Knowledge of Safeguarding procedures and understanding of Right Time Right Service Framework
- Significant post qualification experience of working within a child / family / mental health service within a statutory organisation.
- Knowledge and skills of assessing child, young people/adults mental health needs.
- Knowledge and skills of completing brief mental health interventions with children and young people.
- Experience in providing Training to other professional and non-professional groups.
- Knowledge of the roles of the various professionals within statutory organisations
- Experience of report writing and communicating with other professionals
- Willingness to participate in further training
- Experience of working with children and families from BAME communities.
- Experience of working within complex organisations / systems
- Experience in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
- Knowledge of needs or mental health issues of the diverse populations within Birmingham
- Ability to participate in Research and Development.
- Excellent formulation skills
- Line management of a variety of mental health staff
- Contribution to the auditing and improvement cycles of a service
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
- Experience in providing Training to other professional and non-professional groups.
- Experience of multi-agency working.
- Knowledge of the roles of the various professionals within statutory organisations
Personal Skills / Abilities and Attributes
Essential criteria- Good skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing
- Ability to work within teams.
- Ability to be flexible
- Self-motivating and able to work on own initiative.
- Reliable and organised
- Ability to work with others
- Ability to communicate well and to form positive working relationships with professionals at all levels
- Previous management experience
- Experience in developing therapeutic resources
Should any new information become available, you will be kept informed of this throughout your recruitment process.
As a Trust employee you are required to comply with all legislation and guidance relating to safeguarding children and adults with care and support needs, and promoting their health and welfare. You are required to inform the Head of Safeguarding of any safeguarding concerns about your own children or children you live with.This information will be treated in a confidential manner.