MH Practitioner
Job Description
Job summary
37.5 hours per week
Please note this is a trainee position. applicants will require an EMHP registration or equivalent
In 2017, the Government published its Green Paper for Transforming children & young peoples mental health, which detailed proposals for expanding access to mental health care for children and young people, building on the national NHS transformation programme which was already underway
The proposals were focused on providing additional support through schools & colleges and reducing waiting times for treatment. Following a 13-week public consultation, during which the Government received more than 2,700 responses, the Department of Health & Social Care & the Department for Education published its Response to the Children & Young Peoples Mental Health Green Paper Consultation
These core commitments are delivered through a joint & collaborative programme led by the Department of Health & Social Care, Department for Education & NHS England, with support from Health Education England & Public Health England and the Office for Health Improvement & Disparities
- deliver evidence-based interventions for mild-to-moderate mental health issues
- support the senior mental health lead(where established) in each school or college to introduce or develop whole school or college approach & give timely advice to school & college staff
- Please note that we may close the job advert early. Therefore, we recommend you submit your application at the earliest opportunity
Main duties of the job
This is an exciting time of growth and change within the Plymouth Livewell Mental Health support Teams (MHST ) we are currently working collaboratively with children and young people, and our partners, to deliver the Governments Programme for mental health support to be available in schools.
To support the development of our established Mental Help Support Teams, we are looking to recruit a Senior Education Mental Health Practitioner or someone willing to do additional training to be able to carry out this role.
In line with the Government's priority to increase access and availability of mental health and wellbeing support for children and young people, the new Education Mental Health Practitioner (EMHP) role is an exciting opportunity to deliver evidence-based early interventions for children and young people, working across both educational settings and healthcare sectors in England.
On a day to day basis, you will be overseeing the workload of EMHPs, conducting both Case Management and Clinical Skills supervision, as well as holding a small caseload of patients yourself.
Typical tasks within this, might include reviewing suitability for treatment within the MHST, gathering information and facilitating onward referrals, and liaising with schools as part of the wider MHST.
This role may not be eligible for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker route
All Livewell Southwest staff are expected to able and willing to work across a 7 day service.
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About us
Livewell Southwest is an independent, award-winning social enterprise providing integrated health & social care services for people across Plymouth, South Hams & West Devon, as well as some specialist services for people living in parts of Devon & Cornwall. With teams in community hospitals, GP practices, sports centres, health & wellbeing hubs.
As an organisation with a strong social conscience, we always value being kind, respectful, inclusive, ambitious, responsible and collaborative. Transforming services to make them sustainable, ensuring that we value, support & empower each other.
We are committed to involving the people we care for, families & carers in everything that we do, working towards co-production where we can. Helping us to deliver the right care for people, in the right place & at the right time. By putting people at the centre of what we do, we ensure to support people to lead, healthy independent lives & be the very best at helping people to live well.
Valuing our employees making an investment in their development a priority. We offer:
Protected CPD time for registered staff
Various development pathways and ongoing regular training packages for all staff
Leadership & mentoring programmes
Access & funding for training including Care Certificate, Assistant Practitioners Course & Scholarship Into Nurse Training
A Robust Preceptorship
A bespoke induction programme
Existing members of the NHS Pension Scheme can continue their membership when they join the organisation.
Job responsibilities
Communication and Working Relationship Skills
The post holder will lead the way in engaging schools with the Trailblazer ambitions and be responsible for sustaining engagement along with the Clinical Team Manager and Operational Service Manager.
Contribute to the teams engagement with a wide range of stakeholders including staff, service users, their carers and other statutory and voluntary sector agencies.
Impart highly complex and sensitive information to :
-Children/young people and their parents/carers re assessment, care planning, treatment and review
-Multi-disciplinary teams to ensure the provision of consistent well-coordinated care
External agencies also involved in the provision of care e.g. schools, voluntary and private sector, police, social services, etc.
Service user/carer groups
Liaise with a wide range of other professionals and agencies.
Contribute to the safe and effective day to day operations of the service including the handling of clinical enquires.
Provide and receive information some of which may be contentious, sensitive and highly complex to and from children/young people and their families/carers, adapting your approach to overcome any barriers to understanding.
Provide high standard of written and verbal communication that is clear and in line with professional documentation standards.
Participate in and chair clinical meetings.
Demonstrate the ability to communicate in a way that is empathic and reassuring.
Communicate information in a way that makes it relevant and understandable for service users and carers, working in line with practice standards and operational policies.
Facilitate fair access to services and promote social inclusion regardless of age, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation or disability.
The post holder will be responsible for the support and development of the trainee roles in their team and across county teams as required.
Analytical and Judgemental Skills
Undertake complex risk assessments and develop a formulation of risk which will lead to the development of risk management plans which have taken into consideration a range of possible options.
Undertake and continuously re-evaluate complex bio-psycho-social assessments and develop a working formulation and diagnosis which will lead to the development of personalised care packages in line with evidence based and routine outcome measures.
Ensure the continuous re-evaluation of individuals needs and clinical risk situations and use clinical judgement to formulate the most appropriate clinical plan.
Planning and Organisational Skills
Organise and facilitate clinical meetings.
Responsible for managing their own workload to ensure the needs to the individuals who use our services are met taking the wider needs of the team into consideration.
Ensure that interventions are planned in an integrated and co-ordinated manner particularly where dependent on other external agencies.
Plan and organise individuals packages of care and ensure that reviews are held within the required time frames.
Plan own workload and the workload of junior colleagues to ensure that care is provided in the most high quality and cost efficient manner, prioritise and make adjustments as appropriate.
Collaborate with EMHP staff ensuring job plans are efficient and effective.
Arrange training events for staff within education in line with the ambitions of the Trailblazer pilot.
Responsibility for Patient/Client Care, Treatment and Therapy
Ensure that caseload is well managed and that care and treatment is provided in line with practice standards.
Understand social and developmental factors that impact upon mental health.
Develop and deliver evidence based care packages including assessing, planning, intervention and evaluation through use of Routine Outcome Measures.
Ensure that all interventions have clear outcomes and that these are taken into consideration when sourcing the resources to best meet the individuals needs.
Deliver services using a recovery and strengths approach where the needs of the individual child/young person and their families/carers are held as central and their involvement is proactively encouraged.
Deliver care in line with evidence based practice and employ engagement and therapeutic ...
