Senior Education Mental Health Practitioner Supervisor
Job Description
Job summary
This is an exciting time of growth and change within East Berkshire NHS Trust as our CAMH service is currently working collaboratively with children and young people, and partners to deliver the Governments Programme for mental health support to be available in schools.
To support the development of our newly established Mental Help Support Teams, we are looking to recruit x3 Senior Education Mental Health Practitioner/Senior Children's Wellbeing Practitioners and Supervisors to support the implementation of two new Mental Health Support Teams (Bracknell and Slough). We have x2 vacancies in Slough and x1 vacancy in Bracknell.
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)/Children's Wellbeing Practitioner (CWP) role is an exciting opportunity to deliver evidence-based early interventions for children and young people, working across both educational and community settings and healthcare sectors in England
Main duties of the job
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To be trained and confident in the use of CYP IAPT principles, evidence based interventions and routine outcome measures.
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To care co-ordinate and manage a defined caseload of children and young people presenting with emotional health and wellbeing difficulties in schools
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To co-ordinate and deliver individualised care packages / programmes for children and young people and evaluate these programmes, ensuring high standards of practice in accordance with national guidelines and trust policy.
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To provide day to day clinical and supervisory support for the Education Mental Health Practitioners (EMHP)/Children Wellbeing Practitioners (CWP).
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To provide specialist mental health advice, consultation and signposted using an outcome based triage model, to schools
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To provide training to schools staff, parents and carers in conjunction with colleagues.
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Within schools actively promote the whole school based approach to developing and maintaining emotional health and well-being.
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To train and mentor students and less experienced members of the team.
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To act as an autonomous practitioner with an understanding of own limitations and recognition of when to seek support.
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To provide clinical supervision to the team
About us
Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health and community health services trust. Rated 'outstanding' by the CQC, we're committed to providing the best possible care to people across Berkshire.
We value diversity and are proud to be a Stonewall Top 100 Employer.We work hard to create an inclusive environment where you'll be supported by friendly and professional colleagues to flourish.
Our values at Berkshire Healthcare:
- Caring for and about you is our top priority
- Committed to providing good quality, safe services
- Working Together with you to develop innovative solutions
We welcome people who share these values to come and work for us.
Benefits of working for us include:
- Flexible working options to support work-life balance
- 27 days' annual leave rising with service + opportunity to buy and sell
- Generous NHS pension scheme
- Excellent learning and career development opportunities
- 'Cycle to Work' and car leasing scheme including electric vehicles
- Access to a range of wellbeing tools and services
- Discounts at hundreds of popular retailers and restaurants
- Staff networks for race, diversity, disabilities, the environment and armed forces community to support equality
- Generous maternity, paternity, adoption and special leave
- Free parking across Trust sites
If you share our values and would like to come and work for us, please submit your application as soon as possible as we'll occasionally close roles early that have a high number of applications.
Job responsibilities
The must haves for this role:
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be friendly, self-motivated, and self-organising,
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be confident in working in a multiagency setting, working collaboratively with colleagues in schools and across the wider system,
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enjoy regular collaboration with your peers and the senior colleagues to whom you report,
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as a person, will always be looking for new or better ways to deliver care and be keen to learn,
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and most of all will have a calm, friendly and compassionate outlook and have a keen interest in working in a school setting
For further information about the role, please see attached job description and person specification.
We strongly encourage you to review how you meet the criteria in the person specification and write about this point-by-point in your supporting statement for the best chance of being shortlisted.
Were committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community. Our commitment to inclusion is reflected in our accreditations: Race Equality Matters Silver Trailblazer, Neurodiversity in Business Corporate Member, Disability Confident Leader, Carer Confident Level 2, and the Armed Forces Covenant Gold Award. Reasonable adjustments will be provided to candidates as needed.
We welcome a conversation about flexibility and any other questions you may have. Please dont hesitate to contact: Jade Hens [email protected] wholl be delighted to help.
Please note, if we receive a high number of applications, we may close this role earlier than the advertised closing date, so please submit your application as soon as possible.
Person Specification
Education/Qualifications/Training
Essential
- Completed British Psychological Society (BPS) Accredited or Higher Education England (HEE) Approved academic course of study including Post Graduate Diploma/Certificate in line with the CYP IAPT Low Intensity National Programme and qualified as a Children's Wellbeing Practitioner (CWP).
- Professional Registration as an CWP with British Psychological Society (BPS) or the British Association of Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP).
- Completed or currently undertaking the CWP Low Intensity Supervisor training qualification (PG Cert) ence and be willing to undertake Senior EMHP/Supervisor training.
Previous Experience
Essential
- Demonstrable post qualification experience of working with children and young people delivering evidence based low intensity interventions to CYP and/or their families in a multi-agency environment
- Significant post qualification experience working with children, young people and their families around a range of emotional/mental health, behavioural/additional health and developmental needs a range of emotional/mental health, behavioural/additional health/developmental needs
- Experience of delivering supervision or coaching or mentoring junior colleagues
- Experience of managing competing demands and managing a caseload
- Experience of working in a service where agreed /specified targets are in place to demonstrate clinical outcomes
- Experience with routine outcome measures in clinical practice. Using these outcomes to evaluate clinical work and service targets
- Experience of working in or with a diverse or multi-cultural community
- Experience of negotiating, problem solving and relationship management where there are disagreements or resistance within systems
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
Essential
- A clear understanding of the CYP IAPT programme; Key Performance Indicators and related guidance/legislation
- Abilities in recognising when alternative evidence-based low-intensity interventions are required for neurodiverse CYP and able to deliver these
- Ability to recognise when CYPs needs, or wider complexity factors (e.g. social/physical needs/risk/neurodiversity) mean they are beyond low intensity/early intervention remit and competence.
- Knowledge of trauma informed practice
- Ability to undertake comprehensive risk assessments within scope of practice
- Knowledge of safeguarding issues and a commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of CYP and vulnerable adults
- Knowledge of a wide range of statutory and non-statutory Mental Health Services
- Ability to personally manage a sensitive, and potentially emotionally distressing caseload.
- Ability to personally manage a sensitive, and potentially emotionally distressing caseload. Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
- Able to plan creatively to ...
