Senior Mental Health Team Practitioner

We are seeking an enthusiastic, kind, and compassionate Senior Practitioner to join the Hull Mental Health Support Team (MHST) at Band 6. This is an exciting opportunity for someone passionate about improving the social, emotional, and mental wellbeing of children and young people, and committed to supporting others to develop in their roles. Acting as the identified lead for a group of schools within the MHST, you will work closely with early intervention and Early Help services, hold a small caseload, and deliver low intensity psychological interventions as part of a wider offer, working systemically to create sustainable change for children, young people, and their families. You will collaborate with multi-disciplinary professionals to achieve positive outcomes and, at Band 6, be expected to work with higher complexity cases and offer supervision to colleagues. Applicants must hold a recognised professional qualification, registration, and governing body membership, with experience of working with children, young people, and families around social, emotional, and mental health needs. The successful candidate, depending on their qualification and registration held, might be able to undertake supervision training once they reach two years post qualification.

Main duties of the job

The Mental Health Support Teams integrate into our already well established offer and complement the many excellent teams and services out there to further enhance the early help and intervention offer.

The MHST is built on co production, innovation, listening and learning to create a service that can meet the local population's needs. The MHST works directly into schools with children and young people between the ages of 5 to 18.

The team supports schools and the wider system and has a particular focus on whole school approach, advice, support, guidance and consultation. The team also delivers targeted low intensity CBT informed based 1:1 and group sessions, low intensity psychological interventions, Parent led workshops and creative based interventions to support mild to moderate social, emotional and mental health needs.

As a senior Practitioner the successful candidate will work as part of the MHST to support and empower Education, Health, Early Help and Social Care to work one system to support CYPs and families with their social, emotional and mental health needs.

Qualifications

• Professional qualification and registration relevant to post (e.g. NMC, Social Worker, Therapist, AHP, CYP IAPT)
• Post registration/graduate diploma or equivalent experience in related work area, to demonstrate advanced level of practice
• Demonstrable experience of mentoring pre registration students/trainee's/supervising staff etc.
• Leadership training/qualification/experience
• Evidence of project work that has impacted on practice and demonstrates a higher level of communication /change that impacts, within own area of work /responsibility
• Evidence of CPD or experiential learning at an advanced level e.g., Post graduate /Masters level

Experience

• Evidence of continuing professional development (CPD) relevant to the clinical area at specialist level of care
• Evidence of development of specialist practice skills and able to demonstrate the impact of this on practice change/development
• Demonstrable experience of working in the specific field where the post is held
• Evidence of promoting/supporting active user/carer involvement/participation
• Leadership/management experience which has had a positive impact and created change within the service delivery/practice

Knowledge

• Full understanding of relevant policy, legislation, drivers and their application to clinical /professional and service area, e.g. Mental Capacity Act, Social Inclusion
• Understanding of low intensity psychological interventions
• Basic IT skills
• Full understanding/application of relevant clinical practice/standards/audit within identified clinical area

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.

Full time, Flexible working, Compressed hours