Derby, Derbyshire
Circa £23,500 per annum
Fixed Term Full Time 37 hours per week until December 2022
Giving children and young people the foundations they need to thrive.
The role
The Mental Health Support Teams are part of an exciting trailblazer project funded by NHS England, Health Education England and partners with the aim of improving the mental health and wellbeing of children and young people in the community in response to the government's Green Paper for Young People's Mental Health
Action for Children have been commissioned by Derby and Derbyshire Clinical Commissioning Group to establish 2 new Mental Health Support Teams (MHST's) and continue the delivery of 4 recently established MHST's teams across 6 Centres of Excellence until December 2022.
MHST's will provide mental health and emotional wellbeing support to children and young people and their families and carers through schools in the Centre of Excellence areas. Each MHST will support several schools and colleges, covering a population of around 8,000 children and young people.
We are looking for qualified Educational Mental Health Practitioners (or Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners) to join our existing MHST's. The posts available are in The Kingsmead School, Derby.
You will make a difference by:
-Providing a high quality service to children, young people and their families, based on an assessment of need and is outcomes driven.
-Attending and participating at relevant multi agency meetings, providing a lead role ensuring reflective and analytical practice review.
-Delivering a complex and specialist interventions with children, young people or families on a 1:1 basis, group or community setting.
-Taking responsibility for day to day resource planning to ensure high quality services are delivered.
-Ensuring a safe and positive work and service environment is achieved through compliance with all safeguarding, safer recruitment, health and safety policy and procedure.
You will need:
-Educational Mental Health Practitioner or Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner (CYP IAPT PG Dip)
-Experience of managing cases, in accordance with agreed procedures and completing assessments, planning and reviews to ensure positive outcomes.
-Ability to communicate effectively and engagingly and to maintain independent professional relationships, boundaries.
-Experience of working within a multi-agency social care, early years or health environment and applying safeguarding procedures.
-Working knowledge of an outcome based approach to planning, delivering and reviewing services.
