Assistant Practitioner

Job overview

We currently have two exciting opportunities to join our Children and Young People's Emotional Wellbeing Service as an Assistant Practitioner.

Our Lincolnshire Emotional Wellbeing Service supports children and young people aged 0-19 who are presenting with emotional wellbeing or mental health problems, which are of a low level of complexity and/or intensity, by offering a variety of evidence-based interventions.

Please note that, as we are currently undergoing service transformation work, this post will be part of a new hybrid team that is bringing together the existing Healthy Minds Lincolnshire (HML) and Mental Health Support Teams (MHST). The name of the hybrid teams/service is to be Healthy Minds Lincolnshire.

This is advertised as full-time post operating Monday to Friday 9am-5pm, however other working patterns can be considered and base can be negotiated.

Main duties of the job

Our Lincolnshire Emotional Wellbeing Service work with children and young people on a variety of emotional wellbeing needs, including but not limited to: anxiety, low mood, self-harm, self-esteem, and anger.

This is an exciting opportunity for motivated and highly organised individuals with a passion for children and young people’s emotional wellbeing to help shape the Emotional Wellbeing Service. You should be able to travel around this large rural county and able to work flexibly according to the needs of the service. The successful applicant will need to have knowledge and experience of delivering evidence-based therapeutic interventions.

The successful applicant will be expected to be familiar with children’s safeguarding procedures in Lincolnshire and demonstrate good working relationships with other professionals to enable the provision of holistic care to children, young people and their families.

You should possess a Level 3 qualification in Health and Social Care or equivalent, or extensive experience working within mental health/emotional wellbeing services.

There are well-established links between all of the community-based Children and Young People’s Mental Health Services and partner organisations.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for complete details regarding this post.

When completing your application, please demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.

We can also offer you many staff benefits to help support you which include:

Early access to Psychological Therapies and Physiotherapy

Competitive annual leave allowance

Car leasing scheme

NHS pension scheme

Free eye tests

Money saving options through our salary sacrifice scheme

Discounts on major high street retailers and restaurants

Due to the UKVI immigration changes we are no longer able to offer sponsorship for this role. Please provide details of the visa type and expiry date in your application. Failure to provide the required information will result in your application being rejected.

Applicant requirements

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.