Senior Mental Health Practitioner *%

Job overview

We are looking for a registered (BPS/BABCP) CWP or EMHP with substantial post qualifying experience, CBT therapist with child experience or qualified health care professional (Qualification examples: Nurse, Social Worker, IAPT CBT Therapist or OT) to join our expanding service in West Kent, Medway & Swale

Mental Health Support Teams (MHSTs) are a government initiative to help increase children and young people’s access to support for emotional wellbeing and mental health. The service has 3 core functions.

To work in collaboration with education staff to develop and implement a Whole School Approach (WSA) to emotional wellbeing and mental health. This includes identifying priorities for WSA and supporting with the delivery of these.

To offer support and guidance to schools, promoting joint working with other services to ensure that children and young people are able to receive the support that they need.

Your role within the service will support the direct delivery of the MHST service in schools as well as supporting junior staff to undertake their roles, part of this is to ensure we can support wellbeing practitioners to maintain registration. Therefore, this role requires candidates to complete either the Senior Wellbeing Practitioner training or CYP-IAPT Supervisor (low intensity) training or equivalent. Applicants for this post need to be eligible for the course as an essential requirement - please see KCL or UOS websites.

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Main duties of the job

As part of their role the post holders will be responsible for delivering interventions within schools and colleges and hold an individual caseload. The post-holder will ideally have clinical experience working with Children & Young People experiencing emotional wellbeing and mental health difficulties and be expected to deliver CBT interventions for anxiety, low mood, and behavioural problems individually and in groups.

Previous clinical experience will be considered alongside the expectations listed in the job description and in support, we provide informal training and wider CPD opportunities as well a robust supervision programme to support development of low intensity CBT skills, intervention adaptation and WSA delivery.

An additional part of this role includes supervisory responsibility of junior colleagues, and if not previously completed, the service will support enrolment on a supervisor’s course (at one of our affiliated universities).  Supervisory training will enhance your skills to support EMHP and CWP junior colleagues to undertake their clinical roles and register with their professional bodies. Within your role, you will be offered additional supervision, which will support your professional development.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Skills needed for the post:

Good knowledge and ability to apply CBT interventions.

Confident in working alongside both Children/Young people and Education settings.

Willingness to learn and develop both clinical and supervisory skills.

Awareness of the importance of safeguarding and the role of a Mental Health professional in this.

Enthusiasm about reducing stigma and promoting understanding of mental health issues.

Please see our Website for examples and explanations of our work.

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The post holder must hold a full, valid, UK driving licence and have access to a car/vehicle to use for business purposes (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010).