Job overview
Senior Mental Health Support Team Practitioner Band 6
Base: Doncaster
Rotherham Doncaster and South Humberside NHS Foundation Trust have successfully been delivering Mental Health Support Teams (With Me in Mind) in Rotherham, Doncaster and North Lincolnshire schools and colleges since 2019. Implementing ‘New Ways of Working’ within the local area. This project is underpinned by national strategies and initiatives for transforming children and young people’s mental health.
We have an exciting band 6 opportunity within our Doncaster team for a Senior Mental Health Support Team Practitioner. We are looking to recruit a practitioner who is enthusiastic, kind, compassionate and resilient. We seek practitioners from multi-disciplinary backgrounds with a core profession such as social work, mental health nursing, or learning disability nursing with wide breath of mental health knowledge and experience.
Main duties of the job
Practitioners will work in both educational and health settings within Doncaster to support the implementation of the MHST model. The successful candidates will integrate into our already well-established mental health support team and compliment the early intervention offer within our local areas.
Should you have any queries or require any further information or assistance, please contact Richard Bryan, Clinical Lead Doncaster at [email protected] or 01302 796191.
We reserve the right to close a vacancy before the advertised closing date if necessary, so please apply as soon as you can
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please view the attached job description and person specification to view the full details about the role
We reserve the right to close the vacancy early if there are a high amount of applications
Person specification
Skills
Essential
- - Ability to deliver presentations
- - Ability / Skills to support change and improvement, support and inspire colleagues / act as a role model Ability to motivate others
- - Good planning and organizational skills
- - Assessment skills selecting treatment from a range of options
- - Able to manage caseload and to prioritise under time pressures for self and team
- - Good clinical reasoning skills Ability to work autonomously
- - Flexible approach to problem solving Multi-agency teamwork
- - Effective communication skills with all disciplines and agencies to optimise patient management
- - Effective communication skills both orally and in written form
- providing supervision
- Time management
- - IT literate – use of Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and email and Internet
- - Manage a varied workload and deliver to deadlines under pressure
Knowledge
Essential
- - Theoretical and practical knowledge in areas of child and adolescent mental health and good awareness of key drivers in the field
- - Highly competent in making a decision regarding ongoing patient Wider NHS and social care policy Importance of public relations Research, audit and quality improvement methodologies A/I care based on clinical and risk factors
- - High level of problem solving and planning skills Effective communication skills with all disciplines and agencies to optimise patient management
- - Awareness of own competency level and how to seek appropriate help
- - Understanding of confidentiality and risk management.
- - Clinical audit, research and clinical governance principles
- - Have a good understanding of child protection/safeguarding policies, recording and reporting any concerns to the appropriate agency including participate in case conferences as required.
Desirable
- - Wider NHS and social care policy
- - Importance of public relations
- - Research, audit and quality improvement methodologies
Experience
Essential
- • Demonstrable post qualification experience, including experience of working with young people with mild to moderate mental health problems and working with children and families in particular.
- • Experience of managing and prioritising a high caseload
- • Experience of Multi-Disciplinary Working
- • Currently engaged in an advanced level of practice and able to demonstrate a degree of professional autonomy
- • The ability to provide patient centred assessment, care planning, implementation and evaluation with children, young people, parents and families using mental health nursing skills.
- • Ability to undertake Risk Assessments and identify appropriate plans in partnerships with the young person, families and other agencies
- • Experience of providing supervision to junior members of staff.
Desirable
- • Planning and delivering presentations and training to groups Experience in delivering comprehensive family work in a child and family setting
Qualifications
Essential
- Relevant health/social care Degree or equivalent body e.g. RMN, Occupational Therapist, Social Worker, Clinical erapist, Social Worker–
- active professional registration
Desirable
- - Specialist Qualification in CBT, FT or other appropriate therapy Degree or equivalent
- - A qualification, or have undertaken a program of formal training in Supervision
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This advert is for Senior Mental Health Support Team (MHST) Practitioner with Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust in Doncaster, North East and Yorkshire, England. It is listed as a Band 6 Mental health professionals role. The advertised salary is £39,959 - £48,117 per annum. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 04 Aug 2026.
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