Senior Wellbeing Practitioner

Job overview

Northumberland Mental Health Support Team has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Educational Mental Health Practitioner to join our West (Hexham) team. This is a full-time, permanent position.

The role will support the delivery of the 3 core functions of a Mental Health Support Team: therapeutic support for young people, delivering on the whole school approach element and provide advice/guidance and signposting.  As a Senior EMHP there will also be the role of providing supervision in line with the service supervision arrangements. This may include providing supervision to both qualified staff, and those in training.

The post holder will have an active role in service evaluation and impact and then integrating this into service development.

We provide excellent clinical, case management and peer supervision as well as service safeguarding supervision which the post holder will be expected to take a proactive role in. We also encourage engagement in ongoing training and CPD to ensure high quality service delivery, in line with our service offer and remit.

We support a blended/hybrid model of working and ensure suitable  travel expenses are provided to support in this role.

Main duties of the job

• To provide consolidated & Enhanced Clinical Skills in the role of a Senior Education Mental Health Practitioner.
• To deliver evidence-based intervention for children and young people in education setting with mild to moderate mental health problems.
• To provide support to other professionals in their development
• To ensure understanding of relevant legislation for the role of a Senior Education Mental Health Practitioner.
• To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The post holder will be expected to demonstrate the following knowledge and skills

• helping children and young people who present with a deterioration in their emotional/mental wellbeing access the necessary support
• supporting professionals in education settings and in other settings, to identify and where appropriate manage issues related to mental health and wellbeing
• supporting young people through the relevant clinical and therapeutic pathway to achieve positive outcomes in relation to their emotional and mental health goals
• communicating and negotiating with both interval and external partners.

Demonstrating enhanced skills, experience and competence in the full range of low-intensity interventions for mild-moderate low mood, anxiety-based, and behavioural difficulties. This will align with Senior Wellbeing Practitioner training in supporting children and young people experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties, their parents/carers, families and educators in the self-management of presenting difficulties.

Demonstrating and practicing evidence-based intervention to independently under the guidance and supervisory support working in partnership with children, young people, their families and educators in the development of plans for the specific intervention and agreeing outcomes.

Demonstrating confidence in developing and learning the skills required in order to enable children and young people in education, and where appropriate parents/carers to collaborate and co-produce their own agreed plan of care there will be an expectation to work independently within service remote working arrangements.

Show evidence in a variety of forms that at all times assessment and intervention is provided from an inclusive values base, which recognises and respects diversity.

To contribute to decision making and to agree and accept appropriate referrals for children and young people in educational settings, according to agreed local and national and local referral routes, processes and procedures.

To conduct, initiate, and undertake accurate assessments of risk to self and others.

As a Senior Education Mental Health Practitioner you will support other members of the team under your supervision.

Engage in and provide robust case management and clinical supervision, identifying the scope of practice of the individual post holder within the role, and working safely within that scope.

To lead on and contribute to the development of individual or group clinical materials or training materials and go on to develop further such materials as falls within own degree of competence.

To co-ordinate and deliver a range of psycho education and training to children/ young people parents/carers and school staff based on evidence based knowledge.

Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.