Band 6 Senior Mental Health Practitioner
Job summary
Are you a qualified health professional - Nurse, OT, Social Worker, CWP or EMHP with CAMHS experience? Are you ready to take your next step into a leadership role? If yes, then this may be the right job for you and we are really keen to meet you. This is an exciting opportunity to work within our Mental Health Support Team (MHST) covering for 9 months due to a wonderful maternity leave.
We work across the city of Birmingham and Solihull to support young people and their families who may be facing mental and emotional health issues. Candidates will be working across a set number of education settings delivering evidence-based early interventions, and Whole Setting Approach initiatives (WSA). Candidates will work within a clinical team to ensure mild to moderate mental health and emotion wellbeing support is provided.
As a Senior Mental Health Practitioner, you will offer clinical expertise and advice to staff, including undertaking assessments and interventions for young people who may benefit from support from a more experienced clinician. You will also line manage junior clinical staff, supporting and developing the team to deliver the best possible outcomes for children and young people.
You will need to ensure you are registered with the relevant professional body prior to applying. Having gained more funding, we have numerous future substantive opportunities, this FTC would allow you to experience the service prior to the substantive posts coming out.
Main duties of the job
The Mental Health Support Team is an early intervention service, working with children, young people, and their families with mild to moderate mental health needs within Birmingham and Solihull. The team is comprised of a range of different clinicians, all working together to support young people as early as possible, to prevent their needs escalating and having a long term impact on their wellbeing.
We have 3 core functions: To deliver evidence-based interventions for mild-to-moderate mental health issues. Support the senior mental health lead in each school or college to introduce or develop whole school or college approach and, Give timely advice to school and college staff and liaise with external specialist service to help children and young people to get the right support and stay in education.
A typical clinical day may involve delivering assemblies and workshops to a primary and secondary schools and further education settings. You may then travel to health centers, homes or education settings to deliver some one-to-one or a group session of low intensity CBT intervention. You may then facilitate supervision, plan/create resources and help lead team meetings. Travel across the Birmingham and Solihull area is expected.
Throughout the day there will be good access to support and connection from your colleagues.
About us
Welcome to Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust. Our 4000 clinical and support staff help us to improve mental health wellbeing and meet the needs of the 70,000 people we serve each year. We provide a range of mental healthcare services across Birmingham and Solihull, as well as specialised services nationally.
We also offer medical, nursing and psychology training and are proud of our international reputation for both research and innovation. Our population is culturally diverse, characterised in places by high levels of deprivation which create an increasing demand for our services and a necessity for us to make sure everyone can access the help they need.
We are a team of compassionate, inclusive and committed people working together to provide excellent care to support our community. If you are looking for a place to belong, where you can make a real difference to people's lives, join our team where our warm welcome is waiting for you.
Job responsibilities
For further information about the main responsibilities please view the attached jobdescription and person specification. Travel across Birmingham will occur on a daily basis, but we will try and allocate you to schools close to one another where we can to reduce your travel time. We highly recommend you submit your application as soon as possible, this post may close earlier than the indicated closing date if a sufficient number of applications are received.
Job responsibilities
For further information about the main responsibilities please view the attached jobdescription and person specification. Travel across Birmingham will occur on a daily basis, but we will try and allocate you to schools close to one another where we can to reduce your travel time.
We highly recommend you submit your application as soon as possible, this post may close earlier than the indicated closing date if a sufficient number of applications are received.
Person Specification experirence and quals Essential RMN or RLDN, Occupational Therapist, Social Worker, RN or RCN with substantial CAMHS experience, Qualified CWP or Qualified EMHP (2) Minimum of 2 years post qualification experience of working with children and young people's mental and emotional health needs. (2) Experience of assessing the mental health needs of children/young people in a community or inpatient setting.
(2) Desirable Experience in engaging diverse or hard to reach populations (2) Leadership or management experience (2) Masters or post graduate qualification (2) Experience within education/social care (2) Person Specification experirence and quals Essential RMN or RLDN, Occupational Therapist, Social Worker, RN or RCN with substantial CAMHS experience, Qualified CWP or Qualified EMHP (2) Minimum of 2 years post qualification experience of working with children and young people's mental and emotional health needs.
(2) Experience of assessing the mental health needs of children/young people in a community or inpatient setting. (2) Desirable Experience in engaging diverse or hard to reach populations (2) Leadership or management experience (2) Masters or post graduate qualification (2) Experience within education/social care (2)
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab) . From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab) .
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
