Thought-Full Senior Mental Health Practitioner

2 weeks ago

Chichester, United Kingdom West Sussex County Council Full time

The Opportunity

Salary: NJC Grade 12 £46,731 to £49,764 per annum
Working Pattern: 37 hours per week, full time
Contract: Permanent
Location:  Chichester 

Closing date: 24 November 2024

Interview date: 06 December 2024

Do you have experience of working with children and young people with mental health difficulties?

Have you trained in low or high intensity CBT?

Do you enjoy supporting, supervising, and training colleagues?

This is a great time to join WSCC as we have new opportunities for Senior Mental Health Practitioners in Thought-Full: Mental Health Support Team.

In this role, you will work closely alongside Advisory Teachers and senior members of the Thought-Full team, as well as with multi-disciplinary teams, outside agencies, clinicians, and other mental health and education professionals, to help develop and deliver the Thought-Full core functions to the schools in your area.

You will deliver clinical skills and caseload management supervision to Educational Mental Health Practitioners (EMHP) and Children’s Wellbeing Practitioners (CWP), supporting with their training and role modelling best practice.

You will also hold a caseload of young people with mild to moderate mental health problems, where you will deliver a variety of brief evidence-based interventions, primarily using a CBT model. You will use your skills and knowledge to provide specialist advice on mental health to ensure services are working closely to meet the needs of young people with a person-centred approach.

As part of this role, you will be required to complete the PGCert Supervision of Therapeutic Practice at the University of Sussex to be able to supervise EMHPs and CWPs employed within MHSTs.

Key responsibilities of the role include:

Clinical work to provide psychological assessment, therapy, advice and consultation, promoting carer involvement and delivering evidence-based interventions. Teaching, Training and Supervision to oversee the supervision and development of EMHP’s and CWP’s and receiving supervision to support with your own Continuous Professional Development. Research and Service Evaluation to collect routine outcome data and support the evaluation and development of the service. Management and Leadership to work alongside Senior Leadership to support the clinical delivery and oversight of your team and support with more complex clinical issues. General role responsibilities to follow codes of conduct, safeguarding, risk assessments, and working with professionals to promote inclusion and recovery.

For a full list of Role Responsibilities, Key Skills, and Qualifications/Experience, please refer to the job description attached. Please refer to the Key Skills in your cover letter.

Benefits

About You

We are looking for someone who is passionate about supporting the mental health of children and young people and who is self-motivated and organised, as you will need to manage your own workload and that of others.

Integrity, openness, emotional resilience and an awareness of yourself and others is vital, as you may be dealing with distressing or emotional circumstances.

Please note:

There is a regular and intrinsic requirement to communicate in English with members of the public. You must be able to travel throughout the county including to locations that are not always accessible by public transport. You will need to be able to travel independently to carry out assessments, and there will be periodic physical requirements to the role.

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