Healthy Mind Practitioner

Healthy Minds Lincolnshire provides early and preventative emotional wellbeing interventions for children, young people and their families across Lincolnshire. First established in 2017, the service has provided intervention, advice or guidance to over 5,500 children & young people across the County.

We are advertising for an exceptional Practitioner to join our team. This role will provide support via liaison & consultation to education providers and universal services. It will also involve providing evidence based groups & workshops to children & young people and parents/carers, as well as brief 1-1 interventions. Healthy Minds Lincolnshire prides itself on its dynamic approaches to supporting children, young people, parents/carers and professionals, and seek those eager to bring creativity & passion to the service.

Healthy Minds Lincolnshire work with children and young people on a variety of emotional wellbeing needs including but not limited to: anxiety, low mood, self-harm, self-esteem, and anger.

This is an exciting opportunity for motivated and highly organised individuals with a passion for children and young people’s emotional wellbeing to help shape the Healthy Minds Lincolnshire service.

The successful applicant will be able to travel around this large rural county and will be able to work flexibly according to the needs of the service. The successful applicant will need to have knowledge and experience of delivering evidence based therapeutic interventions.

The B4 Healthy Minds Lincolnshire Practitioners will provide emotional wellbeing support to child and young people including their parents/carers and wider support network. Support will be provided by the Practitioner in groups, workshops and on a one-to-one basis. They will also support the B4 Practitioners to link with Education Settings and provide guidance, liaison and support regarding student’s emotional wellbeing needs.

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire.

Employing around 2,800 staff, and serving a population of over 766,000, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.

You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England, in an area heralded as a fantastic place to live and work.

We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of ‘outstanding’ for well-led and ‘good’ overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We’re really proud of this

We are also leading the way in transforming care, with multi-million-pound transformation of patient environments and radical redesign of community services. This is the time to join and help redesign our services of the future.

We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions.

We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.

Clinical
- Provide telephone consultations for children/young people and families (CYP-F) to establish the most appropriate intervention or signpost/refer to most appropriate service.
- Co-deliver groups with B5 Practitioner, taking responsibility for maintaining records for a percentage of the attendees.
- Deliver workshops for children and young people (CYP) and parents.
- Provide one-to-one intervention for a caseload of CYP.
- Manage clinical risk and safeguarding concerns with support from senior members of the team.
- Liaise with other professionals/services re. referrals and according to CYP needs.
- Provide advice/consultation to school staff and other professionals (e.g., children’s services) to upskill them in supporting the emotional wellbeing of CYP.

Team Support
- Act as team champion as volunteered/allocated (e.g., Safeguarding, SEND, Staff wellbeing etc)
- Act as mentor for new members of staff/support new staff induction and provide shadowing opportunities.
- Contribute clinical expertise and experience as part of group clinical supervision and team meetings.
- Mandatory attendance at team meetings.