Senior Mental Health Practitioner

3 weeks ago


Birmingham, United Kingdom Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Senior Mental Health Practitioner - STICK Team - Early help Mental Health. CAMHS

Band 6

The STICK team (part of Forward Thinking Birmingham) provides the following

SCREENING - Providing assessment and screening of CYP within schools, GP surgeries and family support services to increase early intervention and identify emerging symptoms

TRAINING - Providing specialist training to professionals working alongside CYP to up skill and equip them to provide low level interventions

INTERVENTION - Therapeutic menu of interventions for CYP who traditionally would not have met thresholds for a CAMHS Service

CONSULTATION - Specialist consultation for those working in education, children’s services and GP practice - encouraging wrap around care when it is most needed

KNOWLEDGE - Practitioners include nurses, social workers, Therapists and youth workers. The combined skill of this team brings a specialist knowledge and a comprehensive service

We are committed to increasing therapeutic interventions in CYP at the stage of early help, preventing them from needing care from secondary CAMHS service.

This innovative senior mental health practitioner post is a city wide post. On a day to day basis, you will work with a caseload of children and young people, providing therapeutic brief intervention within schools/ educational settings, to prevent these individuals requiring secondary care. You will also work with STICK colleagues to provide creative interventions, support groups and training sessions.

The post is a hybrid style of working between home and city wide.

The post is appropriate for nurses with mental health experience, Occupational Therapists, social workers with a background in mental health and will include a supportive preceptorship programme, as well as opportunity for career development.

Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust is the first of its type in the UK. Our Trust was formed in February 2017 to drive forward our commitment to provide the highest quality, world-class physical and mental health care for our women, children and families.

Uniting our hospitals means more seamless care; more investment to make greater advances in our specialist treatment and world-leading neo-natal and fetal work. Importantly, it also gives us a greater voice in shaping the future of family-centred care.

Birmingham Children's Hospital is a UK leading specialist paediatric centre with an international reputation in several areas. Birmingham Women's Hospital is one of two dedicated women's hospitals in the UK, with the busiest single site maternity unit, delivering more than 8,200 babies a year offering a full range of gynaecological, maternity and neonatal care. Forward Thinking Birmingham (FTB) Mental Health Services are a unique, innovative community and inpatient mental health partnership. Alongside partners FTB offers care pathways of mental health assessment and treatment for young people aged 0-25 years old.

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification to view the full details for this opportunity at Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust.



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