Mental Health Practitioner

5 months ago


Penrith, United Kingdom A Wilderness Way Full time

Job Introduction
**Mental Health Practitioner**
**Up to £40,000**
***As a mental health practitioner, you will play an important role in delivering a needs-led professional service, ensuring that vulnerable children benefit from the best possible outcomes during their time with us. This is an exciting time to join A Wilderness Way as we are currently growing our clinical and therapeutic team.

**Join us and you can expect**:

- ** Annual Leave**:You will receive 33 days per annum; our holiday year runs from March to February.
- ** Additional leave**: at 2 years and 5 years’ service.
- ** Training Academy**:An in-depth induction and welcome programme.
- ** Bonuses**: A bonus of £1000 every time you successfully refer a friend.
- ** Pension**: Auto enrolment into our Company pension.
- ** Recognition Awards**: Our monthly Wilderness Heroes Awards celebrate you and your team’s success.
- ** Your Wellbeing**: Excellent health and wellbeing benefits via Medicash, including an employee assistance programme; a cash back healthcare plan that offers discounts on optical, dental, and a range of complimentary therapies; 24/7 access to a virtual GP, and other lifestyle apps to support your wellbeing; discounted gym memberships.
- ** Life Assurance**:of 2 times annual salary.
- ** Discounts**: A range of discount schemes with access to savings on high street brands, restaurants, cinemas, and other leisure outlets, including local businesses following feedback from our employees.

**Your**
**Role and Responsibilities as a Mental Health Practitioner**:

- Reporting to the Clinical Team Manager, you will undertake assessments of children and provide appropriate therapeutic interventions and advice to the children and teams.
- Attend and contribute to clinical supervision.
- Liaise and when necessary, work with other professionals involved with children and their families/carers, from agencies such as Health, Social Services, Education, Voluntary Services.
- Proactively remain up to date and professionally accountable to the relevant regulatory body code of conduct
- Play an active part in the clinical assessment and decision making around children presenting in mental health crisis.

**Key Qualities we look for**:

- Relevant qualification and registration.
- Specialist knowledge and experience of trauma-informed working with children and of crisis intervention
- A range of therapeutic interventions relating to mental health and emotional well-being.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Experience of crisis intervention.
- A full, valid, UK driving licence and access to your own transport.

**Why choose a career with Wilderness?**
- Wilderness is one of the UK’s leading specialist providers of residential care for children who have suffered trauma and adversity.
- We encourage an environment of continuous development by ensuring that you are supported to achieve industry recognised qualifications.
- We value respect and adaptability, we have fun, and we enjoy working collaboratively, meaning that together we make a real difference to the lives of the children we look after.
- We celebrate the smallest of achievements at Wilderness, helps us accomplish bigger outcomes for our people and communities.

**Are you ready to join the Wilderness team?



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