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 leading 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.
The successful applicant will be able to provide excellent clinical & management supervision to Band 4 Practitioners within the team, with the ability to inspire and develop staff to their full potential.
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 B5 Healthy Minds Lincolnshire Practitioners will be a key link person for Education Settings within their area. They will provide guidance and liaison to education providers and support in embedding the whole school approach. They 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.

The B5 Practitioners will also provide management and clinical supervision to the B4 Practitioners within the team.

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.

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-ordinate, lead and deliver groups and 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.

School Liaison
- Provide advice/consultation to school staff and other professionals (e.g., children’s services) to upskill them in supporting the emotional wellbeing of CYP.
- Liaise with other professionals/services re. referrals and according to CYP needs.
- Attend Pastoral Support Plan (PSP) meetings with schools where a child is identified as experiencing emotionally based school avoidance (EBSA).
- Provide monthly clinical supervision to education staff in term time.

Leadership and Team Support
- Provide positive role modelling to Band 4 Practitioners & support the implementation of service improvements & changes within the team setting.
- Act as main contact for allocated schools and cover other schools in the team according to need.
- Oversee allocated geographical area of schools, delegating work to B4 Practitioners as appropriate.
- Act as team champion as volunteered/allocated (e.g., Safeguarding, risk, SEND, Staff wellbeing etc).
- Provide clinical support to B4 Practitioners with clinical risk management and safeguarding issues based on knowledge and experience as required.
- Support induction of new members off staff, providing shadowing opportunities and completing induction pack with supervisees.
- Act as Practice Supervisor or Assessor (registered nurse) for student nurses in the team.

Supervision
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