Senior Mental Health Support Team

3 months ago


Shrewsbury, United Kingdom Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Mental Health Support Team (MHST) Band 6 Senior Mental Health Support Team Practitioner (Senior EMHP/Senior CWP/Senior Mental Health Practitioner)

Do you have a passion for early intervention? Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin MHSTs are looking for Senior Mental Health Support Team Practitioners to join our teams working within schools.

We need Seniors who will be effective clinicians and team leads with, responsibilities for operational and clinical development, offering a strong contribution to our service delivery and growth.

Are you a fully qualified EMHP or CWP or registered with a core profession (e.g. Social Work/OT/RMN), with significant post qualification/post registration experience?

Are you interested in working with children and young people at an early intervention stage to support their emotional/mental health and wellbeing?

Are you able to assess and identify how best to work with children and young people where there may be more complex mental health needs?

Do you enjoy working within a team, sharing your knowledge of how to support children and young people with colleagues inside and outside of the NHS, focused particularly on partnership working with schools?

Are you keen to develop your clinical skills and offer evidence-based interventions?

Are you able to support and supervise junior practitioners and lead and organise the activity of a team?

This role is to work as a senior practitioner in an exciting service. Two teams were established in 2020 and the MHST service has since expanded to five teams working with identified schools across Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin. We work closely as a service across all teams.

MHSTs are working within schools, ensuring children and young people receive timely access to mental health support.

You will be expected to lead the team, hold a clinical caseload, offer supervision to junior staff, be involved with the Whole School Approach, act as a senior practitioner within the team and when necessary and appropriate deputise for the Manager within your team.

By joining Team MPFT, you will be helping your communities and in return for this, we will support you by

Supporting your career development and progression.

Excellent NHS Pension scheme

Generous maternity, paternity, adoption leave

Options for flexible working

Up to 27 days annual leave (increasing with service up to 33 days) and the opportunity to purchase additional annual leave.

Extensive Health and Wellbeing support and resources

If you work in our community teams, we pay for your time travelling between patients.

Lease car if you complete more than 500 business miles per annum, fully insured and maintained (including tyres), mileage paid at lease car rate

Salary sacrifice car - fully insured and maintained (including tyres), your gross pay is reduced by the cost of the vehicle before tax, NI and pension deductions are calculated, mileage paid at business rates

Salary sacrifice bikes up to £2k

Free car parking at all trust sites

Free flu vaccination every year

Citizens Advice support linked with a Hardship Fund for one off additional support up to £250 (if the criteria is met)

And more. We are proud to be a diverse and inclusive organisation and there is a choice of staff networks that help you meet like-minded people.

Main duties and responsibilities

To work as a senior member of the Mental Health Support Team (MHST) leading on the delivery of the service offer to the designated schools aligned to the team.

Take responsibility for the management of a complex caseload, which includes, specialist assessment (within service specification), and care planning in conjunction with service user and carer, evaluation of individual treatment plans for CYP with mental health needs.

Responsible for participating in the setting of quality standards, including the auditing, monitoring and reviewing of practice in line with current clinical guidance practice and policy.

Assess patient's individual care needs, develop, implement and evaluate programmes of care.

Deliver a range of interventions in accordance with the agreed plan of care and Pathway guidance.

Complete and contribute, where appropriate to robust risk assessments and risk management plans. Deliver and promote positive risk taking, where appropriate, to improve quality of life and maximise occupational performance/independence.

Maintain an effective reporting system by observing and reporting verbally and in writing on patient condition

To encourage and support service user and carer involvement and participation.

To attend and contribute to MHST business and development forums.

Utilise agreed outcome measures to review the effectiveness of interventions, as part of the care planning and evaluation process. Assist in ensuring that the aims and objectives of the service are fulfilled and to identify factors which may inhibit these from being achieved.

The post holder will be required to work within their Code of



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