Mental Health Practitioner

1 month ago

Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom Compass Full time

About the Role

Compass is seeking a highly skilled and dedicated Mental Health Practitioner to join our Community Outreach team. As a Senior Wellbeing Practitioner, you will play a vital role in delivering evidence-based early interventions for children and young people, working across both educational settings and the community.

The Opportunity

This is an exciting opportunity to join Compass's new Mental Health Support Team, working with Children, Young People and Families (CYPF) with a particular focus on supporting CYP who are not on roll at school. You will also support education settings and partners to help re-engage CYP with their education through Whole School/Community Approaches.

Key Responsibilities

  • Develop and deliver evidence-based early interventions for children and young people, working across both educational settings and the community.
  • Work alongside colleagues to develop Compass Wave 12 MHSTs, building positive partnerships with education settings and other CYPF services.
  • Supervise and innovate with practitioners and colleagues in the service.

Person Specification

Essential

  • Core professional and/or clinical qualification (EMHP, CWP, PMHW, nursing with specialism in mental health or learning disability nursing, Occupational Therapy, Social Work) and must be committed to maintaining registration if applicable.
  • Senior Wellbeing Practitioner, Post Graduate Diploma or willingness to undertake.

Desirable

  • Post Graduate Certificate in Supervision (EMHP supervisor course).
  • Evidence of continued professional development.
  • Management/supervision training.
  • Therapeutic post graduate qualification or equivalent experience ideally in low intensity CBT.
  • Post Graduate qualification in a relevant discipline.
  • Mentorship qualification.

Experience

Essential

  • Two years post qualification experience of working therapeutically with children and young people, as an EMHP/CYP-IAPT practitioner.
  • Experience of line management and/or delivery of clinical supervision.
  • Experience of working in a community and/or educational environment.
  • Experience of effective engagement with CYPF.
  • Risk assessment and management in the delivery of clinical services (including safeguarding).

Desirable

  • Experience of leadership within Children and Young People clinical service areas.
  • Experience of providing mentorship.
  • Experience of organising team duties.
  • Experience of inducting staff members.
  • Experience of working in a community and/or educational environment.
  • Experience of working in a skill mix team.

Additional Criteria

Essential

  • Leadership and the ability to delegate and supervise staff.
  • Recognition and escalation of risk, contributing to control measures.
  • Planning workload, time management.
  • Work under pressure and able to manage changing priorities.
  • Understand need for evidence and statistical data collection, and achieving targets.
  • IT skills.
  • Team player and a dynamic personality.
  • Multi-agency/disciplinary working.
  • Excellent communication skills and ability to form positive working relationships with a range of stakeholders.
  • Innovative practice and ability to influence others.
  • Positive attitude; flexible and adaptable; solution focused; and tenacious.
  • Has a strong degree of personal integrity.
  • Ability to work all year round.
  • Due to the nature of the role there is a need to travel to individual schools, which will require a driving license and access to a vehicle (for individuals who cannot drive due to a disability, we can consider accessibility options provided via Access to Work etc).
  • Ongoing commitment to maintain registration in core profession.

Desirable

  • Ability to analyse, evaluate and rationalise data and enable progressive models of delivery and intervention.

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