Mental Health Practitioner

3 weeks ago

Wigan, Wigan, United Kingdom Greater Manchester Mental Health Full time
Job Overview

This is an exciting opportunity to work in the Children's and Young People's (CYP) Mental Health sector, as part of the Mental Health Support Team in schools.

Main Duties of the Job
  • Delivering consultation to school staff in education settings
  • Assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating interventions for children and young people
  • Ensuring comprehensive risk assessment and risk management plans are in place
  • Developing and reviewing whole school mental health initiatives
  • Providing 1:1 brief interventions for mild to moderate mental health problems
  • Providing low-level interventions, including behavioural activation and CBT-informed worry and anxiety management
  • Evaluating the success of interventions using Routine Outcome Measures (ROMS)
  • Liaising with schools and other agencies for information gathering and sharing
  • Offering parent consultation, support, and advice, and parent-led CBT approaches
  • Informing local child protection coordinators and senior clinicians of concerns regarding protection issues
  • Supervising the clinical practice of Education Mental Health Practitioners
Working for Our Organisation

Greater Manchester Mental Health (GMMH) Foundation Trust employs over 6,400 members of staff, delivering services from more than 160 locations.

We provide inpatient and community-based mental health care for people living in Bolton, the city of Manchester, Salford, Trafford, and the borough of Wigan, and a wide range of specialist mental health and substance misuse services across Greater Manchester, the north west of England, and beyond.

Greater Manchester is one of the world's most innovative, original, and exciting places to live and work, with a great northern welcome and people famed for their warmth, humour, and generosity.

Staff Benefits
  • Pay enhancements for evenings, Saturdays, and Sundays
  • 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays, rising to 29 after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years
  • Excellent pension
  • Cycle to work scheme
  • Salary sacrifice car scheme
  • Wellbeing programme

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