Mental Health Practitioner

As an autonomous practitioner you will play a key part in the delivery of high-quality service provision that promotes and improves the mental health and well-being of children and young people and their families. In a school-based team you will provide direct intervention for young people presenting with mild/moderate mental health difficulties within professional practice guidelines and a structured supervision framework.

You will offer quality consultation to schools/colleges and support them in developing their Whole school Approach to mental health and emotional wellbeing. You will actively liaise and support robust partnership working arrangements between MHST, community partners and other key stakeholders in order that an integrated package of care is developed. You will provide a high level of generic skills and competencies, complimenting other members of the team.

This is an exciting opportunity for someone who is enthusiastic, a good team player, and passionate about early intervention and prevention in children and young people's mental health. We have the opportunity to reach children and young people at the earliest stages possible when their difficulties have first been identified ensuring schools, families, professionals and mental health practitioners work collaboratively to acknowledge the voice of the young person and provide effective interventions in dynamic and innovative way.

To undertake assessment of children, young people with mental health needs referred to the service including risk assessment, gathering appropriate information from their family/ Carers and other relevant agencies.

To develop a formulation and plan for intervention in collaboration with the child, young person and those who care for them, communicating this to the referrer and other relevant professionals.

To offer therapeutic interventions based on evidence-based practice and in line with the NICE guidelines.

To work in partnership with schools and colleges, ensuring care is coordinated with internal and external partners to ensure a well-co-ordinated care plan.

To routinely monitor effectiveness of clinical work by use of Routine Outcome Measures (ROM) and where outcomes are not improving for children and families to engage in clinical review via peer review meetings and supervision.

To support educational placements in developing a whole school and college approach to mental health.

To provide consultation to schools and colleges.

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of £2.6bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.

We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.

We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.

At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.

COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not currently a condition of employment, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. If you are unvaccinated, there is helpful advice and information available by searching on the ‘NHS England’ website where you can also find out more about how to access the vaccination.

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