This is an exciting opportunity for qualified Education Mental Health Practitioners (EMHP) or Child Wellbeing Practitioners (CWP) to join a school-based service in Surrey.
We invite you to consider being involved in this exciting opportunity to be a part of delivering the government's vision and commitment of having integrated mental health teams in schools as set out in the NHS Long Term Plan.
Each MHST is co-located in a carefully selected group of schools within their Borough of Surrey. We currently have established teams in all 11 boroughs (Epsom, Spelthorne, Reigate and Banstead, Elmbridge, Surrey Heath, Woking, Runnymede, Guildford, Waverley, Tandridge and Mole Valley). We currently have a vacancy in the Spelthorne team.
Main duties of the job
The post-holder will work within an MHST within the wider School-based Need team delivering high-quality, brief, outcome-focused, evidence-based CBT interventions for children and young people experiencing mental health difficulties. The post-holder will work in schools and in community locations. This post is suitable for someone who is passionate about intervening early to support children, young people, and their families who need support with managing their mental health and emotional wellbeing to enable them to thrive.
They will be expected to:
1. Manage a caseload and offer the provision of mental healthcare services to young people with mental health difficulties.
2. Conduct holistic assessments of mental health and wellbeing in children and young people.
3. Work in partnership with Primary Mental Health Workers, CAMHS, Schools, and GPs to liaise and support children and young people.
4. Offer high-quality, brief, outcome-focused, evidence-based CBT practice to individuals, workshops, and groups.
5. Collaborate with schools to co-produce and deliver whole school approach work and offer ongoing professional consultation and advice to School Professionals.
About us
Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is the leading provider of health and social care services for people of all ages with mental ill-health and learning disabilities in Surrey and North East Hampshire. We also provide social care services for people with learning disabilities in Croydon and ASD and ADHD assessment services in Hampshire.
We actively seek to engage people who use our services and our communities in improving the mental wellbeing of the local population. We work closely with other NHS and voluntary sector organisations who provide services and support to people who use services and carers.
Surrey is a beautiful county lying just 30 minutes away from Central London and from the South Coast. Our historic market towns and bustling districts are enveloped in wonderful countryside, and our excellent road and rail networks bring the rest of the country within easy reach.
For international travel, both Gatwick and Heathrow airports are nearby.
Please note that we reserve the right to close posts as soon as sufficient applications are received.
Working from home contracts do not attract high cost area payments.
We look forward to receiving your application!
Job description
Job responsibilities
Our MHSTs support children and young people with emerging or mild-moderate mental health difficulties and Getting Help within the Thrive Framework by delivering targeted evidence-based interventions in schools. The MHSTs also work together with their schools to co-produce and deliver whole school approach work and offer ongoing professional consultation and advice to School Professionals, being the link between the school and wider EWB and MH services within Surrey.
Please see the attached job description for more details.
Please note: You will be required to travel between various sites within Surrey for this role, so having a driving licence and access to a car is desirable. Although we work in schools, the team operates all year round.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
* Successful completion of the HEE commissioned 1yr PG CERT/DIP in low intensity psychological interventions (for CWP/EMHP).
Desirable
* A further relevant degree qualification
* Teaching qualification
* Youth Mental Health First Aid trained
Skills / Competencies
Essential
* Ability to carry out 1:1 therapeutic mental health interventions with children.
* Ability to carry out 1:1 therapeutic mental health interventions with families.
* Ability to conduct group parenting programmes.
* Ability to work within educational settings to increase mental health awareness within the staff group.
* Ability to conduct mental health assessments of children and young people.
* Ability to make an assessment of risk and to record and communicate it appropriately.
* Ability to take appropriate action to mitigate or manage risk.
Desirable
* Ability to teach others about mental health issues.
* Ability to conduct other group therapeutic interventions with children and their families.
Knowledge
Essential
* Knowledge of educational environments.
* Knowledge of safeguarding issues.
* Knowledge of capacity and consent issues including Gillick competence.
Desirable
* Knowledge of the functional operation of specialist CAMHS teams.
Previous Experience
Essential
* Experience of working with children and young people, their families, and others.
* Experience of working and liaising with a wide variety of agencies and stakeholders.
Desirable
* Experience of working with children and their families in a healthcare setting.
* Experience of working with children and their families in an education setting.
Specialist Experience
Essential
* Experience of working with children and young people who have social, emotional, and/or behavioural difficulties.
* Experience of working with anxiety disorders.
* Experience of working with affective (mood) disorders.
* Experience of the delivery of specific therapeutic interventions to children, young people, or their families (e.g. CBT, solution focused brief therapy).
Desirable
* Experience of monitoring and recording outcome measures for children's emotional wellbeing.
* Experience of navigating complex social systems and environments, who may have conflicting priorities or agendas.
* Experience of working with looked after children.
* Experience of working with other vulnerable groups.
Personal Qualities
Essential
* Excellent oral and written communication skills.
* Self-motivated.
* Able to travel to meet the requirements of the post.
* Team player.
* Excellent time management and organisational skills.
* Able to meet the physical requirements of the role after reasonable adjustments have been made for any illness or disability.
Desirable
* Proven commitment to continuous professional development.
Employer details
Employer name
Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Unither House
Curfew Bell Road
Chertsey
KT16 9FG
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