Northumberland Mental Health Support Team has an exciting opportunity for 2 Senior Band 6 Educational Mental Health Practitioners. One post is a full time position in the Central area (Ashington/Bedlington) and the other post is 0.8 WTE in the North (Alnwick/Coquet) partnership of schools.
This demonstrates our commitment to career progression of the EMHPs within the service, expanding our mental health in schools’ teams.
We are looking for a qualified Wellbeing Practitioner with 2 years of post-qualifying experience and experience of delivering IAPT low intensity supervision.
We are interested in passionate Wellbeing Practitioners committed to delivering innovative ways of working.
The role will provide consolidated and enhanced clinical skills in the Senior Wellbeing Practitioner role, leading the co-ordination and delivery of evidence-based interventions for children and young people in education with mild to moderate mental health problems. The post holder will provide enhanced Systems Working Skills and a lead role in the service development. The role will involve the co-ordination, delivery and evaluation of the whole schools approaches (EMHPs only) and school-based consultation models.
We provide excellent clinical, case management and peer led clinical skills supervision arrangements, training and CPD.
We support a blended/hybrid model of working and ensure suitable travel expenses are provided to support in this role.
1. To provide consolidated & Enhanced Clinical Skills in the role of a Senior Wellbeing Practitioner.
2. To deliver evidence-based intervention for children and young people in education settings with mild to moderate mental health problems.
3. To provide enhanced System Working Skills.
4. To provide support to other professionals in their development.
5. To ensure understanding of relevant legislation for the role of a Senior Wellbeing Practitioner.
6. To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams/departments and across organisational boundaries.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Rhian Davies Job title: Senior Lead for the PMHW Service Email address: rhian.davies@northumbria-healthcare.nhs.uk Telephone number: 01661 864588
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