Job summary
Compass is the provider of Mental Health Support Teams (MHST) in education settings in the city of Birmingham. We have an opportunity for a Qualified Education Mental Health Practitioner or Mental Health Practitioner to join our Birmingham Team.
Compass Birmingham MHST ensures Children and Young People (CYP) access the right help, at the right time, in the right setting, MHSTs will remove duplication and avoid CYP/families being bounced in between services.
Compass has a successful track record in early intervention health and wellbeing services for children and young people. We use a wide range of creative and dynamic methods of engagement, including digital interventions, across community and educational settings.
Adopting a values-based approach is at the heart of what we do; through collaboration and coproduction with stakeholders our services continually evolve, directing resources based on evidenced need. We are incredibly excited and proud to be a trusted MHST provider enabling us to develop innovative methods to make a real difference to the lives of children, young people and families in Birmingham.
Main duties of the job
The service supports CYP and families providing extra capacity for early intervention support within school and college settings in three core areas:
- Providing evidence-based interventions for mild to moderate mental health and emotional wellbeing issues
- Supporting designated senior mental health leads in each setting
- Providing timely advice to school and college staff and parents as required
You will need to demonstrate in your application that you have a core MHP qualification relevant to mental health, alongside post graduate experience working with children and young people and an understanding of the principles and practice of CBT and clinical supervision.
You will be knowledgeable and experienced in working with CYP with mental health needs; completing mental health assessments, providing practice supervision and support as well as providing specialist care directly to children and young people and families.
Applicants must have excellent communication skills and be able to network with other agencies as central to the role.
About us
Compass is committed to safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults and you should share our commitment. All Compass posts are subject to appropriate level DBS checks. We positively encourage applications from all members of the community, regardless of gender, race, faith, disability, gender reassignment, age or sexual orientation and encourage applications from people who have experiences in life which enrich skills and empathy. This is part of our commitment to equality and developing a truly inclusive and representative workforce.
Established for over 30 years, Compass is a national charity which works in communities across the UK providing services spanning substance misuse treatment and rehabilitation, early interventions for vulnerable young people, school aged health programmes and associated prevention as well as treatment and health promotion initiatives.
Benefits
We offer a range of benefits including:
1. 27 days holiday + bank holidays, rising to 32 days over time
2. Life assurance at 2 x basic salary
3. Competitive contributory pension scheme
4. Family-friendly policies
5. 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme and OH service
6. Enhanced sick pay
7. Excellent learning & development opportunities and career progression
8. Annual performance / salary review
Closing date : Sunday 6th October 2024
This advert may close early with sufficient applicants. Job description
Job responsibilities
Compass is the provider of Mental Health Support Teams (MHST) in education settings in the city of Birmingham. We have an opportunity for a Qualified Education Mental Health Practitioner or Mental Health Practitioner to join our Birmingham Team.
Compass Birmingham MHST ensures Children and Young People (CYP) access the right help, at the right time, in the right setting, MHSTs will remove duplication and avoid CYP/families being bounced in between services.
Compass has a successful track record in early intervention health and wellbeing services for children and young people. We use a wide range of creative and dynamic methods of engagement, including digital interventions, across community and educational settings.
Adopting a values-based approach is at the heart of what we do; through collaboration and coproduction with stakeholders our services continually evolve, directing resources based on evidenced need. We are incredibly excited and proud to be a trusted MHST provider enabling us to develop innovative methods to make a real difference to the lives of children, young people and families in Birmingham.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
9. Be a suitably qualified Education Mental Health Practitioner
Desirable
10. Teaching qualification
11. Youth Mental Health First Aid trained
Experience
Essential
12. Knowledge of educational environments
13. Knowledge of safeguarding issues
14. Knowledge of capacity and consent issues including Gillick
15. competence
16. Experience of working with children and young people, their families and others
17. Experience of working and liaising with a wide variety of agencies and stakeholders
18. Experience of working with children and young people who have social, emotional and/or behavioural difficulties
19. Experience of working with anxiety disorders
20. Experience of working with affective (mood) disorders
21. Experience of the delivery of specific therapeutic interventions to children, young people or their families ( CBT, solution focused brief therapy)
Desirable
22. Knowledge of the functional operation of specialist Children and Young Peoples
23. Mental Health and Emotional Wellbeing services teams
24. Experience of working with children and their families in a healthcare setting
25. Experience of working with children and their families in an education setting
26. Experience of monitoring and recording outcome measures for childrens emotional wellbeing
27. Experience of navigating complex social systems and environments, who may have conflicting priorities or agendas
28. Experience of working with looked after children
29. Experience of working with other vulnerable groups
Additional Criteria
Essential
30. Ability to carry out 1:1 therapeutic mental health interventions with children
31. Ability to carry out 1:1 therapeutic mental health interventions with families
32. Ability to work within educational settings to increase mental health awareness within staff group
33. Ability to conduct mental health assessments of children and young people
34. Ability to make an assessment of risk and to record and communicate it appropriately
35. Ability to take appropriate action to mitigate or manage risk
36. Excellent oral and written communication skills
37. Excellent time management and organisational skills
38. Access to own transport or
39. evidence of ability to commute
40. efficiently between community
41. venues.
42. Ongoing commitment to maintain registration in core profession
43. Willingness to study further if required
Desirable
44. Ability to teach others about mental health issues
45. Ability to conduct other group therapeutic interventions with children and their families
46. Proven commitment to continuous professional development