Employer: Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Louth or Lincoln (negotiable)
Town: Lincoln
Salary: £37,338 - £44,962 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 14/10/2024 23:59
Interview date: 24/10/2024
NHS AfC: Band 6
Job overview
We are seeking a dynamic and experienced Senior EMHP to join our new Mental Health Support Teams (MHST) in the Louth or Lincoln areas. This is a unique opportunity to shape and lead a service dedicated to improving the mental health and well-being of children and young people within education settings.
This is an exciting chance to make a real difference in the lives of young people in our community. If you are passionate about mental health and eager to lead in this innovative role, we encourage you to apply.
Main duties of the job
Your role (registered EMHP) plays a pivotal role in supporting the mental health and well-being of children and young people within educational settings. Your key duties will include:
* Providing management and clinical supervision to EMHPs, ensuring the delivery of high-quality, evidence-based interventions, upholding safeguarding procedures.
* Contributing to the development, implementation, and evaluation of mental health initiatives within schools, aligning with local and national policies.
* Delivering targeted therapeutic interventions to children, young people, and families, focusing on low to moderate mental health issues, using approaches like Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and other evidence-based practices.
* Designing and delivering training sessions for school staff, parents, and other stakeholders on mental health awareness and strategies to support students’ well-being.
* Acting as a key point of contact between schools, health services, and external agencies, providing expert advice on mental health issues and facilitating effective communication and collaboration.
* Overseeing the collection and analysis of data to measure the effectiveness of interventions and services, ensuring continuous improvement and adherence to best practices.
Working for our organisation
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,900 staff, and serving a population of over 768,400, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.
You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of ‘outstanding’ for well-led and ‘good’ overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We’re really proud of this!
We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
* Qualified EMHP with extensive mental health experience.
* Proven ability to supervise and lead a team.
* Strong understanding of safeguarding and multi-agency working.
* Excellent communication and organisational skills.
When completing your application, please demonstrate how you meet the role criteria. Please refer to the job description and person specification for full details.
Person specification
Experience
* Competent and familiar with low intensity CBT interventions.
* Substantial experience of working in a CYP clinical setting delivering low intensity CBT.
* Evidence of CPD post training.
* Providing supervision experience or transferable skills.
* Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team.
* Experience of effective engagement with families and carers.
* Sound knowledge of National legislation and drivers, and other legislation related to the care of children and young people with emotional and mental health concerns.
* Awareness of national and local policies and how these impact on child and adolescent education.
* Experience of organising team duties.
* Experience of working in a community environment.
* Experience of working in an educational environment.
* Experience of managerial and clinical leadership.
* Experience of inducting staff members to the area with confidence.
Qualifications
* Low Intensity Supervisor training qualification (or willingness to attend this at the earliest available opportunity).
* EMHP Post Graduate Certificate.
* Substantial experience of providing supervision to low intensity practitioners.
* Registered with the BABCP or BPS as an EMHP (or applied for this).
* Low intensity senior practitioner Course completion or willingness to undertake.
Skills and Competences
* Critical awareness of alternative evidence-based therapeutic modalities and treatment options for mild-moderate MH difficulties.
* Experience delivering psycho-educational groups in a community setting.
* Recognising when core interventions are appropriate for neurodiverse CYP and being able to make necessary adaptations.
* Recognising when alternative evidence-based low-intensity interventions are required for neurodiverse CYP and being able to deliver these.
* Recognising when CYPs needs or wider complexity factors (e.g. social/physical needs/risk/neurodiversity) mean they are beyond low intensity/early intervention remit and competence. Make suitable onwards referrals where indicated.
* Knowledge, skills, and experience of Whole School Approach to Mental Health and Emotional Wellbeing.
* Experience of working directly with senior leadership teams in service context (e.g. education, health, VCSE) to support design and delivery of programmes, policy, pathways, support offers etc.
* Has a clear working knowledge of the application of their respective professional code of conduct.
* Extensive knowledge of health and safety.
* Setting, monitoring and maintaining standards, ensuring high standards.
* Ability to demonstrate sound value-based practice which empowers individuals and promotes wellness and is recovery focused.
* Sound knowledge of National Legislation and drivers and other legislation related to the care of children and young people educational provision and mental health.
* Knowledge Of NICE, CQC standards and regulations.
* Experience of and skills in mentoring/coaching other trainee CWPs/EMHPs.
Special Requirements
* Ability to travel independently across the county between bases and schools.
As an ethical recruiter we will not pursue applications from red list countries as defined by the World Health Organisation. In order to pursue and apply for this role you must have right to work in the UK.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Alternative contact number: 01522 707474.
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