Job Summary:
Band 5 MHST EMHP/CWP Practitioners work closely with young people, families, parents, and staff in schools, contributing significantly to how people experience our services. Band 5 Practitioners are expected to be kind, responsive, professional, and informative, contributing to the quality of the services we provide by:
1. Keeping the people who use our services as safe as possible through sound clinical skills and effective risk assessments.
2. Ensuring the best possible clinical outcomes by using up-to-date skills and adhering to evidence-based policies and procedures.
3. Ensuring that people using our services have a good experience by respecting, empowering, and working in partnership with them throughout the care planning process.
We believe that the best health care is delivered by multi-disciplinary teams working well together and in partnership with other teams and services to provide seamless care.
As a Band 5 Practitioner, you will work alongside more experienced mental health practitioners, other health professionals, and EMHP/CWP peers delivering a service to schools.
As a team, you will ensure that the team is working to the standards that the people using our services deserve.
Main duties of the job:
Applicants must be qualified Education Mental Health Practitioners (EMHP) or CYP Wellbeing Practitioners (CWP) or possess an equivalent qualification with experience working with Children and Young People in Mental Health Services or Schools in the provision of individual and group treatments.
Brent Mental Health Support Team is looking for qualified EMHP, CWP, Wellbeing Practitioners with experience working with Children and Young People in Mental Health Services in delivering individual and group treatments in school settings. We seek enthusiastic and dynamic practitioners who are creative in their approach and passionate about improving health outcomes for children and young people.
You will work alongside EMHPs, Mental Health Practitioners, and Senior Clinical Leads to support the wellbeing and mental health of children and young people based in participating schools in Brent.
Brent MHST works with children and young people with mild to moderate mental health presentations attending schools in the area.
CNWL is committed to progressing and supporting their staff with career development and training, ensuring staff health, wellbeing, and job satisfaction.
For an informal discussion, please contact:
Amanda Pegrum (Team Lead) apegrum@nhs.net / 07701294484
Marta Krajewska (Senior Supervisor) m.krajewska1@nhs.net / 07725497102
About us:
Central and North West London NHS Trust expects all Band 5 Practitioners to act in a way that shows understanding of our core values and a willingness to put them into practice with young people, their friends, family, carers, teachers, and other staff members.
1. As a Band 5 Practitioner, we expect you to show COMPASSION, contributing to a caring and kind environment, recognizing that your actions can improve the lives of others.
2. We expect you to RESPECT everyone, acknowledging and welcoming people's differences.
3. We expect you to EMPOWER others, providing information, resources, and support to help them make their own decisions.
4. We expect you to work in PARTNERSHIP, recognizing that commissioners and users of our services generate and pay for our work.
Job description:
Job responsibilities:
Key Deliverables:
1. Deliver low-intensity evidence-based interventions for children and young people in educational settings with mild to moderate mental health problems.
2. Help children and young people with more severe problems to access specialist services rapidly.
3. Support and facilitate staff in educational settings to identify and manage issues related to mental health and wellbeing.
4. Work within educational environments to improve access to specialist mental health services.
5. Implement group/whole school approaches and consult on referrals.
6. Use acquired skills, knowledge, and abilities to deliver a service in educational settings that reinforces existing initiatives.
Person Specification:
Education and Qualifications:
Essential:
* Qualified Education Mental Health Practitioner or CYP Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner or Mental Health Nurse, Occupational Therapist, Social Worker with additional CBT qualification.
Desirable:
* A further relevant degree qualification.
* Teaching qualification.
Previous Experience:
Essential:
* Experience working with children and young people, their families, and others in a healthcare or school setting.
* Experience liaising with various agencies and stakeholders.
* Experience working with children and young people who have social, emotional, and/or behavioral difficulties.
* Experience working with anxiety disorders.
* Experience working with affective disorders.
* Experience delivering specific low-intensity therapeutic interventions to children, young people, or their families (e.g., CBT, solution-focused brief therapy).
* Ability to conduct other group therapeutic interventions with children and their families.
Desirable:
* Experience working with children and their families in an educational setting.
* Experience monitoring and recording outcome measures for children's emotional wellbeing.
* Experience navigating complex social systems and environments.
* Experience working with looked-after children.
* Experience working with other vulnerable groups.
Skills:
Essential:
* Excellent communication skills.
* Able to maintain electronic patient records and use Microsoft Word.
Other:
Essential:
* Access to a car or other motor vehicle for work purposes.
Employer details:
Employer name: Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
Address: Monks Park Clinic, 4 Monks Park, London, HA9 6JE
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