Moving Mindsets Mental Health Support Teams (MHST)
Senior Practitioner - 37 hours per week
Salary: Barnardo's PW3 (NHS Band 6 equivalent £38,371.92)
An opportunity has arisen for a senior practitioner to join the Moving Mindsets Mental Health Support Teams (MHST) in North Lancashire. Would you like to work therapeutically with children and young people in education settings, to support their emotional health and wellbeing? If yes, then this role is for you!
We wish to appoint someone who wants to make a difference to the emotional wellbeing of children and young people in schools. We're seeking a mental health professional who has direct experience of working with evidence-based therapies in child mental health. The role involves providing therapeutic support to children, young people, and their parent-carers and working in partnership with education settings. The successful candidate will be employed on a full-time basis to deliver mental health support across a range of educational settings in North Lancashire. The position will be line managed and clinically supervised within the team. You will work in schools across the North Lancashire area localities, and your service base will be at 38 Northgate, Morecambe, Lancashire LA3 3PA.
Main duties of the job
We have created a friendly, caring, and supportive service environment, with a strong ethos around providing quality and effective care for children and young people. Does this appeal to you? If yes, then please apply to join us.
Mental Health Support Teams (MHSTs) are a national programme jointly delivered with the Department for Education, NHS England, NHS workforce, training and education, and NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board (NHS ICB). The programme has three main commitments:
* Delivering evidence-based interventions for children and young people with mild to moderate mental health needs.
* Supporting the senior mental health lead in each education setting to introduce or develop their whole school/college approach.
* Giving timely advice to school and college staff, and liaising with external specialist services, to help children and young people to get the right support and stay in education.
MHSTs support the promotion of wellbeing and good mental health with a particular focus on early intervention. They work with existing social, emotional, mental health, and wellbeing support within education settings, building relationships with each education setting and with children, young people, parent-carers, and partners in the local system to co-design and evaluate the support offer required. Children's Mental Health and Wellbeing is a key component of Barnardo's Corporate Strategy and Mental Health Support Teams are part of this strategy.
About us
Pay & Reward Framework
We know that our colleagues go above and beyond in delivering our vital work, driven by their passion and commitment to Barnardo's values. We also know that we can only realise our ambitions and achieve better outcomes for more children, thanks to the talent, hard work, and creativity of our people.
For all these reasons, we are committed to a new approach to pay and reward, to ensure it is fair, attractive, and progressive, which was rolled out in April 2023. This is a positive change for the charity and part of our People & Culture Strategy. It will assist us in supporting colleagues to belong, thrive, and grow in their colleague journey at Barnardo's and in time will offer clear routes of progression for colleagues in both their career and their pay.
Whilst the full pay band and salary range is advertised, our approach to starting salaries is to appoint between the minimum to mid-point of the pay band. This ensures that pay steps are available to reward our colleagues annually based on their contribution to excellence and alignment to our values and behaviours. More details on Barnardo's pay framework can be found upon application.
Job responsibilities
Job Purpose: To provide advice, support, and services to children, young people, and their families in accordance with the aims and objectives of the service. (Specifics of Service attached as applicable.)
Key Responsibilities:
For Service Users:
* To work with children, young people, and their families, on a one-to-one or group basis, using a variety of interventions, to identify needs and to achieve positive outcomes. The jobholder is likely to be dealing with the most complex of cases/situations.
* To work in partnership with parents/carers to empower them and to enable them to achieve better outcomes for their children.
* To work co-operatively with other professionals in children's services, health agencies, and other community-based services to provide the most effective service for children, young people, and families.
* To apply safeguarding and child protection procedures and to report as necessary.
For Advice and/or Service Development/Leadership:
* To advise on and/or lead practice (in area of specialism).
* To develop and evaluate practice or aspects of the service.
For Resources:
* To be responsible for any equipment/resources linked to service delivery.
* To be responsible for case recording, report writing (to include reports for external agencies, e.g., courts, and complex management reports) and producing and keeping management information.
* To be responsible for the requisition of resources needed by staff managed.
For People (Staff, Students, Volunteers):
* Supervision of staff, students, or volunteers may be expected, including allocating work, day-to-day supervision, and support.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Qualification mandatory for practice, where applicable.
* (NB For staff having sole and direct access to children, young people, and vulnerable adults, there is likely to be a future requirement for an NVQ3 level qualification.)
* Awareness of factors impacting on and issues facing vulnerable children and young people and families (e.g., disadvantage, poverty, disability).
* Knowledge of child/young people development.
* Knowledge of safeguarding, child protection, and promoting the welfare of children.
* Knowledge of legislation relevant to service aims.
* A relevant qualification, at NVQ level 4/5, may meet the above knowledge.
* Clinical supervision training/qualification (e.g., CYP IAPT Supervision Skills) or ability to attend identified training once in employment.
* Graduate qualification in an evidence-based therapy e.g., senior wellbeing practitioner, cognitive behaviour therapy, education mental health practitioner, parenting practitioner, systemic practitioner, interpersonal psychotherapy - or ability to attend identified training once in employment.
Experience
* Appropriate and valid UK professional registration with BABCP and/or British Psychological Society (with accreditation where appropriate).
* Minimum of 12-24 months post qualification experience working with children's mental health.
* Experience of working with schools and other education settings.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such, it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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