This is an exciting time of growth and change within East Berkshire NHS Trust as our CAMH service is currently working collaboratively with children and young people, and partners to deliver the Governments Programme for mental health support to be available in schools.
To support the development of our newly established Mental Help Support Teams, we are looking to recruit x2Senior Education Mental Health Practitioner and Supervisors to support the implementation of two new Mental Health Support Teams (Bracknell and Slough). We have 1 vacancy in Slough and 1 vacancy in Bracknell.
In line with the Government's priority to increase access and availability of mental health and wellbeing support for children and young people, the new Education Mental Health Practitioner (EMHP) role is an exciting opportunity to deliver evidence-based early interventions for children and young people, working across both educational settings and healthcare sectors in England.
Main duties of the job
To be trained and confident in the use of CYP IAPT principles, evidence based interventions and routine outcome measures.
To care co-ordinate and manage a defined caseload of children and young people presenting with emotional health and wellbeing difficulties in schools
To co-ordinate and deliver individualised care packages / programmes for children and young people and evaluate these programmes, ensuring high standards of practice in accordance with national guidelines and trust policy.
To provide day to day clinical and supervisory support for the Education Mental Health Practitioners (EMHP).
To provide specialist mental health advice, consultation and signposted using an outcome based triage model, to schools
To provide training to schools staff, parents and carers in conjunction with colleagues.
Within schools actively promote the whole school based approach to developing and maintaining emotional health and well-being.
To train and mentor students and less experienced members of the team.
To act as an autonomous practitioner with an understanding of own limitations and recognition of when to seek support.
About us
Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health and community health services trust. Rated 'outstanding' by the CQC, we're committed to providing the best possible care to people across Berkshire.
We value diversity and are proud to be a Stonewall Top 100 Employer.We work hard to create an inclusive environment where you'll be supported by friendly and professional colleagues to flourish.
Our values at Berkshire Healthcare:
* Caring for and about you is our top priority
* Committed to providing good quality, safe services
* Working Together with you to develop innovative solutions
We welcome people who share these values to come and work for us.
Benefits of working for us include:
* Flexible working options to support work-life balance
* 27 days' annual leave rising with service + opportunity to buy and sell
* Excellent learning and career development opportunities
* 'Cycle to Work' and car leasing scheme including electric vehicles
* Access to a range of wellbeing tools and services
* Discounts at hundreds of popular retailers and restaurants
* Staff networks for race, diversity, disabilities, the environment and armed forces community to support equality
* Generous maternity, paternity, adoption and special leave
* Free parking across Trust sites
If you share our values and would like to come and work for us, please submit your application as soon as possible as we'll occasionally close roles early that have a high number of applications.
Job responsibilities
The must haves for this role:
be friendly, self-motivated, and self-organising,
be confident in working in a multiagency setting, working collaboratively with colleagues in schools and across the wider system,
enjoy regular collaboration with your peers and the senior colleagues to whom you report,
as a person, will always be looking for new or better ways to deliver care and be keen to learn,
and most of all will have a calm, friendly and compassionate outlook and have a keen interest in working in a schools setting
For further information about the role, please see attached job description and person specification.
We strongly encourage you to review how you meet the criteria in the person specification and write about this point-by-point in your supporting statement for the best chance of being shortlisted.
Were committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community. Our commitment to inclusion is reflected in our accreditations: Race Equality Matters Silver Trailblazer, Neurodiversity in Business Corporate Member, Disability Confident Leader, Carer Confident Level 2, and the Armed Forces Covenant Gold Award. Reasonable adjustments will be provided to candidates as needed.
We welcome a conversation about flexibility and any other questions you may have. Please dont hesitate to contact: Jade Hens Jade.Hens@berkshire.nhs.uk wholl be delighted to help.
Please note, if we receive a high number of applications, we may close this role earlier than the advertised closing date, so please submit your application as soon as possible.
Person Specification
Education/Qualifications/Training
* Qualified in EMHP Post Graduate Dip/Cert as defined by the BABCP, BPS etc. e.g. a course, which following completion, one can embark on the process of accreditation. Or a CWP with 2 years experience working within an MHST.
* Hold a current registration with the BABCP/BPS.
* Qualified in Senior EMHP/SWP course or have two years post qualification experience and be willing to undertake Senior EMHP/Supervisor training.
* Evidence using the career framework of training in mental health and experience working in a stepped care service for anxiety and depression.
Previous Experience
* Demonstrable experience of working in CYP mental health services
* Skills and experience of working with children, young people and families around a range of emotional/mental health, behavioural/additional health/developmental needs
* Ability to meet agreed /specified service targets
* Ability to manage competing demands / manage a caseload
* Experience with routine outcome monitoring
* Experience of working within a multicultural framework.
* Experience of teaching and liaising with other professional groups
* Experience of supervising others
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
* Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies with clients with mental health problems
* Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
* Good organisational and time management skills, ability to plan and prioritise own workload
* Ability to teach and train others
* Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
Additional Requirements
* Willingness to undertake supervision training.
* A positive approach to working with children and young people with mental health difficulties.
* Ability to work as part of a team and independently.
* Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
* Willingness to work flexibly.
* An awareness of own strengths and limitations.
* Ability to travel between sites and to locality meetings.
* Commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults.
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.
MH Support Teams - Upton Hospital Slough and The Rowans Children Centre, Bracknell
£39,205 to £47,084 a yearper annum ( Incl of HCAS)
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
371-CFS362-A
Job locations
MH Support Teams - Upton Hospital Slough and The Rowans Children Centre, Bracknell
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