North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare Trust
Our Trust is on an incredible journey of innovation and we'd like you to be part of it. To excel you will be an enthusiastic, caring and compassionate Registered Practitioner who is looking to work within a Trust that is ambitious to perform well and has been told by the Care Quality Commission that it is the fastest improving mental health Trust in the country. Whether you are about to qualify, newly qualified or an experienced practitioner, we want to meet you and discuss the possibility of you joining this great multi-disciplinary team. Our vision is 'To be Outstanding in all we do and how we do it.' Our teams pride themselves on compassion, teamwork and resilience. The Trust supports you by offering a flexible shift system including twilight shifts and compressed hours to support working families and our staff parking is free on all our main sites.
You can expect Continuing Professional Development (CPD) which is tailored to meet your professional development; individual CPD advice is available from our Practice Education Team. The CPD offer includes the option to rotate within the Trust to widen your breadth of experience, skills and knowledge.
Main duties of the job
You will be expected to provide support for the work of other members of the multidisciplinary team and signpost children, young people and families to appropriate support. Finally, to contribute where appropriate, to the service development and consultation to the wider MDT.
This is a unique opportunity to be part of a developing service with high expectations for improving the outcomes for children and families in North Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent.
As an employee and representative of the Trust, you are required to demonstrate and uphold the Trust's Values. These are:
Proud to CARE:
* Caring with compassion, it's about how we listen, what we say, what we do.
Approachable:
* Friendly, welcoming, sharing ideas and being open.
Responsible:
* Taking personal and collective responsibility, being accountable for our actions.
* Striving for the best, for high-quality safe care and continually improving.
About us
As a Trust we remain bold and ambitious with plans for both service and system collaborative transformation over the coming years to improve the health and wellbeing of our local people through high quality care.
We pride ourselves on ensuring our team has their wellbeing put first and as such provide a range of wellness opportunities including flexible working.
We are committed to the Greener NHS national ambition to becoming the world's first 'carbon net zero' national health system by 2045. As part of this, sustainability is embedded in our strategy as one of our four key enablers. In order to deliver on this commitment, we recognize that we need a workforce that is as passionate as we are about achieving these goals, for the benefit of our service users, workforce, local communities and the planet alike. For 2024/2025, we have launched our "Proud to be Green" engagement campaign which is aligned to the targets set out in our Green Plan. As a Trust, you can be assured that we will commit to supporting you in working towards our net zero ambitions, set out in our Green Plan, through our sustainability programme.
The Trust is committed to ensuring that a diverse workforce is representative and inclusive at all levels. We would very much welcome applications from all under-represented groups including women, people with disabilities, people from global majority backgrounds, and those from the lesbian, gay, bi and trans communities.
Job responsibilities
North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust has opportunities for the right candidates to join our existing Mental Health Support Team (MHST), working alongside a team of Education Mental Health Practitioners and Senior Mental Health Practitioners to deliver, under supervision, high-quality; outcome-informed, focused, evidence-based interventions for children and young people experiencing mild to moderate anxiety, low mood and behavioral difficulties.
In return you will receive supervision and in line with the Trust values you will be offered opportunity to develop your skills and knowledge as part of your Continuing Professional development.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Successful completion of the HEE commissioned 1yr 'Education Mental Health Practitioner' course.
Experience
* Ability to carry out 1:1 therapeutic mental health interventions with children.
* Ability to carry out 1:1 therapeutic mental health interventions with families.
Knowledge
* Knowledge of educational environments.
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.
Employer name
North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare Trust
Salary: £29,970 to £36,483 a year pro rata, per annum.
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