Main area EMHP B5 Grade Band 5 Contract 12 months (Fixed Term cover for Maternity Leave) Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week Job ref 350-CC6790147
Site St Helens MHST Town St Helens Salary £29,970 - £36,483 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 28/11/2024 23:59 Interview date 02/12/2024
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Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Qualified Education Mental Health Practitioners (EMHP) to join a dynamic Mental Health Support Teams in schools service in St Helens to cover maternity leave.
Successful candidates will be employed on a fixed term basis for 12 months based within St Helens and will play a key role as member of the St Helens Mental Health Support Team. They will have the responsibility for delivering the 3 core functions of an MHST to support the mild to moderate mental health and wellbeing needs for children and young people in allocated schools.
Potential candidates will have already successfully completed the HEE commissioned 1yr 'Education Mental Health Practitioner' course or the 'Children's Wellbeing Practitioner' course. Those currently undertaking the EMHP training and are near completion will also be considered.
Please note that the advert may close early if we receive a significant number of applications.
Main duties of the job
As an Education Mental Health Practitioner, the post holder will provide high standards of evidence-based client centred care to children and young people with mild to moderate mental health needs within the THRIVE Framework for service delivery.
The post holder will be expected to provide interventions to children and young people and their families / carers referred into the service. The post holder will demonstrate an attitude which respects and values service users’ and their carers.
The post holder will embrace the core values of the organisation and adopt the principles of Recovery and THRIVE. These principles will recognise the need to:
1. Promote safe practices
2. Value the aims of service users
3. Work in partnership and offer meaningful choice
4. Be optimistic about the possibilities of meaningful change
5. Value social inclusion
Working for our organisation
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
PRINCIPAL RESPONSIBILITIES - The role aims to promote the early detection and prevention of mental health problems across the whole school, and strengthen links between schools and mental health services.
The post holder will provide direct, ongoing support to schools around mental health and wellbeing. This will include:
1. Delivering evidence-based interventions for mild to moderate mental health issues.
2. Supporting designated school staff to develop a whole school approach.
3. Giving advice to school staff and liaising with other mental health services to help children and young people get the right support.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Successful completion of the HEE commissioned 1yr ‘Education Mental Health Practitioner’ (EMHP) and or Children and young people’s wellbeing practitioner (CYWP) course
* Must have professional qualification and registration with an appropriate accrediting body (i.e., HCPC), or equivalent from the Professional Standards Authority (PSA) approved accredited register
* Teaching qualification
* Youth Mental Health First Aid trained
Knowledge/ Experience
* Experience of mental health assessments and therapeutic interventions with children and young people with mental health problems and their families
* Experience of delivering training
* Experience in consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
* Awareness of legislation and strategic frameworks and their implications for both clinical practice and professional management
* Knowledge of educational environments
* Knowledge of safeguarding issues
* Knowledge of capacity and consent issues including Gillick competence
* Knowledge of research design and methodology consistent with practice to at least Degree level or equivalent
* Knowledge of children services
Skills
* Ability to learn in a variety of settings and using a variety of learning methods
* Ability to identify and provide appropriate means of support to carers exposed to distressing situations and challenging behaviours
* Ability to identify and employ as appropriate clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of clinical practice.
* Demonstrate a commitment to always respecting and displaying the Trust Values
* Ability to personally manage a sensitive, traumatic and potentially emotionally distressing caseload
* Ability to carry out 1:1 therapeutic mental health intervention with children
* Ability to carry out 1:1 therapeutic mental health intervention with families
* Ability to conduct group parenting programmes
* Ability to work within educational settings to increase mental health awareness within the staff group
* Ability to conduct mental health assessments of children and young people
* Ability to make an assessment of risk and to record and communicate it appropriately
* Ability to take appropriate action to mitigate or manage risk
* Excellent oral and written communication skills
* Able to travel to meet the requirements of the post
* Team player
* Excellent time management and organisational skills
Values
* Accountability
* Support
* High professional standards
* Responsive to service users
* Engaging leadership style
* Transparency and honesty
* Discreet
* Change oriented
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Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we offer a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants who consider themselves to be disabled who meet the minimum (essential) criteria for the role in the person specification. If you would like your application to be considered under the Trust’s guaranteed interview scheme you can indicate this in the personal information section of your online application form.
Should you require a reasonable adjustment to our recruitment process please email recruitment@merseycare.nhs.uk to ensure that measures can be put in place to support you.
We reserve the right to close any vacancy earlier than advertised in exceptional circumstances once we have received a high volume of applications.
The Trust expects all post holders who require an enhanced DBS for their role subscribe to the DBS Update Service. You will be required to enrol for this service for a fee of £13 per year and maintain registration.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
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