Band 4
Main area: Mental Health Schools Team in Schools Mid Ms
Grade: Band 4
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 350-CC6718449-A
Site: Warrington Town
Salary: £26,530 - £29,114 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: Today at 23:59
Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust celebrates diversity and promotes equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect.
We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and also particularly encourage applications from ethnic minorities, disabled and LGBTQIA+ people that are under-represented in our workforce. Furthermore, we welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces personnel as we recognise the benefits of the values, skills, training and experience that they bring to their work with us. We encourage all applicants to share their equality information with us.
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for 1 full-time Band 4 Assistant Education Mental Health Practitioners, to work within our established Mental Health Support Team in Schools, based in Warrington. We would like to invite applicants from children and young people’s mental health, wellbeing and education/pastoral backgrounds to apply for this opportunity.
The Assistant Education Mental Health Practitioners will work closely with qualified Education Mental Health Practitioners, Senior Practitioners, CBT therapists and other team members, to support young people with mild to moderate mental health difficulties.
Main duties of the job
* Delivering evidence-based intervention for children and young people in education settings with mild to moderate mental health problems.
* Helping children and young people within these settings who present with more severe problems to rapidly access more specialist services.
* Supporting and facilitating staff in education settings to identify and where appropriate manage issues related to mental health and wellbeing.
* Working with and within education environments to afford better access to specialist mental health services.
* Working with and within education environments to promote a whole school approach to mental health wellbeing.
* To evidence development of those skills with associated knowledge acquisition to record and evidence progression towards an academic award and demonstrable practical ability.
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
* Developing skills in supporting children and young people experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties, their parents/carers, families and educators in the self-management of presenting difficulties.
* Developing and practicing evidence-based skills under supervisory support of working in partnership with children, young people, their families and educators, as detailed in Care Plans.
* Developing and learning the skills required in order to enable children and young people in education, and where appropriate parents/carers to collaborate and coproduce their own agreed plan of care.
* Learn, understand, rationalise and adhere to the protocols within the educational service to which the postholder is attached.
* Engage along with more senior staff in the signposting of referrals for children and young people with more complex needs to the relevant service.
* Complete all requirements relating to data collection.
* Show evidence of working within a collaborative approach, involving a range of relevant others when indicated. Specifically, work in collaboration with teachers and other educational staff, parents, children, young people and the wider community to enhance and broaden access to mental health services.
* Contribute to the development of individual or group clinical materials or training materials and go on to develop further such materials as falls within own degree of competence.
Person specification
QUALIFICATIONS
* NVQ Level 3 or equivalent.
* Foundation degree or equivalent experience in a relevant area.
* Significant demonstrable experience working with CYP/ Families/ vulnerable groups with mental health needs.
* Experience of working in a care setting – or working with vulnerable CYP & families • Additional training in therapeutic interventions.
* Keen to access further training and development opportunities, within children and young people’s mental health.
Knowledge/Experience
* Knowledge of the educational system in England.
* Knowledge of safeguarding, care planning, risk assessment, holistic assessment and supervision procedures.
* Previous experience of working with children and young people.
Values
* Accountability.
* Support.
Skills
* Ability to learn in a variety of settings and using a variety of learning methods.
* Ability to study as a self-motivated learner who can formulate their own progress towards learning objectives and negotiate pathways to achievement with supervisory teams.
* Ability to personally manage a sensitive, traumatic and potentially emotionally distressing caseload.
* Excellent oral and written communication skills.
* Able to travel to meet the requirements of the post.
* Team player.
* Excellent time management and organisational skills.
* Ability to be responsible for management of own diary, booking rooms in education and community settings, arranging appointments, liaising with parents/careers, making changes/adapting diary depending on service pressures.
* Ability to contribute to service development.
* Ability to monitor own caseload.
* Ability to prioritise and organise own workload.
* Ability to manage expectations of children & young persons, parents, carers, professionals, and external stakeholders.
* Experience of using of RiO, Attend Anywhere (virtual interventions) and OBS studio.
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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.
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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