Main Area: Mental Health Support Team for Children and Young People in Education (MHST)
Grade: Band 6
Contract: Permanent
Hours: 37.5 hours per week
Site: East Lancashire
Base: Burnley General Hospital
As this is a school-based service delivery, the post holder will be expected to take their annual leave in the school holidays other than in urgent circumstances.
We are looking for an enthusiastic, suitably qualified and experienced person with the ability, commitment, and passion to support children and young people with their mental health and emotional wellbeing.
In line with the government's priority to increase access and availability of mental health and wellbeing support for children and young people, the MHST delivers evidence-based early interventions for children and young people, working across educational and healthcare sectors.
The Mental Health Practitioner will work in educational settings, schools, and colleges, as part of NHS-led Mental Health Support Teams and will be based in either East Lancashire or Blackburn with Darwen.
The post holder will undertake appropriate mental health assessment and short-term clinical intervention of children and young people referred to the service and provide a range of appropriate, evidence-based clinical interventions informed by assessed individual need.
Main duties of the job
1. Assess and deliver, under supervision, outcome-focused, evidence-based interventions to children and young people in education settings experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties.
2. Working in partnership, support children, young people, and their families in the self-management of presenting difficulties, principally anxiety and low mood.
3. Supporting and facilitating staff in education settings to identify and where appropriate manage issues related to mental health and wellbeing whilst improving access to mental health services.
4. To support schools in developing strategies/activities to promote emotional well-being and positive mental health to the school community.
5. Operate at all times from an inclusive values base, which recognises and respects diversity.
6. Signpost referrals to the relevant service.
7. Undertake assessments of risk to self and others.
8. To use the acquired skills, knowledge, and abilities to deliver a service based within education settings that builds on and reinforces but does not replace those initiatives that already exist within these environments.
Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of services including mental health care across this area. Specialist provision comprises inpatient child and adolescent mental health services, perinatal mental health, and forensic services including low and medium secure care.
At ELCAS (East Lancashire Child and Adolescent Services) our vision is to be a centre of excellence providing high-quality Child and Adolescent psychological and mental health services that exceed people's expectations.
We have been accredited by the Royal College of Psychiatrists' Quality Network for Community CAMHS (QNCC) since 2016. In 2019, the CQC rated us as Outstanding in providing Effective, Caring, Responsive and Well-led services, and as Outstanding overall.
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