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Job overview
Qualified Education Mental Health Practitioner (Mental Health Support Teams in Schools Knowsley) Band 5
An opportunity has arisen for a hard working and compassionate professional to join the newly established children and young peoples Mental Health Support Team in Knowsley (permanent post).
Main duties of the job
1. Delivering evidence-based intervention for children and young people in education setting with mild to moderate mental health problems.
2. Helping children and young people within these settings who present with more severe problems to rapidly access more specialist services.
3. Supporting and facilitating staff in education settings to identify and where appropriate manage issues related to mental health and wellbeing.
4. Working with and within education environments to afford better access to specialist mental health services.
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
Clinical
1. To hold a caseload of both specialist and generic work dependent on clinical competence.
2. To undertake assessments and treatment based upon a conceptual framework and employing research-based evidence.
3. To provide direct therapeutic interventions in line with the grading of the post, including assessments, formulation and therapeutic input into children, young people and families referred into the service with mild to moderate mental health problems.
4. To undertake risk assessments and care plans accordingly, in line with the THRIVE framework.
5. To work in ways that are sensitive to the needs of children and young people and families from a wide range of racial, cultural, and religious backgrounds.
6. To participate directly in the team’s duty rotas in line with the grading of the post.
7. To exercise responsibility within supervisory, managerial and accountability structures, for the assessment, treatment, and discharge of clients.
8. To deliver care, ensuring effective assessment, care planning and risk management processes are maintained.
9. To produce a clinical formulation and intervention plan founded on evidence-based practice in co-operation with the child, young person and carers.
10. To work jointly and collaboratively with other team members in order to enhance and develop the provision of services to young people.
11. To identify and respond appropriately to child protection issues, as described with the guidelines of Local Safeguarding Children’s Board and Merseycare NHS Foundation Trust safeguarding.
12. To maintain clear and comprehensive electronic clinical records, to ensure information is accurate and complies with Data Protection Act and professional body and Trust standards.
Communication
1. To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner information concerning the assessment, formulation, and treatment plans of clients.
2. Attend Child Protection Case conferences as a representative from children and young people’s mental health services.
3. Provide and receive sensitive or contentious information to children, young people, and families and to other professionals within young people’s services.
4. Work as part of an integrated multi professional team, ensuring good communication and working relationships with other professionals.
Teaching, Training and Supervision
1. Participate in regular supervision, engage in reflective practice, and committed to continued professional development.
2. To provide specific training and/or presentations to schools and other agencies.
Management, Policy and Service Development
1. Contribute to the service’s evidence-based practice by engaging with audits and evaluations.
Continuing Professional Development
1. To receive and engage in regular clinical supervision in accordance with Trust Clinical Governance Standards.
Person specification
Qualifications
1. Successful completion of the HEE commissioned 1yr ‘Education Mental Health Practitioner’ (EMHP) and/or Children and young people’s wellbeing practitioner (CYWP) course.
2. 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.
3. Teaching qualification.
4. Youth Mental Health First Aid trained.
Knowledge/Experience
1. Experience of mental health assessments and therapeutic interventions with children and young people with mental health problems and their families.
2. Experience of working with a wide variety of patient groups.
3. Experience in consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
4. Knowledge of safeguarding issues.
Values
1. Accountability
2. Support
3. High professional standards
4. Responsive to service users
5. Engaging leadership style
6. Transparency and honesty
Skills
1. Excellent oral and written communication skills.
2. Ability to carry out 1:1 therapeutic mental health intervention with children and families.
3. Ability to conduct mental health assessments of children and young people.
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