Job summary
- Main area
- Mental Health Child and Adolescent
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 325-6333093-CYPS
- Employer
- Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- 18 Mole Business Park
- Town
- Leatherhead
- Salary
- £45,753 - £52,067 Incl. 5% High Cost Area Supplement per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 23/06/2024 23:59
Employer heading
MHST Specialist Schools Senior Mental Health Practitioner
NHS AfC: Band 7
Would you like to work in an organisation that sits in the top 10 best NHS Mental Health, Learning Disability and Community Services Trust to work for. This ranking is based on staff feedback in the 2023 NHS Staff Survey.
Job overview
We invite you to consider being involved in this exciting opportunity to be a part of delivering the governments vision and commitment of having integrated Mental Health Teams in schools as set out in the NHS Long Term Plan. Building on existing 'Whole School Approaches’ to mental health and wellbeing, Surrey is developing new Mental Health Support Teams (MHSTs) to work with selected primary and secondary schools to increase access to mental health interventions and provide early intervention in relation to Emotional Wellbeing and Mental health for children and young people up to the age of 18. Each MHST is co-produced and designed by the schools/YP they support and thus truly meet the needs of CYP where they are in a way which works for them. This is an exciting opportunity to be a part of a new approach to meeting children and young people’s mental health needs as early as possible in an evidenced based way utilising both targeted and holistic/systemic approaches.
Our MHSTs support children and young people with emerging or mild-moderate mental health difficulties and ‘Getting Help’ within the Thrive Framework by delivering targeted evidence-based interventions in schools. The MHSTs also work together with their schools to co-produce and deliver Whole School Approach work and offer ongoing professional consultation and advice to School Professionals, being the ‘link’ between the school and wider EWB and MH services within Surrey.
Main duties of the job
Each MHST is co-located in a carefully selected group of schools within their Borough of Surrey, with services delivered across a cluster of schools for each area. You will be part of the Specialist Schools Team (SS MHST) who will work Surrey Wide Specialist schools (based in Leatherhead).
The Specialist Schools Mental Health Support Team is a new team that has been coproduced with children and young people (CYP), families and schools to support CYP attending specialist schools in Surrey. Specialist schools include those offering specialist provision for CYP with diagnoses of Learning Disabilities/Developmental Delay, Autism Spectrum Condition and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder or significant Social, Emotional or Behavioural needs. Our Team currently comprises of Education and Clinical Psychologists, Clinical Supervisor, RTT ASC/LD and the clinical Lead.
Working for our organisation
Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is the leading provider of health and social care services for people of all ages with mental ill-health and learning disabilities in Surrey and North East Hampshire. We also provide social care services for people with a learning disability in Croydon and ASD and ADHD assessment services in Hampshire.
We actively seek to engage people who use our services and our communities in improving the mental wellbeing of the local population. We work closely with other NHS and voluntary sector organisations who provide services and support people who use services and carers.
Surrey is a beautiful county lying just 30 minutes away from Central London and from the South Coast.
Our historic market towns and bustling districts are enveloped in wonderful countryside, and our excellent road and rail networks bring the rest of the country within easy reach.
For international travel, both Gatwick and Heathrow airports are nearby.
Please note that we reserve the right to close posts as soon as sufficient applications are received.
Home Working Contract Only - Eligibility to high cost area supplement is conditional upon candidates residence and will be discussed on offer.
We look forward to receiving your application!
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
This exciting opportunity means we are looking to recruit a Senior Mental Health Practitioner to join our MHST Specialist schools Team in Surrey. As a Senior Practitioner you will be responsible for delivering interventions directly to CYP and their families, providing consultation, advice and training to other professionals and the management and supervision of junior members of the Team. The clinician will be a professional who has experience and a passion for providing direct intervention’s to yp with ASC and LD and special education needs.
We are looking to build a multi-disciplinary MHST team whose strength will come from the variety of skills and experience brought by each team member. As such we would welcome applications from candidates with a range of experience and from range of professional backgrounds including but not exclusively, CBT Therapy, Social Work, Psychology, Occupational Therapists, Child Psychotherapy and Mental Health Nurses.
We are looking for measured, inspiring, motivated, dynamic, experienced, forward thinking clinicians who are flexible and able to work effectively with partners in education, multiagency partners, children, young people and their families.
Please refer to the job description attached.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- • Professional degree qualification relevant to the specialist field (Including but not limited to Psychologist, CBT Therapist, Nurse, Social Worker, OT, Art Therapist etc.)
- • Registration with a relevant professional body.
Desirable criteria
- • Positive Behaviour Support Qualification `
- • Supervision qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- • 2 or more years’ experience working therapeutically, clinically, or consultatively within a CYP Educational or Mental Health Setting, with children and young people with mental health difficulties and their families.
- Experience of working with young people who have special educational needs, learning disabilities, language and social communication difficulties, neurodiversity and and behaviours of concern.
- • Experience of multi-agency collaborative working
- • Experience of monitoring performance and outcomes
- • Experience of offering Supervision
- • Experience of working with people of different ages with a range of mental health issues and/or learning needs
Desirable criteria
- • Experience of delivering CBT informed practice
- • Relevant post-qualification training
- • Experience of delivering mental health interventions in education settings
- • Experience of delivering CBT informed supervision at low intensity level
- • Experience in whole school approaches to mental health in education settings.
Skills and knowledge
Essential criteria
- • Knowledge of CYP IAPT & the benefits of low intensity work
- • Knowledge of CYP IAPT outcome measures
- • Demonstrable knowledge of relevant safeguarding and mental health legislation
- • Ability to motivate, guide and support staff to develop
- • Ability to provide culturally sensitive support and supervision
- • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- • Ability to teach, train and provide clear consultation
- • Ability to think clinically/therapeutically about client need
- • Ability to improve services to increase efficiency and enhance patient experience
- • Ability to write concise and informative reports and letters
- • Ability to use and interpret outcome measures to monitor intervention effectiveness. Competent ICT skills to collect and interpret data, for reports, presentations, and service performance
- • Provide online support
- • Engage in online meetings
- • Record keeping, report writing, note taking etc
Desirable criteria
- • Familiarity with electronic patient management systems such as IAPTus, RIO, SystmOne etc.
- • Awareness of relevant initiatives and frameworks, including MHSTs, Thrive and CYP IAPT.
- • Awareness of relevant data monitoring requirements
- • Experience of assessing/working with complex case.
- • Experience of developing clinical policies/procedures.
Abilities
Essential criteria
- • Highly motivated and a self-starter
- • Team player
- • Able to maintain professional boundaries
- • Dresses in an appropriate and professional manner
- • Prioritise conversations on diversity to respect the uniqueness we all have
- • Well-developed IT & keyboard skills
- • Ability to cope with mental, physical and emotional challenges of working with highly emotive, young, behaviourally challenging children as well as adolescents
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Alison McGivern
- Job title
- Clinical Lead and Systemic Psychotherapist
- Email address
- [email protected]
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