We are seeking highly skilled and experienced clinicians to join our dedicated teams as a Senior Mental Health Practitioner, within our Mental Health Support Teams in Spalding and Sleaford.

As a key member, you will play a crucial role in promoting and supporting mental health within educational settings.

Our MHSTs pride themselves on their creative and innovative approach to improving the mental health of Children and Young People, as well as developing the skill and confidence of Education Staff to identify and address these difficulties as early as possible, in line with our preventative way of working. If this sounds like a team you'd like to be part of, we would love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

• Provide leadership and guidance to a team of mental health practitioners within educational settings.
• Coordinate and support the delivery of a range of Whole School Approach activities within education settings.
• Develop and implement mental health programs and interventions tailored to the unique needs of students and educational staff.
• Conduct assessments and provide individual and group therapy to students dealing with mild to moderate mental health difficulties.
• Collaborate with school administrators, teachers, leadership teams and parents / carers to create a supportive and inclusive mental health framework.
• Stay informed about current trends, research, and best practices in mental health and education.
• Offer training and professional development to education staff.
• Coordinate and participate in Critical Incident Responses where need arises.
• Provide support and potentially clinical supervision to Low Intensity CBT practitioners within MHST.

About us

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,900 staff, and serving a population of over 768,400, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.

You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of 'outstanding' for well-led and 'good' overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We're really proud of this!

We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.

Whether you're taking the first exciting steps in your career, itching for a new challenge or searching for a better place to raise a family, Lincolnshire has arange of rewarding health and social care careers in a county that's friendly, fascinating, affordable and brimming with everything you need to live a happy life . Visit beinlincolnshire.comto find out more.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please refer to Job Description and Person Specification for full details

• Provide visible leadership to the teams, leading by example as a positive role model.
• Provide clinical support to the team based on knowledge and experience as capacity allows.
• Provide clinical supervision to EMHPs and sometimes other members of the multi-disciplinary team.
• To support and lead the development of projects within the childrens and young peoples services as and when required.
• Meet with the Team Co-ordinator for caseload and managerial supervision to review caseload outcomes, performance and professional development.
• Complete own appraisal with supervisor to identify own goals and objectives.
• To undertake any other duties commensurate with the post as directed by the relevant managers and as identified as service priority.
• Provide management supervision and appraisals to EMHPs, lead and coordinate staff in the delivery and evaluation of care.
• Undertake the supervision of students on placement within the service and junior staff as agreed with the Team Manager and participate with the induction of new staff.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Competent and familiar with low intensity CBT interventions
• Substantial experience of working in a CYP clinical setting delivering low intensity CBT
• Evidence of CPD post training
• Providing supervision experience or transferable skills
• Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team
• Experience of effective engagement with families and carers
• Sound knowledge of National legislation and drivers, and other legislation related to the care of children and young people with emotional and mental health concerns

Desirable

• Experience of organising team duties
• Experience of working in a community environment
• Experience of working in an educational environment
• Experience of managerial and clinical leadership
• Experience of inducting staff members to the area with confidence

Qualifications

Essential

• Low Intensity Supervisor training qualification, (or willingness to attend this at the earliest available opportunity)
• EMHP Post Graduate Certificate
• Substantial experience of providing supervision to low intensity practitioners
• Registered with the BABCP or BPS as an EMHP (or applied for this)

Desirable

• Low intensity senior practitioner Course completion or willingness to undertake

Skills and Competences

Essential

• Excellent clinical decision problem solving skills.
• Critical awareness of alternative evidence-based therapeutic modalities and treatment options for mild-moderate MH difficulties
• Experience delivering psycho-educational groups in a community setting.
• Experience delivering psycho-educational groups in a community setting.
• Recognising when core interventions are appropriate for neurodiverse CYP and being able to make necessary adaptations
• Recognising when alternative evidence-based low-intensity interventions are required for neurodiverse CYP and being able to deliver these
• Recognising when CYPs needs or wider complexity factors (e.g. social/physical needs/risk/neurodiversity) mean they are beyond low intensity/early intervention remit and competence. Make suitable onwards referrals where indicated.
• Knowledge, skills, and experience of Whole School Approach to Mental Health and Emotional Wellbeing
• Experience of working directly with senior leadership teams in service context (e.g. education, health, VCSE) to support design and delivery of programmes, policy, pathways, support offers etc
• Has a clear working knowledge of the application of their respective professional code of conduct
• Extensive knowledge of health and safety
• Setting, monitoring and maintaining standards, ensuring high standards
• Ability to formulate and implement new ideas
• Ability to demonstrate sound value-based practice which empowers individuals and promotes wellness and is recovery focused

Desirable

• Sound knowledge of National Legislation and drivers and other legislation related to the care of children and young people educational provision and mental health
• Knowledge Of NICE, CQC standards and regulations
• Experience of and skills in mentoring/coaching other trainee CWPs/EMHPs

Special Requirements

Essential

• Ability to travel independently across the county between bases and schools.

Employer details

Employer name

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Countywide posts

Spalding and Sleaford

LN1 1EJ

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274-11057-SP