37.5 Hours Per Hours

Do you have experience working with children with a mental health issue and are looking for an exciting opportunity to make a difference in the lives of young people within the Kirklees area? Would you like to be part of a diverse and innovative service who offer mental health support in an educational setting?

We are seeking applicants to join our Mental Health Support Team who work across all the schools in Kirklees. This is an exciting time to join our team to deliver evidence based interventions to children within our schools with mild to moderate mental health conditions.

Focusing on early intervention we also provide training and workshops to schools using the whole school approach, which enables schools to provide a culture of well being for all their pupils.

We are encouraging applicants who have professional membership from a range of diverse professions such as EMHP's, nursing and occupational therapy to apply.

You will be part of a supportive and resilient team within a trust which places staff health and wellbeing at the top of its agenda. Our team sits within our CAMHS service which means that we can provide expert CPD opportunities, further training and supervision from a diverse range of experienced practitioners.

We strongly discouraged and will conduct a thorough screening process before selecting candidates to progress to the next stage. If you are using AI to enhance your application, please disclose this in your application form.

Main duties of the job

This role would suit an experienced health care professional with some level of formal CBT training (e.g. CYP-IAPT), or have completed the HEE Postgraduate Diploma in Education Mental Health Practice or Postgraduate Diploma in Psychological Wellbeing Practice for children and young people or who have a core professional and experience working in mental health.

As a band 5 Educational mental health practitioner you will be expected to develop your skills under supervision to manage a caseload of young people including triaging, consulting with schools.

You will provide low intensity CBT interventions to promote the mental wellbeing of the children and young people within our schools. You will liase with the mental health leads within the schools to implement a whole school approach and enable staff to be competent to deal with low to moderate mental health concerns.

You will be expected to provide workshops for young people, parents and carer's and school staff.

For more information on this role please contact Nicole Dumisani (team manager) on nicole.dumisani@swyt.nhs.uk.

For full job description, please see attached supporting documents.

All employees of the Trust are strongly encouraged to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 to protect patients.

About us

We are a specialist NHS Foundation Trust that provides community, mental health and learning disability services for the people of Barnsley, Calderdale, Kirklees and Wakefield. We also provide low and medium secure services and are the lead for the west Yorkshire secure provider collaborative.

Our mission is to help people reach their potential and live well in their communities, we do this by providing high-quality care in the right place at the right time. We employ staff in both clinical and non-clinical services who work hard to make a difference to the lives of service users, families and carers.

We encourage and welcome applications from all protected characteristic groups, we value diversity and want our workforce to be reflective of our communities.

Being a foundation Trust means were accountable to our members, who can have a say in how were run. Around 14,300 local people (including staff) are members of our Trust.

Join us and you will be one of over 4,500 staff committed to supporting and improving the mental, physical and social needs of the thousands of people we meet and help each year.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all colleagues and volunteers to share this commitment.

We do reserve to right to close vacancy before the advertised closing date if necessary, so please apply as soon as possible.

Job description

Job responsibilities

The Children and Young Peoples Improving Access to Psychological Therapies programme (CYP IAPT) is a service transformation programme delivered by Health Education England and partners that aims to improve existing children and young peoples mental health Services (CYP MHS) working in the community.

Childrens Well being Practitioner training will benefit from being integrated fully within CYP MHS and linked to the CYP IAPT collaborative, which brings a valuable organisational infrastructure.

As part of Mental Health Support Teams (MHSTs), Education Mental Health Practitioners (EMHPs) will work in both education and healthcare settings to support children and young people with mental ill health. The new roles support the Governments priority of increasing access to and availability of mental health and well being support for children and young people.

The post is for a team player who has already qualified through the Education Mental Health Practitioner framework.

This is a role within the Children and Young People Improving Access to Psychological Therapies programme (CYP IAPT). The post-holder will work within a CYP mental health service delivering, under supervision, high-quality brief outcome focused evidence-based interventions and guided self-help for children and young people experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties.

The training and service experience will equip the post holder with the necessary knowledge, attitude and capabilities to operate effectively in an inclusive, value driven service.

This post will work under the direction of the Senior CAMHS Practitioners within the project, across the secondary and special schools within the Kirklees locality.

As this is a school based service delivery, the post holder will be expected to take their annual leave predominantly in the school holidays.

Assess and deliver, under supervision outcome focused, evidence-based interventions to children and young people experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties.

Work in partnership, support children, young people experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties and their families in the self-management of presenting difficulties.

Work in partnership with children, young people and families in the development of plans for the intervention and agreed outcomes.

Support and empower children, young people and families to make informed choices about the intervention.

Operate at all times from an inclusive values base, which recognises and respects diversity.

Accept referrals within agreed national and local protocols.

Adhere to the service referral protocols. Under supervision signpost unsuitable referrals to the relevant service as necessary.

Under supervision, undertake accurate assessments of risk to self and others, through close case management and supervision, escalate cases where the level of need becomes beyond scope, or more severe ensuring adherence to other relevant elements of service delivery.

Person Specification

Special Knowledge & Skills

Essential

• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Ability to deliver low intensity evidenced based interventions under supervision to children and young people.
• Ability to devise and deliver group-based interventions to children and young people.
• Ability to delver parent led interventions where children have a mental health need.
• Computer literate.
• Ability to keep clinical records to a high standard.
• Good working knowledge of nationally agreed routine outcome measures within the CYP-IAPT Programme.
• Working knowledge of the educational system.
• Knowledge of children and young people gained through academic study in child development, child well being or mental health.
• Knowledge of safeguarding issues and legal framework.
• Knowledge and experience of capacity and consent issues when working with young people.
• Knowledge of the whole school approach to mental health.

Desirable

• Skilled at engaging and building relationships with children, young people and parents.
• Ability to work collaboratively with young people, parents, colleagues and partner agencies.
• Knowledge of other neurodevelopmental and mental health conditions both in type and severity.
• Knowledge of service pathways and remits and ability to navigating these processes.
• Knowledge of how contextual factors affect children and young peoples mental health and impact this can have on delivering effective interventions.

Experience

Essential

• At least one years experience of delivery of low intensity evidenced based CBT interventions for mild to moderate mental health issues.
• At least one-year experience of work within both health and educational settings.
• Experience of consultation and liaison with education and multidisciplinary colleagues.

Desirable

• Experience of service development.
• Experience of forging new working relationships within complex inter agency framework.

Qualifications

Essential

• HEE PG Diploma in Education Mental Health Practice for children & young people or PG Diploma in Psychological Well being Practice for children and young people.
• Relevant qualification or experience within an educational setting.

Desirable

• Relevant degree qualification.

Employer details

Employer name

South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Trust

Address

Folly Hall Mills

St Thomas' Road

Huddersfield

HD1 3LT

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