MHST Senior Practitioner for Whole School Approach

• Some level of formal CBT training (e.g. CYP-IAPT)
• Previous consolidated post graduate experience of working with young people with emotional and mental health issues
• Have completed the HEE Postgraduate Diploma in Education Mental Health Practice (with at least 18 months post-qualification practice)

• Forming strong working relations with a variety of stakeholders
• Providing consultations to education colleagues and support education setting to embed a whole school approach to wellbeing
• Developing and delivering evidence-based time limited interventions to young people within education settings
• Evidencing the outcomes of the MHST service
• Providing clinical supervision to Education Mental Health practitioners.

• Provide evidence-based interventions for mild to moderate mental health issues.
• Support the senior mental health lead in each education setting to introduce or develop their whole school or college approach.
• Give timely advice to school and college staff, and liaising with external specialist services, to help children and young people to get the right support and stay in education.

Essential

• A professional qualification with professional registration in a relevant subject (e.g. CBT, psychology, social work, mental health nursing) at degree level or equivalent. Or core post graduate training in provision of low intensity CBT, e.g. Postgraduate Diploma for Educational Mental Health Practitioner (EMHP programme)
• Appropriate UK professional registration

Desirable

• Accredited CBT qualification
• Documented evidence of continued professional development.
• Post-graduate training in mental health
• Mentor / Practice Educator / Supervision training
• Postgraduate Diploma for Senior Wellbeing Practitioner (SWP programme)

Essential

• Significant post qualification experience of working in a range of settings relevant to the post.
• Significant experience of assessing people in a variety of settings who have a mental health presentation.
• Experience of working with young people presenting with emotional/psychological difficulties and challenging behaviour.
• Experience and knowledge of implementing safeguarding procedures for children and adults.
• Experience and knowledge of working in a multi-ethnic community.
• Experience of teaching and training in practice
• Experience of peer supervision, supervising colleagues in the multi-disciplinary team and consultation in other agency settings.

Desirable

• Experience of supporting young people in an educational setting

Essential

• Knowledge of legislation related to children and/or adolescent's mental health and social care e.g. Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act, Care Act, Child Protection and Safeguarding of Vulnerable Children etc.
• Knowledge of recent developments in mental health/learning disability provision for young people including government initiatives.
• Knowledge of current developments in research and its application with regards to children and young people's mental wellbeing
• Facilitating clinical supervision

Desirable

• Ability to teach and train others using multi-media materials suitable for presentation within public, professional and academic settings.

Essential

• Deliver care with respect, dignity, compassion and recovery focused.
• Clinical skills to assess young people in a variety of settings who have an acute mental health presentation.
• Comprehensive risk assessment skills.
• Specific clinical skills applicable in a community or educational setting e.g. brief therapy, cognitive therapy, and anxiety management, de-escalation.
• Confidence to work autonomously in the community and use own initiative, and make decisions in complex situations.
• Ability to deal sensitively with stressful situation including; staff and organisational problems; child abuse; family breakdown; mental ill health and risk of self-harm.

Desirable

• Delivering a range of evidence based early intervention techniques for relevant service user group.

Essential

• Able to communicate effectively, orally and in writing at an age-appropriate level - complex, highly technical, and/or clinically sensitive information to service users, their families, carers and professionals within and outside the NHS.
• Ability to communicate sensitive information to children and/or adolescents, carers and colleagues in a way that addresses psychological resistance.
• Ability to work flexibly across service boundaries.
• Skills in liaising with other agencies and providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
• Ability to contain and work with organisational stress and ability to hold the stress of others.
• Respectful approach to service users, families, carers, colleagues

Essential

• Ability to maintain high standards of record keeping, including data entry and recording.
• Ability to assess and manage risks.

Essential

• A commitment to work in ways which support equality and diversity and treat everyone with appropriate dignity and respect

Essential

• Car driver (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010 which prevents you from driving)
• Disclosure and Barring approval (formally CRB check).
• Able to travel independently across the Trust.
• Ability and willingness to work outside office hours when required by the role.