Job summary
- Main area
- Mental Health
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Home or remote working
- Compressed hours
- Term time hours
- Job ref
- 284-24-6604034-MHSCC
- Employer
- Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Printing House
- Town
- Birmingham
- Salary
- £29,970 - £36,483 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 02/10/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Education Mental Health Practitioner/Children's Wellbeing Practitioner
NHS AfC: Band 5
Job overview
Every day our team gets the chance to make a real difference to the lives of local children, young people and their families through this unique Early Help Mental Health project in Birmingham schools. Our service prides itself in its innovative approach where we build lasting relationships with a group of schools to champion a whole school approach to mental health, as well as tailored 1 to 1 and group interventions. Have you got the relevant experience and do you share our passion for early help and prevention? Then please read on!
We invite qualified Childrens Wellbeing Practitioners (CWP) and qualified Educational Mental Health Practitioners (EMHP) to join our dynamic, welcoming, and supportive team. With plenty of opportunity for training and progression our service welcomes candidates who are interested in ongoing professional development. The job is a mix of independent and collaborative working, working in schools, working from home and team meetings and trainings.
A driving license and access to a car for work purposes on a daily basis is also an essential requirement of this post.
Main duties of the job
The post will involve delivery of consultation with school staff, helping them access early mental health support for pupils with mild to moderate mental health difficulties to prevent mental health difficulties escalating to secondary / CAMHS level (severe and complex difficulties). You will conduct screening assessments of children and young people and deliver evidence-based interventions on a 1:1 or group basis in primary and secondary schools. As part of the Whole School Approach you will join your colleagues to deliver engaging workshops and assemblies, as well as parent and staff training.
Working for our organisation
Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust is the first of its type in the UK. Our Trust was formed in February 2017 to drive forward our commitment to provide the highest quality, world-class physical and mental health care for our women, children and families. Uniting our hospitals means more seamless care; more investment to make greater advances in our specialist treatment and world-leading neo-natal and fetal work. Importantly, it also gives us a greater voice in shaping the future of family-centred care.
Birmingham Children's Hospital is a UK leading specialist paediatric centre with an international reputation in several areas.
Birmingham Women's Hospital is one of two dedicated women's hospitals in the UK, with the busiest single site maternity unit, delivering more than 8,200 babies a year offering a full range of gynaecological, maternity and neonatal care.
Forward Thinking Birmingham (FTB) Mental Health Services are a unique, innovative community and inpatient mental health partnership. Alongside partners FTB offers care pathways of mental health assessment and treatment for young people aged 0-25 years old.
Our Trust is committed to creating the best place to work. We believe in promoting and enhancing inclusion, diversity and equality and encourage applications from all areas of the community, who meet the criteria for the role, regardless of age, gender identity, disability, race, religion or sexual orientation.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification to view the full details for this opportunity at Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust.
When completing your application, please ensure you have evidenced how you meet the job description and person specification to include transferable experience, qualifications, skills along with professional registration details (if applicable).
Occasionally we receive a large number of applications for our roles and when that happens we sometimes bring the closing date forward, so please apply promptly to avoid disappointment.
Person specification
Education
Essential criteria
- Qualification from CYP-IAPT accredited training course (e.g Post Graduate Certificate in CYP IAPT Low Intensity Psychological Therapies, CWP or Post Graduate diploma in Educational Mental Health Practitioner
Desirable criteria
- A further relevant degree qualification
- Teaching qualification
- Youth Mental Health First Aid Trained
KNOWLEDGE & NATURE OF EXPERIENCE
Essential criteria
- Experience of working with children and young people, their families and others.
- Experience of working and liaising with a wide variety of agencies and stakeholders
- Experience of working with children and young people who have social, emotional and/or behavioural difficulties
- Experience of working with anxiety disorders
- Experience of working with affective (mood) disorders
- Experience of the delivery of specific therapeutic interventions to children, young people or their families (e.g. CBT, solution focused brief therapy)
- Knowledge of educational environments
- Knowledge of safeguarding issues
- Knowledge of capacity and consent issues including Gillick competence
- Knowledge of the functional operation of specialist CAMHS teams
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working with children and their families in a healthcare setting
- Experience of working with children and their families in an education setting
- Experience of navigating complex social systems and environments, who may have conflicting priorities or agendas
- Experience of working with looked after children
- Experience of working with other vulnerable groups
ANALYTICAL AND JUDGEMENT SKILLS
Essential criteria
- Ability to conduct mental health assessments of children and young people
- Ability to make an assessment of risk and to record and communicate it appropriately.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of monitoring and recording outcome measures for childrens’ emotional wellbeing
PROFESSIONAL / MANAGERIAL / SPECIALIST KNOWLEDGE
Essential criteria
- Ability to carry out 1:1 therapeutic mental health interventions with children
- Ability to carry out 1:1 therapeutic mental health interventions with families
- Ability to conduct group parenting programmes
- Ability to work within educational or community settings to increase mental health awareness within a professional staff group
- Ability take appropriate action to mitigate or manage risk.
- Ability to personally manage a sensitive, traumatic and potentially emotionally distressing caseload
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
Desirable criteria
- Ability to teach others about mental health issues
- Ability to conduct other group therapeutic interventions with children and their families
- Proven commitment to continuous professional development.
PERSONAL SKILLS / ABILITIES AND ATTRIBUTES
Essential criteria
- self-motivated
- Able to travel to meet the requirements of the post
- Team Player
- Excellent time management and organisational skills
- Able to meet the physical requirements of the role after reasonable adjustments have been made for any illness or disability
Other requirements
Essential criteria
- Car driver (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010 which prevents you from driving).
- Disclosure and Barring Approval
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
- Jorine Beck
- Job title
- Clinical Team Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07796611211
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