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Band 6 - Mental Health Practitioner

37.5 Hours per week

Sefton Mental Health Support Teams (MHST) at Alder Hey are looking for a new Mental Health Practitioner to join our team.  

As a B6 Mental Health Practitioner (MHP) you will work across a range of educational, healthcare and community settings to provide early intervention/evidence based interventions for children and young people and their families, enabling children and young people to access support in schools.   

The successful candidates will have already undertaken further training in one of the IAPT modalities (CBT, SFP and IPTA is desirable) and will undertake direct work with children and young people, families and carers as well as education providers.  In addition, the post holder will deliver training and work with education providers to develop the Whole School and College Approach. The post holders may also provide supervision to our Education Mental Health Practitioners (EMHP’s). 

If you are a current B5 EMHP you will need to submit a KSA as part of this process.  Please submit your completed KSA to [email protected] and [email protected] and refer to this in your application form. 

Main duties of the job

To communicate to the client and family, knowledge of therapeutic  processes, confidentiality and available options involved in their assessment and care plan, to enable them to engage appropriately from a position of informed consent. This will sometimes include communication about highly sensitive material and outcomes.

Utilising analytical skills, specialist knowledge and experience provide a comprehensive assessment and formulation of the presenting problem taking into account the child’s educational attainment, chronological/ developmental stage, inner world/ emotional wellbeing, the mental health of the child’s parents, the family dynamics and environment, and the broader social context including school.

Develop a planned programme of intervention utilising behavioural, cognitive, psychodynamic and systemic perspectives as indicated by the formulation, the needs of the client and the evidence base.

Provide individual, couple, family and group interventions as appropriate as part of a client's integrated, therapeutic programme.

Undertake with supervision/consultation, case management of cases of some severity, risk and complexity, co-ordinating multi-disciplinary inputs and working in partnership with other agencies where appropriate.

Working for our organisation

Alder Hey MHST is part of the Education Mental Health Team.   MHSTs cover both Liverpool and Sefton and currently have links with around 200 schools.  Liverpool MHST comprises 4 teams, North, Central, South along with a Transitions Team. Sefton MHST has recently recruited to their 4 teams and now have North, South, Central and an LD team. 

Alder Hey are offering excellent benefit schemes;

Refer a friend – Alder Hey staff

Successful candidates who are introduced to the trust by existing staff members will receive £1000 after completion of six months in post.  Please include the name/Alder Hey email for your friend in the additional information section of your application.

This will be paid in two parts, £250 in first month pay on commencement in post, and £750 on completion of six months.

Accommodation

Alder Hey will support the cost of accommodation for up to 3 months from the date of employment (up to £500 per month)

The cost is to be paid by the staff member and reclaimed as expenses. 

Relocation package

Relocation packages to support new hires and will be consulted on an individual basis, please link in with [email protected] for further information.