Education Mental Health Practitioner

Job description

Job responsibilities

Key Responsibilities:

For Service Users Under guidance and instruction:

To work with children, young people and their families, on a one to one or group basis, using a variety of interventions, to identify needs and to achieve positive outcomes.

To work in partnership with parents/carers to empower them and to enable them to achieve better outcomes for their children

. To work co-operatively with childrens services, health agencies and other community based services, to provide the most effective service for children young people and families.

To contribute to Service development.

To apply safeguarding and child protection procedures. For Resources

To be responsible for equipment/resources used in day to day work.

To be responsible for case note recording, contributing to case reports.

For People (Staff, Students, Volunteers)

No management/supervisory responsibility for staff, students or volunteers other than to help and advise colleagues as necessary. (See Addendum.)

For Health and Safety Project Worker 1 Grade:

To promote, monitor and maintain health safety and security in the working environment

This Job Description and Person Specification reflect the duties of the post as they exist at this time and may be subject to change based on the needs of the Department Programme.

The post-holder may be required to undertake other duties commensurate with the salary and competence requirements of this post from time to time as required.

Pre-employment checks will be required for the role.

Person Specification

Knowledge and Skills

Essential

• Awareness of factors impacting on and issues facing vulnerable children
• and young people and families (e.g. disadvantage, poverty, disability).
• Awareness of childrens need to feel safe.
• Able to listen to and communicate effectively with children and young
• people.
• Able to work as part of a team.
• Able to accurately and clearly record case notes deploying the
• necessary standard of writing and IT skills.
• Able to apply Barnardos safeguarding and child protection procedures.

Experience

Essential

• Some experience of work with children and young people but this does
• not have to have been gained in a formal employment setting.

Qualifications

Essential

• Qualification mandatory for practice, where applicable. (NB: In future
• there is likely to be a requirement for at least NVQ2 for staff assisting
• and working alongside other staff in work with children, young people
• and vulnerable adults. For staff having sole and direct access to
• children, young people and vulnerable adults, the requirement will be
• for NVQ3.)

Experience

Essential

• Some experience of work with children and young people but this does
• not have to have been gained in a formal employment setting.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer details

Employer name

Barnardo’s

Address

Morecambe Bay Academy

Dallam Avenue

Morecambe

LA4 5BG

Employer's website

https://www.barnardos.org.uk (Opens in a new tab)