Job summary
If you have the passion and drive to deliver evidence-based early interventions for children and young people, working across both educational settings and the community read on
This role is a real opportunity to help shape the services we provide with children, young people, families and educational settings and to develop your career in mental health support to children, young people and families.
Successful candidates will be a qualified Mental Health Practitioner and will have experience of working with children and young peoples mental health and emotional wellbeing services.
Compass Bloom MHST is an early intervention mental health and emotional wellbeing service covering Central & West Lancashire. The service delivers evidenced based interventions for children and young people with mild to moderate mental health needs.
It is part of the MHST Programme, which has been commissioned following the Transforming Children and Young Peoples Mental Health Care Provision: A Green Paper (2017).
Main duties of the job
You will need to demonstrate in your application that you have a core MHP qualification relevant to mental health, alongside post graduate experience working with children and young people and an understanding of the principles and practice of CBT and clinical supervision.
You will be knowledgeable and experienced in working with CYP with mental health needs; completing mental health assessments, providing practice supervision and support as well as providing specialist care directly to children and young people and families
Applicants must have excellent communication skills and be able to network with other agencies as central to the role.
You must possess a full driving licence and have access to your own transport.
About us
Compass is committed to safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults and you should share our commitment. All Compass posts are subject to appropriate level DBS checks. We positively encourage applications from all members of the community, regardless of gender, race, faith, disability, gender reassignment, age or sexual orientation and encourage applications from people who have experiences in life which enrich skills and empathy. This is part of our commitment to equality and developing a truly inclusive and representative workforce. We are happy to discuss any reasonable adjustments individuals may require in the recruitment process, on commencement, or once in post. Benefits
We offer a range of benefits including:
- 27 days holiday + bank holidays, rising to 32 days over time
- Life assurance at 2 x basic salary
- Generous contributory pension scheme (14.3% employer contribution)
- Family-friendly policies
- 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme and OH service
- Enhanced sick pay
- Excellent learning & development opportunities and career progression
- Annual performance / salary review
Closing date: 13th June 2024 Please note this advert may close when sufficient number of applications are received.
Job description
Job responsibilities
If you have the passion and drive to deliver evidence-based early interventions for children and young people, working across both educational settings and the community read on
This role is a real opportunity to help shape the services we provide with children, young people, families and educational settings and to develop your career in mental health support to children, young people and families.
Successful candidates will be a qualified Mental Health Practitioner and will have experience of working with children and young peoples mental health and emotional wellbeing services.
Compass Bloom MHST is an early intervention mental health and emotional wellbeing service covering Central & West Lancashire. The service delivers evidenced based interventions for children and young people with mild to moderate mental health needs.
It is part of the MHST Programme, which has been commissioned following the Transforming Children and Young Peoples Mental Health Care Provision: A Green Paper (2017).
Job description
Job responsibilities
If you have the passion and drive to deliver evidence-based early interventions for children and young people, working across both educational settings and the community read on
This role is a real opportunity to help shape the services we provide with children, young people, families and educational settings and to develop your career in mental health support to children, young people and families.
Successful candidates will be a qualified Mental Health Practitioner and will have experience of working with children and young peoples mental health and emotional wellbeing services.
Compass Bloom MHST is an early intervention mental health and emotional wellbeing service covering Central & West Lancashire. The service delivers evidenced based interventions for children and young people with mild to moderate mental health needs.
It is part of the MHST Programme, which has been commissioned following the Transforming Children and Young Peoples Mental Health Care Provision: A Green Paper (2017).
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Be a suitably qualified CYP Mental Health practitioner for example:
- Qualified EMHP
- CYP IAPT Qualification
- Registered Social Worker
- Registered Mental Health Nurse
Desirable
- A further relevant degree qualification.
- Teaching qualification.
- Youth Mental Health First Aid trained
Experience
Essential
- 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.
Desirable
- 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 monitoring and recording outcome measures for
- childrens emotional wellbeing.
- Experience of navigating complex social systems and environments, who may have conflicting priories or agendas.
- Experience of working with looked after children.
- Experience of working with other vulnerable groups.
Additional Criteria
Essential
- 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 settings to increase mental health awareness within staff group.
- 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.
- Ability to take appropriate action to mitigate or manage risk.
- Knowledge of educational environments.
- Knowledge of safeguarding issues.
- Knowledge of capacity and consent issues including Gillick competence
- Full enhanced and current satisfactory DBS disclosure for the role.
- Ability to personally manage a sensitive, traumatic and potentially emotionally distressing caseload.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills.
- Willingness to study further if required
- 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.
Desirable
- Ability to teach others about mental health issues.
- Ability to conduct other group therapeutic interventions with children and their families.
- Knowledge of the functional operation of specialist Children and Young
- Peoples Mental Health and Emotional Wellbeing services teams.
- Proven commitment to continuous professional development.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Be a suitably qualified CYP Mental Health practitioner for example:
- Qualified EMHP
- CYP IAPT Qualification
- Registered Social Worker
- Registered Mental Health Nurse
Desirable
- A further relevant degree qualification.
- Teaching qualification.
- Youth Mental Health First Aid trained
Experience
Essential
- 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.
Desirable
- 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 monitoring and recording outcome measures for
- childrens emotional wellbeing.
- Experience of navigating complex social systems and environments, who may have conflicting priories or agendas.
- Experience of working with looked after children.
- Experience of working with other vulnerable groups.
Additional Criteria
Essential
- 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 settings to increase mental health awareness within staff group.
- 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.
- Ability to take appropriate action to mitigate or manage risk.
- Knowledge of educational environments.
- Knowledge of safeguarding issues.
- Knowledge of capacity and consent issues including Gillick competence
- Full enhanced and current satisfactory DBS disclosure for the role.
- Ability to personally manage a sensitive, traumatic and potentially emotionally distressing caseload.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills.
- Willingness to study further if required
- 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.
Desirable
- Ability to teach others about mental health issues.
- Ability to conduct other group therapeutic interventions with children and their families.
- Knowledge of the functional operation of specialist Children and Young
- Peoples Mental Health and Emotional Wellbeing services teams.
- Proven commitment to continuous professional development.
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
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Additional information
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
