Clinician and Supervisor

Job description

Job responsibilities

What you will be doing as our Clinician and Supervisor:

Day to day, you can expect to be supporting school settings to develop their understanding of the Mental Health Support Team (MHST) and EMHP role.

You will hold your own caseload, providing direct support to students, pupils and families at a higher level of need than EMHP support and/or working alongside EMHPs as necessary.

You will be supporting EMHPs with caseload management supervision and clinical skills, this includes trainee EMHPs who are on their journey through university to qualification.

You may also be on your own training journey to complete a low intensity supervision course if you are not yet qualified as a supervisor. You will work alongside other mental health teams in Northpoint as well as wider Calderdale services.

What are we looking for in our ideal Clinician and supervisor:

• Already qualified as a supervisor, or able to meet the criteria for training (see specification).

• Two or more years working therapeutically, clinically or consultatively within a children and young peoples educational or mental health setting, with children and young people with mental health difficulties and their families.

• Experience of working in or with education settings and multi-agency working.

• Experience of delivering CBT informed practice.

• Experience of monitoring performance and outcomes.

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.

• Ability to teach, train and provide clear consultation.

Person Specification

Experience and Qualifications

Essential

• Professional qualification relevant to the specialist field.
• Two or more years working therapeutically, clinically or consultatively within a children and young peoples educational or mental health setting, with children and young people with mental health difficulties and their families.
• Experience of working in or with education settings.
• Experience of delivering CBT informed practice.
• Experience of multi-agency collaborative working.
• Experience of monitoring performance and outcomes.
• Either qualified OR ability to meet the competencies identified as a pre-requisite for EMHP supervisor training (for example as set out in EMHP Supervision Course Information from Sheffield University)

Desirable

• Relevant post-qualification training

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

Northpoint Wellbeing Ltd

Address

Halifax

Leeds

West Yorkshire

HX1 1TA

Employer's website

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