Mental Health Practitioners

Job description

Job responsibilities

1. To offer a range of flexible, compassionate and engaging mental health interventions for young people aged 11-25 including individual support, group work, counselling and psycho-educational work

2. Maintaining a regular caseload including offering first contact/initial meetings; holding/crisis sessions and ongoing support (3-12 sessions) with young people aged 11-25

3. To support the delivery of telephone cover, first contact team and other relevant cross-Charity initiatives

4. To monitor the effectiveness of interventions offered through the routine use of outcome monitoring tools reviewed directly with young people

5. Working with other staff across Off the Record to identify new areas for development, creativity and innovation within our existing services, researching unmet need and developing new responses.

6. To maintain high levels of safeguarding awareness and to respond to risk and safeguarding issues as they arise whilst respecting the young person's autonomy wherever possible.

7. To maintain accurate and up to date records of all work delivered on relevant data systems and to contribute to the monitoring and evaluation of our services

8. To ensure young people's voices are always central to service developments and contributing to young peoples participation and engagement activities in the charity

9. Undertaking direct promotion and publicity of the charitys services to young people, communities and professionals

10. To attend regular clinical and line management supervision and to attend other team/charity meetings as appropriate including occasional Saturday meetings/training days

11. To actively implement the charitys equalities and diversity & user engagement policies.

12. Any other tasks, not listed here, but deemed necessary and in the interest of the charity

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• - Graduate or Post graduate level Mental Health related qualification for example, counselling, psychology -post-graduate, MH social work, youth work

Desirable

• - Registration/Accreditation/eligibility for Professional Accreditation with appropriate professional bodies
• - At least 200 hours direct experience providing mental health support of which at least 100 must be with young people

Experience

Essential

• - Experience of working with young people delivering a range of mental health interventions
• - An understanding of trauma-informed practice and working with trauma and loss
• - Awareness of safeguarding responsibilities and the issues related to delivering services to young people under 16
• - A working understanding of the principles of equality, diversity and inclusion and a commitment to providing an inclusive, culturally sensitive service including LGBTQ and neuro-diverse young people and those with disabilities

Desirable

• - Experience of facilitating group work and delivering psycho-educational material

Skills and attitudes

Essential

• - Very strong ability to actively engage with a wide range of young people and an understanding of the issues young people face in their lives
• - Excellent core engagement /interpersonal skills and an ability to work consistently with high levels of empathy, warmth and unconditional positive regard
• - Flexible attitude including a willingness and ability to offer a range of mental health interventions and to contribute to new initiatives and ways of working
• - Ability to undertake first contact meetings with young people, including risk assessments and to provide flexible mental health interventions, including to young people in crisis
• - Commitment to working collaboratively with young people as full partners in any approach & to supporting user engagement in Off the Record
• - Ability to maintain accurate records and statistics including database entry
• - Ability to maintain professional boundaries whilst responding to complex ethical dilemmas
• - Ability to work as part of a team and to attend and contribute to team and agency meetings

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

Off The Record Youth Counselling Croydon

Address

Off The Record Youth Counselling

72 Queens Road

Croydon

CR0 2PR

Employer's website

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