Job summary
An exciting and rare training opportunity has arisen for someone to join our award winning Mental Health Support Team in Skegness.
This will initially be as a Band 4 Assistant Practitioner, but will transfer to an EMHP training post at the earliest availability of a training place. This is most likely to be either September 2024 or January 2025. Applicants should be aware this could involve hybrid learning (both virtual and face to face) and some travel to university may be required. Upon successful completion of the course, the role is uplifted to a Band 5 Education Mental Health Practitioner. For the duration of the course you will have regular study time and supervision built in to your working week.
The Mental Health Support Teams (MHSTs) support children and young people aged 5-18 within school and college settings who are presenting with mental health or emotional wellbeing problems which are of a mild to moderate level of complexity and/or intensity.
This is a full-time post operating Monday to Friday, 9am-5pm.
For more information or an informal discussion, please contact Gina Legg on 07976 433977 or email gina.legg@nhs.net
Main duties of the job
You will support the team's Whole School Approach offer to education settings in Skegness and the surrounding area. This includes facilitation work of consultations, workshops and staff training. You will also co-facilitate groups and offer 1:1 support where appropriate. Please be assured close support, guidance and induction will be offered from the wider team.
Once undertaking the course, as an EMHP trainee you will be working with a small caseload of children/ young people offering low intensity CBT interventions. This offering will be in line with your studies and allow you to put your learning into practice. Close support and supervision will continue to be provided.
About us
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,800 staff, and serving a population of over 766,000, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.
You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England, in an area heralded as a fantastic place to live and work. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of 'outstanding' for well-led and 'good' overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We're really proud of this!
We are also leading the way in transforming care, with multi-million-pound transformation of patient environments and radical redesign of community services.
This is the time to join and help redesign our services of the future. We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the job description and person specification for full details of the role.
- Co-deliver groups withB5/6/7Practitioner, takingresponsibility for maintaining records for a percentage of the attendees.
- Deliver workshops for children and young people (CYP) and parents.
- Provide one-to-one intervention fora caseload ofCYP.
- Manage clinical risk and safeguarding concerns with support from senior members of the team.
- Liaise with other professionals/services re. referrals andaccording toCYP needs.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the job description and person specification for full details of the role.
- Co-deliver groups withB5/6/7Practitioner, takingresponsibility for maintaining records for a percentage of the attendees.
- Deliver workshops for children and young people (CYP) and parents.
- Provide one-to-one intervention fora caseload ofCYP.
- Manage clinical risk and safeguarding concerns with support from senior members of the team.
- Liaise with other professionals/services re. referrals andaccording toCYP needs.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Commitment to complete the Education Mental Health Practitioner 1 year university course at the earliest opportunity (This could be either September 2024 or January 2025)
- Ability to study at degree level
- Proven record of previous academic attainment
- Good solid basic literacy and numeracy qualifications at a minimum of level 2
- Post training:-Successful completion of the NHSE commissioned 1yr 'Education Mental Health Practitioner' course.
Desirable
- Teaching or training qualification
- Therapeutic Intervention courses
Experience
Essential
- In Training: o Previous experience of working with children and young people
- When qualified: oExperience of working with children and young people, their families and others. oExperience of working and liaising with a wide variety of agencies and stakeholders oExperience of working with children and young people who have social, emotional and/or behavioural difficulties oExperience of working with anxiety disorders oExperience of working with affective (mood) disorders oExperience 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 young people
- Experience of delivering therapeutic interventions
- Experience in delivering training and group work
Skills
Essential
- In Training: oAbility to learn in a variety of settings and using a variety of learning methods oComputer literate oAbility to study as a self-motivated learner who can formulate their own progress towards learning objectives and negotiate pathways to achievement with supervisory teams
- When qualified: oAbility to carry out 1:1 therapeutic mental health interventions with children oAbility to carry out 1:1 therapeutic mental health interventions with families oAbility to conduct group parenting programmes oAbility to work within educational settings to increase mental health awareness within the staff group oAbility to conduct mental health assessments of children and young people oAbility to make an assessment of risk and to record and communicate it appropriately. oAbility take appropriate action to mitigate or manage risk
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Commitment to complete the Education Mental Health Practitioner 1 year university course at the earliest opportunity (This could be either September 2024 or January 2025)
- Ability to study at degree level
- Proven record of previous academic attainment
- Good solid basic literacy and numeracy qualifications at a minimum of level 2
- Post training:-Successful completion of the NHSE commissioned 1yr 'Education Mental Health Practitioner' course.
Desirable
- Teaching or training qualification
- Therapeutic Intervention courses
Experience
Essential
- In Training: o Previous experience of working with children and young people
- When qualified: oExperience of working with children and young people, their families and others. oExperience of working and liaising with a wide variety of agencies and stakeholders oExperience of working with children and young people who have social, emotional and/or behavioural difficulties oExperience of working with anxiety disorders oExperience of working with affective (mood) disorders oExperience 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 young people
- Experience of delivering therapeutic interventions
- Experience in delivering training and group work
Skills
Essential
- In Training: oAbility to learn in a variety of settings and using a variety of learning methods oComputer literate oAbility to study as a self-motivated learner who can formulate their own progress towards learning objectives and negotiate pathways to achievement with supervisory teams
- When qualified: oAbility to carry out 1:1 therapeutic mental health interventions with children oAbility to carry out 1:1 therapeutic mental health interventions with families oAbility to conduct group parenting programmes oAbility to work within educational settings to increase mental health awareness within the staff group oAbility to conduct mental health assessments of children and young people oAbility to make an assessment of risk and to record and communicate it appropriately. oAbility take appropriate action to mitigate or manage risk
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.
