Job summary
This is an exciting opportunity to join the Birmingham Mental Health Support Team as a Senior Mental Health PractitionerThe post holder will be an existing registered mental health professional, who will hold responsibility for complex cases, comprehensive mental health assessments, liaison with other services and direct supervision/line management to junior members of the team.They will be expected to line manage a defined staffing group and hold responsibility for ensuring compliance to statutory training, annual appraisal and staff supervision. They will be required to liaise with other local agencies including education, the STICK team, voluntary sector and social care.
Referrals to the team are accepted from education colleagues and less often, internal services. The post holder will be responsible for ensuring clinical efficiency within the team, ensuring that young people receive timely care.
Families of the referred young people are included in the assessment and on-going management of the cases. This will include the use of a range of evidence based approaches, including cognitive behavioural therapy.
Main duties of the job
To demonstrate clear leadership and support clinicians to deliver the early help mental health offer for people with emotional and/or mental health problems in schools to receive the best possible care, maximising engagement and improving outcomes.
Undertake professional supervision and caseload management for an agreed number of registered professionals within the teamTo effectively line manage an agreed number of staff, ensuring the service is safe and effective
As the senior clinician in the team, working alongside the Clinical Team Managers & Lead Nurse, ensuring the skill set and expertise of individual clinicians is appropriate to the needs of the case load they manage. This will include supervision and appraisals as appropriate, ensuring it is in line with Trust/Directorate standards.
Demonstrate decision-making and problem solving skills as a senior member of the team.
To support the team in developing and building effective communication between community services, wider mental health services and with other agencies and services.
To take appropriate lead action with regard to complaints and reportable incidents within the service as directed by the Trust's complaints and reportable incident policies.
To contribute to and lead on the implementation of local and national objectives.
About us
Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust is the first of its type in the UK. Our Trust was formed in February 2017 to drive forward our commitment to provide the highest quality, world-class physical and mental health care for our women, children and families. Uniting our hospitals means more seamless care; more investment to make greater advances in our specialist treatment and world-leading neo-natal and fetal work. Importantly, it also gives us a greater voice in shaping the future of family-centred care.
Birmingham Children's Hospital is a UK leading specialist paediatric centre with an international reputation in several areas.
Birmingham Women's Hospital is one of two dedicated women's hospitals in the UK, with the busiest single site maternity unit, delivering more than 8,200 babies a year offering a full range of gynaecological, maternity and neonatal care.
Forward Thinking Birmingham (FTB) Mental Health Services are a unique, innovative community and inpatient mental health partnership. Alongside partners FTB offers care pathways of mental health assessment and treatment for young people aged 0-25 years old.
Our Trust is committed to creating the best place to work. We believe in promoting and enhancing inclusion, diversity and equality and encourage applications from all areas of the community, who meet the criteria for the role, regardless of age, gender identity, disability, race, religion or sexual orientation.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification to view the full details for this opportunity at Birmingham Womens and Childrens NHS Foundation Trust.
When completing your application, please ensure you have evidenced how you meet the job description and person specification to include transferable experience, qualifications, skills along with professional registration details (if applicable).
Occasionally we receive a large number of applications for our roles and when that happens we sometimes bring the closing date forward, so please apply promptly to avoid disappointment.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification to view the full details for this opportunity at Birmingham Womens and Childrens NHS Foundation Trust.
When completing your application, please ensure you have evidenced how you meet the job description and person specification to include transferable experience, qualifications, skills along with professional registration details (if applicable).
Occasionally we receive a large number of applications for our roles and when that happens we sometimes bring the closing date forward, so please apply promptly to avoid disappointment.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse (RSCN, RMN, RNLD), Therapist/ MH Professional (must be accredited),Occupational Therapist, registered social worker
Desirable
- Masters or post graduate qualification
- Experience within community mental health
- Experience within education/social care
Knowledge
Essential
- Direct experience working with children and parents or carers in a Health, Educational or Social care setting. Relevant experience within a VCS setting would also be considered
- Significant experience of assessing the mental health needs of children/young people in a community or inpatient setting
- Good communication skills in range of contexts; working directly with vulnerable children, parents and carers and a wide range of professionals
- Understanding of normal stages of child development
- Knowledge of Safeguarding procedures and understanding of Right Time Right Service Framework
- Significant post qualification experience of working within a child / family / mental health service within a statutory organisation.
- Knowledge and skills of assessing child, young people/adults mental health needs.
- Knowledge and skills of completing brief mental health interventions with children and young people.
- ExperienceinprovidingTrainingtoother professional and non-professional groups.
- Knowledge of the roles of the various professionals within statutory organisations
- Experience of report writing and communicating with other professionals
- Willingness to participate in further training
- Experience of working with children and families from BAME communities.
- Experience of working within complex organisations / systems
Desirable
- Experience in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
- Knowledge of needs or mental health issues of the diverse populations within Birmingham
- Ability to participate in Research and Development.
- Excellent formulation skills
- Line management of a variety of mental health staff
- Contribution to the auditing and improvement cycles of a service
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
- Experience in providing Training to other professional and non-professional groups.
- Experience of multi-agency working.
- Knowledge of the roles of the various professionals within statutory organisations
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse (RSCN, RMN, RNLD), Therapist/ MH Professional (must be accredited),Occupational Therapist, registered social worker
Desirable
- Masters or post graduate qualification
- Experience within community mental health
- Experience within education/social care
Knowledge
Essential
- Direct experience working with children and parents or carers in a Health, Educational or Social care setting. Relevant experience within a VCS setting would also be considered
- Significant experience of assessing the mental health needs of children/young people in a community or inpatient setting
- Good communication skills in range of contexts; working directly with vulnerable children, parents and carers and a wide range of professionals
- Understanding of normal stages of child development
- Knowledge of Safeguarding procedures and understanding of Right Time Right Service Framework
- Significant post qualification experience of working within a child / family / mental health service within a statutory organisation.
- Knowledge and skills of assessing child, young people/adults mental health needs.
- Knowledge and skills of completing brief mental health interventions with children and young people.
- ExperienceinprovidingTrainingtoother professional and non-professional groups.
- Knowledge of the roles of the various professionals within statutory organisations
- Experience of report writing and communicating with other professionals
- Willingness to participate in further training
- Experience of working with children and families from BAME communities.
- Experience of working within complex organisations / systems
Desirable
- Experience in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
- Knowledge of needs or mental health issues of the diverse populations within Birmingham
- Ability to participate in Research and Development.
- Excellent formulation skills
- Line management of a variety of mental health staff
- Contribution to the auditing and improvement cycles of a service
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
- Experience in providing Training to other professional and non-professional groups.
- Experience of multi-agency working.
- Knowledge of the roles of the various professionals within statutory organisations
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
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