Job summary
MFT Thrive In Education Teams have three core functions:-
- Delivering evidence based interventions for mild to moderate mental health presentations
- Supporting the mental health leads in each school/college to support a whole school approach to wellbeing and mental health.
- Providing timely advice and guidance to education staff and liaising with specialist services to support children and young people to receive effective support to remain in education.
Trafford's Thrive In Education team works flexibly in several educational settings, working alongside education colleagues to develop and provide preventive and early help support to meet the needs of their pupils experiencing low intensity mental health issues, mainly anxiety, low mood and emotional regulation.
The team consists of a service manager, senior clinicians, supervisors, Education Mental Health Practitioner's, Children and Young People's Wellbeing Practitioner's and administrative support.
We have the opportunity to reach children and young people at the earliest stages possible when their difficulties have first been identified ensuring schools, families, professionals and mental health practitioners work collaboratively to acknowledge the voice of the young person and provide effective interventions in dynamic and innovative way.
Main duties of the job
Triage and screening of referrals, obtaining further information if needed and responding promptly including allocation to team members.
Complete comprehensive assessment, to develop a formulation and plan for intervention, in collaboration with the child, young person and parents/carers and communicate this clearly to the referrer and other relevant professionals.
Implement, co-ordinate and regularly review a range of evidence based therapeutic interventions, including CBT, risk management, utilising the skills and expertise of the multi-disciplinary team and other agencies where appropriate
Utilise, in collaboration with the child, young person and family, assessment and routine outcome measures throughout all clinical activity and supervision, maintaining up to date clinical records.
Ensure that the perspective of children, young people and families is incorporated into all aspects of intervention.
Provide evidence-based clinical management supervision to trainees and junior staff members.
Communicate with young people and families, all partner agencies at a senior level and with educational establishments. Lead on communicating with colleagues in the team.
Establish therapeutic relationships with children, young people and their families, implement evidence based therapeutic interventions.
Providing consultation and timely advice to education settings.
About us
MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of £2.6bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We're creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.
Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you'll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.
We've also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.
We're proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What's more, we're excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.
At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience youll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading. So that youre even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, youll need to take time to read the Candidate Essentials Guidethat sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how we care for you as you care for others. Most importantly, it also contains critical information youll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.
COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not currently a condition of employment, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. We will be checking the vaccination status of all new starters so that we can manage individual and environmental risks, and so that we can support those who may be undecided about vaccination.
If you are unvaccinated, there is helpful advice and information available by searching on the NHS England website where you can also find out more about how to access the vaccination. There is currently Government consultation underway which will determine whether some new employees may need to be vaccinated.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience youll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading. So that youre even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, youll need to take time to read the Candidate Essentials Guidethat sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how we care for you as you care for others. Most importantly, it also contains critical information youll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.
COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not currently a condition of employment, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. We will be checking the vaccination status of all new starters so that we can manage individual and environmental risks, and so that we can support those who may be undecided about vaccination.
If you are unvaccinated, there is helpful advice and information available by searching on the NHS England website where you can also find out more about how to access the vaccination. There is currently Government consultation underway which will determine whether some new employees may need to be vaccinated.
Person Specification
Essentail
Essential
- You must be registered/have accreditation (or be accreditable) with a professional body and you must have a recognised qualification relevant to the post:
- You must have a recognised qualification.
- Extensive experience of delivering evidence-based interventions to children and young people
- Experience of working with diverse community groups
- Experience of assessing and managing risk
- Experience of liaison and working with a range of other relevant agencies and professionals,
- Experience of mentoring and supervision of others
- The ability to select, use and interpret assessment tools and outcome measures / ROMs effectively and collaboratively
- Highly developed communication skills
- To have the ability to manage own caseload and act as lead practitioner in the team
Desirable
- Low intensity CBT Certificate in supervision skills
- Community mental health experience across a variety of settings.
- Experience in working with neurodiverse young people
- Delivery of group work, workshops and training
- Advanced IT skills.
- Experience of audit and research.
Person Specification
Essentail
Essential
- You must be registered/have accreditation (or be accreditable) with a professional body and you must have a recognised qualification relevant to the post:
- You must have a recognised qualification.
- Extensive experience of delivering evidence-based interventions to children and young people
- Experience of working with diverse community groups
- Experience of assessing and managing risk
- Experience of liaison and working with a range of other relevant agencies and professionals,
- Experience of mentoring and supervision of others
- The ability to select, use and interpret assessment tools and outcome measures / ROMs effectively and collaboratively
- Highly developed communication skills
- To have the ability to manage own caseload and act as lead practitioner in the team
Desirable
- Low intensity CBT Certificate in supervision skills
- Community mental health experience across a variety of settings.
- Experience in working with neurodiverse young people
- Delivery of group work, workshops and training
- Advanced IT skills.
- Experience of audit and research.
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).
