Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Senior Mental Health Practitioner - Incentives Apply

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Job summary

Are you interested in a role with Thought-Full: 'Mental Health Support Teams in Schools' (MHSTs)?

Do you have experience/ training in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)?

If so, our 'Mental Health Support Teams in Schools' is recruiting a Band 7 Mental Health Practitioner to join us.

We are open to a range of individuals from different core professions, the key things for us are your passion for supporting children and young people and your CBT experience/ expertise.

MHSTs were developed following the 2017 Green Paper - Transforming Children and Young Peoples Mental Health Provision. We have three core functions:

To deliver evidence-based interventions to children and young people experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties
To support schools to develop their whole school approach to mental health and emotional wellbeing
To provide timely advice to school/ college staff to ensure that young people get the right support at the right time

We are an innovative integrated model with Thought-Full being delivered across both Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and the Education and Skills department of West Sussex County Council.

We currently have 6 teams across Crawley, Bognor & Felpham, Mid-Sussex, Worthing and Chichester District and this role will be covering the Arun areas of the team.

Main duties of the job

As a Mental Health Practitioner, you will hold a caseload of children/young people presenting with mild to moderate mental health difficulties. This will include offering initial assessment as well as delivering short term, evidence-based interventions, including working within a CBT model.

You will be working with parents, teaching staff and other professionals and delivering group and individual interventions. You will work collaboratively with young people and their families, incorporating the use of outcome measures within their work.

You will also work closely alongside other members of the team to support schools to develop their whole school approach to mental health, including offering training to schools.

This post offers the Trust's £4,000 Incentive for band 5-7 Nurses & Practitioners, as well as a relocation package up to a maximum of £8,000 (subject to terms and conditions).

About us

Sussex Partnership provides mental health and learning disability care for all age groups across Sussex.

We encourage flexible working. We know that a positive work/ life balance brings about huge health-related benefits, which has a positive impact on the care we provide. Please speak to us about flexible working, for example, home-working, part time hours, flexible start/ finish times or anything else. If it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.

We'd love you to join our Trust, rated 'good' overall and 'outstanding' for caring by the CQC. Our staff agree, in our recent staff survey 82% told us that they recognise that care for patients is our top priority.

Other key survey results:

70% highlighting flexible working as a key point for satisfaction at work
79% reporting feeling able to make suggestions to improve the work in their team
77% identifying opportunities to show initiative in their roles

Date posted

14 March 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£43,742 to £50,056 a year Pro-rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

354-CS-21438-A

Job locations

Swandean

Arundel Road

Worthing

BN13 3EP

Job description

Job responsibilities

REQUIREMENTS

In order to be a successful Mental Health Practitioner in our team you will be:

Registered with the NMC, HCPC or BABCP via a core professional qualification Applications are welcomed from OTs, Nurses, Social Workers, Psychologists, CBT Therapists
Experienced/ trained in CBT
Passionate about supporting the prevention and early intervention of mental health difficulties for children and young people Experienced working within a mental health setting

It would also be advantageous if you are:

Experienced working with Children and Young People suffering from mental health difficulties
Experienced working within a school or have a good understanding of the school system

See attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details.

Please apply using the link in this advert, or for more information explore the attachments or contact:

Dr Clare Dixon Senior Clinical Psychologist & Thought-Full Clinical Supervisor: clare.dixon@spft.nhs.uk

07909 256829

Job description

Job responsibilities

REQUIREMENTS

In order to be a successful Mental Health Practitioner in our team you will be:

Registered with the NMC, HCPC or BABCP via a core professional qualification Applications are welcomed from OTs, Nurses, Social Workers, Psychologists, CBT Therapists
Experienced/ trained in CBT
Passionate about supporting the prevention and early intervention of mental health difficulties for children and young people Experienced working within a mental health setting

It would also be advantageous if you are:

Experienced working with Children and Young People suffering from mental health difficulties
Experienced working within a school or have a good understanding of the school system

See attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details.

Please apply using the link in this advert, or for more information explore the attachments or contact:

Dr Clare Dixon Senior Clinical Psychologist & Thought-Full Clinical Supervisor: clare.dixon@spft.nhs.uk

07909 256829

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Core professional qualification relevant to mental health e.g. nursing with specialism in mental health or learning disability nursing, Occupational Therapy, Social Work, CBT Therapist
Appropriate professional registration e.g. NMC, HCPC, BABCP
Experience of working with children and young people
Experience of working with people with mental health problems

Desirable

CBT experience

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Core professional qualification relevant to mental health e.g. nursing with specialism in mental health or learning disability nursing, Occupational Therapy, Social Work, CBT Therapist
Appropriate professional registration e.g. NMC, HCPC, BABCP
Experience of working with children and young people
Experience of working with people with mental health problems

Desirable

CBT experience

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.