Job summary
Do you have experience of working with children and young people with mental health difficulties?
Have you trained in low or high intensity CBT?
Do you enjoy supporting, supervising, and training colleagues?
This is a great time to join WSCC as we have new opportunities for Senior Mental Health Practitioners in Thought-Full: Mental Health Support Team.
Main duties of the job
Key responsibilities of the role include:
- Clinicalwork to provide psychological assessment, therapy, advice and consultation, promoting carer involvement and delivering evidence-based interventions.
- Teaching, Training and Supervisionto oversee the supervision and development of EMHPs and CWPs and receiving supervision to support with your own Continuous Professional Development.
- Research and Service Evaluationto collect routine outcome data and support the evaluation and development of the service.
- Management and Leadershipto work alongside Senior Leadership to support the clinical delivery and oversight of your team and support with more complex clinical issues.
- Generalrole responsibilities to follow codes of conduct, safeguarding, risk assessments, and working with professionals to promote inclusion and recovery.
For a full list of Role Responsibilities, Key Skills, and Qualifications/Experience, please refer to the job description attached.Please refer to the Key Skills in your cover letter.
About us
Our Mental Health Support Team is made up of over 60 professionals, and we are continuing to increase our service to support the growing needs of our communities.
We currently have opportunities for Senior Mental Health Practitioners to make a real difference in supporting Mental Health in Children. You will be working within our Mental Health Support Team (MHST) on exciting new initiatives and an important strand of the Governments 2017 Green Paper Transforming Children and Young Peoples Mental Health Provision.
We fulfil 3 core functions:
- Supporting the senior mental health lead in each education setting to introduce or develop their whole school or college approach to mental health and emotional wellbeing.
- Delivering evidence-based interventions in education settings (primary and secondary schools and colleges) for mild to moderate mental health issues such as anxiety and depression.
- Giving timely advice to school and college staff, and liaising with external specialist services, to help children and young people to get the right support and stay in education.
For more information, please visit ourEducation, Children and Familiespage on our West Sussex County Council (WSCC) website.
If you are interested in making a difference and working in a friendly and supportive team with a role that offers variety and challenge, then this could be the role for you.
Job description
Job responsibilities
In this role, you will work closely alongside Advisory Teachers and senior members of the Thought-Full team, as well as with multi-disciplinary teams, outside agencies, clinicians, and other mental health and education professionals, to help develop and deliver the Thought-Full core functions to the schools in your area.
You will deliver clinical skills and caseload management supervision to Educational Mental Health Practitioners (EMHP) and Childrens Wellbeing Practitioners (CWP), supporting with their training and role modelling best practice.
You will also hold a caseload of young people with mild to moderate mental health problems, where you will deliver a variety of brief evidence-based interventions, primarily using a CBT model. You will use your skills and knowledge to provide specialist advice on mental health to ensure services are working closely to meet the needs of young people with a person-centred approach.
As part of this role, you will be required to complete the PGCert Supervision of Therapeutic Practice at the University of Sussex to be able to supervise EMHPs and CWPs employed within MHSTs.
Job description
Job responsibilities
In this role, you will work closely alongside Advisory Teachers and senior members of the Thought-Full team, as well as with multi-disciplinary teams, outside agencies, clinicians, and other mental health and education professionals, to help develop and deliver the Thought-Full core functions to the schools in your area.
You will deliver clinical skills and caseload management supervision to Educational Mental Health Practitioners (EMHP) and Childrens Wellbeing Practitioners (CWP), supporting with their training and role modelling best practice.
You will also hold a caseload of young people with mild to moderate mental health problems, where you will deliver a variety of brief evidence-based interventions, primarily using a CBT model. You will use your skills and knowledge to provide specialist advice on mental health to ensure services are working closely to meet the needs of young people with a person-centred approach.
As part of this role, you will be required to complete the PGCert Supervision of Therapeutic Practice at the University of Sussex to be able to supervise EMHPs and CWPs employed within MHSTs.
Person Specification
About You
Essential
- We are looking for someone who is passionate about supporting the mental health of children and young people and who is self-motivated and organised, as you will need to manage your own workload and that of others.
- Integrity, openness, emotional resilience and an awareness of yourself and others is vital, as you may be dealing with distressing or emotional circumstances.
- Please note:
- There is a regular and intrinsic requirement to communicate in English with members of the public.
- You must be able to travel throughout the county including to locations that are not always accessible by public transport. You will need to be able to travel independently to carry out assessments, and there will be periodic physical requirements to the role.
Key Skills
Essential
- Supervision: The post holder will be expected to supervise junior staff
- (Educational Mental Health Practitioners and Children's Wellbeing
- Practitioners) and support trainees within the team. This supervision will give clinical and caseload oversight of low-intensity CBT interventions, as well as managerial support.
- Assessment & Intervention: To work with a defined caseload of service users as part of a multi-disciplinary team, providing assessment, care planning and care delivery for service users with mild to moderate mental health difficulties, in schools. This will include the provision of highly skilled professional care, psychological interventions, mostly using low-intensity CBT, group work, clinical assessment, risk assessments / risk management, and promoting recovery and inclusion and ensuring co-production with service users, families and carers and the education staff.
- Specialist advice: To provide specialist advice to other members of staff and trainees and act as a role model.
- Evidenced based: To ensure that care activities are research based and in keeping with changes in the field of activity.
- Creative & Innovative: To contribute to the development of ideas and
- innovative practice and propose changes to protocols and procedures within Thought-Full and related services where required and support embedding a research culture within the service and has an ongoing commitment to developing practice through research within the team.
- Analytical: To support in the evaluation of the service and service
- development tasks using appropriate audit, evaluation and research tools.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of specialist psychological therapy assessment and treatment of clients across a range of care settings and client groups including both adults and children.
- Experience of working with people with mental health problems.
- Experience of working with children and young people.
- Experience of working with parents and families.
- Experience of group and individual work.
- Experience of managing risk.
- Experience of carrying out comprehensive assessments.
- Experience of multidisciplinary working.
Desirable
- Experience of working in CAMHS.
- Experience of working in school settings.
- Experience of whole school approach.
- Experience of offering consultation to other professions.
- Experience of multiagency working.
- Experience as a care coordinator.
- Lived experience of mental health issues.
- Experience of clinical supervision of others.
- Experience of supervision of CBT practitioners.
- Ability to support and supervise staff.
- Experience with Looked After and Adopted Children.
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.
- Evidence of continued professional development.
- Training in Low intensity or High Intensity CBT (where there are gaps in knowledge or experience, then additional CPD days will need to be
- undertaken at the University of Sussex in line with the EMHP training).
- Note: As part of the role you will be required to complete the PGCert
- Supervision of Therapeutic Practice at the University of Sussex to be able to supervise EMHPs and CWPs employed within MHSTs.
- Substantial post-qualification / accreditation experience of specialist
- psychological therapy (assessment, formulation and treatment), maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
Desirable
Person Specification
About You
Essential
- We are looking for someone who is passionate about supporting the mental health of children and young people and who is self-motivated and organised, as you will need to manage your own workload and that of others.
- Integrity, openness, emotional resilience and an awareness of yourself and others is vital, as you may be dealing with distressing or emotional circumstances.
- Please note:
- There is a regular and intrinsic requirement to communicate in English with members of the public.
- You must be able to travel throughout the county including to locations that are not always accessible by public transport. You will need to be able to travel independently to carry out assessments, and there will be periodic physical requirements to the role.
Key Skills
Essential
- Supervision: The post holder will be expected to supervise junior staff
- (Educational Mental Health Practitioners and Children's Wellbeing
- Practitioners) and support trainees within the team. This supervision will give clinical and caseload oversight of low-intensity CBT interventions, as well as managerial support.
- Assessment & Intervention: To work with a defined caseload of service users as part of a multi-disciplinary team, providing assessment, care planning and care delivery for service users with mild to moderate mental health difficulties, in schools. This will include the provision of highly skilled professional care, psychological interventions, mostly using low-intensity CBT, group work, clinical assessment, risk assessments / risk management, and promoting recovery and inclusion and ensuring co-production with service users, families and carers and the education staff.
- Specialist advice: To provide specialist advice to other members of staff and trainees and act as a role model.
- Evidenced based: To ensure that care activities are research based and in keeping with changes in the field of activity.
- Creative & Innovative: To contribute to the development of ideas and
- innovative practice and propose changes to protocols and procedures within Thought-Full and related services where required and support embedding a research culture within the service and has an ongoing commitment to developing practice through research within the team.
- Analytical: To support in the evaluation of the service and service
- development tasks using appropriate audit, evaluation and research tools.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of specialist psychological therapy assessment and treatment of clients across a range of care settings and client groups including both adults and children.
- Experience of working with people with mental health problems.
- Experience of working with children and young people.
- Experience of working with parents and families.
- Experience of group and individual work.
- Experience of managing risk.
- Experience of carrying out comprehensive assessments.
- Experience of multidisciplinary working.
Desirable
- Experience of working in CAMHS.
- Experience of working in school settings.
- Experience of whole school approach.
- Experience of offering consultation to other professions.
- Experience of multiagency working.
- Experience as a care coordinator.
- Lived experience of mental health issues.
- Experience of clinical supervision of others.
- Experience of supervision of CBT practitioners.
- Ability to support and supervise staff.
- Experience with Looked After and Adopted Children.
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.
- Evidence of continued professional development.
- Training in Low intensity or High Intensity CBT (where there are gaps in knowledge or experience, then additional CPD days will need to be
- undertaken at the University of Sussex in line with the EMHP training).
- Note: As part of the role you will be required to complete the PGCert
- Supervision of Therapeutic Practice at the University of Sussex to be able to supervise EMHPs and CWPs employed within MHSTs.
- Substantial post-qualification / accreditation experience of specialist
- psychological therapy (assessment, formulation and treatment), maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
Desirable
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).
