Senior Practitioner.

Job Title

Senior Practitioner

Employer

Cheswold Park Hospital

Summary

Are you passionate about children and young peoples mental health? Do you enjoy sharing your knowledge of how to support children and young people with colleagues within the education sector?

Our Future in Mind (MHST) is a growing and developing service within Wakefield which aims to provide early intervention to improve the lives of children and young people experiencing mild to moderate emotional and mental health needs. Due to additional funding we are looking to recruit an enthusiastic practitioner to join our friendly and supportive team. The successful applicant will be allocated a number of education settings in which they will have the opportunity to develop strong working relationships and provide support to the school community.

Applicants will need to hold a professional registration with post-qualification experience of working with children and young people with emotional and mental health needs; knowledge and experience of the education system is desirable. Informal enquiries are encouraged. Please contact Sarah Dixon, Team Manager, for more information. At the time of advertising, this role does meet the minimum requirements set by UK Visas and Immigration to sponsor candidates to work in the UK. We look forward to receiving your application.

Main duties of the job

• Responsibilities Of The Senior Practitioner Include :
• Delivering evidenced based interventions to children, young people, parents / carers through individual and group work.
• Delivering psychoeducation sessions to children, young people, parents / carers through assemblies, classroom and parent sessions.
• Ensuring children / young people play an active part in decision making about the support they need.
• Providing advice / consultation to education staff to support children / young people getting the right help at the right time.
• Developing local knowledge of services particularly in relation to mental health issues to enable effective signposting and planning.
• Supporting education settings in developing and embedding whole school approaches to mental health through collaboration and coproduction with the school community.
• Participating in the delivery of training programmes for education settings and community services.
• Completing CYP-IAPT supervision training and providing clinical supervision to EMHPs.

Equal Opportunities and COVID-19 All employees of the Trust are strongly encouraged to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 to protect patients.

We are aware that an increasing number of applicants are using AI technology to generate responses on NHS Job application forms. We strongly discourage this and will conduct a thorough screening process before selecting candidates to progress to the next stage. If you are using AI to enhance your application, please disclose this in your NHS Jobs application form.

About Us

We are a specialist NHS Foundation Trust that provides community, mental health and learning disability services for the people of Barnsley, Calderdale, Kirklees and Wakefield. We also provide low and medium secure services and are the lead for the West Yorkshire secure provider collaborative. Our mission is to help people reach their potential and live well in their communities by providing high-quality care in the right place at the right time. We employ staff in both clinical and non-clinical services who work to make a difference to the lives of service users, families and carers. We encourage and welcome applications from all protected characteristic groups, and we value diversity. Being a foundation Trust means we are accountable to our members, who can have a say in how we are run. Around 14,300 local people (including staff) are members of our Trust. Join us and you will be one of over 4,500 staff committed to supporting and improving the mental, physical and social needs of the thousands of people we meet and help each year. We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expect all colleagues and volunteers to share this commitment.

Details : We reserve the right to close vacancies before the advertised closing date if necessary, so please apply as soon as possible.

Details

Job Description

Job responsibilities

Person Specification

Essential attributes include ability to work autonomously and in a team, commitment to multi-agency work, decision-making under pressure, strong communication and safeguarding knowledge, driving licence with access to a car, and IT and record-keeping skills. Desirable includes knowledge of green paper initiative and MHST function.

Experience

Qualifications

Physical Attributes

Training

Disclosures

Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks may be required. UK registration with a current professional credential is required. See NHS Careers for details.

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