This role can be filled by either an Education Mental Health Practitioner (EMHP) or a Children's Wellbeing Practitioner (CWP).
This is an exciting time of growth and change within East Berkshire NHS Trust as our CAMH service is currently working collaboratively with children and young people, and partners to deliver the Governments Programme for mental health support to be available in schools.
To support the development of our Mental Help Support Teams, we are looking to recruit an Education Mental Health Practitioner or Children's Wellbeing Practitioner in Slough. You must have either an Education Mental Health Practitioner (EMHP) or Children's Wellbeing Practitioner (CWP) qualification to apply for this role.
In line with the Government's priority to increase access and availability of mental health and wellbeing support for children and young people, the Education Mental Health Practitioner (EMHP) role is an exciting opportunity to deliver evidence-based early interventions for children and young people, working across both educational and community settings and healthcare sectors in England.
Main duties of the job
To be trained and confident in the use of CYP IAPT principles, evidence based interventions and routine outcome measures.
To care coordinate and manage a defined caseload of children and young people presenting with emotional health and wellbeing difficulties in schools
To co-ordinate and deliver individualised care packages / programmes for children and young people and evaluate these programmes, ensuring high standards of practice in accordance with national guidelines and trust policy.
To provide day to day clinical and supervisory support for the Education Mental Health Practitioners (EMHP).
To provide specialist mental health advice, consultation and signposted using an outcome based triage model, to schools
To provide training to schools staff, parents and carers in conjunction with colleagues.
Within schools actively promote the whole school based approach to developing and maintaining emotional health and well-being.
To train and mentor students and less experienced members of the team.
To act as an autonomous practitioner with an understanding of own limitations and recognition of when to seek support.
To provide clinical supervision to the team.
About us
Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health and community health services trust. Rated 'outstanding' by the CQC, we're committed to providing the best possible care to people across Berkshire. As an employer, we're committed to offering an inclusive and compassionate environment where our people share in a sense of belonging and are supported to flourish.
Our values at Berkshire Healthcare are:
* Caring for and about you is our top priority
* Committed to providing good quality, safe services
* Working Together with you to develop innovative solutions
Your wellbeing is important to us. Some of the benefits of working for us include:
* Flexible working options to support work-life balance
* 27 days' annual leave rising with service + opportunity to buy and sell
* Excellent learning and career development opportunities
* 'Cycle to Work' and car leasing scheme including electric vehicles
* Access to a range of wellbeing tools and services
* Discounts at hundreds of popular retailers and restaurants
* Staff networks for race, diversity, disabilities, the environment and armed forces community to support equality
* Generous maternity, paternity, adoption and special leave
* Free parking across Trust sites
Job responsibilities
The must haves for this role:
* be friendly, self-motivated, and self-organising,
* be confident in working in a multiagency setting, working collaboratively with colleagues in schools and across the wider system,
* enjoy regular collaboration with your peers and the senior colleagues to whom you report,
* as a person, will always be looking for new or better ways to deliver care and be keen to learn,
* and most of all will have a calm, friendly and compassionate outlook and have a keen interest in working in a school setting.
We are committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community. Our commitment to inclusion is reflected in our accreditations: Race Equality Matters Silver Trailblazer, Neurodiversity in Business Corporate Member, Disability Confident Leader, Carer Confident Level 2, and the Armed Forces Covenant Gold Award. Reasonable adjustments will be provided to candidates as needed.
Person Specification
Education/Qualifications/Training
* Pre January 2023: successful completion of a Health Education England Quality Assured CWP training programme OR Post January 2023: successful completion of a BPS accredited CWP training programme.
* Registration as a CWP on the British Psychological Society (BPS) Wider Psychological Workforce Register OR CWP registration with the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP)
* Relevant bachelor's degree (e.g., psychology, mental health, sociology, education etc.) graded at 2:2 or above
Continuous Professional Development
* Commitment to ongoing training and development
* Evidence of continuous continuous professional development in child and adolescent mental health of relevance to the post
Previous Experience
* Experience of working as a Trainee/ qualified Children's Wellbeing Practitioner
* Significant experience of working with CYP
* Experience of working in or with a diverse or multi-cultural community
* Experience of delivering specific evidence based low intensity interventions to CYP and their families
* Worked in a service where agreed targets are in place and demonstrating clinical outcomes
* Experience of working and liaising with a wide variety of agencies and stakeholders
* Experience of being supervised and utilising the supervision in clinical practise
* Experience of working with looked after children or other vulnerable groups of CYP and of working in educational settings
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
* Knowledge and understanding of common mental health issues experienced by CYP and how they may present
* Knowledge of evidence-based low intensity interventions for CYP
* Ability to work within educational settings to increase mental health awareness within the staff group
* Knowledge of and ability to use routine outcome measures (ROMs) with CYP and families
* Understands importance of collecting feedback from service users and other key stakeholders, and using this to contribute to quality improvement
* Ability to undertake comprehensive risk assessments, drawing on complex and multiple sources of information, within scope of practice
* Knowledge of safeguarding issues and a commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of CYP and vulnerable adults
* Understanding of ethics and patient confidentiality in relation to working with CYP
* Ability to personally manage a sensitive, and potentially emotionally distressing caseload
* Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to build and develop therapeutic and professional relationships with a range of people
* Able to communicate clearly and effectively with colleagues, CYP, and families, in a manner that is sensitive to and acknowledging of their needs, experience and all aspects of diversity
* Able to assist in assessment and observation activities related to individuals' health and wellbeing, and support the development of relevant support
* Able to analyse and synthesize multiple sources of information to contribute to the team's understanding and formulation of service users' difficulties and the development of multi-disciplinary care plans
* Able to plan and deliver psychologically informed interventions to meet individual health and wellbeing needs
* Strong verbal and written communication skills, including telephone skills and use of internet mediated communication, tailored to a variety of audiences
* High standard of letter and report writing
* Excellent IT skills including ability to use Microsoft Office programmes and understanding of online clinical tools and programmes
Additional Requirements
* Regard for others and respect for individual rights of autonomy and patient confidentiality
* Able to work flexibly as required (within and outside of office hours)
* Able to travel independently between locations (including schools, NHS premises and service user homes etc) to fulfil the requirements and duties of the position
* Fluent in a language other than English - please state all languages you could work in
* Able to work with interpreters to deliver services
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.
Mental Health Support Teams - Slough 2, Upton Hospital
£33,677 to £40,996 a year per annum ( Incl of HCAS)
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
371-CFS729
Job locations
Mental Health Support Teams - Slough 2, Upton Hospital
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