Additional Information
Moving Mindsets, Mental Health Support Teams (MHSTs)
South Cumbria locality
An opportunity has arisen for a senior supervising practitioner to join the Moving Mindsets Mental Health Support Teams (MHST) in South Cumbria.
We wish to employ people who enjoy working therapeutically with children and young people in schools, and who want to make a difference to their emotional and mental wellbeing.
We're seeking a practitioner who has direct experience of working with evidence-based therapies in child mental health. The role involves providing therapeutic support to children, young people and their parent-carers and working in partnership with education settings. It also involves providing supervision to a small number of Education Mental Health Practitioners (EMHPs) who work in the service.
The NHS Healthier Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board (ICB) commissioned Barnardo's in 2020 to provide the Moving Mindsets MHST's in South Cumbria.
The service has an office base in Kendal and in Barrow. The team is made up of the following roles:
Moving Mindsets South Cumbria:
1 x 0.5 – Children's Service Manager
1 x Team Manager
1 x Clinical Lead
3.5 x Senior Practitioners
8 x Education Mental Health Practitioners
1.5 x Admin
The practitioner in this role will work in schools across South Lakes and the Furness areas covering Barrow, Millom Dalton.
The office base for the service is located at the following address':
South Cumbria MHST is situated at Stricklandgate House, 92 Stricklandgate, Kendal, LA9 4PU
And
The Hub at Project John, 20-24 Cavendish Street, Barrow in Furness, LA14 1SB
The South Cumbria MHST works with 22 education settings which include 15 secondary schools, 2 higher education colleges, 3 special education schools and 1 pupil referral unit (PRU) across the community.
Role Summary
We're seeking an experienced mental health practitioner to work collaboratively with education settings, with children, young people and their families and the care community that support them.
The post-holder will undertake direct clinical work under supervision across a range of education settings to deliver high-quality, evidence-based early interventions for children and young people experiencing mild to moderate mental health needs.
We wish to appoint a mental health practitioner with the necessary skills, knowledge, and capabilities to work autonomously and responsibly within their scope of practice, alongside education colleagues.
Senior Practitioner's play a key role as members of the Mental Health Support Teams, supporting safe and effective practice, and enabling
whole school & college approach to promote positive mental health and wellbeing. They work collaboratively with schools, families and partner agencies to ensure that children and young people receive the right support at the right time.
The post holder will provide clinical skills and/or clinical case management supervision for a small number of Education Mental Health Practitioners (EMHP's) working in the service. They will be required to attend supervisor training to enable their ability to work as EMHP supervisors (if not already completed).
They will need to be either already qualified in a higher-level evidence-based therapy or will be required to attend relevant therapeutic training for the role (see Essential Criteria). Applicants who are qualified EMHP's will be supported to join the Senior Wellbeing Practitioner course with Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Trust (GMMH) Psychological Therapies Training Centre and the University of Manchester.
The post holders will be clinically supervised by the Clinical Lead, they will report to the Team Manager and will be accountable to the Children's Service Manager.
Principal Accountabilities:
1. Consultation with Education (providing advice, guidance and joint planning to support early intervention)
2. Assessment and Formulation with Children and Young People (including risk-informed formulation and intervention planning)
3. Evidence Based Therapy (delivering outcome-focused interventions within MHST remit)
4. Working with Parents and Carers (supporting engagement, psychoeducation and collaborative care planning)
5. Linking with Specialist Services (supporting smooth pathways and escalation where thresholds are met)
6. Clinical Skills and Clinical Case Management Supervision (supporting EMHPs with formulation, outcomes review, and appropriate escalation of risk/complexity)
7. Whole School Approach (supporting wellbeing planning, staff training/psychoeducation and prevention activity)
Qualifications and Training
Essential Criteria
8. Graduate qualification in an evidence-based therapy e.g. senior wellbeing practitioner, cognitive behaviour therapy, education mental health practitioner - or ability to attend identified training once in employment
9. Appropriate and valid UK professional registration with BABCP or British Psychological Society (with accreditation where appropriate)
10. Clinical supervision training/qualification (e.g. CYP IAPT Supervision Skills) or ability to attend identified training once in employment
11. Minimum of 24 months post qualification experience working with children's mental health
Desirable Criteria
12. Relevant core professional qualification (minimum Diploma / Degree) e.g. mental health nursing, social work, occupational therapy, psychology (health or education), teaching
13. Appropriate and valid UK professional registration e.g. social work, nursing, occupational health, psychology, teaching
14. Experience of working in child mental health services and/or education
MHST Background
Mental Health Support Teams (MHSTs) are a national programme jointly delivered with the Department for Education and NHS England. The programme has three core functions:
15. Delivering evidence-based interventions for children and young people with mild to moderate mental health needs
16. Supporting the senior mental health lead in each education setting to introduce or develop their whole school/college approach
17. 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
MHST's support the promotion of wellbeing and good mental health with particular focus on early intervention. They work with existing social, emotional, mental health and wellbeing support within education settings, building relationships with each education setting and with children, young people, parent-carers, and partners in the locally system to co-design and evaluate the support offer required.
Completing your application
Please refer to the included Job Description and be aware that Barnardo's use generic Job Descriptions for their Children's Services posts. When completing the application form please provide evidence to demonstrate how your skills, experience and qualifications meet the essential requirements detailed below:
Working for Barnardo's
Barnardo's has been providing services to some of the most vulnerable children across the UK for over 150 years. We work in partnership with children's social care and health partners enabling the delivery of integrated health and social care services in several areas. We recognise that to really transform children's life chances, they need sustained interventions that meet the diversity of their needs and that
participation and co— production must a key component of any service. If you enjoy pushing the boundaries of what works; working closely with other agencies to innovate and create; have the clinical expertise to lead on this project and want to work with children and young people and their families to deliver services that truly meet their needs, then we would like to hear from you.
We welcome enquiries from people interested in this role and are happy to facilitate visits or online meetings prior to interviews.
For further information, please contact:
Amy Armstrong, Team Manager –
Mobile:
Or
Rebecca Preston, Clinical Lead
Mobile: 07759 118 798
Please note due to the high volume of applications for some posts, this advert might close before the displayed closing date. We recommend that you apply for this role as soon as possible
Pay & Reward Framework
We know that our colleagues go above and beyond in delivering our vital work, driven by their passion and commitment to Barnardo's . We also know that we can only realise our ambitions and achieve better outcomes for more children, thanks to the talent, hard work and creativity of our people.
For all these reasons, we are committed to a new approach to pay and reward, to ensure it is fair, attractive and progressive, which was rolled out in April 2023. This is a positive change for the charity, and a part of our Strategy. It will assist us in supporting colleagues to belong, thrive and grow in their colleague journey at Barnardo's and in time will offer clear routes of progression for colleagues in both their career and their pay.
Whilst the full pay band and salary range is advertised, our approach to starting salaries is to appoint between the minimum to mid-point of the pay band – this ensures that pay steps are available to reward our colleagues annually based on their contribution to excellence and alignment to our values and behaviours. More details on Barnardo's pay framework can be found upon application.
Benefits
Workplace Offer: What it means for you
Our hybrid working initiative is based on trust, flexibility and empowerment. We understand our workplace offer means different things to different people, and we encourage those conversations. This may mean working at one of our stores, services, working at home, in the community, at one of our Collaboration Hubs or depending on the role any combination of these. Please read through the advert carefully to understand the remits of hybrid working that will be specific to the role.
Barnardo's require colleagues to be UK residents, based in the UK and to complete their roles from within the UK (with the exception of colleagues providing Barnardo's services in Jersey and colleagues who live in the Republic of Ireland providing services in Northern Ireland)
18. Barnardo's believe in creating equality of opportunity in the workplace and supporting people to manage their work-life balance; we are therefore open to offering flexible working arrangements.
19. Annual Leave entitlement for full-time colleagues is 26 days per annum, increasing to 27 days per annum, after 3 years Barnardo's service, 29 days per annum, after 5 years Barnardo's service and 30 days per annum, after 7 years Barnardo's service. Those working less than full time are entitled to the same level of holiday pro rata
20. The ability to buy up to another 5 days annual leave via our Buy Your Leave scheme
21. A host of family friendly leave options including company Maternity Paternity and Adoption pay; together with all family additional leave options
22. Service related sick pay from day 1
23. Access to a Group Personal Pension with a matched 4% or 6% contribution from Barnardo's. Ability to pay via salary sacrifice to garner both tax and NI savings on your own contribution
24. Death in service cover of 4x annual earnings for all staff contributing to our Group Personal Pension
25. Cycle2work scheme
26. Interest free season ticket loans
27. Discounts and cashback from at high street shops including major supermarkets, cinemas, gyms, leisure/theme parks, holidays and much more via our Benefit Portal
28. 20% discount at Barnardo's stores
29. Opportunity to purchase a health cash plan to claim towards dental, glasses, therapy etc
30. Free access to round the clock employee assistance program for advice and support
31. Access to Barnardo's Learning and Development offer
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