Job overview
Our service has an exciting opportunity to join our team as an MHST Practitioner Supervisor. At Hillingdon MHST we work with young people with mild to moderate mental health presentations in schools. The post holder will be responsible for delivering interventions within a Mental Health Support Team in identified schools and colleges in the central areas of Hillingdon and the supervisor for the supervision of Education Mental Health Practitioners in the team.
You will have completed the HEE Postgraduate Diploma in Education Mental Health Practice or Postgraduate Diploma in Psychological Wellbeing Practice for children and young people (CWP); or be a qualified health care professional and will have some level of formal CBT training. You will have previous consolidated post graduate experience of working with young people with emotional and mental health issues; and extensive experience of delivering evidenced-based CBT interventions for mild to moderate mental health issues such as anxiety, low mood and behavioural problems to CYP both individually and in groups.
You will be expected to work in schools closely with school staff to support CYP, their families and staff to foster a whole school approach to mental well-being. This role requires flexibility and adaptability and above all, a passion for working with children and young people with mental health difficulties within an educational context.
Main duties of the job
Practitioner Supervisors will be responsible for delivering interventions within Mental Health Support Teams (MHSTs) in schools and colleges, whilst receiving clinical supervision and be expected to work in schools closely with school staff to support CYP, their families and staff to foster a whole school approach to mental well-being.
The mental health practitioner will play a key role in
1. Forming strong working relations with a variety of stakeholders
2. Providing consultations to education colleagues and support education setting to embed a whole school approach to wellbeing
3. Developing and delivering evidence-based individual and group time limited interventions to young people within education settings
4. Evidencing the outcomes of the MHST service
5. Providing clinical supervision to trainee Education and Mental Health practitioners
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Working for our organisation
The successful candidate would be working within Hillingdon MHST (Mental Health Support Team).
The MHST works with Young people with mild to moderate mental health presentations attending school/education setting in the Hillingdon area.
The purpose of the team is to
6. Provide evidence-based interventions for mild to moderate mental health issues.
7. Support the senior mental health lead in each education setting to introduce or develop their whole school or college approach.
8. Give 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.
Young people have access to the MHST via one phone number. School staff and other potential referrers are able to contact a team of clinical staff to discuss potential referrals.
The MHST will manage referrals, deal with queries, undertake clinical telephone triage and face to face assessment, give advice and signpost young people where appropriate.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Job responsibilities
9. To deliver under supervision, high-quality, brief outcome focused evidence-based group and individual interventions for children and young people experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties in and around schools. The post holder will be responsible for delivering clinical interventions within the MHST and will receive clinical supervision from the teams senior practitioner.
10. Promoting the mental and emotional health of children, young people and families in the community through evidenced based clinical interventions.
11. To undertake initial school based and community-based assessments and to deliver a range of early interventions to children and young people with a range of emotional and behavioural difficulties
12. Contribute to the overall assessment, including risk assessment, of children and young people in terms of their mental health needs.
13. To offer support, advice, signposting and onward referral to children, professionals requesting advice.
14. To provide professional advice and consultation.
15. To provide education, advice, and practical support to young people and their families as well as brief therapeutic interventions.
16. Support EMHP colleagues within the MHST working at Band 4/5.
17. To routinely measure clinical outcomes
18. To collect MHST data routinely
19. Liaise with professionals who are currently providing services to children and young people, such as those in primary care settings, childrens services, education and others.
Vaccination
The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.
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