Job summary
Compass is the provider of Mental Health Support Teams (MHST) in education settings in the city of Derby and Derbyshire, and recently expanding the service into new areas with two new MHSTs in January 2024. We have an opportunity for a Mental Health Practitioner to join our Bakewell MHST.
Main duties of the job
The service supports CYP and families providing extra capacity for early intervention support within school and college settings in three core areas:
- Providing evidence-based interventions for mild to moderate mental health and emotional wellbeing issues
- Supporting designated senior mental health leads in each setting
- Providing timely advice to school and college staff and parents as required
You will need to demonstrate in your application that you have a core MHP qualification relevant to mental health, alongside post graduate experience working with children and young people and an understanding of the principles and practice of CBT and clinical supervision.
You will be knowledgeable and experienced in working with CYP with mental health needs; completing mental health assessments, providing practice supervision and support as well as providing specialist care directly to children and young people and families.
Applicants must have excellent communication skills and be able to network with other agencies as central to the role.
About us
Compass is committed to safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults and you should share our commitment. All Compass posts are subject to appropriate level DBS checks.We positively encourage applications from all members of the community, regardless of gender, race, faith, disability, gender reassignment, age or sexual orientation and encourage applications from people who have experiences in life which enrich skills and empathy.
We offer a range of benefits including:
- 27 days holiday + bank holidays, rising to 32 days over time
- Life assurance at 2 x basic salary
- Competitive contributory pension scheme
- Family-friendly policies
- 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme and OH service
- Enhanced sick pay
- Excellent learning & development opportunities and career progression
- Annual performance / salary review
Job description
Job responsibilities
The role of the Mental Health
Practitioner (MHP) is to improve access to high quality mental health support
to children and young people in education settings.
With appropriate supervision the MHP
will deliver evidence-based interventions to children and young people with
mild to moderate mental health needs.
The MHP also provide advice, guidance and signposting to education staff
and will support Senior Mental Health Leads in education settings to develop
their Whole School Approach.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Core professional qualification relevant to mental health e.g. CWP IAPT, PMHW, nursing with specialism in mental health or learning disability nursing, Occupational Therapy, Social Work or Professional qualification relevant to mental health e.g. CBT therapist.
- Evidence of continued professional development
Desirable
- Teaching qualification
- Youth Mental Health First Aid trained
- Therapeutic post graduate qualification (preferably in CBT).
Experience
Essential
- Knowledge of educational environments
- Knowledge of safeguarding issues
- Knowledge of capacity and consent issues including Gillick competence
- Experience of working with children and young people, their families and others
- Experience of working and liaising with a wide variety of agencies and stakeholders
- Experience of working with children and young people who have social, emotional and/or behavioural difficulties
- Experience of working with anxiety disorders
- Experience of working with affective (mood) disorders
- Experience of the delivery of specific therapeutic interventions to children, young people or their families (e.g. CBT, solution focused brief therapy
Other Criteria
Essential
- Ability to carry out 1:1 therapeutic mental health interventions with children
- Ability to carry out 1:1 therapeutic mental health interventions with families
- Ability to work within educational settings to increase mental health awareness within staff group
- Ability to conduct mental health assessments of children and young people
- Ability to make an assessment of risk and to record and communicate it appropriately
- Ability to take appropriate action to mitigate or manage risk
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Excellent time management and organisational skills
- Access to own transport or evidence of ability to commute efficiently between community venues
- Ongoing commitment to maintain registration in core profession
- Willingness to study further if required
Desirable
- Ability to teach others about mental health issues
- Ability to conduct other group therapeutic interventions with children and their families
- Proven commitment to continuous professional development
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.
Employer details
Employer name
Compass
Address
Westminster Place
Nether Poppleton
York
YO26 6RW