Trainee Supervising Practitioner

East of England, East of England

Permanent

£31,031 to £38,031

Health Educator

Trainee Supervising Practitioner

Job summary

If you have the passion and drive to be part of a team who deliver evidence-based early interventions for children and young people, working across both educational settings and the community? Are you a qualified Education Mental Health Practitioner looking for your next step?

Compass Bloom are an innovative Mental Health Support Team, supporting 64 schools across Central and West Lancashire. We are now recruiting for the post of Trainee Supervising Practitioner, who will join us and help deliver evidence-based, high-quality and responsive services. To help us meet the mental health and emotional wellbeing needs of children, young people and families in our partner education settings and local communities in Central & West Lancashire.

This role is a real opportunity to help shape the services we provide with children, young people, families and educational settings and to develop your career in mental health support to children, young people and families.

Main duties of the job

You will have at least 1 years post qualification experience working therapeutically within a CYP mental health setting. In the role of Trainee Supervising Practitioner, you would be delivering training, evidenced based interventions and consultation to children, young people, families and educational staff.

You will also be supported by the service to learn and develop new skills in delivering CBT informed supervision. Once you have reached the required minimum competencies defined by HEE you will be required to undertake a PG Certificate in Clinical Supervision. On acceptance on to the training programme the post holder will progress to Band F which currently attracts a salary range of £37,092 - £45,347 pa.

You must possess a full driving licence and have access to your own transport.

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. This is part of our commitment to equality and developing a truly inclusive and representative workforce. We are happy to discuss any reasonable adjustments individuals may require in the recruitment process, on commencement, or once in post. Benefits

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 If you are interested in this role, please apply as soon as possible as we may decide to close this vacancy once sufficient applications have been received

Job description

Job responsibilities

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Core professional qualification relevant to mental health e.g. nursing with specialism in mental health or learning disability nursing, Occupational Therapy, Social Work, CWP, EMHP and must be committed to upholding registration if applicable
Evidence of continued professional development
Willingness to complete post Graduate Certificate in Supervision

Desirable

Therapeutic post graduate qualification (preferably in CBT)
Post Graduate qualification in a relevant discipline

Experience

Essential

One year post-qualification experience of working therapeutically with children and young people e.g., as an EMHP/ CYP-IAPT practitioner
Experience of working in a community and/or educational environment
Evidence of clinical development
Collaborative working
Experience of effective engagement with families and carers
Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team

Desirable

Experience of leadership within Children and Young People clinical service areas
Experience of providing mentorship
Experience of delivering CBT informed supervision, ideally of practice related to education settings

Additional Criteria

Essential

Recognition and escalation of risk, contributing to control measures
Planning workload, time management
Work under pressure and able to manage changing priorities
Understand need for evidence and statistical data collection, and achieving targets
Excellent communication skills and able to relate to children and young people
Access to own transport or evidence of ability to commute efficiently between community venues.
Ongoing commitment to maintain registration in core profession

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.