Senior Mental Health Team Practitioner

Job overview

We are looking to recruit a Senior Practitioner for the Hull Mental Health Support Team (MHST), who is enthusiastic, kind, and compassionate, with experience of supporting others to develop.

Are you passionate about working with children and young people? Do you have a real passion for education, social, emotional and the mental wellbeing needs of our young people? Do you want to make a real difference?

Can you evidence a minimum of two years’ experience working with children, young people and their families around social, emotional and mental health needs? Do you hold a professional qualification, registration and belong to a recognised governing body?

We seek a Practitioner who has experience of working with multi-disciplinary professionals to achieve positive outcomes for children and their families and who can evidence an understanding of CBT based interventions

The role will require the individual to be an  identified lead for schools within the MHST and work closely with other early intervention and Early Help services.

The successful candidate will also hold a small caseload across the MHST to work systemically to create sustainable change for children, young people and families.

The successful candidate will also be able to undertake a PG Cert in supervision at either Sheffield or Northumbria university.

Main duties of the job

The Role

The Mental Health Support Teams integrate into our already well established offer and compliments the many excellent teams and services out there to further enhance the early help and intervention offer.

The MHST is built on coproduction, innovation, listening and learning to create a service that can meet the local population’s needs. The MHST works directly into schools with children and young people between the ages of 5 to 18.

The team supports schools and the wider system and have a particular focus on whole school approach, advice, support, guidance and consultation. The team  also deliver targeted low intensity CBT informed based 1:1 and group sessions, Parent led workshops and creative based interventions  to support mild to moderate social , emotional and mental health needs.

As a senior Practitioner the successful candidate will work as part of the MHST to support and empower Education, Health , Early help and Social Care to work one system to support CYP's and families with their social , emotional and mental health needs.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further information with regard to this vacancy please see the attached job description and person specification.