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Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is an award winning NHS Foundation Trust which provides hospital and community health services in North Tyneside, and hospital, community health and adult social care services in Northumberland.
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Senior Educational Mental Health Practitioner
Closed for applications on: 15-Aug-2024 00:01
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 15-Aug-2024 00:01
Key details
Location
- Site
- Dene Park House Hexham
- Address
- Corbridge Road, Hexham
- Town
- Hexham
- Postcode
- NE46 1HN
- Major / Minor Region
- Tyne and Wear
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
Salary
- Salary
- £35,392 - £42,618 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (NHS AfC: Band 6)
Specialty
- Main area
- Child and Adolescent Mental Health
Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022). Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this is…the Northumbria Way!
What the Northumbria Way means for you:
- Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
- Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
- A range of flexible working opportunities
- Generous annual leave and pension scheme
- Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
- Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
- On-site nursery places via salary sacrifice
- Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank
We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts – rated ‘outstanding’ overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.
We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise – a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people’s lives, such as education, employment and the economy.
If Northumbria Healthcare sounds like somewhere you could belong we would love to hear from you. Visit our website to catch up on our latest news.
Whilst Northumbria Healthcare are a highly innovative organisation, the use of Third Party Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents a risk to the integrity of our Recruitment & Selection processes. If you use AI, and it poses a risk to the integrity your individual recruitment process, we may withdraw your application at any stage of the process.
Job overview
Northumberland Primary Mental Health Work Service has an exciting opportunity for 1 Senior Band 6 Educational Mental Health Practitioner to deliver the Be You mental health support team in the West , Hexham partnership of schools.
This demonstrates our commitment to career progression of the EMHPs within the service, expanding our mental health in schools’ teams.
We are looking for an enthusiastic qualified EMHPs with 2 years of post-qualifying experience and experience of / or a qualification in delivering IAPT low intensity supervision.
We are interested in passionate EMHP clinicians committed to delivering innovative ways of working.
The role will provide consolidated and enhanced clinical skills in the EMHP role, leading the co-ordination and delivery of evidence-based interventions for children and young people in education with mild to moderate mental health problems. The post holder will provide enhanced Systems Working Skills and a lead role in the service development. The role will involve the co-ordination, delivery and evaluation of the whole schools approaches and school-based consultation models.
WE provide excellent clinical, case management and peer led clinical skills supervision arrangements, training and CPD.
We support a blended /hybrid model of working and ensure suitable travel expenses are provided to support in this role.
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To provide consolidated & Enhanced Clinical Skills in the role of an EMHP.
To deliver evidence-based intervention for children and young people in education setting with mild to moderate mental health problems.
To provide enhanced System Working Skills.
To provide support to other professionals in their Development.
To ensure understanding of Relevant Legislation for the role of an EMHP.
To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.
Working for our organisation
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality – opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The post holder will be expected to demonstrate the following knowledge and skills in: Helping children and young people within these settings who present with a deterioration in their emotional/mental wellbeing access the necessary support in a timely way to rapidly access more specialist services.
Supporting and facilitating staff in education settings and those EMHPs that are supervised to identify and where appropriate manage issues related to mental health and wellbeing.
Working with and within education environments to afford better access to specialist mental health services.
Skills with associated knowledge acquisition to record and evidence progression towards an academic award including the post graduate programme in supervision of EMHPs and demonstrable practical ability.
Demonstrating skills in and experience and competence in the full range of low-intensity interventions for mild-moderate low mood, anxiety-based, and behavioural difficulties, covered in core EMHP training supporting children and young people experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties, their parents/carers, families and educators in the self-management of presenting difficulties.
Demonstrating and practicing evidence-based intervention to independently under the guidance and supervisory support working in partnership with children, young people, their families and educators in the development of plans for the specific intervention and agreeing outcomes.
Demonstrating confidence in developing and learning the skills required in order to enable children and young people in education, and where appropriate parents/carers to collaborate and co-produce their own agreed plan of care there will be an expectation to work independently within service remote working arrangements.
Show evidence in a variety of forms that at all times assessment and intervention is provided from an inclusive values base, which recognises and respects diversity.
To contribute to decision making and to agree to accept and agree to accept appropriate referrals for children and young people in educational settings, according to agreed local and national and local referral routes, processes and procedures.
To be expected to conduct, initiate, and undertake accurate assessments of risk to self and others.
As a senior EMHP to support EMHPs under your supervision in the signposting of referrals for children and young people with more complex needs to the relevant service.
Engage in and provide robust managerial and clinical supervision, identifying the scope of practice of the individual post holder within the role, and working safely within that scope.
Gain and practice a range of interventions related to provision of information and support for evidence based psychological treatments, primarily guided self-help.
To lead on the contribute to the development of individual or group clinical materials or training materials and go on to develop further such materials as falls within own degree of competence.
To co-ordinate and deliver a range of psycho education and training to children/ young people parents/carers and school staff based on evidence based knowledge.
Applicant requirements
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Degree or an equivalent level of relevant experience
- Basic literacy and numeracy qualifications
- Relevant knowledge acquired through successful completion of post graduate diploma in Mental Health and Emotional Wellbeing in education environment this will include a Recognised CYP IAPT Low Intensity Qualification to work an Education Mental Health Practitioner Qualification or a Children & Young People Wellbeing Practitioner
- A qualification in delivering CYP IAPT low intensity supervision training with EMHPS/CWPS or a willingness to work towards it
- Requirement for postholder to hold up to date professional registration with a professional body e.g British Association for Counselling Psychotherapy or British Psychological Society
Desirable criteria
- Relevant post-qualification training that may have been attended in an EMHP or CWP role
- Membership/registration of relevant professional body
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Rhian Davies
- Job title
- Senior Lead for the PMHW Service
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01661 864588
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