About this role
Job summary
Lincoln, Louth, and Gainsborough have an exciting opportunity within our Mental Health Support Teams (MHST), based in the Gainsborough Team and supporting NHS and Education-approved sites across these areas.
You must have the appropriate qualifications and be affiliated with BPS or BABCP. This is not a trainee role. We are looking for an experienced and supportive colleague to join our team. You will have access to clinical skills, supervision, and peer support. We provide support across schools and educational sites in Lincoln, Louth, and Gainsborough, so access to a car or transportation is necessary.
The role involves delivering evidence-based interventions for children and young people in educational settings with mild to moderate mental health issues, helping those with more severe problems access specialist services quickly, supporting staff in education settings to identify and manage mental health and wellbeing issues, working within education environments to improve access to specialist mental health services, and using your skills and knowledge to deliver a service that complements existing initiatives within these environments.
The Mental Health Support Teams are jointly delivered by NHS and Department of Education and are sited. They aim to provide CBT informed early interventions for mild to moderate mental health and emotional wellbeing issues.
Main duties of the job
You will be responsible for providing training and support to staff in the designated school or college setting, and assisting schools in adopting a comprehensive approach to promoting good mental health and positive emotional wellbeing.
Mental Health Support Teams will serve as a link with CAMHS, and CBT supervision will be offered to the MHSTs by the CBT Therapist and Supervisor, as well as other CBT-trained CAMHS professionals as appropriate.
About us
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,900 staff, and serving a population of over 768,400, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.
You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of 'outstanding' for well-led and 'good' overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We're really proud of this!
We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.
Whether you're taking the first exciting steps in your career, itching for a new challenge or searching for a better place to raise a family, Lincolnshire has arange of rewarding health and social care careers in a county that's friendly, fascinating, affordable and brimming with everything you need to live a happy life.Visitbeinlincolnshire.comto find out more.
Job description Job responsibilities
Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for complete details regarding this post.
When completing your application, please demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.
We can also offer you many staff benefits to help support you which include:
Early access to Psychological Therapies and Physiotherapy
Competitive annual leave allowance
Car leasing scheme
NHS pension scheme
Free eye tests
Money saving options through our salary sacrifice scheme
Discounts on major high street retailers and restaurants
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
Successful completion of the HEE commissioned 1yr 'Education Mental Health Practitioner' course OR OR Other low intensity-CBT qualification i.e. Children's Wellbeing Practitioner qualification, Enhanced Evidence Based Practitioner, Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner Registered with the BABCP or BPS (as applicable)
Desirable
A further relevant degree qualification Teaching qualification Youth Mental Health First Aid trained
Skills 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 conduct group therapeutic interventions with children and their families Ability to conduct group parenting programmes Ability to work within educational settings to increase mental health awareness within the 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 appropriately Ability take appropriate action to mitigate or manage risk
Desirable
Ability to teach others about mental health issues
Experience Essential
Experience of delivering low intensity CBT interventions Experience of working with children and their families in a healthcare setting Experience of delivering whole school approach work 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
Desirable
Experience of the delivery of other therapeutic interventions to children, young people or their families Experience of monitoring and recording outcome measures for children's emotional wellbeing Experience of navigating complex social systems and environments, who may have conflicting priorities or agendas Experience of working with looked after children Experience of working with other vulnerable groups
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details Employer name Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Address Gainsborough Health Clinic - areas of work to be discussed
42 Hickman Street
Gainsborough
DN21 2DZ
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.lpft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)