Job summary
Northumberland Mental Health Support Team has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Wellbeing Practitioner to join our Alnwick and Coquet Mental Health Support Team.

The role will provide consolidated and enhanced clinical skills in the Senior Wellbeing Practitioner 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 (EMHPs only) 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.

Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.

Main duties of the job

• To provide consolidated & enhanced clinical skills in the role of a Senior Wellbeing Practitioner.
• 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 a Senior Wellbeing Practitioner.
• 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.

About us
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.

Job 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 access more specialist services.
• Supporting and facilitating staff in education settings and those EMHPs/CWPs that are supervised to identify and where appropriate manage issues related to mental health and wellbeing.
• Working with and within education and community environments to access specialist mental health services.
• Skills with associated knowledge acquired through completion of the Senior Wellbeing Programme and demonstrable practical ability.
• Demonstrating enhanced skills, experience and competence in the full range of low-intensity interventions for mild-moderate low mood, anxiety-based, and behavioural difficulties. This will align with Senior Wellbeing Practitioner training in 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 and accept appropriate referrals for children and young people in educational settings, according to agreed national and local referral routes, processes and procedures.
• To conduct, initiate, and undertake accurate assessments of risk to self and others.
• As a Senior Wellbeing Practitioner you will support EMHPs/CWPs 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 case management and clinical supervision, identifying the scope of practice of the individual post holder within the role, and working safely within that scope.
• To lead on and 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.

Qualifications / Professional Registration
Essential

• Degree or an equivalent level of relevant experience
• 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.
• Relevant knowledge acquired through successful completion of or working towards the Senior Wellbeing Practitioner programme.
• Membership/registration of relevant professional body
• Basic literacy and numeracy qualifications

Desirable

• Relevant post-qualification training that may have been attended in an EMHP or CWP role

Experience and knowledge
Essential

• Experience of working with children and young people and an understanding of the education system in England
• Experience of delivering supervision (ideally CBT informed supervision)
• At least 2year post-qualification experience working as a CWP or an EMHP with children and young people with mental health difficulties and their families
• Experience of delivering interventions in education settings
• Experience of delivering CBT informed practice
• Experience of multi-agency collaborative working
• Experience of monitoring performance & outcomes

Other requirements
Essential

• It is an essential requirement of the role that the post holder has a valid driving licence and is either a car owner and able to use the car for work purposes, or has a Trust personal lease vehicle which may be used for the role. However, the Trust would consider making reasonable adjustments to the role, if necessary, to enable a disabled person to undertake the role

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

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.