MHST Senior Wellbeing Practitioner

at  Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust

Are you an experienced practitioner with a background in working within a Mental Health Support Team (MHST) environment, looking to progress in your career into a senior role within an MHST?
We have vacancies available and would welcome your application!
With the launch of two further Mental Health Support Teams (MHST) in Peterborough, we are looking to recruit three senior wellbeing practitioners, one in the established Peterborough MHST and two in the two new Peterborough MHSTs, which will be launching in January 2025.
If you have any further enquiries, please do get in touch, we would look forward to speaking with you.
NB: We understand registration is a new process so at the time of advertising, it may not be possible for the candidate to be registered, but there is the expectation that you will register as soon as it is possible.
As a Senior Wellbeing Practitioner, the successful candidate will work closely with the MHST Clinical and Team Lead and Senior Clinician, to ensure success of the MHST.
Main duties include: Delivering evidence-based intervention for children and young people and their families in education setting with mild to moderate mental health problems Provide case management and clinical supervision to EMHPs and Trainee EMHPs under the direction of the Senior Clinicians and both Clinical Leads
Offer evidence-based practice in guided self-help, CBT, child and adolescent mental health practice and Whole School Approaches to mental health
Clinically develop the provision of group work for children/young people and training for teaching staff, to include training and mentoring EMHP colleagues in order to improve the quality of the group work and training that we deliver
They will join a dynamic mental health team in a creative environment where evidence-based interventions, new ideas, ways of working and supporting children and young people are actively encouraged.
Furthermore, the post holder will be attending the University of East Anglia’s Supervisor course (likely to be a mixture of online and in person delivery), if required.
Rated ‘Outstanding’ by the Care Quality Commission, we are proud to provide high quality innovative services across most of the east of England that enable people to receive care closer to home and live healthier lives.
There’s one reason why our services are outstanding – and that’s our amazing staff - who, for the eighth year running, rated us incredibly highly in the national staff survey.
If you share our passion for innovative and high-quality care delivery, then please submit your application and join us on our exciting journey as a leading-edge specialist community provider. All are welcome to apply and our promise to you is a culture which prioritises staff engagement and development.
In January 2020, Cambridgeshire Community Services (CCS) NHS Trust launched two MHST’s in Huntingdon and Cambridge. A further eight MHST’s have been launched since then, with two more planned, bringing our total to 12 MHST’s by 2025-2026. In 2023, CCS also became the provider of six existing MHSTs in Norfolk and two new MHSTs in Norfolk.
The project is a collaboration with between NHS England, Health Education England and the Department for Education, following on from the 2017 Green Paper Transforming children and young people’s mental health provision. This is a roll out of the work to improve access to mental health care for young people set out in the NHS Long Term Plan.
You will join a supportive service that already has 18 other MHST’s across Cambridgeshire, Peterborough and Norfolk, so a ready support system is available. The MHST’s sit within CCS NHS Trusts Emotional Health and Wellbeing Service.
The successful candidate will provide case management and clinical supervision to Trainee EMHPs (EMHPs once qualified) under the direction of the Senior Clinicians and Clinical Lead.
They will manage a caseload and the provision of mental health care services to children and young people with mild to moderate mental health problems in education settings. They will also provide assessment and formulation of mental health difficulties in children and young people
Furthermore, the successful candidate will offer evidence-based practice in guided self-help, CBT, child and adolescent mental health practice and Whole School Approaches to mental health.
They will also clinically develop the provision of group work for children/young people and training for teaching staff, to include training and mentoring EMHP colleagues in order to improve the quality of the group work and training that we deliver.
Please see the job description for further information. We welcome informal conversations about this vacancy

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