Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT)
MHST Senior Practitioner for Whole School Approach
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As part of Hertfordshire CAMHS transformation, our priority is simple: to increase access and availability of mental health and wellbeing support for children and young people. We are recruiting a Whole School Approach Senior Practitioner to cover the East Herts MHST.
Driven by this goal and in line with NHS long term plans, we have exciting new opportunities for Supervisors to work at the forefront of innovation in Children’s and Young Peoples Mental Health and to play an instrumental role in a forward-thinking service delivering interventions into schools and other settings in Hertfordshire.
This role is a chance to make a difference in young lives, and as such duties will include elements of whole school approach management, delivery and individual clinical activity.
As a Senior Practitioner, solely focused on Whole School Approach, you will have a unique opportunity to be part of a dynamic mental health service in a creative environment where evidence-based interventions, new ideas, ways of working and supporting children and young people are actively encouraged.
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This approach requires flexibility, dynamism and above all a passion for working with children and young people in educational settings whilst also motivating, inspiring and supporting your team to do the same.
You will be responsible for operationalising the delivery of Whole School Approach and evidence based interventions within Mental Health Support Teams (MHSTs) in schools and colleges whilst providing supervision for EMHPs.
Supervisors will be a graduate qualified health care professional with:
- Some level of formal CBT training (e.g. CYP-IAPT)
- Previous consolidated post graduate experience of working with young people with emotional and mental health issues
- Completed the HEE Postgraduate Diploma in Education Mental Health Practice (with at least 18 months post-qualification practice)
In addition, candidates will have experience in delivering evidenced-based CBT interventions for mild to moderate mental health issues such as anxiety, low mood and behavioural problems to CYP both individually and in groups.
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Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of ‘Outstanding’ from the Care Quality Commission.
Our Family Of Over 4,000 Members Of Staff Provide Health And Social Care For People With Mental Ill Health, Physical Ill Health And Learning Disabilities Across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Essex And Norfolk, Delivering These Services Within The Community And Several Inpatient Settings. Everything Is Underpinned By Choice, Independence And Equality, With Our Trust Values Embedded Throughout
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For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Amy Dunne
- Job title: East MHST Operational Manager
- Email address: amy.dunne4@nhs.net
- Telephone number: 07971 639540
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