Outreach Senior Wellbeing Practitioner inBirmingham inBirmingham PUBLISHED 19 DEC 2023

Compass is delighted to provide Mental Health Support Teams in education settings across West/North Birmingham (Handsworth, Lozells, Aston, Ladywood, Erdington) serving the children, young people and families and communities.

If you have the passion and drive deliver evidence-based early interventions for children and young people, working across both educational settings and the community read on

The Opportunity

This is an exciting opportunity to join Compass new Mental Health Support Team working with Children, Young People and Families (CYPF) with a particular focus on supporting CYP who are not on roll at school. You will also support education settings and partners to help re-engage CYP with their education through Whole School/Community Approaches.

The role will work alongside colleagues to develop Compass Wave 12 MHSTs, building positive partnerships with education settings and other CYPF services to drive  highly effective and CYPF focussed mental health and wellbeing services in line with the national MHST operating framework; supervising and innovating with practitioners and colleagues in the service.

Compass is delighted to provide Mental Health Support Teams in education settings across West/North Birmingham (Handsworth, Lozells, Aston, Ladywood, Erdington) serving the children, young people and families and communities.

If you have the passion and drive deliver evidence-based early interventions for children and young people, working across both educational settings and the community read on

The Opportunity

This is an exciting opportunity to join Compass new Mental Health Support Team working with Children, Young People and Families (CYPF) with a particular focus on supporting CYP who are not on roll at school. You will also support education settings and partners to help re-engage CYP with their education through Whole School/Community Approaches.

The role will work alongside colleagues to develop Compass Wave 12 MHSTs, building positive partnerships with education settings and other CYPF services to drive  highly effective and CYPF focussed mental health and wellbeing services in line with the national MHST operating framework; supervising and innovating with practitioners and colleagues in the service.

Compass Birmingham MHST (Wave 12) is a brand new early intervention and preventative mental health and emotional wellbeing service. The service delivers evidenced based interventions for children and young people with mild to moderate mental health needs.

The service is part of the national MHST Programme, which has been commissioned following the Transforming Children and Young Peoples Mental Health Care Provision: A Green Paper (2.  

The Person

You will be a values-driven (integrity, valuing each individual, solution focused, consistent and reliable) individual with a passion for supporting children, young people and families mental health and wellbeing. You will also have:

• Core professional and/or clinical qualification (e.g. EMHP, CWP, PMHW, nursing with specialism in mental health or learning disability nursing, Occupational Therapy, Social Work)
• Senior Wellbeing Practitioner, Post Graduate Diploma or willingness to undertake.

• Two years post qualification experience of working therapeutically with children and young people e.g., as an EMHP/CYP-IAPT practitioner

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