MHST Specialist Practitioner and EMHP Supervisor inPlymouth inPlymouth PUBLISHED 21 MAY 2024
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Communication and Working Relationship Skills
The post holder will lead the way in engaging schools with the Trailblazer ambitions and be responsible for sustaining engagement along with the Clinical Team Manager and Operational Service Manager.
Contribute to the teams engagement with a wide range of stakeholders including staff, service users, their carers and other statutory and voluntary sector agencies.
Impart highly complex and sensitive information to :
-Children/young people and their parents/carers re assessment, care planning, treatment and review
-Multi-disciplinary teams to ensure the provision of consistent well-coordinated care
External agencies also involved in the provision of care e.g. schools, voluntary and private sector, police, social services, etc.
Service user/carer groups
Liaise with a wide range of other professionals and agencies.
Contribute to the safe and effective day to day operations of the service including the handling of clinical enquires.
Provide and receive information some of which may be contentious, sensitive and highly complex to and from children/young people and their families/carers, adapting your approach to overcome any barriers to understanding.
Provide high standard of written and verbal communication that is clear and in line with professional documentation standards.
Participate in and chair clinical meetings.
Demonstrate the ability to communicate in a way that is empathic and reassuring.
Communicate information in a way that makes it relevant and understandable for service users and carers, working in line with practice standards and operational policies.
Facilitate fair access to services and promote social inclusion regardless of age, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation or disability.
The post holder will be responsible for the support and development of the trainee roles in their team and across county teams as required.
Analytical and Judgemental Skills
Undertake complex risk assessments and develop a formulation of risk which will lead to the development of risk management plans which have taken into consideration a range of possible options.
Undertake and continuously re-evaluate complex bio-psycho-social assessments and develop a working formulation and diagnosis which will lead to the development of personalised care packages in line with evidence based and routine outcome measures.
Ensure the continuous re-evaluation of individuals needs and clinical risk situations and use clinical judgement to formulate the most appropriate clinical plan.
Planning and Organisational Skills
Organise and facilitate clinical meetings.
Responsible for managing their own workload to ensure the needs to the individuals who use our services are met taking the wider needs of the team into consideration.
Ensure that interventions are planned in an integrated and co-ordinated manner particularly where dependent on other external agencies.
Plan and organise individuals packages of care and ensure that reviews are held within the required time frames.
Plan own workload and the workload of junior colleagues to ensure that care is provided in the most high quality and cost efficient manner, prioritise and make adjustments as appropriate.
Collaborate with EMHP staff ensuring job plans are efficient and effective.
Arrange training events for staff within education in line with the ambitions of the Trailblazer pilot.
Responsibility for Patient/Client Care, Treatment and Therapy
Ensure that caseload is well managed and that care and treatment is provided in line with practice standards.
Understand social and developmental factors that impact upon mental health.
Develop and deliver evidence based care packages including assessing, planning, intervention and evaluation through use of Routine Outcome Measures.
Ensure that all interventions have clear outcomes and that these are taken into consideration when sourcing the resources to best meet the individuals needs.
Deliver services using a recovery and strengths approach where the needs of the individual child/young person and their families/carers are held as central and their involvement is proactively encouraged.
Deliver care in line with evidence based practice and employ engagement and therapeutic skills that are appropriate to the clinical situation presented.
Responsibility for triaging individuals and signposting to the most appropriate services.
Provide specialist advice to referrers/other multi-disciplinary staff in relation to the care of individuals.
Enable communication and engagement of individuals and their carers to ensure that they have a voice about the services they receive and how these are developed, promoting participation across the service.
Ensure that appropriate action is taken to safeguarding children and adults.
Ensure that assessment and treatment plans are holistic, outcome focused and take into account the physical health, educational and social needs of the individual, including input of significant others.
Have working knowledge of eligibility of the person for services and when appropriate refer for these services.
Ensuring timely and accurate documentation of all clinical activity in line with professional guidance and best practice.
Responsibility for Policy and Service Development Implementation
Participate in programmes of audit and research within the team as agreed by the Children Young People and Families Service (CYPFS) and implement the findings.
Involvement in the development of local systems and process that ensure the implementation of Livewell South west policies.
Ensure participation in the teams compliance with CQC standards through the participation and development in provider compliance assessment tools.
Contribute to clinical governance arrangements in order to ensure the quality of the service provided. This will include ensuring performance targets are met to provide high quality care.
Ensure development of the service is in line with national and local findings from other Trailblazer sites.
Responsibility for Finance, Equipment and Other Resources
Ensure care is provided in the most cost-effective and high quality manner and identify unmet needs.
Responsible for the safe use of any equipment.
Responsibility for Human Resources, e.g. Supervision, Training, HR Advice and Management
Provision of day to day and clinical supervision and PDPs as allocated by line manager.
Supervise the caseload and care provision of junior colleagues.
Demonstrate and role model excellent clinical leadership skills.
Mentor students in line with professional requirements.
Ensure that core training is maintained and that the training and development opportunities in line with the CYPFS Workforce Plan are participated in to meet professional requirements.
When tasks are delegated, ensure that the person you have delegated these tasks to is appropriately skilled to do so.
Act up for the team manager during their absence and take on other responsibilities as agreed as part of their continuing professional development.
Responsibility for Information Resources and Administrative Duties
Ensure information resources are used to maintain knowledge of Livewell South West, Children and Young People Family Service and MHST Team priorities and safety initiatives.
Maintain up to date clinical record in a timely and accurate manner in line with LWSW Standard operating procedures.
Ensure information is shared with key stakeholders and other agencies in a secure manner.
Responsibility for Research and Development
Participate in research and development both locally and nationally.
Freedom to Act
Work within the operational policies and service specifications of the team.
Work without direct supervision and take accountability for your own actions.
Acts autonomously within the health care framework to make clinical and non- clinical decisions and consults with senior staff and/or manager in accordance with their professional judgement.
Any Other Specific Tasks Required
Ensure that you remain professionally competent and registered.
Undertake any other reasonable management request.
37.5 hours per week.
In 2, the Government published its Green Paper for Transforming children and young peoples mental health, which detailed proposals for expanding access to mental health care for children and young people, building on the national NHS transformation programme which was already underway.
The proposals were focused on providing additional support through schools and colleges and reducing waiting times for treatment. Following a 13-week public consultation, during which the Government received more than 2,700 responses, the Department of Health and Social Care and the Department for Education published its Response to the Children and Young Peoples Mental Health Green Paper Consultation.
These core commitments are delivered through a joint and collaborative programme led by the Department of Health and Social Care, Department for Education and NHS England, with support from Health Education England and Public Health England and the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities.
MHSTs have three core functions:
- to deliver evidence-based interventions for mild-to-moderate mental health issues;
- support the senior mental health lead(where established) in each school or college to introduce or develop whole school or college approach and;
- give timely advice to school and college staff, and liaise with external specialist service to help children and young people to get the right support and stay in education.
This is an exciting time of growth and change within the Plymouth Livewell Mental Health support Teams (MHST ) we are currently working collaboratively with children and young people, and our partners, to deliver the Governments Programme for mental health support to be available in schools.
To support the development of our established Mental Help Support Teams, we are looking to recruit a Senior Education Mental Health Practitioner or someone willing to do additional training to be able to carry out this role.
In line with the Government's priority to increase access and availability of mental health and wellbeing support for children and young people, the new Education Mental Health Practitioner (EMHP) role is an exciting opportunity to deliver evidence-based early interventions for children and young people, working across both educational settings and healthcare sectors in England.
On a day to day basis, you will be overseeing the workload of EMHPs, conducting both Case Management and Clinical Skills supervision, as well as holding a small caseload of patients yourself.
Typical tasks within this, might include reviewing suitability for treatment within the MHST, gathering information and facilitating onward referrals, and liaising with schools as part of the wider MHST.
This role may not be eligible for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker route, please refer to the Direct Gov website for more information with regards to eligibility.
Role may not be eligible for sponsorship
Communication and Working Relationship Skills
The post holder will lead the way in engaging schools with the Trailblazer ambitions and be responsible for sustaining engagement along with the Clinical Team Manager and Operational Service Manager.
Contribute to the teams engagement with a wide range of stakeholders including staff, service users, their carers and other statutory and voluntary sector agencies.
Impart highly complex and sensitive information to :
-Children/young people and their parents/carers re assessment, care planning, treatment and review
-Multi-disciplinary teams to ensure the provision of consistent well-coordinated care
External agencies also involved in the provision of care e.g. schools, voluntary and private sector, police, social services, etc.
Service user/carer groups
Liaise with a wide range of other professionals and agencies.
Contribute to the safe and effective day to day operations of the service including the handling of clinical enquires.
Provide and receive information some of which may be contentious, sensitive and highly complex to and from children/young people and their families/carers, adapting your approach to overcome any barriers to understanding.
Provide high standard of written and verbal communication that is clear and in line with professional documentation standards.
Participate in and chair clinical meetings.
Demonstrate the ability to communicate in a way that is empathic and reassuring.
Communicate information in a way that makes it relevant and understandable for service users and carers, working in line with practice standards and operational policies.
Facilitate fair access to services and promote social inclusion regardless of age, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation or disability.
The post holder will be responsible for the support and development of the trainee roles in their team and across county teams as required.
Analytical and Judgemental Skills
Undertake complex risk assessments and develop a formulation of risk which will lead to the development of risk management plans which have taken into consideration a range of possible options.
Undertake and continuously re-evaluate complex bio-psycho-social assessments and develop a working formulation and diagnosis which will lead to the development of personalised care packages in line with evidence based and routine outcome measures.
Ensure the continuous re-evaluation of individuals needs and clinical risk situations and use clinical judgement to formulate the most appropriate clinical plan.
Planning and Organisational Skills
Organise and facilitate clinical meetings.
Responsible for managing their own workload to ensure the needs to the individuals who use our services are met taking the wider needs of the team into consideration.
Ensure that interventions are planned in an integrated and co-ordinated manner particularly where dependent on other external agencies.
Plan and organise individuals packages of care and ensure that reviews are held within the required time frames.
Plan own workload and the workload of junior colleagues to ensure that care is provided in the most high quality and cost efficient manner, prioritise and make adjustments as appropriate.
Collaborate with EMHP staff ensuring job plans are efficient and effective.
Arrange training events for staff within education in line with the ambitions of the Trailblazer pilot.
Responsibility for Patient/Client Care, Treatment and Therapy
Ensure that caseload is well managed and that care and treatment is provided in line with practice standards.
Understand social and developmental factors that impact upon mental health.
Develop and deliver evidence based care packages including assessing, planning, intervention and evaluation through use of Routine Outcome Measures.
Ensure that all interventions have clear outcomes and that these are taken into consideration when sourcing the resources to best meet the individuals needs.
Deliver services using a recovery and strengths approach where the needs of the individual child/young person and their families/carers are held as central and their involvement is proactively encouraged.
Deliver care in line with evidence based practice and employ engagement and therapeutic skills that are appropriate to the clinical situation presented.
Responsibility for triaging individuals and signposting to the most appropriate services.
Provide specialist advice to referrers/other multi-disciplinary staff in relation to the care of individuals.
Enable communication and engagement of individuals and their carers to ensure that they have a voice about the services they receive and how these are developed, promoting participation across the service.
Ensure that appropriate action is taken to safeguarding children and adults.
Ensure that assessment and treatment plans are holistic, outcome focused and take into account the physical health, educational and social needs of the individual, including input of significant others.
Have working knowledge of eligibility of the person for services and when appropriate refer for these services.
Ensuring timely and accurate documentation of all clinical activity in line with professional guidance and best practice.
Responsibility for Policy and Service Development Implementation
Participate in programmes of audit and research within the team as agreed by the Children Young People and Families Service (CYPFS) and implement the findings.
Involvement in the development of local systems and process that ensure the implementation of Livewell South west policies.
Ensure participation in the teams compliance with CQC standards through the participation and development in provider compliance assessment tools.
Contribute to clinical governance arrangements in order to ensure the quality of the service provided. This will include ensuring performance targets are met to provide high quality care.
Ensure development of the service is in line with national and local findings from other Trailblazer sites.
Responsibility for Finance, Equipment and Other Resources
Ensure care is provided in the most cost-effective and high quality manner and identify unmet needs.
Responsible for the safe use of any equipment.
Responsibility for Human Resources, e.g. Supervision, Training, HR Advice and Management
Provision of day to day and clinical supervision and PDPs as allocated by line manager.
Supervise the caseload and care provision of junior colleagues.
Demonstrate and role model excellent clinical leadership skills.
Mentor students in line with professional requirements.
Ensure that core training is maintained and that the training and development opportunities in line with the CYPFS Workforce Plan are participated in to meet professional requirements.
When tasks are delegated, ensure that the person you have delegated these tasks to is appropriately skilled to do so.
Act up for the team manager during their absence and take on other responsibilities as agreed as part of their continuing professional development.
Responsibility for Information Resources and Administrative Duties
Ensure information resources are used to maintain knowledge of Livewell South West, Children and Young People Family Service and MHST Team priorities and safety initiatives.
Maintain up to date clinical record in a timely and accurate manner in line with LWSW Standard operating procedures.
Ensure information is shared with key stakeholders and other agencies in a secure manner.
Responsibility for Research and Development
Participate in research and development both locally and nationally.
Freedom to Act
Work within the operational policies and service specifications of the team.
Work without direct supervision and take accountability for your own actions.
Acts autonomously within the health care framework to make clinical and non- clinical decisions and consults with senior staff and/or manager in accordance with their professional judgement.
Any Other Specific Tasks Required
Ensure that you remain professionally competent and registered.
Undertake any other reasonable management request.
37.5 hours per week.
In 2, the Government published its Green Paper for Transforming children and young peoples mental health, which detailed proposals for expanding access to mental health care for children and young people, building on the national NHS transformation programme which was already underway.
The proposals were focused on providing additional support through schools and colleges and reducing waiting times for treatment. Following a 13-week public consultation, during which the Government received more than 2,700 responses, the Department of Health and Social Care and the Department for Education published its Response to the Children and Young Peoples Mental Health Green Paper Consultation.
These core commitments are delivered through a joint and collaborative programme led by the Department of Health and Social Care, Department for Education and NHS England, with support from Health Education England and Public Health England and the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities.
MHSTs have three core functions:
- to deliver evidence-based interventions for mild-to-moderate mental health issues;
- support the senior mental health lead(where established) in each school or college to introduce or develop whole school or college approach and;
- give timely advice to school and college staff, and liaise with external specialist service to help children and young people to get the right support and stay in education.
This is an exciting time of growth and change within the Plymouth Livewell Mental Health support Teams (MHST ) we are currently working collaboratively with children and young people, and our partners, to deliver the Governments Programme for mental health support to be available in schools.
To support the development of our established Mental Help Support Teams, we are looking to recruit a Senior Education Mental Health Practitioner or someone willing to do additional training to be able to carry out this role.
In line with the Government's priority to increase access and availability of mental health and wellbeing support for children and young people, the new Education Mental Health Practitioner (EMHP) role is an exciting opportunity to deliver evidence-based early interventions for children and young people, working across both educational settings and healthcare sectors in England.
On a day to day basis, you will be overseeing the workload of EMHPs, conducting both Case Management and Clinical Skills supervision, as well as holding a small caseload of patients yourself.
Typical tasks within this, might include reviewing suitability for treatment within the MHST, gathering information and facilitating onward referrals, and liaising with schools as part of the wider MHST.
This role may not be eligible for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker route, please refer to the Direct Gov website for more information with regards to eligibility.
Role may not be eligible for sponsorship
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