Band 6 Education Mental Health Practitioner and Supervisor - Bristol

The post holder will work as an autonomous and responsible EMHP alongside offering supervision within the scope of the Mental Health Support Teams (MHST) initiative.

The post holder will work in partnership with schools to deliver a range of mental health interventions within school settings. This may involve group work or direct work with children/young people as well as offering mental health-based consultation, and advice around mentalhealth to teaching staff.

The post holder will be responsible to ensure the effective co-ordination of clinical care provided within schools including consideration to safeguarding and clinical risk issues where indicated.

The post holder will work with teachers and school staff to identify children and young people with emerging mental health needs, as part of a whole school approach to mental health and wellbeing.

The post holder will contribute to the clinical leadership of the team, providing supervision and caseload management to trainee and qualified EMHP's.

The post holder will use their skills, knowledge and abilities to deliver a service based withineducational settings that builds on and reinforces, but does not replace those initiatives that alreadyexist within these environments.

The post holder will be responsible for the clinical skills supervision and caseload management supervision of EMHP's in the MHST.

Main duties of the job

Therapeutic Assessment and InterventionAssess and deliver outcome focused, evidence-based interventions in educational settings forchildren and young people experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties, workingat all times in collaboration with and giving respect to the education function of the setting inwhich the post-holder is working.

Facilitate fair access to services and promote social inclusion regardless of age, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation or disability.

Supervision:

Deliver clinical supervision to supervisee's on a scheduled basis to ensure safe practice and the governance obligations of the MHST service are adhered to.

Effort and Health & Safety Factors:Working with service users in distress and who on occasion may have used coping strategies such as self-harm, or present as hostile, confused and have difficulty communicating and as a result may pose risks to themselves or the safety of others.

Frequent driving and working across multiple sites to deliver interventions and attend to administrative tasks. There is an expectation to work mainly out of allocated schools but the post holder must be prepared to attend satellite sites, our main office and some home working.

This job description is intended as an outline indicator of general areas of activity and will be amended in the light of the changing needs of the organisation. To be reviewed in conjunction with the post holder on a regular basis.

We are AWP (Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust)a diverse organisation with over 5,000 dedicated staff providing inpatient and community-based mental health care.

We provide services from a range of locations to approximately 1.8 million people living in Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES), Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Swindon and across the county of Wiltshire.

Our outstanding people promote mental health and wellbeing. The expertise and resources within AWP are dedicated to a person-centred approach for those who use our services and for all employees. We recognise that happy and fulfilled employees give better care.

At AWP we actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds; we are particularly keen to encourage applications from people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities and from the LGBTQ+ community. We want people to bring their unique blend of experiences, backgrounds, perspectives and knowledge to AWP, as diversity makes us stronger.