**INTERNAL MPFT APPLICANTS ONLY** Senior Mental Health Support Team Practitioner

The post holder will support the delivery a high quality, comprehensive mental health service for children and young people with emotional health/mental health difficulties. The role involves managing a defined caseload with a focus on working with children and young people and their families who experience a complex range of needs and difficulties. Acting as a key member of the team, the post holder will provide assessment, psychosocial, evidence-based interventions using a collaborative approach and will be skilled at risk assessment and management. They will provide supervision for other team members in an area of interest such as family work, safeguarding, SEND as agreed with the Operational Manager. They will lead on supporting the team with the whole school approach developments and evaluation and offer liaison, advice and consultation with schools and a wide range of external agencies. For further information regarding the main duties for this position please see the

Do you have a passion for early intervention? East Staffordshire MHSTs are looking for a Senior Mental Health Support Team Practitioner to join our team working within schools.
We need a Senior who will be effective clinicians and team leads with, responsibilities for operational and clinical development, offering a strong contribution to our service delivery and growth.
Are you a fully qualified EMHP or CWP or registered with a core profession (e.g. Social Work/OT/RMN), with significant post qualification/post registration experience?
Are you interested in working with children and young people at an early intervention stage to support their emotional/mental health and wellbeing?
Are you able to assess and identify how best to work with children and young people where there may be more complex mental health needs?
Do you enjoy working within a team, sharing your knowledge of how to support children and young people with colleagues inside and outside of the NHS, focused particularly on partnership working with schools?
Are you keen to develop your clinical skills and offer evidence-based interventions?
Are you able to support and supervise junior practitioners and lead and organise the activity of a team?
If the answer is yes, we welcome your application!

By joining Team MPFT, you will be helping your communities and in return for this, we will support you by
+ Supporting your career development and progression.
+ Excellent NHS Pension scheme
+ Generous maternity, paternity, adoption leave
+ Options for flexible working
+ Up to 27 days annual leave (increasing with service up to 33 days) and the opportunity to purchase additional annual leave.
+ Extensive Health and Wellbeing support and resources
+ If you work in our community teams, we pay for your time travelling between patients.
+ Lease car if you complete more than 500 business miles per annum, fully insured and maintained (including tyres), mileage paid at lease car rate
+ Salary sacrifice car - fully insured and maintained (including tyres), your gross pay is reduced by the cost of the vehicle before tax, NI and pension deductions are calculated, mileage paid at business rates
+ Salary sacrifice bikes up to £2k
+ Free car parking at all trust sites
+ Free flu vaccination every year
+ Citizens Advice support linked with a Hardship Fund for one off additional support up to £250 (if the criteria is met)
And more. We are proud to be a diverse and inclusive organisation and there is a choice of staff networks that help you meet like-minded people.