MHST Mental Health Practitioner

The post holders will be members of the multi-disciplinary Healthy Young Minds service working as part of the integrated Mental Health Support Team which will support schools across the borough.

The post holders are responsible for providing mental health assessments, evidence based psychotherapeutic interventions and consultation for children, adolescents and families and professionals.

In addition, the post holders are encouraged to develop a specific therapeutic modality as a specialty for the service.

Wave 12-To address unmet need and health inequalities within each locality, ensuring better access and outcomes for underrepresented groups. This is line with the ambitions and objectives of the Trust's This is Us Strategy and Working Together Partnership Strategy and will provide an opportunity for MHSTs to go further to achieve those objectives and promote life chances whilst reducing inequality. We look forward to welcoming to our team which is currently based at our Trust Headquarters in Ashton with plans to relocate to the Stockport area in the near future.

We are looking for enthusiastic dynamic motivated individuals who are passionate about making a difference to young peoples lives.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be an integral part of the MHST. You will use your clinical skills to listen to the needs of the child and family to provide meaningful evidence based interventions, that can demonstrate clinical change.

You will support staff in schools and colleges to help the whole system develop an understanding of how to work together to improve health and mental wellbeing.

We are proud to provide high quality mental health and learning disability services, both inpatient and in the community across five boroughs of Greater Manchester - Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport and Tameside and Glossop.

Our vision is for a happier and more hopeful life for everyone in our communities and our staff work hard to deliver the very best care for the people who use our services. We're really proud of our#PennineCarePeopleand do everything we can to make sure we're a great place to work.

You will help nurture and develop other staff in a team where opinions of all will be valued. As we discover what works for whom interventions will change and be adapted, so this will be a dynamic working environment.

This will sit within the broader values of Pennine NHS Foundation Trust.