Senior Mental Health Practitioner

We are committed to increasing therapeutic interventions in CYP at the stage of early help, preventing them from needing care from secondary CAMHS service.

This innovative senior mental health practitioner post is a city wide post. On a day to day basis, you will work with a caseload of children and young people, providing therapeutic brief intervention within schools/ educational settings, to prevent these individuals requiring secondary care. You will also work with STICK colleagues to provide creative interventions and support groups.

The post is a hybrid style of working between home and city wide.

The post is appropriate for nurses with mental health experience, Occupational Therapists, social workers with a background in mental health and will include a supportive preceptorship programme, as well as opportunity for career development.

The STICK team (part of Forward Thinking Birmingham) is an Early Help Mental Health team.

The team provide assessment and individual and group mental health interventions to young people age 5-18 years old.

The STICK team also provide a large number of consultations to non mental health professionals working with young people in Birmingham.

The aim of the STICK team is to provide advice, guidance and support at an early stage to help support a young person to learn skills to manage their mental health and emotional wellbeing., Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust is the first of its type in the UK. Our Trust was formed in February 2017 to drive forward our commitment to provide the highest quality, world-class physical and mental health care for our women, children and families.

Uniting our hospitals means more seamless care; more investment to make greater advances in our specialist treatment and world-leading neo-natal and fetal work. Importantly, it also gives us a greater voice in shaping the future of family-centred care.

Birmingham Children's Hospital is a UK leading specialist paediatric centre with an international reputation in several areas. Birmingham Women's Hospital is one of two dedicated women's hospitals in the UK, with the busiest single site maternity unit, delivering more than 8,200 babies a year offering a full range of gynaecological, maternity and neonatal care. Forward Thinking Birmingham (FTB) Mental Health Services are a unique, innovative community and inpatient mental health partnership. Alongside partners FTB offers care pathways of mental health assessment and treatment for young people aged 0-25 years old.

Our Trust is committed to creating the best place to work. We believe in promoting and enhancing inclusion, diversity and equality and encourage applications from all areas of the community, who meet the criteria for the role, regardless of age, gender identity, disability, race, religion or sexual orientation.