Outreach Senior Wellbeing Practitioner

Compass is delighted to provide Mental Health Support Teams in education settings across Birmingham serving the children, young people and families and communities.

If you have the passion and drive deliver evidence-based early interventions for children and young people, working across both educational settings and the community read on…

The Opportunity

This is an exciting opportunity to join Compass’ new Mental Health Support Team working with Children, Young People and Families (CYPF) with a particular focus on supporting CYP who are not on roll at school. You will also support education settings and partners to help re-engage CYP with their education through Whole School/Community Approaches.

The role will work alongside colleagues to develop Compass’ Wave 12 MHST’s, building positive partnerships with education settings and other CYPF services to drive  highly effective and CYPF focussed mental health and wellbeing services in line with the national MHST operating framework; supervising and innovating with practitioners and colleagues in the service.

Compass Birmingham MHST (Wave 12) is a brand new early intervention and preventative mental health and emotional wellbeing service. The service delivers evidenced based interventions for children and young people with mild to moderate mental health needs.

The service is part of the national MHST Programme, which has been commissioned following the ‘Transforming Children and Young People’s Mental Health Care Provision: A Green Paper’ (2017).  

The Person

You will be a values-driven (integrity, valuing each individual, solution focused, consistent and reliable) individual with a passion for supporting children, young people and families mental health and wellbeing. You will also have:

• Core professional and/or clinical qualification (e.g. EMHP, CWP, PMHW, nursing with specialism in mental health or learning disability nursing, Occupational Therapy, Social Work)
• Senior Wellbeing Practitioner, Post Graduate Diploma or willingness to undertake.

• Two years’ post qualification experience of working therapeutically with children and young people e.g., as an EMHP/CYP-IAPT practitioner

Benefits

We offer a range of benefits including:

• 27 days’ holiday + bank holidays, rising to 32 days over time (pro rata)
• Life assurance at 2 x basic salary
• Competitive contributory pension scheme
• 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme and OH service
• Enhanced sick pay
• Excellent learning & development opportunities and career progression
• Annual performance / salary review

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For more information and to apply visit: www.compass-uk.org/work-for-us.

If you would like more information or to discuss the role further please contact either Sue Berry, Assistant Director on 07442773722 or e-mail [email protected] or Arjan Bains, Senior Operations Manager on 07425 776957 or e-mail [email protected]

Closing date: 7th October 2024

Interviews will be held on:  22nd October 2024