Senior Mental Health Practitioner

Supporting young people and changing futures.

You’re someone who cares deeply about making a difference, not just today, but for a young person’s future.

As a Senior Mental Health Practitioner, you’ll join our Early Intervention and Targeted Support Service in North Derbyshire, providing prevention, early intervention and targeted mental health and emotional wellbeing support across community and education settings.

You’ll support children and young people experiencing mild to moderate mental health and emotional wellbeing difficulties, carrying out assessments, managing a caseload and delivering structured, evidence based and therapy informed interventions.

You’ll use outcome measures to inform clinical decisions, respond to risk and safeguarding concerns, and help children, young people and families access the right support at the right time.

As a senior practitioner, you’ll also provide specialist advice, consultation and training, alongside clinical supervision and professional support to colleagues.

Ready to use your experience to make a real difference? We’d love to hear from you.

You’re an experienced practitioner with a genuine passion for improving outcomes for children and young people.

You’ll bring:

• A relevant professional or clinical qualification - EMHP, CWP, PMHW, Senior EMHP, Mental Health Nursing, Learning Disability Nursing, Occupational Therapy or Social Work.

• At least two years’ experience of working therapeutically with children and young people, with experience of clinical development and engaging effectively with families and carers.

• Experience of risk assessment, risk management and safeguarding within clinical services.

• Experience of line management and/or clinical supervision, with a postgraduate certificate in supervision or equivalent, or willingness to undertake this.

• Strong leadership, communication and organisational skills, with the ability to manage changing priorities, plan and prioritise your workload and support colleagues.

• A collaborative and adaptable approach, with the ability to build positive relationships with children, young people, families, education settings and partner agencies.

• A solution focused, reflective and resilient approach, with a strong sense of personal integrity and commitment to your professional development.

Experience of supervision or management training, a relevant postgraduate or mentorship qualification, CBT informed supervision, inducting new staff, or working within community or education settings would be welcomed.

If this sounds like you, take the next step and apply today.