09 Oct
Compass
Birmingham
Job description
Job summary
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 MHSTs, 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.
Main duties of the job
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 Peoples 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 ( 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 , as an EMHP / CYP-IAPT practitioner
We are holding an online information sharing event on Wednesday 18thSeptember at 5pm. The event is an opportunity for candidates to find out more about Compass, the new service and role.
If you are interested in attending the event please express your interest by
About us
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
For more information and to apply visit :
If you would like more information or to discuss the role further please contact either Sue Berry, Assistant Director on 07442773722 or e-mail or Arjan Bains, Senior Operations Manager on 07425 776957 or e-mail
Closing date : 7th October 2024
Interviews will be held on : 22nd October 2024
We may close the advert early if sufficient applications are received. You can also find out more about what it is like to join one of our MHSTs by visiting : This is part of our commitment to equality and developing a truly inclusive and representative workforce.
We are happy to discuss any reasonable adjustments individuals may require in the recruitment process, on commencement, or once in post. Job description
Job responsibilities
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 MHSTs, 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.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Core professional and / or clinical qualification ( EMHP, CWP, PMHW, nursing with specialism in mental health or learning disability nursing, Occupational Therapy, Social Work) and must be committed to maintaining registration if applicable
- Senior Wellbeing Practitioner, Post Graduate Diploma or willingness to undertake.
Desirable
- Post Graduate Certificate in Supervision (EMHP supervisor course)
- Evidence of continued professional development
- Management / supervision training
- Therapeutic post graduate qualification or equivalent experience ideally in low intensity CBT.
- Post Graduate qualification in a relevant discipline
- Mentorship qualification
Experience
Essential
- Two years post qualification experience of working therapeutically with children and young people , as an EMHP / CYP-IAPT practitioner
- Experience of line management and / or delivery of clinical supervision
- Experience of working in a community and / or educational
- Experience of effective engagement with CYPF
- Risk assessment and management in the delivery of clinical services (including safeguarding)
Desirable
- Experience of leadership within Children and Young People clinical service areas
- Experience of providing mentorship
- Experience of organising team duties
- Experience of inducting staff members
- Experience of working in a community and / or educational environment
- Experience of working in a skill mix team
Additional Criteria
Essential
- Leadership and the ability to delegate and supervise staff
- Recognition and escalation of risk, contributing to control measures
- Planning workload, time management
- Work under pressure and able to manage changing priorities
- Understand need for evidence and statistical data collection, and achieving targets
- IT skills
- Team player and a dynamic personality
- Multi-agency / disciplinary working
- Excellent communication skills and ability to form positive working relationships with a range of stakeholders.
- Innovative practice and ability to influence others
- Positive attitude; flexible and adaptable; solution focused; and tenacious.
- Has a strong degree of personal integrity
- Ability to work all year round
- Due to the nature of the role there is a need to travel to individual schools, which will require a driving license and access to a vehicle (for individuals who cannot drive due to a disability, we can consider accessibility options provided via Access to Work etc).
- Ongoing commitment to maintain registration in core profession
Desirable
- Ability to analyse, evaluate and rationalise data and enable progressive models of delivery and intervention
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