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Join our psychology-led team delivering mental health support across Sheffield educational settings as part of the ten year health plan. Working alongside the Healthy Minds Mental Health Support Team Lead, you will help schools develop trauma-informed, whole-school approaches to wellbeing, coordinate support for vulnerable pupils, and provide consultation, training and reflective practice for staff. You will also contribute to the offer for children and young people with mild to moderate mental health needs. This role combines direct clinical work with system-level change, supporting the application of psychological thinking across education.
Job Responsibility
Supporting Senior Mental Health Leads in Sheffield educational settings to enhance their whole-school wellbeing offer
Provide clinical supervision and case management for Senior / Education Mental Health Practioners
Develop psychologically informed care plans for vulnerable children and young people
Offer consultation, training, and reflective practice to school staff and MHST teams
Deliver direct psychological work with children and young people
Support service development and progress in collaboration with the Healthy Minds team
Requirements
A registerable mental health qualification such as Registered Mental Health Nurse (RMN), a registerable social work qualification such as Social Worker, or a registerable psychotherapy qualification such as Art, Psychotherapist or Family Therapist
Accredited practitioner status with the HCPC or relevant governing body
Evidence of Continuing Professional Development in Psychotherapies
Significant post registration experience, within a CAMHS /Mental health settin
Working collaboratively with patients and their families
Working in a multi-disciplinary team and across multi agency partners
Legal Frameworks relevant to CAMHS MH Clinical Risk
Understanding of a range of psychological theory and models of care and treatment
Leadership - ability to build, develop and maintain relationships Operational Management
Legal Frameworks relevant to CAMHS /Mental health
An understanding of Safeguarding and its application in practice
Clinical Risk Assessment and Management and its application in practice
Clinical Governance and its application in practice
Provide leadership and monitor, co-ordinate and prioritise activities
Interpret complex clinical information from a variety of sources and make clear and prompt clinical decisions
Provide effective clinical supervision, teaching, training and assessing in clinical practice
Demonstrate and maintain skills in basic life support
Hold a current UK driving license and have access to a vehicle
Personal integrity and credibility
Able to work flexibly and co-operatively as part of a team
Able to use own initiative and make decisions independently
Committed to promoting a positive image of people with mental health conditions
Self-aware and committed to professional and personal development and reflective practice
Able to engage with vulnerable people and work effectively in distressing and challenging circumstances
Frequently cope with the emotional demands of direct operational and staff management
Nice to have
To be educated to MSc level or have equivalent Clinical / Managerial experience
Postgraduate psychotherapy qualification such as PG Dip in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, MA Art Psychotherapy, MSc Family Therapy
Qualification in supervision of practitioners in delivering psychotherapies
Developing and delivering mental health training
Offering consultation and supervision / reflective practice
Experience of early intervention and prevention
Setting and auditing clinical standards
Utilisation of research in practice
Project management
Developing and delivering mental health training
Experience of early intervention and prevention
Setting and auditing clinical standards
Utilisation of research in practice
What we offer
Regular clinical and line management supervision from a Senior Clinical Specialist