Practice Lead: Mental Health Support Team (MHST)
Bromley Y are a long-established charity for over 60 years, which runs the Mental Health and Emotional Wellbeing Service for Children and Young People in Bromley. We are a supportive, inclusive, collaborative organisation with an opportunity for an experienced mental health practitioner, counsellor or equivalent to join our Mental Health Support Team on a full-time contract. If you are looking for a service that believes in developing and upskilling its practitioners, this is the role for you!
Bromley Y is organised around the needs-led iThrive Model and operates an Integrated Single Point of Access with our partners in CAMHS to ensure children and young people receive the right support at the right time. Our MHSTs are well-established and work together to support primary and secondary schools across Bromley borough and over the next three years we have plans to extend coverage to all education settings, including SEND settings, independent schools and further education colleges.
The service has a diverse offer for young people and families, with evidence-based 1:1 and group interventions, workshops, webinars, mentoring, social prescribing and parent-support. We champion the voices of young people, actively seeking feedback from clients, facilitating user participation groups and empowering our Youth Ambassadors to lead on community outreach.
About the role
We are recruiting for a Practice Lead position in the MHST who will have a particular focus on supporting; governance, data, analysis, performance, evaluation and evidence-based impact. The successful postholder will contribute to the development of early intervention and prevention service in Bromley for children and young people and actively leading continuous improvement activity.
The post represents an opportunity for a qualified and experienced Educator and qualified Therapeutic Practitioner, with leadership and management experience, ideally in education or health settings, who is committed to the principle of the whole school approach to wellbeing to further their career.
The post holder will be responsible for oversight of Bromley Y’s Mental Health Support Team offer to schools that promotes and supports a whole school approach in supporting the whole school community, for; children and young people, parents and carers and school staff and adopting evidence -based approaches that compliments and supports the pastoral care offer, and ethos in each school.
The successful post-holder will work with young people from diverse backgrounds and should be committed to diversity and ensuring access to services for all.
About the role
Role: Practice Lead (band 5)
Salary banding: FTE is £44,554.35 per annum to £51,980.08 per annum
Working pattern: 37 basic working hours a week, negotiable
Team: Mental Health Support Team (MHST)
Reporting to: MHST Specialist Lead
Contract: Permanent
Location: Hybrid model. Remote working and in office once a week, alternating Monday-Thursday
Working in a collaborative and supportive team environment
The right candidate
The post holder must be prepared to be flexible in their working arrangements to ensure that all children and young people can access support at a time which suits their needs. This may entail some evening sessions and Saturday working. In addition to prioritising safeguarding and overseeing the assessment and management of risk the post-holder will support and line manage qualified and trainee staff.
Essential criteria include:
• Professional qualification, with evidence of continuing professional development, in a field relevant to child and adolescent mental health such as; EMHP and CWP, CYP IAPT, CBT training pathways. Other qualifications considered include; Counselling, Psychotherapy, Creative Arts.
• Over five years’ experience of working with children and families (parents and carers) in a school or health setting and line managing others
• Professional Registration – BABCP, BPS, BACP, UKCP or recognised equivalent
• Leadership and management experience, ideally within an education or health setting, and understanding of school systems, including, pastoral support approaches and attendance processes
• People management experience: experience of managing and supervising staff in particular managing issues of conduct and performance such as attendance, time -keeping, sickness management and following protocols and procedures
• Two years+ working with children and young people therapeutically with emotional and mental health needs which includes working with children and young people with a wide range of clinical and behavioural presentations
• Experience of undertaking assessment of emotional and mental health needs children and young people with a key focus on safeguarding
• Experience of working with multi-agency partners and planning best outcomes for children and young people
The successful candidate will be subject to an enhanced DBS check and must demonstrate a commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people.
Information about how to apply: Bromley Y
Please be advised that we reserve the right to close this vacancy early (in line with business organisational needs and if we receive sufficient applications for the role).
The process will involve two stages (an initial interview (teams or phone) followed by a face-to-face structured scored competency-based interview and presentation/assessment).
If you have any questions before applying, then please email them to us: hr@bromleyy.org
As an equal opportunities employer, we are committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and do not condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership. We aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workplace where our employees feel psychologically safe, and we strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of cultural and ethnic backgrounds to apply and join our organisation.
We are committed to the safeguarding of children and require the successful applicant to undertake a check from the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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