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4.0 wte

Full Time

Fixed Term, leading to a permanent post upon successful completion of training.

North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust has opportunities for the right candidates to join our existing Mental Health Support Team (MHST), working alongside a team of Education Mental Health Practitioner’s and Senior Mental Health Practitioners to deliver, under supervision, high-quality; outcome-informed, focused, evidence-based interventions for children and young people experiencing, mild to moderate anxiety, low mood and behavioural difficulties.

You will be expected to provide support for the work of other members of the multidisciplinary team and signpost children, young people and families to appropriate support. Finally, to contribute where appropriate, to the service development and consultation to the wider MDT.

This is a unique opportunity to be part of a developing service with high expectations for improving the outcomes for children and families in North Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent.

Our Trust is on an incredible journey of innovation and we’d like you to be part of it.

To excel you will be an enthusiastic, caring and compassionate practitioner who is looking to work within a Trust that is ambitious to perform well and has been told by the Care Quality Commission that it is the fastest improving mental health Trust in the country. Whether you are about to qualify, newly qualified or an experienced practitioner, we want to meet you and discuss the possibility of you joining this great multi-disciplinary team.

Our vision is ‘To be Outstanding in all we do and how we do it.’ Our teams pride themselves on compassion, team work and resilience. The Trust supports you by offering a flexible shift system including twilight shifts and compressed hours to support working families and our staff parking is free on all our main sites.

You can expect Continuing Professional Development (CPD) which is tailored to meet your professional development; individual CPD advice is available from our Practice Education Team. The CPD offer includes the option to rotate within the Trust to widen your breadth of experience, skills and knowledge.

As an employee and representative of the Trust, you are required to demonstrate and uphold the Trust’s Values. These are:

Proud to CARE:
Compassionate

• Caring with compassion, it’s about how we listen, what we say, what we do.

Approachable

• Friendly, welcoming, sharing ideas and being open

Responsible

• Taking personal and collective responsibility, being accountable for our actions

Excellent

• Striving for the best, for high-quality safe care and continually improving

In return you will receive supervision and in line with the Trust values you will be offered opportunity to develop your skills and knowledge as part of your Continuing Professional development.

This is an exciting time in the Transformation of Children and Young People’s Mental Health Services, and as one of the founding areas for this service, this role is a perfect opportunity to help shape the services we provide in North Staffordshire, Stoke and The Moorlands in our identified educational provisions. You will be expected to attend the University of Derby to complete the course which at the time of advertising this role is blended face to face on campus and online learning.