Senior Mental Health Practitioner - Sale, United Kingdom - Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust

Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
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Sale, United Kingdom

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MFT Thrive In Education Teams have three core functions:

  • Delivering evidence based interventions for mild to moderate mental health presentations
Supporting the mental health leads in each school/college to support a whole school approach to wellbeing and mental health.


Providing timely advice and guidance to education staff and liaising with specialist services to support children and young people to receive effective support to remain in education.


Trafford's Thrive In Education team works flexibly in several educational settings, working alongside education colleagues to develop and provide preventive and early help support to meet the needs of their pupils experiencing low intensity mental health issues, mainly anxiety, low mood and emotional regulation.


The team consists of a service manager, senior clinicians, supervisors, Education Mental Health Practitioner's, Children and Young People's Wellbeing Practitioner's and administrative support.


We have the opportunity to reach children and young people at the earliest stages possible when their difficulties have first been identified ensuring schools, families, professionals and mental health practitioners work collaboratively to acknowledge the voice of the young person and provide effective interventions in dynamic and innovative way.

Triage and screening of referrals, obtaining further information if needed and responding promptly including allocation to team members.


Complete comprehensive assessment, to develop a formulation and plan for intervention, in collaboration with the child, young person and parents/carers and communicate this clearly to the referrer and other relevant professionals.

Implement, co-ordinate and regularly review a range of evidence based therapeutic interventions, including CBT, risk management, utilising the skills and expertise of the multi-disciplinary team and other agencies where appropriate


Utilise, in collaboration with the child, young person and family, assessment and routine outcome measures throughout all clinical activity and supervision, maintaining up to date clinical records.

Ensure that the perspective of children, young people and families is incorporated into all aspects of intervention.

Provide evidence-based clinical management supervision to trainees and junior staff members.

Communicate with young people and families, all partner agencies at a senior level and with educational establishments. Lead on communicating with colleagues in the team.

Establish therapeutic relationships with children, young people and their families, implement evidence based therapeutic interventions.

Providing consultation and timely advice to education settings.


MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of £2.6bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts.

We're creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.


Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals.

We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you'll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.


We've also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.


We're proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes.

What's more, we're excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.


At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.


COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings.

Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not currently a condition of employment, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated.

We will be checking the vaccination status of all new starters so that we can manage individual and environmental risks, and so that we can support those who may be undecided about vaccination.


If you are unvaccinated, there is helpful advice and information available by searching on the 'NHS England' website where you can also find out more about how to access the vaccination.

There is currently Government consultation underway which will determine whether some new employees may need to be vaccinated.
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