Supervising Practitioners

Compass Birmingham, Derby & Derbyshire Mental Health Support Teams

Permanent, 37 hours per week*

Starting Salary £37,092 - £45,347

*Compass are delighted to offer a flexible work approach in relation to the post advertised. If you would like to discuss this further please contact either Sue Berry, Assistant Director on 07442773722 or e-mail sue.berry@compass-uk.org or Arjan Bains, Senior Operations Manager on 07425 776957 or e-mail arjan.bains@compass-uk.org for Birmingham or Chantelle Ross, Service Manager on 07425797926 or e-mail chantelle.ross@compass-uk.org for Derbyshire

Compass is delighted to provide Mental Health Support Teams in education settings across West/North Birmingham (Handsworth, Lozells, Aston, Ladywood, Erdington), Derby & Derbyshire serving the children, young people and families and communities.

If you have the passion and drive to supervise and deliver evidence-based early interventions for children and young people, working across both educational settings and the community read on…

The Opportunity

This role is an exciting opportunity to help shape the new service with children, young people, families and educational settings and to develop your career in mental health support to children, young people and families.

The role will work alongside colleagues to develop Compass’ Wave 12 MHST’s with a focus on building partnerships with education settings and 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. We have 4 Supervising Practitioner vacancies across Derby City and Erewash and 12 in Birmingham.

The service is part of the national MHST Programme, which has been commissioned following the ‘Transforming Children and Young People’s 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) (e.g. EMHP, CWP, PMHW, nursing with specialism in mental health or learning disability nursing, Occupational Therapy, Social Work)
• Post Graduate Certificate in Supervision (EMHP supervisor course) or Two years’ post qualification experience of working therapeutically with children and young people and willingness to undertake a PG Certificate in Supervision. 
• Excellent communication skills and ability to form positive working relationships with a range of stakeholders.

Candidates who do not currently hold a Post Graduate Certificate in Supervision (EMHP supervisor course) will be supported by Compass to complete the course at The University of Derby, please note your application may be shared with Derby University.

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 i.e. provided via Access to Work etc).

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: www.compass-uk.org/work-for-us.

We are holding an online information sharing event on Wednesday 18^th September 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 emailing siobhan.kearney@compass-uk.org

You can also find out more about what it is like to join one of our MHSTs by visiting: https://www.compass-uk.org/joining-a-compass-mhst/

If you are interested in the role, please apply via the Compass website, please note the advertisement will close once we have sufficient applications.

https://vacancies.compass-uk.org/vacancies/445/supervising-practitioners--erewash-and-derby-city.html

https://vacancies.compass-uk.org/vacancies/441/supervising-practitioner.html

If you have any questions regarding the application process please email recruitment@compass-uk.org.

We positively encourage applications from all members of the community, regardless of gender, race, faith, disability, gender reassignment, age or sexual orientation and encourage applications from people who have experiences in life which enrich skills and empathy. 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.