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Senior Practitioner

Job details
Posting date: 14 February 2025
Salary: £34,867.22 to £43,045.19 per year
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 09 March 2025
Location: Solihull, West Midlands
Remote working: On-site only
Company: Barnardo's
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: 20416

Summary

Are you a qualified therapist or psychotherapist looking for career development? We could be looking to hire you!

We currently have 5 x 12-month fixed term contract vacancies (with potential for permanent contracts on completion of the 12months; subject to funding) for a Senior Primary Mental Health Practitioner within our Mental Health Support Team (MHST) at Solar and would love to see if you are who we are looking for. We are looking for vibrant, creative staff that are just as passionate about the emotional wellbeing and mental health of children and young people as we are.

This is an exciting role providing opportunities to develop as a practitioner/therapist, deliver evidence-based interventions to children and young people across the Solihull area and develop leadership/supervisory skills and experience. You will also get the opportunity to work with a cluster of schools in Solihull on their approach to mental health and provision for this in school. We are a trauma informed service offering holistic, collaborative care with the child's voice always at the centre. Within the MHST we offer time limited interventions with session numbers ranging from 8 – 16. We encourage every practitioner to work flexibly based on need and offer training to support this.

Solar is a partnership project between Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust (BSMHFT) and Barnardo's. It is a well established and nationally talked about service. We work together to provide emotional wellbeing and mental health services for children and young people in Solihull who are aged between 0-19, based on the principle of children and young people only needing to tell their story once. Solar utilise one clinical record and a single user led care plan, ensuring children and young people shape the service that they receive.

Rated “good” by the CQC in January 2018, the service was peer reviewed by West Midlands Quality Review Service who said they “were impressed with the level of integration across the services - the feedback from service users and their families and carers was that the pathway was seamless between the various services.”

This is an exciting opportunity to be based within a dynamic NHS service but employed and supported by a charity with a long history of working with and for children and young people (over 150 years!). Solar is a multi-disciplinary service which provides a rich learning environment for all staff. Our work is holistic and evidence based and we actively encourage the participation of children and young people in their assessment, care plan and treatment.

What are the essentials that we need from you?

· To have a core qualification and associated experience.

· We are working blended (remote and face to face) at the moment. To be able to travel in and around the Solihull area for clinical work.

· Experience in working with children and young people

(Please see all additional sheets for further breakdown)

What can Barnardos offer you?

· 26 days holiday plus bank holidays and the option to purchase 5 days

· Free DBS check (if required)

· 4% or 6% matched pension contribution

· Staff discounts at a variety of places (retail, cinema, theme parks, holidays, hotels)

· Access to ‘Bluelight' discount card

· Paid carers and bereavement leave

· Access to extensive professional training and support via the Barnardo's University

· Access to paid training in house

· A work environment which supports and celebrates their staff via events such as excellence awards

Barnardo's believe in creating equality of opportunity in the workplace and supporting people to manage their work-life balance; we are therefore open to offering flexible working arrangements.
Annual Leave entitlement for full-time colleagues is 26 days per annum, increasing to 27 days per annum, after 3 years Barnardo's service, 29 days per annum, after 5 years Barnardo's service and 30 days per annum, after 7 years Barnardo's service. Those working less than full time are entitled to the same level of holiday pro rata
The ability to buy up to another 5 days annual leave via our HolidayPlus scheme
A host of family friendly leave options including company Maternity Paternity and Adoption pay; together with all family additional leave options
Service related sick pay from day 1
Access to a Group Personal Pension with a matched 4% or 6% contribution from Barnardo's. Ability to pay via salary sacrifice to garner both tax and NI savings on your own contribution
Death in service cover of 4x annual earnings for all staff contributing to our Group Personal Pension
Cycle2work scheme
Interest free season ticket loans
Discounts and cashback from at high street shops including major supermarkets, cinemas, gyms, leisure/theme parks, holidays and much more via our Benefit Portal
20% discount at Barnardo's stores
Opportunity to purchase a health cash plan to claim towards dental, glasses, therapy etc
Free access to round the clock employee assistance program for advice and support
Access to Barnardo's Learning and Development offer
*T&C's apply based on contract

About Barnardo's
We are committed to being an inclusive employer and cultivating a culture where everyone can belong and thrive through inclusion and connectivity. We want our workforce to be reflective of the communities we work with, and for equality, diversity and inclusion to be embedded in everything we do. We are a Disability Confident Leader, are progressing our ambition to be an anti-racist organisation with Anti-Racism Commitments and actions in place and have networks for colleagues who are disabled, LGBT+, Black and Minoritised Ethnic and Women. We particularly encourage applications from Black and Minoritised Ethnic and/or disabled candidates who are currently underrepresented in our workforce. For disabled applicants, we offer reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process.

Our basis and values

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A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. For more details please go to Disability Confident.