Mental Health Practitioner – Children and Young People

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🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

💵 £28k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

👥 People Operations

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Kooth plc

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2015

🏥 Healthcare

⚕️ Healthcare Insurance

🧘 Wellness

Healthcare • Healthcare Insurance • Wellness

Kooth plc is a company dedicated to providing effective and personalized digital mental health care. It creates accessible products with tailored clinical models and community support for both young people and adults. Kooth's youth-centric mental health services focus on creating positive individual outcomes, while its Qwell platform extends mental health support to adults in the UK. The company embeds its services within communities by employing numerous engagement leads across the UK and US, ensuring broad access to free, safe, and confidential support. Kooth partners with various private and public sector institutions to deliver digital services that improve mental health outcomes.

📋 Description

• Provide text-based online emotional wellbeing and mental health support and advice to children and young people in line with the iThrive clinical model • Assess and manage the risks and needs of each service user • Signpost appropriately and complete referrals as required • Undertake comprehensive assessment and formulation of children and young people’s wants and needs • Provide short- and mid-term support and interventions for physical, emotional and mental health issues and distress • Provide caseload support and interventions for people with complex mental health difficulties and/or risk support • Perform duties in line with compliance, legal requirements, internal policies, safeguarding and data protection legislation • Maintain accurate case notes and records using Kooth-approved systems and processes • Liaise with internal and external professionals/services regarding safeguarding issues and concerns • Maintain accurate shift-duty and activity information via the scheduling and rota system • Attend and contribute to clinical supervision, clinical support, training, team meetings and organisational meetings • Attend management supervision to review clinical work and performance against agreed KPIs

🎯 Requirements

• Degree in a relevant subject such as social care, mental health nursing, counselling, social work, psychology or equivalent professional qualification; or qualified by experience in previous work roles with significant demonstrable professional training in Mental Health support and engaging people around emotional well-being or mental health difficulties • Working knowledge and understanding of safeguarding adult and child protection policies and legislation • Ongoing specialist training in Mental Health (desirable) • Suicide Prevention and Self-Harm Mitigation Training (desirable) • Safeguarding and risk management interventions training (desirable) • Training in Adult Safeguarding & Child Protection (desirable) • Availability for rota-based hours, including weekend working • Ability to work shifts of between 5 and up to 8 hours • Enhanced DBS screening prior to appointment

🏖️ Benefits

• 36 days of annual leave, including public holidays • Yearly professional training programmes • Pension contributions • Annual company share option awards • Comprehensive AXA plan • Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) with 24/7 telephone mental health support and GP consultations • Life assurance of up to four times annual salary • Remote working • Incapacity Income Protection • Paid clinical supervision and in-house clinical support monthly