Job Details:
Senior Mental Health Practitioner – Online Support

Job Description

Here at 42nd Street, Senior Mental Health Practitioners (Snr Pracs) work at the heart of our service, delivering our vision of inclusive, trauma informed, accessible mental health and wellbeing support and opportunities for all young people. 

42nd Street offers a choice of effective, creative, young person-centered, and rights-based approaches, demonstrating local impact with national significance, we drive meaningful change that makes a positive difference to the lives of young people. 

We celebrate our diverse team and inclusive workplace reflective of our service users; with a people-centric focus for our work-life balance; employee development and learning; wellbeing and mental health approaches. 

Senior Practitioners deliver our services to young people alongside providing supervision and management and playing a vital role in keeping our management and practice connected for the success of our clinical best practice.  

We are considering applications for a Senior Mental Health Practitioner to join our Online Support Team. Our online team provide 1-2-1 counselling and psychosocial support via text-based sessions using our web-based platform “Breathe”. This is a growing area within 42^nd Street as we meet the needs of young people who prefer to access sessions with the perceived anonymity this method of support delivery provides.  

Due to the expansion of our online offer, adding a Senior Practitioner to the team is a vital step in maintaining and developing the extremely high standards we are achieving. 

Apply if you can offer: 

• Young People centred approach to your Mental Health practice 
• Counselling / Psychosocial support to Young People using text only 
• Confident and positive approach to using new systems / platforms 
• Passion for supporting inclusive and anti-discriminatory best practice and management 
• Excellent diligence in safeguarding and record keeping 
• Deliver confidential and accountable practice 
• Transferable skills from previous experience as a Youth Worker, Social Worker, Teacher, Counsellor, MHP in child and adult services etc. 

We Offer: 

• People focused leaders, developmental line managers and an excellent team to work alongside with a strong 42nd Street culture focusing on equal opportunities and continual learning 
• Annual personal training budget to support your continued professional development, on successful completion of your probationary period 
• 42nd Street is a Real Living Wage Foundation accredited employer 
• Role locations are varied offering the service both out in the community and office based. 42nd Street can offer a hybrid working set up, in a way that fits both your needs and the needs of the service.27 days’ annual leave and x8 bank holidays per year (pro rata), rising to 30 days’ annual leave after 5 years’ service 
• Pensions Scheme - 3% employer contributions 
• Cycle To Work scheme 
• Internal training calendar with modules identified by staff 
• x4 paid team wellbeing afternoons off per year to use as you wish. 

Job description, person specification, job application form and equal opportunities form on our website: https://www.42ndstreet.org.uk/about-us/work-with-us/ 

We look forward to receiving your application. To ensure we offer an equal recruitment experience for all, we do not accept C.V. applications. Please send you applications to: [email protected]. 

If you have access needs that require additional support to make an application, please let us know and we can discuss best how to support you during the application process. 

For more information or to discuss this opportunity in more detail, please contact [email protected]. 

Applications close: 3pm, 15.07.2024 

Interviews: 26.07.2024 and 29.07.2024. 

• Bereavement leave
• Casual dress
• Company pension
• Cycle to work scheme
• Enhanced maternity leave
• Enhanced paternity leave
• Free flu jabs
• Free or subsidised travel
• Sick pay
• Work from home