Trainee Education Mental Health Practitioner | South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

In line with the Government's priority to increase access and availability of mental health and wellbeing support for children and young people, the new Education Mental Health Practitioner (EMHP) role is an exciting opportunity to deliver evidence-based early interventions for children and young people, working across both educational settings and healthcare sectors in England.

We encourage applicants to apply early. In previous years it has been necessary to close the advert before the advertised closing date,due to the interest in these popular posts.

The application form will need to be completed at the same time as your application for a post.

EMHPs will also support the development of whole school/college approaches to mental health and wellbeing, including delivering psychoeducation workshops and working collaboratively with education staff.

Successful candidates will be employed on a full-time basis and work with a cluster of Lewisham schools.

There are very few organisations in the world that have such wide-ranging capabilities working with mental illness. Our scope is unique because it is built on three major foundations: care and treatment, science and research, and training.

• Be supervised, supported and assessed as a trainee then qualified EMHP to assess and deliver outcome focused, evidence-based interventions in educational settings for children and young people experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties.
• Develop skills in supporting children and young people experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties, and their parents/carers, families and educators in the self-management of presenting difficulties.
• Developing and practicing evidence-based skills under supervisory support of working in partnership with children, young people, their families and educators in the development of plans for the specific intervention and agreeing outcomes.
• Developing and learning the skills required in order to enable children and young people in education, and where appropriate parents/carers, to collaborate and coproduce their own agreed plan of care.
• Show evidence in a variety of forms that at all times assessment and intervention is provided from an inclusive values base, which recognises and respects diversity.
• Discuss with supervisors and agree to accept appropriate referrals for children and young people in educational settings, according to agreed local and national and local referral routes, processes and procedures.
• Under supervision, undertake accurate assessments of risk to self and others.
• Learn, understand, rationalise and adhere to the protocols within the educational service to which the postholder is attached.
• Engage along with more senior staff in the signposting of referrals for children and young people with more complex needs to the relevant service.
• Engage in robust managerial and clinical supervision, identifying the scope of practice of the individual postholder within the role, and working safely within that scope.
• Gain and practice a range of interventions related to provision of information and support for evidence based psychological treatments.
• Be supervised, supported and assessed to deliver a range of low intensity interventions for mild to moderate mental health difficulties in CYP; primarily guided self-help delivered to either YP directly or through their parent(s) / carer(s) but also group work and workshops.
• Practice, evidence, reflect on and demonstrate an ability to manage one’s own caseload in conjunction with the requirements of the team and training course.
• Attend multi-disciplinary and multi-agency meetings relating to referrals or children and young people in treatment, where appropriate, both for personal educational benefit in discussion with supervisors, or to provide direct assistance.
• Keep coherent records of all training and clinical activity in line with both health and education service protocols and use these records and outcome data to inform decision making.
• Complete all requirements relating to data collection.
• Show evidence of working within a collaborative approach, involving a range of relevant others when indicated. Specifically, work in collaboration with teachers and other educational staff, parents, children, young people and the wider community to enhance and broaden access to mental health services.
• Contribute to the development of individual or group clinical materials or training materials and go on to develop further such materials as falls within own degree of competence.
• Facilitate or co-facilitate activities to support a school’s whole school approach to mental health and wellbeing.

This advert closes on Tuesday 15 Oct 2024