Education Mental Health Practitioner
Job overview
Education Mental Health Practitioner (EMHP), Band 5 in Mental Health Support Teams (MHST).
Are you looking to work in a supportive, collaborative MHST who can offer career progression opportunities?
Here is a great opportunity to join our expanding service.
As an Education Mental Health Practitioner, you will be expected to work under supervision as part of a dynamic mental health team in a creative environment where evidence-based interventions, new ideas, ways of working and supporting children and young people are actively encouraged.Offering Whole School Approach is a part of this exciting role.
This approach requires flexibility and working in educational settings. We encourage CPD and will continue to support you to consolidate and develop your skills. You will be able to use your skills via direct individual and group work to support children, young people and their parents.
There will be an expectation and opportunities to work collaboratively with children, young people and their families to support the co-production and development of the service, creating meaningful participation work.
We will consider CWPs and PWPs with the appropraite experience/transferable skills.
You will need to evidence BABCP or BACP registration or evidence this has been applied for.
Main duties of the job
The Education Mental Health Practitioner role will:
- Work closely alongside a team of mental health professionals delivering a wide range of evidence informed interventions.
- Employ developed evidence-based skills to work directly with children, young people and families.
- Employ developed evidence-based skills to carry out holistic and child-centered mental health assessments, including risk assessments.
- Employ developed evidence-based skills to facilitate parenting programmes.
The Education Mental Health Practitioner is required to:
- Have the relevant EMHP Post Graduate Diploma qualification following the completion of a CYP IAPT approved training in Evidence -Based Psychological Treatment for Children Young People (C&Y IAPT) (successful completion of the HEE commissioned 1 year ‘Education Mental Health Practitioner’ course). Or Children’s Wellbeing Practitioner (CWP) CYP-IAPT qualification
- Evidence of continuing Professional Development and commitment of ongoing learning.
- Experience of working with children and young people, their families and others.
- Experience of working and liaising with a wide variety of agencies and stakeholders
- Experience of working with children and young people who have social, emotional and/or mental health difficulties
Working for our organisation
NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible.This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools. We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information on the advertised role, please refer to the job description located under the Supporting Documents heading. The full person specification can be accessed under the ‘About You’ Section of the document.
Person specification
Qualifications and training
Essential criteria- • Have the relevant EMHP Post Graduate Diploma qualification following the completion of a CYP IAPT approved training in Evidence -Based Psychological Treatment for Children Young People (C&Y IAPT) (successful completion of the HEE commissioned 1 year ‘Education Mental Health Practitioner’ course). Or Children’s Wellbeing Practitioner (CWP) CYP-IAPT qualification
- Evidence of BABCP or BACP registration/accreditation or evidnce of this being applied for
- continued professional development
Experience
Essential criteria- Experience of work with children and young people with mild to moderate mental health problems.
- experience of working within education settings
- experience of using ROMS
- experience of delivering WSA
- experience of receiving and using clinical supervision
- experience and knowledge of safeguarding processes
- experience of managing risk
- experience of working with children and young people with additional needs (e.g. LD, ASD, ADHD)
- experience of working with children and young people and families with vulnerabilities
skills and abilities
Essential criteria- ability to use IT systems
- ability to offer remote and face to face interventions
- ability to record and document interventions
- ability to liaise with education settings regarding mental health needs of children and young people
- ability to complete audits
- ability to work within a team
- ability to work autonomously
- ability to carry out mental health assessments
- ability to safeguard children and young people and follow policy accordingly
- able to travel to meet requirement of the post (car user essential)
- organisational skills
- ability to use a variety of IT systems/platforms
Important Information
By completing an application you are giving authorisation for the transfer of your data. In submitting an application form, you authorise us to confirm any previous NHS service details via the Electronic Staff Record (ESR) Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process.Including factual reference, occupational health clearance and statutory and mandatory training records and full service history.
You must ensure that your application, including supporting statements and behaviour examples, are truthful and factually accurate. Please note plagiarism can include presenting the ideas and experience of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own.
Correspondence regarding your application will be sent to you via a TRAC system account.
Please submit your application as soon as possible; due to the high volumes of applications we receive we reserve the right to close any adverts before the closing date once we have received sufficient applications.
We are an equal opportunities employer, which aims to employ a workforce that reflects the diverse communities we serve. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons from all backgrounds.
All roles are subject to the home office immigration rules and therefore eligibility must meet certain requirements for any sponsorship to be considered. Please visit the government website for more information regarding eligibility,At NHFT we support many of our colleagues to work flexibly and we will consider requests for flexible working from day one. For this role, we are open to discussing a range of options including flexible hours, agile/home working, compressed hours and part time hours.
Please have a conversation with the recruiting manager about the flexibility you need and we will promise to explore what is possible with you.
Applicants who have a disability and meet the essential criteria for the job will be considered under the Guaranteed Interview Scheme. If you require a reasonable adjustment at any stage of the recruitment process please make the recruitment services team aware as soon as possible.
All posts that are engaged in a regulated activity will be subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check and a DBS re-check on a three yearly basis whilst employed in such a role. Staff employed in these posts will therefore be asked to register with the DBS Automatic Update Service upon receipt of their DBS certificate and must update yearly , the annual fee will be reimbursed subject to Trust policy.For further information please visit: DBS Update Service: applicant guide - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
Please note if a DBS is applicable for the position then a charge will be deducted from your first salary or upfront cost if a staff bank position.
Please note that all new starters to the trust are subject to a probationary period.