Qualified Education Mental Health Practitioner
Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust are proud award winners of the HSJ Provider of the Year 2019
Job overview
Are you a qualified Education Mental Health Practitioner? Do you have a real passion for education, social, emotional and the mental wellbeing needs of our young people? Do you want to make a real difference?
We are excited to recruit the right qualified EMHPs. We have posts available in both Hull and East Riding Mental Health Support Teams.
The teams work directly into schools and colleges with children and young people between the ages of 5 to 18.
The teams support schools and the wider system and have a particular focus on whole school approach, advice, support, guidance and consultation.
The teams also deliver targeted low intensity CBT informed based 1:1 and group sessions, parent led workshops and creative based interventions to support mild to moderate social, emotional and mental health needs.
Please only apply if you are a qualified EMHP.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate with appropriate supervision, will work as an autonomous and responsible practitioner as their training affords and within the scope of their local job description, to engage in.- Delivering evidence-based intervention for children and young people in education setting with mild to moderate mental health problems
- Helping children and young people within these settings who present with more severe problems to rapidly access more specialist services
- Supporting and facilitating staff in education settings to identify and where appropriate manage issues related to mental health and wellbeing
- Working with and within education environments to afford better access to specialist mental health services, and use the acquired skills, knowledge and abilities to deliver a service based within education settings that builds on and reinforces but does not replace those initiatives that already exist within these environments.
- Mentor trainees and offer Peer to peer support to other qualified EMHP’s
- You will be required to travel across the locality independently as part of your role.
Working for our organisation
We are an award winning and CQC rated good health and social care Trust delivering integrated services across Hull, East and North Yorkshire. Find out more on our website
We are a forward thinking and dynamic Trust with a real commitment to staff development. We value our colleagues and invest in them to ensure they have the right skills to deliver outstanding care.
We are proud to score above or equal to the average for all NHS People Promise theme areas demonstrating our commitment to improve the experience of working in the NHS for everyone. Wherever you work we know you will receive a warm welcome and all the support you’ll need to get you started.
We recognise the positive value of diversity and promotes equality whilst challenging discrimination. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.
Work life balance is about having influence and flexibility over when, where and how you work. If the work pattern for this role does not meet your needs, we welcome an application and are happy to discuss working arrangements that differ from those advertised.
We offer a unique range of benefits that go above and beyond other NHS Trusts including an enhanced leave package and health and wellbeing support.
From city to countryside, market towns to moors you’ll find a place to call home including some of the most affordable places to live in the UK.
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information with regards to this vacancy please see the attached job description and person spec.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria- Successful completion of the HEE commissioned 1yr Post Graduate Certificate ‘Education Mental Health Practitioner’ course.
- A further relevant degree qualification
- Additional training relevant to the post
Experience
Essential criteria- Experience of working as an EMHP
- Experience of working and liaising with a wide variety of agencies and stakeholders
- Experience of working with children and their families in a healthcare setting
- Experience of working with children and their families in an education setting
skills and competency
Essential criteria- Ability to work within educational settings to increase mental health awareness within the staff group
- Ability to carry out 1:1 therapeutic mental health interventions with children.
- Ability to carry out therapeutic mental health interventions with families.
- Ability to conduct group parenting programmes.
- Ability to teach others about mental health issues
- Ability to conduct other group therapeutic interventions with children and their families
Please note that if there is a high volume of applications we reserve the right to close the vacancy earlier than the advertised closing date.
This post will be subject to successful completion of a 6 month probationary period where applicable, further details would be included within any offer letter.
Where operationally feasible the Trust supports agile working, there is an expectation of attendance of 1 day per week at a Trust site as a minimum operationally. Unless specifically stated in the advert that a role will have home as the base of work, all roles will have the option to work from a Trust base if remote working is not for you.
If required for the post the ability to commute within the Trusts geographical area with access to the appropriate means of transport would be essential.
We will apply for a Disclosure from the Disclosure & Barring Service for the successful candidate if this is required for the post. Anyone applying for a position which involves a regulated activity will require an enhanced Disclosure & Barring check and that the disclosure will, where appropriate to the role, include information against the Independent Safeguarding Authority barred lists for working with children or working with adults or both.
IMPORTANT: Should your application be successfully shortlisted, you will be contacted to attend an interview electronically to the email address provided at the time of the application. It is important therefore, that you CHECK YOUR EMAILS/NHS JOBS ACCOUNT on a regular basis.
If you are not contacted by the Trust within six weeks of the closing date of the vacancy, your application will have been unsuccessful on this occasion. We would however like to thank you for the interest you have shown in the Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust.
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To ensure these staff do not experience a detriment to their basic pay, the salary for duration of the apprenticeship will be consistent with their current pay or the rate paid to other apprentices, whichever is higher (subject to eligibility criteria)
This change supports exiting NHS employees to undertake a formal apprenticeship programme which, upon completion, would qualify them for a role where the evaluated pay band is the same or higher than the band of their current post.
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