Education Mental Health Practitioner (EMHP)

Job overview

This is an exciting time of growth and change within East Berkshire NHS Trust as our CAMH service is currently working collaboratively with children and young people, and partners to deliver the Governments Programme for mental health support to be available in schools.

To support the development of our Mental Help Support Teams, we are looking to recruit an Education Mental Health Practitioner in Slough. You must have an Education Mental Health Practitioner (EMHP) qualification to apply for this role.

In line with the Government’s priority to increase access and availability of mental health and wellbeing support for children and young people, the 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 and community settings and healthcare sectors in England.

Main duties of the job

• To be trained and confident in the use of CYP IAPT principles, evidence based interventions and routine outcome measures.

• To care co-ordinate and manage a defined caseload of children and young people presenting with emotional health and wellbeing difficulties in schools

• To co-ordinate and deliver individualised care packages / programmes for children and young people and evaluate these programmes, ensuring high standards of practice in accordance with national guidelines and trust policy.

• To provide day to day clinical and supervisory support for the Education Mental Health Practitioners (EMHP).

• To provide specialist mental health advice, consultation and signposted using an outcome based triage model, to schools

• To provide training to schools staff, parents and carers in conjunction with colleagues.

• Within schools actively promote the whole school based approach to developing and maintaining emotional health and well-being.

• To train and mentor students and less experienced members of the team.

• To act as an autonomous practitioner with an understanding of own limitations and recognition of when to seek support.

• To provide clinical supervision to the team

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The “must haves” for this role:

• be friendly, self-motivated, and self-organising,

• be confident in working in a multiagency setting, working collaboratively with colleagues in schools and across the wider system,

• enjoy regular collaboration with your peers and the senior colleagues to whom you report,

• as a person, will always be looking for new or better ways to deliver care and be keen to learn,

• and most of all will have a calm, friendly and compassionate outlook and have a keen interest in working in a school setting.

For further information about the role, please see attached job description and person specification.

We strongly encourage you to review how you meet the criteria in the person specification and write about this point-by-point in your supporting statement for the best chance of being shortlisted.

We’re committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community. Our commitment to inclusion is reflected in our accreditations: Race Equality Matters Silver Trailblazer, Neurodiversity in Business Corporate Member, Disability Confident Leader, Carer Confident Level 2, and the Armed Forces Covenant Gold Award. Reasonable adjustments will be provided to candidates as needed.

We welcome a conversation about flexibility and any other questions you may have. Please don’t hesitate to call: Jade Hens on 07815485269 or email:  [email protected] who’ll be delighted to help.

For further information about the role, please see attached job description and person specification.