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Job requirements
Essential
9 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Knowledge
Ability to carry out 1:1 therapeutic mental health interventions with children and families. Ability to conduct group parenting and group young person programmes.
- Knowledge
Ability to work within educational settings to increase mental health awareness within the staff group.
- Knowledge
Ability to conduct mental health assessments and screenings of children and young people.
- Knowledge
Ability to make an assessment of risk and to record and communicate it appropriately and to take appropriate action to mitigate or manage.
- Experience
Experience of working with children and young people, their families and others in educational and health settings with mild to moderate mental health problems.
- Experience
Experience of delivering specific therapeutic interventions to children, young people or their families (e.g. Guided Self Help, CBT, parent work).
- Experience
Experience of assessing children and young people who present with more mild to moderate mental health problems and to rapidly access more specialist services.
- Experience
Ability to conduct other group therapeutic interventions with children and their families.
- Qualifications
Successful completion of the HEE commissioned 1yr ‘Education Mental Health Practitioner’ or IAPT ‘Child Wellbeing Practitioner’ post graduate diploma Post qualification experience as an EMHP and experience of working in schools.
Desirable
4 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Knowledge
Ability to conduct other group therapeutic interventions with children and their families.
- Experience
Experience of liaising and working effectively with the wider network around the child including educational, social care, family and health.
- Experience
Experience of assessing and meeting the communication needs of the schools to deliver psycho-education on mental health or emotional wellbeing to different groups including parents, teaching staff and young people.
- Qualifications
Evidence of CPD - Continuous Professional Development in Child and Adolescent Mental Health or Family work training.
Job overview
The Education Mental Health Practitioner (EMHP) and Child Wellbeing Practitioner (CWP) roles offer exciting opportunities to deliver evidence-based early interventions for children and young people, working across both educational settings and healthcare sectors in England, with a focus on a whole-school approach.
The Mental Health Support Teams (MHST) are part of a wider community pathway service in the locality, where the team are working to reduce health inequalities in communities where these are most prominent, working closely with the schools and other external partners addressing their most prominent needs, by implementing whole schools approaches and targeted interventions. The teams work under the same management team but serve three distinct areas. Luton is a very diverse locality, with a high proportion of young people who have English as an additional language. Both Dunstable, Leighton Buzzard and Sandy/Biggleswade are areas of high need but are more rural. You would be joining a comprehensive and dynamic CAMHS service, delivering a stepped model of care following the needs-led I-Thrive framework.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will play a key role as a member of the MHSTs , who will have the responsibility for delivering the school’s overarching approach to providing mental health and wellbeing support for children and young people. The role will help develop and deliver a wide range of interventions, projects, and system changes to adopt whole-school and whole-community approaches to supporting young people’s mental health.
You will be confident in providing Guided Self Help to young people and families with anxiety, low mood and challenging behaviours. You will be flexible and creative in responding to the needs of the school populations, with excellent support from your team and supervision. You will also be able to adapt to working remotely and prioritising access to services and resources.
You will be part of a very comprehensive stepped care model of delivery by CAMHS ELFT services in the county, and be an integral part of a thriving and substantive specialist multi-disciplinary service offer.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please find attached the job description and person/role specification.
For further details, please contact: Laura Gill laura.gill14@nhs.net
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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This advert is for Education Mental Health Practitioner - W11 with East London NHS Foundation Trust in London, England. It is listed as a Band 5 Education mental health practitioner role. The advertised salary is £32,073 - £39,043 per annum. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 08 Nov 2026.
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