Education Mental Health Practitioner

Job overview

We currently have an exciting opportunity to join our Mental Health Support Team in the Spalding area as a QUALIFIED Education Mental Health Practitioner/Childrens Wellbeing Practitioner at Band 5 (Agenda for Change). This is a diverse role, and an opportunity to make a real difference in outcomes for children, young people, and families by offering early support and intervention.

Please note this role is for MHST Spalding for 12 months fixed term.

The Mental Health Support Teams (MHSTs) support children and young people aged 5-18 within school and college settings who are presenting with mental health or emotional wellbeing problems which are of a low to moderate level of complexity and/or intensity.

You will support several allocated education settings offering support to children and young people and their families.  A key part of the role is around implementing Public Health England’s Whole School Approach, part of which will be to deliver training, workshops and assemblies to the wider educational communities and promote awareness of mental health within the educational settings. You must be able to travel sometimes across county and within the outer areas of Spalding.

For more information, please contact Sam White [email protected]

Main duties of the job

As an MHST practitioner, you will hold a caseload of young people, providing interventions for mild-moderate mental health needs using Low-Intensity CBT and other evidence-based interventions. You will also implement the Whole School Approach within your allocated settings by providing regular consultation, advice and training to professionals.

You will receive regular managerial and clinical supervision to support you throughout this role. There will be opportunity to access internal training as well as identification of other development needs via your appraisal.

This is advertised as full-time post operating Monday to Friday 9am-5pm, however other working patterns can be considered and base can be negotiated.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Please refer to Job Description and Person Specification for full details of duties.

You will work as an autonomous and responsible practitioner as their training affords and with appropriate supervision, and engage in;

Delivering Low-intensity CBT and other evidence-based interventions 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 to 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.