# Education Mental Health Practitioner > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/education-mental-health-practitioner/24c5b36d-ff48-4628-809c-6cabbb950aa2 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/education-mental-health-practitioner/24c5b36d-ff48-4628-809c-6cabbb950aa2.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** Lincoln - **Region:** Midlands - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Nurse practitioner - **Grade:** Band 5 - **Salary:** £32,073 - £39,043 per annum - **Contract type:** 12 months (Fixed term for 12 months) - **Employment type:** Full time, Flexible working, 37.5 hours per week (Flexible working options available. Can be fixed term or secondment) - **Closing date:** 2026-06-18T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-06-08T13:00:36.842Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Lincolnshire/Spalding/Lincolnshire_Partnership_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Children_Young_People/Children_Young_People-v8066360 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8066360?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.lpft.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### 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. ## Job Details 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 \[email protected\] ## Job Description 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. ## 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. ## Person Specification ### Skills **Essential** - Ability to carry out 1:1 therapeutic mental health interventions with children - Ability to carry out 1:1 therapeutic mental health interventions with families - Ability to conduct group therapeutic interventions with children and their families - Ability to conduct group parenting programmes - Ability to work within educational settings to increase mental health awareness within the staff group - Ability to conduct mental health assessments of children and young people - Ability to make an assessment of risk and to record and communicate appropriately - Ability take appropriate action to mitigate or manage risk **Desirable** - Ability to teach others about mental health issues ### Experience **Essential** - Experience of delivering low intensity CBT interventions - Experience of working with children and their families in a healthcare setting - Experience of delivering whole school approach work - 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 behavioural difficulties - Experience of working with anxiety disorders - Experience of working with affective (mood) disorders **Desirable** - Experience of the delivery of other therapeutic interventions to children, young people or their families - Experience of monitoring and recording outcome measures for children’s emotional wellbeing - Experience of navigating complex social systems and environments, who may have conflicting priorities or agendas - Experience of working with looked after children - Experience of working with other vulnerable groups ### Qualifications **Essential** - Successful completion of the HEE commissioned 1yr ‘Education Mental Health Practitioner’ course - OR - Other low intensity-CBT qualification i.e. Children’s Wellbeing Practitioner qualification, Enhanced Evidence Based Practitioner, Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner - Registered with the BABCP or BPS (as applicable) **Desirable** - A further relevant degree qualification - Teaching qualification - Youth Mental Health First Aid trained ## Documents - [lpft info (pdf, 44.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2654) - [staff network (pdf, 321.8kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=2459) - [functional requirements (pdf, 400.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10357223) - [tips for applicant success (pdf, 670.1kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=2299) - [education mental health practitioner/childrens wellbeing practitioner/low intensity practitioner (pdf, 552.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10357222) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.