Education Mental Health Practitioner

Job overview

***Only applicants with an existing Education Mental health Practitioner Qualification will be considered***

Wigan Mental Health Support Team (MHST) in schools is designed to help meet the mental health needs of children and young people in education settings. Wigan MHST is made up of senior clinicians and higher-level therapists, and Education Mental Health Practitioners (EMHPs).

The Education Mental Health Practitioner role supports school staff to feel confident in recognising and responding to emerging mental health difficulties. Wigan MHST works with the mental health support services that already exist, such as counsellors, educational psychologists, Startwell, targeted youth support, Wigan Family Welfare, school nurses, pastoral care staff and educational welfare officers.

Our Band 5 Education Mental Health Practitioner  will be offered regular clinical and case management supervision to support our MHST core functions;

Delivering evidence-based interventions for children and young people with mild to-moderate mental health problems.

Supporting the senior mental health lead in each education setting to introduce or develop their whole school/college approach.

Giving timely advice to school and college staff, and liaising with external specialist services, to help children and young people to get the right support and stay in education

Main duties of the job

To be supported through supervision to deliver whole school mental  health initiatives alongside young people, school staff, senior leads and parents.  To provide 1:1 brief intervention for mild to moderate mental health  problems, developing support plans for children and young people  on a regular basis and discuss in clinical supervision any issues that  needs addressing. To provide low level intervention including behavioural activation, CBT informed worry and anxiety management interventions, graded  exposure, sleep and stress management, behavioural experiments.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see attached job description and person specification

Staff benefits

• Pay Enhancements:

• 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays rising to 29 after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years
• Excellent pension
• Cycle to work scheme
• Salary sacrifice car scheme
• Wellbeing programme
• Blue Light Card Discounts
• fuelGenie Fuel Cards (for applicable roles)