Education Mental Health Practitioner

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has become available for a qualified Education Mental Health Practitioner (EMHP), or a Children's Wellbeing Practitioner (CWP) currently working towards dual accreditation as an EMHP, to join our dynamic and energetic award-winning Oxleas Mental Health Support Team in Bexley, South East London.  Applicants must hold a valid professional registration with BABCP or BPS.

Mental Health Support Teams are part of an exciting national initiative, working in collaboration with education settings, to improve the mental health and wellbeing of children and young people in response to the government’s Green Paper: Transforming children and young people’s mental health provision.

Main duties of the job

There is a specific focus on early intervention, improving access and supporting the general culture of mental health and wellbeing support within primary and secondary schools.  Teams work within a Thrive framework alongside education colleagues and community partners, providing quality care to children, young people and families.

EMHP Role

The post holders will work within education settings providing low intensity manualised CBT informed guided self-help intervention to children and young people with mild to moderate anxiety or low mood. The post holder will also offer manualised parent interventions to primary age pupils and support a comprehensive psycho-educational groups and workshops programme across a range of local schools. They will also support the whole school approach to mental health and wellbeing across educational settings.

We seek to appoint an enthusiastic and dynamic individual who is passionate about improving health outcomes for children and young people.

Applicants must have completed the required EMHP or CWP post graduate training and have professional registration with either BPS or BABCP as an EMHP, or a CWP currently in the process of attaining dual accreditation as an EMHP.  Please note  applicants who do not meet this criteria will not be short listed. Please confirm your current status in your supporting statement.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The service offers a range of internal and external training opportunities to support professional development and a specific menu of CPD courses have been identified to support EMHP role development with a commitment from the Trust to support ongoing learning.

Flexible working arrangements are also considered.

Please see the Job Description attached for further information.