# Education Mental Health Practitioner > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/education-mental-health-practitioner/984ce82d-5aed-43cb-9583-cc3d2c91130d - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/education-mental-health-practitioner/984ce82d-5aed-43cb-9583-cc3d2c91130d.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** Dartford - **Region:** London - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Nurse practitioner - **Grade:** Band 5 - **Salary:** £36,943 - £44,900 pa inc - **Contract type:** Fixed term: 12 months (12 months) - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-06-21T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-06-05T10:21:59.518Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/Abbeywood/Oxleas_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Children_Young_People/Children_Young_People-v8061831 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8061831?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.oxleas.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview An exciting opportunity has become available for qualified Education Mental Health Practitioners (EMHPs) or Children's Wellbeing Practitioners (CWP) working towards dual accreditation as an EMHP, to join our dynamic and energetic award-winning Oxleas MHST service.  Applicants must have 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 enthusiastic and dynamic individuals who are 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 in the process of attaining dual accreditation as an EMHP.  Please note  applicants who do not meet this criteria will not be short listed. ### 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. ## Job Details An exciting opportunity has become available for qualified Education Mental Health Practitioners (EMHPs) or Children's Wellbeing Practitioners (CWP) working towards dual accreditation as an EMHP, to join our dynamic and energetic award-winning Oxleas MHST service. Applicants must have 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. ## Job Description 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 enthusiastic and dynamic individuals who are 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 in the process of attaining dual accreditation as an EMHP. Please note applicants who do not meet this criteria will not be short listed. ## 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. ## Person Specification ### Skills **Essential** - Ability to conduct other group therapeutic interventions with children and their families - Ability to make an assessment of risk and to record and communicate it appropriately and to take appropriate action to mitigate or manage ### Experience **Essential** - 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 of delivering specific therapeutic interventions to children, young people or their families (e.g. Guided Self Help, CBT, parent work) - Experience of liaising and working effectively with the wider network around the child including educational, social care, family and health. - Experience of working with cultural diverse populations and adapting services to improve access. ### Qualifications **Essential** - Successful completion of the HEE commissioned 1yr EMHP/CWP post graduate diploma - Professional registration with BPS or BABCP ## Documents - [staff benefits (pdf, 2.5mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1847) - [privacy notice for staff (pdf, 268.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1659) - [job description and person specification (pdf, 320.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10352157) - [important additional information for candidates (please read carefully) (pdf, 160.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1656) ## 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.