Educational Mental Health Practitioner - Liverpool

Job overview

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Permanent B5 Qualified Education Mental Health Practitioner

• Hours per week

PLEASE DO NOT APPLY UNLESS YOU HAVE COMPLETED: Post Graduate Diploma as an Educational Mental Health Practitioner

This is an exciting opportunity for Qualified Education Mental Health Practitioners (EMHPs) to join our Mental Health Services Team (MHST) working with schools across Liverpool.

We are looking for individuals who have skills and experience in engaging families who are from communities that may be at increased risk of social exclusion or marginalisation.  The successful candidate will work as part of an integrated multi-disciplinary team. They will act as case managers for children and young people with mild to moderate mental health problems and deliver evidence-based interventions alongside or under supervision of senior CAMHS practitioners.

Please note that the Person Specification does not state Post Graduate Diploma in EMHP however you will not be shortlisted without this qualification.

Main duties of the job

• Working as a member of an integrated multi-disciplinary team providing comprehensive assessment of children, young people and families. Planning, implementing and evaluating interventions to address identified needs.
• To work alongside partner agencies to offer Whole School Approach (WSA)
• Acting as case manager for children and young people with mild to moderate mental health problems.
• Delivering evidence-based interventions in a group format alongside or under supervision of senior CAMHS practitioners.
• Monitoring risk and supporting children and young people who present with more severe problems to rapidly access assessment and intervention from senior CAMHS practitioners.
• Promoting the safeguarding and welfare of children and young people.
• Adhering to Trust policies and procedures and the legislative framework in which children’s mental health care is delivered.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To join the Liverpool MHST, working within allocated schools across Liverpool offering WSA and 1:1/Group interventions to children young people and their families.