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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 Sefton.
The successful candidate will work as part of an integrated multi-disciplinary team either in the North, South, Central or specialist 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 practitioners.
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` practitioners.
- Monitoring risk and supporting children and young people who present with more severe problems to rapidly access assessment and intervention from senior 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 one of our existing teams (North, South, Central, Specialist), working within allocated schools across Sefton offering WSA and 1:1/Group interventions to children young people and their families.
Person specification
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge of mental health issues in young people.
- Knowledge of legislation and National policies in relation to mental health issues in young people.
- Low Intensity Interventions for low mood, worry/ anxiety
- Understanding how difficulties can be maintained by the wider system and family.
- Working Knowledge of the Whole School Approach to mental health
- Knowledge of children and young people gained through academic study in child development, child wellbeing or mental health.
- An understanding of mild to moderate mental health difficulties.
- An understanding of mental health in community settings
- An understanding of The Mental Health Act/Mental Capacity Act.
- Understanding how difficulties can be maintained by the wider system and family
- An understanding of Safeguarding responsibilities and the importance of multi-agency working for children and families in the community.
- Understanding of CYP-IAPT Principles including the use of Routine Outcome Measures
Desirable
- Knowledge of the functional operation of specialist mental health services
- Knowledge of the school’s safeguarding procedures and who the Designated Safeguarding Lead, (DSL), is in each establishment that they work in.
Personal Attribute
Essential
- Willing to perform all duties and responsibilities of the post in accordance with the Trust’s Equal Opportunities and Equality and Diversity policies.
- Appointments to regulated and controlled activities require an enhanced DBS disclosure.
- Use of a car or access to a means of mobility to travel across the Trust footprint in line with service needs.
Qualifications, Experience and Training
Essential
- Post Graduate Diploma in Educational Health Practice for Children and Young People (EMHP Qualification)
- BABCP and or BPS registration and accreditation
Desirable
- Training in Nursing, Social Work, Occupational Therapy, Counselling or within a Psychological Therapy.
- Psychology or other Health related undergraduate degree.
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This advert is for Educational Mental Health Practitioner - Sefton with Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust in Liverpool, North West, England. It is listed as a Band 5 Nurse practitioner role. The advertised salary is £32,073 - £39,043 per annum. The contract type is Permanent: Qualified EMHPs only. The application deadline is 15 Jul 2026.
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