Educational Mental Health Practitioner

Job summary

Main duties of the job

Responsibilities of the Education Mental Health Practitioner include:

Delivering evidenced based interventions to children, young people, parents/carers through individual and group work.

Carrying out holistic and child-centred mental health assessments.

Developing and Delivering psychoeducation sessions to children, young people, parents/carers through assemblies, classroom, and parent sessions.

Ensuring children/young people play an active part in decision making about the support they need.

Providing advice/consultation to education staff to support children/young people getting the right help at the right time.

Supporting education settings in developing and embedding whole school approaches to mental health through collaboration and coproduction within the school.

Participating in the delivery of training programmes for education settings and community services.

Developing local knowledge of services particularly in relation to mental health to enable effective signposting and planning.

At the time of advertising, this role does meet the minimum requirements set by UK Visas and Immigration to sponsor candidates to work in the UK. We look forward to receiving your application.

All employees of the Trust are strongly encouraged to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 to protect patients.

Job responsibilities

We are a specialist NHS Foundation Trust that provides community, mental health and learning disability services for the people of Barnsley, Calderdale, Kirklees and Wakefield. We also provide low and medium secure services and are the lead for the west Yorkshire secure provider collaborative.

Our mission is to help people reach their potential and live well in their communities, we do this by providing high-quality care in the right place at the right time. We employ staff in both clinical and non-clinical services who work hard to make a difference to the lives of service users, families and carers.

We encourage and welcome applications from all protected characteristic groups, we value diversity and want our workforce to be reflective of our communities.

Being a foundation Trust means were accountable to our members, who can have a say in how were run. Around 14,300 local people (including staff) are members of our Trust.

Join us and you will be one of over 4,500 staff committed to supporting and improving the mental, physical and social needs of the thousands of people we meet and help each year.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all colleagues and volunteers to share this commitment.

We do reserve to right to close vacancy before the advertised closing date if necessary, so please apply as soon as possible.