# Educational Mental Health Practitioner > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/educational-mental-health-practitioner/c8cd2c7f-0e59-4790-8116-36aa425db27b - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/educational-mental-health-practitioner/c8cd2c7f-0e59-4790-8116-36aa425db27b.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Blyth Community Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Mental health professionals - **Grade:** Band 5 - **Salary:** £32,073 - £39,043 pro rata per annum - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Part time, Flexible working, 30 hours per week (Full and Part Time hours available) - **Closing date:** 2026-09-13T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-08-28T09:31:27.766Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Tyne_Wear/Blyth/Northumbria_Healthcare_NHCT_Northumbria_Healthcare_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Childrens_mental_health/Childrens_mental_health-v8231016 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8231016?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.northumbria.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview We have an exciting opportunity for a qualified Educational Mental Health Practitioner to join the Northumberland Primary Mental Health Team. This posts will work directly into the Northumberland Be you Mental Health Support Teams. We are looking for an enthusiastic, dynamic and self-motivated individual with a passion for delivering early intervention and innovative new models of working in children's mental health. The post holder will be responsible for delivering the 3 core functions of the EMHP role. These roles sit within the 'getting help 'sector of the Thrive model. Our established ‘getting help service' provides excellent clinical, case management and peer led clinical skills supervision arrangements, training and CPD. We support a blended /hybrid model of working recognising the value of home life balance. We will ensure we consider suitable arrangements are made to your work and home base to guarantee suitable travel expenses are provided to support in this role. Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received. ### Main duties of the job The role will involve delivering a range of evidenced based low intensity psychological interventions for children and young people with mild/moderate need. These will be delivered individually and in small group based programmes. This will also include the facilitation of a range of psychoeducation sessions and staff training. The role will provide support to schools to improve their the whole school approach to emotional well-being. The post holder will also deliver a consultation and signposting role to a range of early help, targeted and specialist support services supporting children and young peoples emotional health and wellbeing. Engaging proactively with the wider team and our external partners is fundamental to the role and the delivery of the Mental Health Support Team functions. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities The role involves delivering on the 3 core functions of the EMHP role within a Mental Health Support Team: delivering 1:1 low intensity intervention, whole school delivery and providing an advisory and consultative role. The role will involve holding a caseload, managing this in terms of delivering intervention and supporting through to discharge. There will be close working with education settings to support the delivery of the whole school approach. We have a robust supervision structure in place and the post holders will take an active participation in both clinical and case management supervision, group/peer supervision and the service safeguarding supervision arrangements we have in place. Part of the delivery will liaising with our system partners and contributing to the wider contribution across the emotional and mental health pathway in Northumberland. To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which: (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries. ### Applicant requirements This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service. ## Person Specification ### Other **Essential** - It is an essential requirement of the role that the post holder has a valid driving licence and is either a car owner and able to use the car for work purposes, or has a Trust personal lease vehicle which may be used for the role. However, the Trust would consider making reasonable adjustments to the role, if necessary, to enable a disabled person to undertake the role ### Experience **Essential** - Experience of working with children and young people and an understanding of the education system in England is highly desirable **Desirable** - Knowledge of or experience in coaching and mentoring practices and tools. - Knowledge of or experience in Quality improvement tools, techniques and methods ### Qualifications **Essential** - Degree or an equivalent level of relevant experience - Basic literacy and numeracy qualifications - Relevant knowledge acquired through successful completion of post graduate diploma in Mental Health and Emotional Wellbeing in education environment - Requirement for postholder to hold up to date professional registration with a professional body e.g British Association for Counselling Psychotherapy or British Psychological Society ## Documents - [trust compact (pdf, 515.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=3037) - [guidance for applicants (pdf, 1.4mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2867) - [northumbria privacy policy (pdf, 520.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1899) - [oth0217 education mental health practitioner jd&ps (pdf, 296.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10572306) ## 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.