EMHP Supervisor/Senior Wellbeing Practitioner - Oxford

Job overview

This is an exciting time of growth and change within the Oxford Health NHS Trust as our Mental Help Support Teams (MHST ) Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services  (CAMHS) are currently working collaboratively with children and young people, and partners to deliver the Governments Programme for mental health support to be available in schools.

To support the operational delivery of our Mental Health Support Teams, we are looking to recruit a Supervisor to be based in Oxford City to cover a maternity leave.

Main duties of the job

On a day-to-day basis, you will be overseeing the workload of EMHPs, conducting both Case Management and Clinical Skills supervision, as well as holding a small caseload of patients yourself.

Typical tasks within this might include reviewing suitability for treatment within the MHST, gathering information and facilitating onward referrals, and liaising with schools as part of the wider MHST.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Some of your responsibilities:

To be trained and confident in the use of CYP IAPT principles, evidence based interventions and routine outcome measures.

To manage a defined caseload of children and young people presenting with emotional health and wellbeing difficulties in schools

To co-ordinate and deliver individualised care packages / programmes for children and young people and evaluate these programmes, ensuring high standards of practice in accordance with national guidelines and trust policy.

To provide day to day clinical and supervisory support for the Education Mental Health Practitioners (EMHP).

To provide specialist mental health advice, consultation and signposted using an outcome based triage model, to schools.

To provide training to schools staff, parents and carers in conjunction with colleagues.

Within schools actively promote the whole school based approach to developing and maintaining emotional health and well-being.

To act as an autonomous practitioner with an understanding of own limitations and recognition of when to seek support.

If you have any questions or queries regarding the role, or our team, please get in contact with  Jo Colley (see below)