Job requirements
Requirements from the employer’s person specification. These describe the role, not your personal match.
Essential
31 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- ANALYTICAL SKILLS
Ability to assess risk assessments and understanding of the importance of assessing risk.
- PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE
Experience of working with children and young people, their families, and others in a healthcare and education setting
- PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE
Experience of working and liaising with a wide variety of agencies and stakeholders.
- PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE
Experience working in a service which has agreed targets in place demonstrating clinical outcomes.
- PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE
Experience in using an electronic clinical records and data collection system.
- PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE
Experience of working with parent/carers who's children/young people have social, emotional and/or behavioural difficulties, and those who have experienced a mental health problem
- PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE
Experience of working with children and young people with anxiety disorders, affective (mood) disorders.
- PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE
Experience of the delivery of specific therapeutic interventions to children, young people, or their families (e.g., CBT informed, solution focused brief therapy).
- PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE
Experience of monitoring and recording outcome measures for children’s emotional wellbeing
- COMMUNICATION SKILLS
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- COMMUNICATION SKILLS
Able to write clear reports and letters.
- COMMUNICATION SKILLS
Ability to work within a team and foster good working relationships
- COMMUNICATION SKILLS
Ability to use clinical supervision positively and effectively
- COMMUNICATION SKILLS
Ability to deliver interventions to groups (young people and parent/carer groups).
- COMMUNICATION SKILLS
Skills in delivering Guided Self-Help interventions.
- SKILLS/KNOWLEDGE/ABILITY
Demonstrates an understanding of anxiety, depression, and challenging behaviour and how it may present in universal services
- SKILLS/KNOWLEDGE/ABILITY
Demonstrates understanding of the need to use evidence based psychological models and how it relates to this post.
- SKILLS/KNOWLEDGE/ABILITY
Knowledge of capacity and consent issues including Gillick competence.
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Knowledge of educational environments.
- SKILLS/KNOWLEDGE/ABILITY
Knowledge of safeguarding issues.
- SKILLS/KNOWLEDGE/ABILITY
Knowledge of the functional operation of specialist CAMHS teams.
- SKILLS/KNOWLEDGE/ABILITY
Ability to carry out 1:1 therapeutic mental health interventions with children/families
- SKILLS/KNOWLEDGE/ABILITY
Ability to conduct group parenting programmes.
- SKILLS/KNOWLEDGE/ABILITY
Ability to work within educational settings to increase mental health awareness within the staff group.
- SKILLS/KNOWLEDGE/ABILITY
Ability to conduct mental health assessments of children and young people.
- SKILLS/KNOWLEDGE/ABILITY
Ability to assess risk and to record and communicate appropriately
- SKILLS/KNOWLEDGE/ABILITY
Ability to take appropriate action to mitigate or manage risk.
- SKILLS/KNOWLEDGE/ABILITY
Ability to teach others about mental health issues.
- SKILLS/KNOWLEDGE/ABILITY
Ability to conduct other group therapeutic interventions with children and their families.
- QUALIFICATIONS/EDUCATION/TRAINING
Successful completion of the HEE commissioned 1yr ‘Education Mental Health Practitioner’ or the ‘Child and Young Persons Psychological Wellbeing Practice’ course with experience of working with child, young people and families.
- QUALIFICATIONS/EDUCATION/TRAINING
Experience of working clinically with children and young people in a setting such a CAMHS and/or within an educational setting
Desirable
8 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE
Experience of navigating complex social systems and environments, who may have conflicting priorities or agendas.
- PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE
Experience of working with looked after children.
- PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE
Experience of working with other vulnerable groups.
- COMMUNICATION SKILLS
Able to develop good therapeutic relationships with young people
- SKILLS/KNOWLEDGE/ABILITY
Knowledge of factors affecting acceptability and accessibility of mental health care.
- SKILLS/KNOWLEDGE/ABILITY
Demonstrates knowledge of the stressors young people may encounter in an educational setting and the impact that these can have on mental health
- SKILLS/KNOWLEDGE/ABILITY
Knowledge of the school’s safeguarding procedures and who the Designated Safeguarding Lead, (DSL), is in each establishment that they work in.
- QUALIFICATIONS/EDUCATION/TRAINING
A further relevant degree qualification
Job overview
The MHST is looking for a qualified Educational Mental Health Practitioner (EMHP) or Children's Wellbeing Practitioner (CWP) who has experience of working clinically with children and young people in a setting such a CAMHS and/or within an educational setting. If you wish to join an exciting and outstanding school based Mental Health Support Team (MHST) please apply!
Please note that this is not a training post and applicants must have completed a post graduate qualification.
The post-holder will work in the following team:
- East Herts - Abel Smith School, Hertford
We offer a welcoming, supportive and flexible environment using innovation and creativity to reach children and young people across 30-40 educational settings and have built solid working relationships with each setting.
Main duties of the job
- You will work alongside trainee EMHP's, EMHPs/CWP's, Senior Practitioners and a Team Leader.
- You will provide early interventions to children and young people experiencing mild to moderate mental health concerns in educational settings. Typically, the focus of work is anxiety, low Mood and behaviour.
- You will work with people of different cultural backgrounds and ages, and should be committed to equal opportunities.
- This post affords opportunity for contribution to service development. The Hertfordshire MHST offers plenty of opportunity for career development.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- You will develop and maintain professional relationships with education staff.
- You will be on site at allocated educational settings each day of the week.
- You will provide 1-1 interventions such as low intensity CBT (guided self-help) for children, young people, parent/carers and school staff,
- You will work with group interventions.
- You will facilitate workshops for children, young people, parent/carers and school staff.
- You will work in drop-in surgeries for children, young people and school staff.
- You will facilitate co-production to support service development,
- You will help support the team in resource development,
For a more detailed description of the role, please see attached JD and PS.
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
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.
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This advert is for Qualified CWP/EMHP with Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust in Radlett, England. It is listed as a Band 5 Mental health professionals role. The advertised salary is £33,677 - £40,996 per annum, pro rata (5% HCAS Included). The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 17 Sep 2026.
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