Qualified CWP/EMHP

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  20-40 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.