# Qualified Education Mental Health Prac / Child Wellbeing Prac > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/qualified-education-mental-health-prac-child-wellbeing-prac/c2a783ba-6337-470a-868b-6508ff2d1e72 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/qualified-education-mental-health-prac-child-wellbeing-prac/c2a783ba-6337-470a-868b-6508ff2d1e72.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** Hatfield - **Region:** East of England - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Mental health professionals - **Grade:** Band 5 - **Salary:** £33,677 - £40,996 per annum, pro rata (5% HCAS Included) - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-08-02T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-07-17T07:52:16.256Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Hertfordshire/Welwyn_Garden_City/Hertfordshire_Partnership_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Educational_Mental_Health_Practitioner_EMHP_Childrens_Wellbeing_Practitioner_CWP/Educational_Mental_Health_Practitioner_EMHP_Childrens_Wellbeing_Practitioner_CWP-v8115743 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8115743?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.hpft.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview We are looking for a qualified Educational Mental Health Practitioner (EMHP) or Children's Wellbeing Practitioner (CWP)  who wishes to join an existing school based Mental Health Support Team (MHST). The post-holder will work in the East MHST which is a fully established MHST.   The is a caring and supportive environment to work in with good leadership providing clear objectives and direction with regular supervision.  The team supports 56 educational settings across the borough and we have built solid working relationships with each setting. All applicants must be registered, or in the process of registering, with the BPS or BABCP as part of the Wider Psychological Workforce. ### Main duties of the job This role will involve working alongside qualified and trainee EMHPs/CWPs, Senior Practitioners and a Team Leader. The service provides early interventions to children and young people experiencing mild to moderate mental health concerns in an educational setting. The Mental Health Support Teams operate year-round, providing support to young people during school holidays in addition to term time. The core hours will be Monday - Friday 9-5 but some work (facilitation of group work/workshops) may be required outside of these times. The post-holder will work with people of different cultural backgrounds and ages, using interpreters when necessary and should be committed to equal opportunities. This post affords opportunity for involvement in, and contribution to service development.  The Hertfordshire MHST is continuing to expand year on year and therefore offers plenty of opportunity for career development. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities - Develop and maintain professional relationships with education staff, - Be on site at allocated educational settings each day of the week, - Provide 1-1 interventions such as low intensity CBT (guided self-help) for children, young people, parent/carers and school staff, - Group interventions, - Workshops for children, young people, parent/carers and school staff - Drop-in surgeries for children, young people and school staff, - Facilitate co-production to support service development, - Support the team in resource development, - Any other duties commensurate with the grade which may be required to enable effective and efficient running of the service. The aim of these interventions is to: - Reduce stigma around Mental Health, - Enhance emotional wellbeing by promoting and building resilience in children and young people through educational workshops, assemblies and PSHE lessons. - Deliver psycho-education and support to parent/carers and teachers to improve their understanding of children and young people’s needs. - Support children and young people at the early stages of emotional wellbeing challenges to prevent further Mental Health intervention later in life. ## Person Specification ### ANALYTICAL SKILLS **Essential** - Ability to be self-reflective, whilst working with service users, in own personal and professional development and in supervision. - Ability to assess risk assessments and understanding of the importance of assessing risk ### PREVIOUS EXPERIENC **Essential** - Experience of working with children and young people, their families and others - Experience of working and liaising with a wide variety of agencies and stakeholders - Experience working in a service which has agreed targets in place demonstrating clinical outcomes. - Experience in using electronic clinical records and data collection system - Experience of working with children and young people who have social, emotional and/or behavioral difficulties, and those who have experienced a mental health problem - Experience of working with anxiety disorders, affective (mood) disorders - Experience of the delivery of specific therapeutic interventions to children, young people or their families (e.g. CBT, solution focused brief therapy) **Desirable** - Experience of working with children and their families in a healthcare and education setting - Experience of monitoring and recording outcome measures for children’s emotional wellbeing - Experience of navigating complex social systems and environments, who may have conflicting priorities or agendas - Experience of working with looked after children - Experience of working with other vulnerable groups ### COMMUNICATION SKILLS **Essential** - Excellent written and verbal communication skills - Able to write clear reports and letters. - Ability to work within a team and foster good working relationships - Ability to use clinical supervision positively and effectively - Ability to facilitate psychoeducation sessions to professionals (i.e. teachers) - Ability to deliver interventions to groups (Young people and parent groups) - Skills in delivering Guided Self-Help interventions **Desirable** - Able to develop good therapeutic relationships with young people ### SKILLS/KNOWLEDGE/ABILITY **Essential** - Demonstrates an understanding of anxiety, depression and challenging behaviour and how it may present in universal services - Demonstrates understanding of the need to use evidence based psychological models and how it relates to this post - Knowledge of capacity and consent issues including Gillick competence - Knowledge of educational environments - Knowledge of safeguarding issues - Ability to carry out 1:1 therapeutic mental health intervention with children/families - Ability to conduct group parenting programmes - Ability to work within educational settings to increase mental health awareness within the staff group - Ability to conduct mental health assessments of children and young people - Ability to make an assessment of risk and to record and communicate it appropriately - Ability to take appropriate action to mitigate or manage risk **Desirable** - Knowledge of factors affecting acceptability and accessibility of mental health care - Demonstrates knowledge of the stressors young people may encounter in an educational setting and the impact that these can have on mental health - Knowledge of the functional operation of specialist CAMHS teams - Knowledge of the school’s safeguarding procedures and who the Designated Safeguarding Lead, (DSL), is in each establishment that they work in. - Ability to teach others about mental health issues - Ability to conduct other group therapeutic interventions with children and their families ### QUALIFICATIONS/EDUCATION/TRAINING **Essential** - Successful completion of the HEE commissioned 1yr ‘Education Mental Health Practitioner’ or the ‘Child and Young Persons Psychological Wellbeing Practice’ course - A further relevant degree qualification **Desirable** - Teaching qualification - Youth Mental Health First Aid trained ## Documents - [refer a friend (pdf, 160.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=2083) - [staff benefits (pdf, 888.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=2165) - [job description & person specification (pdf, 616.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10411364) - [guidance on ai usage in job applications (pdf, 55.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=2305) ## 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.