Qualified Education Mental Health Practitioner

Job overview

Are you a qualified Education Mental Health Practitioner?  Do you have a real passion for education, social, emotional and the mental wellbeing needs of our young people? Do you want to make a real difference?

We are excited to recruit the right qualified EMHPs. We have posts available in  East Riding Mental Health Support Teams.

The teams work directly into schools and colleges with children and young people between the ages of 5 to 18.

The teams support schools and the wider system and  have a particular focus on whole school approach, advice, support, guidance and consultation.

The teams also deliver targeted low intensity CBT informed based 1:1 and group sessions, parent led workshops and creative based interventions to support mild to moderate social, emotional and mental health needs.

Please only apply if you are a qualified EMHP.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate with appropriate supervision, will work as an autonomous and responsible practitioner as their training affords and within the scope of their local job description, to engage in.

• Delivering evidence-based intervention for children and young people in education setting with mild to moderate mental health problems
• Helping children and young people within these settings who present with more severe problems to rapidly access more specialist services
• Supporting and facilitating staff in education settings to identify and where appropriate manage issues related to mental health and wellbeing
• Working with and within education environments to afford better access to specialist mental health services, and use the acquired skills, knowledge and abilities to deliver a service based within education settings that builds on and reinforces but does not replace those initiatives that already exist within these environments.
• Mentor trainees and offer Peer to peer support to other qualified EMHP’s
• You will be required to travel across the locality independently as part of your role.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further information with regards to this vacancy please see the attached job description and person spec.