# Qualified Education Mental Health Practitioner > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/qualified-education-mental-health-practitioner/77c7bf76-f8ff-4b6c-8b7c-151bf6f6dbe2 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/qualified-education-mental-health-practitioner/77c7bf76-f8ff-4b6c-8b7c-151bf6f6dbe2.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** Hull - **Region:** North East and Yorkshire - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Mental health professionals - **Grade:** Band 5 - **Salary:** £32,073 - £39,043 per annum - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time, Flexible working, Compressed hours, 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-07-27T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-07-13T15:22:06.187Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/East_Yorkshire/Hull/Humber_Teaching_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Education_Mental_Health_Practice_Low_intensity_CBT/Education_Mental_Health_Practice_Low_intensity_CBT-v8141562 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8141562?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.humber.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview Are you a qualified Education Mental Health Practitioner (EMHP)? Do you have a real passion for education and for supporting the social, emotional, and mental well-being needs of young people? Do you want to make a real difference? We are excited to recruit qualified EMHPs to join our Hull Mental Health Support Teams. The teams work directly within schools and colleges, supporting children and young people aged 5 to 18. They provide support to schools and the wider system, with a particular focus on a whole-school approach, offering advice, guidance, support, and consultation. The teams also deliver targeted low-intensity CBT-informed 1:1 and group interventions, parent-led workshops, and creative-based interventions to support children and young people with 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 well-being. - 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. ## Person Specification ### Knowledge and Experience **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 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 setting - Experience of working with children and their families in an education setting ### Qualifications, Education and Training **Essential** - Successful completion of the HEE commissioned 1yr Post Graduate Certificate ‘Education Mental Health Practitioner’ course. - Undergraduate qualification is needed - Knowledge of educational environments **Desirable** - A further relevant degree qualification - Knowledge of the functional operation of specialist CAMHS teams ### Skills, Competencies and Personal Qualities **Essential** - Ability to work within educational settings to increase mental health awareness within the staff group - Ability to carry out 1:1 therapeutic mental health interventions with children. - Ability to carry out therapeutic mental health interventions with families. - Ability to conduct group parenting programmes. **Desirable** - Ability to teach others about mental health issues - Ability to conduct other group therapeutic interventions with children and their families ## Documents - [being humber (pdf, 1.1mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2687) - [staff benefits (pdf, 1.4mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2760) - [recruitment of ex-offenders (pdf, 336.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2269) - [application guide & interview tips (pdf, 600.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=3021) - [job description and person specification (pdf, 312.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10440278) ## 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.