# Trainee Education Mental Health Practitioner > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/trainee-education-mental-health-practitioner/f3333dcf-05b2-4c50-b818-d738467a1074 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/trainee-education-mental-health-practitioner/f3333dcf-05b2-4c50-b818-d738467a1074.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** Doncaster - **Region:** North East and Yorkshire - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Mental health professionals - **Grade:** Band 4 - **Salary:** £28,392 - £31,157 per annum - **Contract type:** This is a recruit to train post, upon qualifying the post will become a permanent band 5 position within the team. - **Employment type:** Full time, Flexible working, 37.5 hours per week (This post requires 2 days at university.) - **Closing date:** 2026-08-06T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-07-23T08:42:57.239Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/South_Yorkshire/Rotherham/Rotherham_Doncaster_South_Humber_NHS_Foundation_Trust/MHST/MHST-v8165733 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8165733?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.rdash.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview The Education Mental Health Practitioner (EMHP) role is an exciting opportunity to deliver evidence-based early interventions for children and young people in and around their educational settings. This includes 1:1 work, group work and whole school interventions. This post is a Band 4 post and upon successful completion of the course candidates will be employed by Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust as a Band 5 Education Mental Health Practitioner. Candidates will be in training in their first year and will be required to work full time 9 - 5pm. During the training year staff will spend three days a week within the MHST service and two days per week at the University of Sheffield. Candidates must be available for a January start. ### Main duties of the job Successful candidates will be offered a full-time education programme specifically for the role in partnership with the University of Sheffield. This post will be funded at NHS Band 4 scale with guaranteed employment on completion of training and having attained EMHP qualification, with a starting salary projected to be based on the NHS Band 5 scale. The training programme for this post starts in February 2027, is 12 months in duration and will consist of academic and supervised practice learning within educational settings across Rotherham. Delivery of the programme will be provided through a combination of taught days within the university, independent self-guided study days and experience gained in educational settings and mental health services. The candidate will be delivering evidence-based intervention for children and young people, with mild to moderate mental health problems, in an education setting. They will also support  staff in education settings to identify, and where appropriate, manage issues related to mental health and wellbeing. Working with and within educational environments to afford better access to specialist mental health services. Deliver 1:1 interventions, group work and whole school interventions. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Please view the attached job description and person specification to view the full details about the role. Applicants will also be required to attend a separate  interview with the University of Sheffield. We reserve the right to close the vacancy early if there are a high amount of applications ## Person Specification ### Skills **Essential** - · Ability to learn in a variety of settings and using a variety of learning methods. - · Computer literate - · Ability to study as a self-motivated learner who can formulate their own progress towards learning objectives and negotiate pathways to achievement with supervisory teams. - · Ability to personally manage a sensitive, traumatic and potentially emotionally distressing caseload. - · Excellent oral and written communication skills. - · Team Player - Excellent time management and organisational skills. ### Knowledge **Essential** - Knowledge of the educational system in England. - Knowledge of children and young people gained through academic study in child development, child wellbeing or mental health. **Desirable** - Academic study in child development, child wellbeing or mental health or equivalent experience ### Experience **Essential** - It is essential that the applicant has previous experience of working with children and young people in either a health or educational setting. ### Qualifications **Essential** - Undergraduate degree, upper second class or above in related subject ## Documents - [main terms and conditions (pdf, 406.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2515) - [job description and person spec (pdf, 536.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10467131) - [rdash clinical & organisational strategy - 2023 to 2028 (pdf, 4.3mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2789) - [use of artificial intelligence (ai) when writing job applications (pdf, 280.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2919) ## 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.