Assistant / Trainee Educational Mental Health Practitioner (EMHP)

Changing Futures North East; Tees Valley; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 28,000; Full time

Job summary

A local charity specializing in mental health is seeking an Assistant/Trainee Educational Mental Health Practitioner in Tees Valley. This role involves supporting children and families with mental health challenges while completing the Educational Mental Health Practitioner qualification. Candidates should have a degree in a related field and experience working with children. This position offers an opportunity to grow and make a positive impact in the community.

Qualifications

• Experience of working with children and young people delivering group activities and 1-1 support.
• Direct experience of working in mental health service/s with children.
• Understanding of CYP-IAPT and mental health support services.

Responsibilities

• Support delivery of mental health and emotional wellbeing activities.
• Engage in outcome-focused, evidence-based interventions.
• Collaborate with teachers and educational staff to enhance access to mental health services.

Skills

Needs assessment

Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Understanding of Safeguarding Policies

Understanding of emotional health and wellbeing

Experience working with children

Education

Good degree in Psychology or Health/Social Care

Job description

Assistant / Trainee Educational Mental Health Practitioner (EMHP)

This is a fantastic opportunity to work alongside the North Tees Mental Health Support Team led by Alliance Psychology and to complete the post graduate Educational Mental Health Practitioner qualification if a place becomes available. You will be employed by Changing Futures North East, a vibrant and local charity with a wealth of experience in working with children and young people.

If you share our beliefs, we'd love to hear from you

Everyonehas potential - ourrole is to help people unlock this and achieve the things that matter tothem

Parentslove their children andthis love needs to be acknowledged, worked with, and respected

Parentalrelationships matter wemust be curious about them and support them where needed, particularlygiven the critical impact inter-parental relationships have on children

Widerrelationships matter - peoplestand the best chance of thriving with a variety of positive family, peer,and other relationships

Workplacerelationships matter healthy and supportive workplace relationships are good for people atwork, and they help them help people in the community better too

Systemsaffect children, change and performance we need to understand and work together to best enable positive change

Main duties of the job

Main duties of the job

The post-holder will be employed by Changing Futures North East and will work into the Alliance led Mental Health Support Team, alongside a wider team of practitioners. The Assistant Education Mental Health Practitioner (AEMHP) is an active member of the team working with others to support the delivery of mental health and emotional wellbeing activities and to deliver positive outcomes for children, young people and their families.

The post holder will deliver a range of delegated activities as part of a multidisciplinary team to support children, young people and their families by offering age-appropriate information and advice on a range of emotional health, lifestyle and behaviour related issues. The role will deliver alongside the more senior members of the team delivering Care Planning Meetings, Whole School Approach, Training and Group Work.

The successful candidate must be willing to complete the postgraduate Education Mental Health Practitioner qualification if and when a space is available at a suitable university.

About us

About us

Changing Futures North East is a vibrant Charity that is in the privileged position to be able to trial new approaches to working with children and families to catalyse their own, sustainable change. Over the past 25 years, we have grown from an estate based youth club to a provider of children and families work across Tees Valley, particularly specialising in work that supports and is enabled through healthy relationships.

Changing Futures has particular strengths and experience in:

Pioneering delivery of emotional wellbeing and mental health services pioneering mentalisation based therapy for couples in Tees Valley, and providing EMHPs, CWP and Counsellors into the childrens emotional wellbeing system through two partnerships, as well as delivering adverse childhood experiences programmes for parents and children separately.

Supporting care experienced young people through a fostering service (underpinned by a bespoke trauma informed therapeutic training programme, changing futures through fostering) and through mentoring and befriending support

Reducing parental conflict servicesdelivering mediation and groupwork programmes, and supporting statutory agencies across England to embed a reducing parental conflict offer within their systems

Staff value the organisation and rating the workplace culture and management support in particular.

Job responsibilities

RoleDescription (Main Duties and Responsibilities)Workingwith your Manager(s) and Team Members

Work with the Chief Executive and your Managers to ensure that they receive appropriate advice and information on all relevantmatters thus enabling them to fulfill their responsibilities, and toeffectively monitor plans and targets.

To model the organisations valuesand play a role in raising the profile of these values and associatedbehaviours across the organisation. This includes a positive contribution toworkplace harmony displaying cooperative team behaviour

Be supervised,supported, and assessed in the delivery of outcome focused, evidence-basedinterventions in educational settings to children and young people experiencingmild to moderate mental health difficulties.

Developing skills insupporting children and young people experiencing mild to moderate mentalhealth difficulties and their families and educators in the self-management ofpresenting difficulties.

Developing andpracticing skills under supervisory support of working in partnership withchildren, young people, their families, and educators in the development oftreatment plans for specific interventions.

Developing andlearning the skills required to enable children and young people in educationto collaborate and coproduce their own agreed plan of care.

Show evidence in avariety of forms that interventions are provided from an inclusive values base,which recognises and respects diversity.

Discuss withsupervisors and agree to accept appropriate referrals for children and youngpeople in educational settings, according to agreed referral routes, processes,and procedures.

Under supervision,undertake accurate assessments of risk to self and others.

Learn, understand,rationalise, and adhere to the policies and protocols within the organisationand the educational service to which the postholder is attached.

Engage along withmore senior staff in the signposting of referrals for children and young peoplewith more complex needs to the relevant service.

Engage in robustmanagerial and clinical supervision, identifying the scope of practice of theindividual postholder within the role, and working safely within that scope.

Gain and practice arange of interventions related to the provision of information and support forevidence based psychological treatments, primarily guided self-help.

Practice, evidenceand demonstrate an ability to manage ones own caseload in conjunction with therequirements of the team.Attendmulti-disciplinary and multi-agency meetings relating to referrals for childrenand young people in treatment.

Keep coherent recordsof all training and clinical activity in line with service protocols and usethese records and outcome data to inform decision making.

Complete allrequirements relating to data collection.

Show evidence ofworking within a collaborative approach, involving a range of relevant otherswhen indicated.

Specifically, work in collaboration with teachers and othereducational staff, parents, children, young people and the wider community toenhance and broaden access to mental health services.

Contribute to thedevelopment of individual or group clinical materials or training materials andgo on to develop further such materials as falls within own degree ofcompetence.

Trainingand supervision

Once a training placebecomes available you will attend and fulfil all the requirements of thetraining element of the post including practical, academic, and practice-basedassessments.

As well as attendanceat the University for training, fulfil private study requirements to enhancelearning and prepare assignments for examination, for at least one day a week.

Apply learning fromthe training programme directly to practice through the course.

Receive practicetutoring from educational providers in relation to course work to meet therequired standards.

Prepare and presentcase load information to supervisors within the service on an agreed andscheduled basis, to ensure safe practice and the governance obligations of thetrainee, supervisor, and service.

Engage in and respondto personal development supervision to improve competences and practice.Be involved in theevaluation of the course.

Professional

Ensure themaintenance of standards of own professional practice according to both thepostholders employer and the Higher Education Institution in which they areenrolled.

Ensure appropriateadherence to any new recommendations or guidelines set by the relevantdepartments.

Ensure thatconfidentiality is always protected.

Ensure that any risksor issues related to the safety and wellbeing of anyone the postholder comesinto contact within the course of their professional duties are communicatedand shared with appropriate parties, in order to maintain individual safety andthe public interest.

Ensure clearobjectives are identified, discussed, and reviewed with supervisor and seniorcolleagues on a regular basis as part of continuing professional development.

Participate inindividual performance review and respond to agreed objectives.

Keep all records upto date in relation to Continuous Professional Development and the requirementsof the post and ensure personal development plans maintains up to datespecialist knowledge of latest theoretical and service deliverymodels/developments.

Attend relevanteducational opportunities in line with identified professional objectives.

Other

Work to, andimplement policies and procedures of Changing Futures North EastTo undertake anyother duties as identified by the Chief Executive or other Senior Leaders

It may be necessary to change these duties in accordance with the needsof the job and the organisation. Existing duties may be changed and new dutiesmay be added. Any changes will be made in consultation with you.

Person Specification

Work Related

• Ability to travel (only exceptionally would we expect this to be other than own car and current licence, with business class insurance)

Personal Attributes

• Friendly and approachable
• Balanced and Fair
• Flexible thinking and adaptable to problems.
• Motivated and enthusiastic
• Hold high standards and integrity
• Personal values and beliefs aligned with those of the Charity.

Knowledge and skills

• Skills:
• Needs assessment
• Understanding of Safeguarding Policies and Procedures
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including telephone skills
• Able to complete academic components of any training
• Knowledge:
• Understanding of emotional health and wellbeing and mental health in children and young people.
• Understanding the importance of family relationships for the wellbeing of children and young people.
• Issues that can affect children and young peoples mental health and emotional wellbeing.
• Understanding for the need to used evidence based psychological therapies
• Knowledge:
• Understanding of trauma
• Understanding of the use of service users participation and feedback and clinical outcome tools in practice

Qualifications

• Holds a good degree in either Psychology or another Health / Social Care / Youth related undergraduate degree

Experience

• Experience of working with children and young people delivering group activities and 1-1 support
• Direct experience of working in mental health service/s with children.
• Direct experience of working in school
• Understanding of CYP-IAPT and mental health support services

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.