Education Mental Health Practitioner

Devon Partnership NHS Trust; Exeter; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional NHS mental health provider in Exeter seeks two full-time Trained Education Mental Health Practitioners to deliver evidence-based early interventions for children and young people. Successful candidates will work within a multi-disciplinary team, providing support across educational settings. Qualifications include training in evidence-based therapies and experience working with children with mental health needs. This role offers the opportunity to enhance mental health services for families in the community.

Qualifications

• Experience of engaging with children and families with mental health needs.
• Experience of providing therapeutic interventions for children.
• Ability to work collaboratively across agencies.

Responsibilities

• Provide emotional and mental health assessments for children.
• Ensure clinical effectiveness through evidence-based interventions.
• Work within a multidisciplinary team in community settings.

Skills

Communication skills

Collaborative working

Ability to manage emotionally distressing information

Knowledge of mental health interventions

Education

Training in evidence-based therapeutic approaches

Job description

We are excited to be able to offer two roles in our Mental Health Support Team in Children and FamilyHealth Devon. We have several teams located across Devon and Torbaycovering a range of primary, secondary and specialist schools.

We are looking for 2 full-time Trained Education Mental Health Practitioners to join our fast developing Devon-wide service.

In linewith the governments priority to increase access and availability of mentalhealth and wellbeing support for children and young people, the EducationMental Health Practitioner (EMHP) role is an exciting opportunity to deliverevidence-based early interventions for children and young people, workingacross both educational settings and healthcare sectors in England.

Successful candidates will be employed substantively and based in Mental HealthSupport Teams, which will be responsible for the delivery of mental healthsupport across a range of educational settings in the regions.

You will have already completed the Education Mental Health PractitionerTraining.

Main duties of the job

To provide emotional and mental health assessmentsand evidenced-based therapeutic interventions to children/young people andtheir families who have been referred with a range of emotional and mental healthdifficulties. To provide support to the school community developing andbuilding on their whole school approach.

Within this role the post holder will:-

• Hold an appropriate caseload and undertake a keyworker role for children with emotional and mental health needs in thecommunity.
• Using a strengths-based approach; ensure clinicaleffectiveness through the use of evidence-based interventions, goal-based,collaborative practice and routine outcome measures.
• With supervision, undertake assessments, includingrisk assessments, contribute to care planning and deliver evidence-basedinterventions in collaboration with children/young people and families/carers.
• Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team offeringearly help in community settings and offering a range of individual, group andfamily focussed evidence-based interventions.
• Provide support to, and work with, otherprofessionals across agencies in the community including health, social careand education, to meet the needs of children/young people and families/carers.
• Ensure clinical effectiveness through the use ofevidence-based interventions, goal-based, collaborative practice and routineoutcome measures.

About us

Children and Family Health Devon (CFHD) comprises an Alliance of six NHSorganisations working together to improve health outcomes for children andyoung people in Devon. We are working closely with other organisations and providers to ensureto deliver locality-placed based, integrated access to all of our services,based on the i-Thrive Framework, in response to wide-ranging consultation withour service users and communities.

CFHD worksclosely with our local universities of Plymouth, Exeter & the PeninsulaMedical School where we support students in clinical training placements and inaddition support our own staff to undertake post graduate training. We activelyengage service users and their families in co-design which is facilitated by adedicated young persons lead role who also works closely with Young Devon whoprovide additional co-design and feedback through the Devon young peopleschampions group.

Wewould like the people who work for Child and Family Health Devon to beunderstanding, patient and respectful. They should be trustworthy and make usfeel safe and comfortable. It is important that they use their skills andexperience to listen carefully in a non-patronising and non-judgemental way.When staff are positive and friendly, they help to create an environment thatis informal and without pressure.

Job responsibilities

Please see the full job description and person specification in the supporting documents of this job advert.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Training in an evidence-based therapeutic approach.
• Evidence of relevant CPD.

Experience

• Experience of engaging/ working with children, young people, families and carers with mental health needs and undertaking specialist mental health assessments in the community, including risk assessments
• Experience of providing evidence-based therapeutic interventions for children and young people with mental health problems.
• Experience of collaborative working in community settings, with professionals across a range of agencies in health, social care and education.

Knowledge, skills and abilities

• Ability to travel.
• Ability to manage and process emotionally distressing information, seeking support as required.
• The ability to work collaboratively with service users and their families/carers, adapting your approach according to the individual needs of the child to demonstrate excellent communication and interaction skills.
• Knowledge of mental health presentations and evidencebased clinical interventions.
• Understanding of the use in practice of assessment tools, Routine Outcome Measures and goal-based care.

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.