Education Mental Health Practitioner

Transformationunitgm; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 29,000 - 37,000; Full time

Job summary

Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust seeks a qualified Education Mental Health Practitioner for its Mental Health Services Team. You will deliver evidence-based interventions to support children in schools across Liverpool. The role involves collaborating with multi-disciplinary teams to ensure effective mental health support for young people and their families while promoting inclusivity and participation.

Benefits

Great flexible working opportunities

Lease car scheme

Generous annual leave

Extensive staff health and well-being programmes

Qualifications

• Qualified Education Mental Health Practitioner (EMHP) needed.
• Experience in communities at increased risk of social exclusion is a plus.
• Registered with BABCP or BPS is required.

Responsibilities

• Deliver evidence-based interventions for children with mental health problems.
• Support educational staff in managing mental health issues.
• Work collaboratively with children, families, and educators to develop treatment plans.

Skills

Engagement with families

Evidence-Based Interventions

Risk assessment

Education

Post Graduate Diploma in Educational Health Practice for Children and Young People

British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP) registered/registerable

Psychology or Health-related undergraduate degree

Job description

Employer Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Alder Hey Town Liverpool Salary £29,970 - £36,483 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 02/07/2025 23:59 Interview date 21/06/2025

Band 5

Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust is a provider of specialist health care and has a presence in community outreach sites and, in collaboration with other providers, our clinicians help deliver care closer to patients’ homes by holding local clinics at locations from Cumbria to Shropshire, in Wales and the Isle of Man. The Trust also provides inpatient care for children with complex mental health needs at our Sunflower House building newly relocated, and opened on the hospital site.

We currently have more than 4,000 staff working across our community and hospital sites. We’re also a teaching and training hospital providing education and training to around 540 medical and over 500 nursing and allied health professional students each year.

As black and minority ethnic (BME) employees are currently under-represented in this area, we particularly welcome applications from members of our BME communities. All appointments will be made on merit.

You can expect a warm welcome at Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust, our staff are friendly and welcoming. We listen to each other and work together to embed our Trusts values and behaviours. At Alder Hey we appreciate our staff and reward them with an outstanding benefits package including:

• Great flexible working opportunities
• Lease car scheme and Home Electronics Scheme
• Generous annual leave and pension scheme
• Extensive staff health and well-being programmes

Job overview

Permanent - Band 5 Education Mental Health Practitioner

This is an exciting opportunity for a qualified Education Mental Health Practitioner (EMHP) to join our Mental Health Services Team (MHST) working with schools across Liverpool. From April 2024, EMHPs were be required to be registered with either British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP) or the British Psychological Society (BPS) - this is a requirement of this post.

We are looking for individuals who have skills and experience in engaging families who are from communities that may be at increased risk of social exclusion or marginalisation. Postholders will work as part of an integrated multi-disciplinary team. They will act as case managers for children and young people with mild to moderate mental health problems and deliver evidence-based interventions alongside or under supervision of senior CAMHS practitioners.

Main duties of the job

• Delivering Evidence-Based Interventions for children and young people, with mild to moderate mental health problems, in Education Settings.
• 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 educational environments to afford better access to specialist mental health services.
• Working with low level risk and recognise higher level risk, escalating this appropriately to relevant services e.g., CAMHS /Child Care Services/MASH.
• The post holder will be developing polices and protocols with Mental Health Leads in school around Mental Health.

Working for our organisation

Alder Hey MHST is part of the Schools Mental Health Team within Liverpool CAMHS, alongside key stakeholder and partners as part of the Whole School Approach in Liverpool.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Delivering outcome focused, Evidence-Based Interventions in Educational Settings for children and young people experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties.
• Developing skills in supporting children and young people experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties, their parents/carers, families, and educators in the self-management of presenting difficulties.
• Developing and practicing Evidence-Based skills and working in partnership with children, young people, their families, and educators in the development of treatment plans for the specific intervention and agreeing outcomes.
• Work in collaboration with children and young people and where appropriate parents/carers to formulate and develop agreed treatment plan.
• Incorporate Participation and Inclusivity when delivering services which recognises and respects diversity.
• Discuss with supervisors and agree to accept appropriate referrals for children and young people in Educational Settings, according to agreed local and national and local referral routes, processes, and procedures.
• Undertake accurate assessments of risk to self and others.
• Learn, understand, rationalise, and adhere to the protocols within the educational setting to which the post holder is attached.
• Engage along with more senior staff in the signposting of referrals for children and young people with more complex needs to the relevant service.
• Gain and practice a range of interventions related to provision of information and support for evidence based psychological treatments.
• Practice, evidence, reflect on and demonstrate an ability to manage one’s own caseload in conjunction with the requirements of the team.
• Attend multi-disciplinary and multi-agency meetings relating to referrals or children and young people in treatment, where appropriate, both for personal development, to benefit in discussion with supervisors, or to provide direct assistance.
• Keep coherent records of all clinical activity in line with health and education service protocols and use these records and outcome data to inform decision making.
• Complete all requirements relating to data collection.
• Show evidence of working within a collaborative approach, involving a range of relevant others when indicated. Specifically, work in collaboration with teachers and other educational staff, parents, children, young people and the wider community to enhance and broaden access to mental health services.
• Contribute to the development of individual or group clinical materials or training materials and go on to develop further such materials as falls within own degree of competence.
• To deliver interventions either on an individual basis or within a group format.
• To deliver Psychoeducation Workshops to Young People and School Based Staff.

Person specification

Education and Training

• Post Graduate Diploma in Educational Health Practice for Children and Young People (EMHP Qualification)
• BABCP and or BPS registered/registerable or working towards registration
• Training in Nursing, Social Work, Occupational Therapy, Counselling or within a Psychological Therapy.
• Psychology or other Health related undergraduate degree.
• BABCP accreditation.

We reserve the right to close vacancies without notice when we have received a sufficient number of applications from which to make a shortlist. Please ensure you apply without delay if you wish to be considered for this role.

Please ensure you check the email account from which you apply regularly as we will contact you using this regarding your application. All candidates will be notified via email whether or not they have been shortlisted.

Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We are committed to creating a well-managed, flexible working environment that supports staff and promotes their welfare and development. We actively promote equality and diversity and operate a Zero Tolerance policy to aggression, violence, bullying and harassment.

Should you require any assistance during the application stages please contact recruiting manager of vacancy or the recruitment team at [e-mail] or call 0151 282 4599

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Please note, the selection processes at Alder Hey Children's Hospital NHS Foundation Trust are in place to ensure we recruit candidates with the right skills and values, please be advised that the use of AI in applications are monitored. We remain vigilant against candidates who misuse these tools to generate an application that doesn’t accurately reflect their skills.

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This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.