Education Mental Health Practitioner

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust; Warrington; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A public health organization in Warrington seeks 2 Qualified Education Mental Health Practitioners to join their Mental Health Support Teams in schools. Successful candidates will provide evidence-based interventions for children and young people with mild to moderate mental health needs, directly supporting schools in fostering mental wellbeing. Applicants must have completed the relevant practitioner courses and should embody the values of respect and inclusion.

Qualifications

• Successful candidates must have completed the HEE commissioned 1-year Education Mental Health Practitioner course or the Children's Wellbeing Practitioner course.

Responsibilities

• Promote safe practices and value the aims of service users.
• Deliver evidence-based interventions for mild to moderate mental health issues.
• Provide direct, ongoing support to schools around mental health and wellbeing.

Education

HEE commissioned 1-year Education Mental Health Practitioner course

Children's Wellbeing Practitioner course

Job description

Overview

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust celebrates diversity and promotes equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect. We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and also particularly encourage applications from ethnically diverse, disabled and LGBTQIA+ people that are under-represented in our workforce. Furthermore we welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces personnel as we recognise the benefits of the values, skills, training and experience that they bring to their work with us. We encourage all applicants to share their equality information with us.

As an Education Mental Health Practitioner, the post holder will provide high standards of evidence-based client centred care to children and young people with mild to moderate mental health needs within the THRIVE Framework for service delivery. The post holder will be expected to provide interventions to children and young people and their families / carers referred into the service. As the post is identified within the CYPMH strategy, it is expected the role will continue to develop in line with national and local initiatives. The post holder will demonstrate an attitude which respects and values service users\' and their carers. The post holder will embrace the core values of the organisation and adopt the principles of Recovery and THRIVE.

Responsibilities

• Promote safe practices and value the aims of service users.
• Work in partnership and offer meaningful choice.
• Be optimistic about the possibilities of meaningful change and value social inclusion.
• Promote early detection and prevention of mental health problems across the whole school; strengthen links between schools and mental health services.
• Provide direct, ongoing support to schools around mental health and wellbeing.
• Deliver evidence-based interventions for mild to moderate mental health issues.
• Support designated school staff to develop a whole school approach.
• Give advice to school staff and liaise with other mental health services to help children and young people get the right support.

Qualifications & Requirements

• Successful candidates will have completed the HEE commissioned 1-year Education Mental Health Practitioner course or the Children\'s Wellbeing Practitioner course.

Other Information

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• Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
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• New entrants to the NHS will commence on the first pay point of the relevant band.

Role Location & Structure

An exciting opportunity has arisen for 2 Qualified Education Mental Health Practitioners (EMHP) to join a dynamic Mental Health Support Teams in schools service in Warrington. Successful candidates will be employed on a full-time basis based within Warrington and will play a key role as a member of the Warrington Mental Health Support Team. They will have responsibility for delivering the 3 core functions of an MHST to support the mild to moderate mental health and wellbeing needs for children and young people in allocated schools. Potential candidates will have already completed the HEE commissioned 1yr EMHP or the Children\'s Wellbeing Practitioner course.

Organisation Context

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region; we are also commissioned for services across the North West, North Wales and the Midlands. We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. At the heart of all we do is our commitment to \'perfect care\' – safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We are delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to improve quality and safely reduce cost. Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.