Education mental health practitioner - Stockport MHST

NHS; Ashton-under-Lyne; On-site; GBP 29,000 - 37,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading mental health service dedicated to supporting children and young people. As an Education Mental Health Practitioner (EMHP), you'll deliver vital CBT interventions, helping to improve mental health and wellbeing in educational settings. This rewarding role requires strong communication skills and a background in mental health support.

Benefits

Generous annual leave entitlement

Flexible working opportunities

Access to Continued Professional Development

Health and Wellbeing activities

Staff discounts on retail and travel

Qualifications

• Post Graduate Certificate in Education Mental Health Practitioner is essential.
• BABCP or BPS registration as an EMHP is mandatory.
• Experience in delivering evidence-based psychological and group interventions.

Responsibilities

• Deliver evidence-based interventions in educational settings for children experiencing mental health difficulties.
• Provide individual and group interventions to children and young people.
• Collaborate with educators to develop treatment plans and support mental health.

Skills

Communication

Assessment and Care Planning

Managing Caseloads

Evidence-Based Interventions

Education

Post Graduate Certificate in Education Mental Health Practitioner

Job description

• Be part of a growing and supportive team dedicated to making a positive difference to the mental health of children and young people.
• Access to regular supervision, professional development, and training opportunities.
• A competitive salary, pension scheme, and generous annual leave.
• Opportunities for career progression.

Job summary

Why Join Us?

• Be part of a growing and supportive team dedicated to making a positive difference to the mental health of children and young people.
• Access to regular supervision, professional development, and training opportunities.
• A competitive salary, pension scheme, and generous annual leave.
• Opportunities for career progression.

Qualified EMHP Post in Stockport MHST #joinUsBeYou

As an EMHP you will be delivering CBT Evidence-Based Interventions for children and young people, with mild to moderate mental health and behavioural problems, in a range of Education Settings.

You will be helping children and young people within these settings who present with more severe problems to rapidly access more specialist services. Another key part of your role is to support the staff in your allocated Education Settings to identify, and where appropriate, manage issues related to mental health and wellbeing; supporting them to develop whole school approaches to positive mental health.

Working with and within educational environments to afford better access to specialist mental health services. You'll be able to identify and work with low level risk and recognise higher level risk, escalating this appropriately to relevant services.

Main duties of the job

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Developing and practicingEvidence-Basedskills 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 incollaborationwith children and young people and where appropriate parents/carers to formulate and develop agreed treatment plan.

Provide individual and group interventions to children and young people experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties

Be an active participant in case discussions, multi-agency meetings, and regular supervision to ensure high standards of care.

About us

We are proud to provide high quality mental health and learning disability services, both inpatient and in the community across five boroughs of Greater Manchester - Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport and Tameside and Glossop.

Our vision is for a happier and more hopeful life for everyone in our communities and our staff work hard to deliver the very best care for the people who use our services. We're really proud of our#PennineCarePeopleand do everything we can to make sure we're a great place to work.

All individuals regardless of race, age, disability, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership are encouraged to apply for this post. We would also encourage applications from individuals with a lived experience of mental illness, either individually or as a carer.

If you come and work for us we will offer a range of benefits and opportunities, including:

• Generous annual leave entitlement for Agenda for Change and Medical and Dental staff.
• Flexible working opportunities to support your work/life balance
• Access to Continued Professional Development
• Involvement in improvement and research activities
• Health and Wellbeing activities and access to an excellent staff wellbeing service
• Access to staff discounts across retail, leisure and travel

Job description

Job responsibilities

Important information - please read before applying

Applicants must have successfully completed the 1year Post Graduate Certificate 'Education Mental Health Practitioner(EMHP)' course in order to be considered for shortlisting. We welcome applications from qualified EMHP's and Trainee EMHPs who are due to finish or have recently finished their training.

You must have registration as an EMHP or have an in-progress application for registration as an EMHP with BABCP or BPS. This will be verified at interview and during pre-employment checks. It is a mandatory requirement as you are working within an NHS commissioned service.

We are unable to accept applications from children and young people wellbeing practitioners (CWP). The only exception to this is if you are currently working in an MHST service, and your started in this service prior to 1st October 2024. You are only able to gain professional registration for roles that they are qualified to deliver.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Expertise within specialism, underpinned by theory Knowledge of mental health services and procedures gained through training for postgraduate certificate in mental health either Post Graduate Diploma in Educational Health Practice for Children and Young People (EMHP Qualification).
• BABCP and or BPS registered as an EMHP

Experience

Essential

• Experience of managing a caseload of children and young people with a range of mild and moderate mental health needs
• Working within a community mental health setting
• Experience of delivering evidence based psychological interventions.
• Experience of delivering groupbased interventions
• Experience of providing psychological interventions in Educational Settings.

Knowledge

Essential

• Knowledge of mental health issues in young people.
• Working Knowledge of the educational system in England
• An understanding of Safeguarding responsibilities and the importance of multiagency working for children and families in the community.

Skills and Abilities

Essential

• Ability to assess, plan and implement care programmes for young people with complex emotional and/or behavioural difficulties
• Effective communication skills
• Ability to recognise own limits and seek appropriate support

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please seeNHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Pennine Care NHS FT

Address

Trust Headquarters

225 Old Street

Ashton-Under-Lyne

OL6 7SR

Employer's website

https://www.penninecare.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)

£29,970 to £36,483 a yearper annum, pro rata