Low-Intensity CBT Practitioner/EMHP (Qualified)

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (LPFT NHS); Gainsborough CP; On-site; GBP 29,000 - 37,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a dedicated Mental Health Support Team as a qualified Education Mental Health Practitioner. This role offers the chance to make a significant impact on the lives of children and young people by providing essential support and interventions for mental health issues. You will work closely with educational settings to promote mental health awareness and deliver training, while also managing a caseload of young individuals. With a commitment to high-quality care and staff well-being, this organization provides a supportive environment for professional growth and development. If you're passionate about improving mental health outcomes, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Benefits

Early access to Psychological Therapies

Competitive annual leave allowance

Car leasing scheme

Free eye tests

Discounts on major retailers and restaurants

Qualifications

• Qualified EMHP or Children's Wellbeing Practitioner with relevant qualifications.
• Experience delivering low intensity CBT interventions in healthcare settings.

Responsibilities

• Provide interventions for mild-moderate mental health needs using Low-Intensity CBT.
• Implement Public Health England’s Whole School Approach in educational settings.

Skills

Low-Intensity CBT

Therapeutic interventions

Mental health assessments

Group interventions

Risk assessment

Teaching mental health issues

Education

Education Mental Health Practitioner course

Low intensity-CBT qualification

Teaching qualification

Youth Mental Health First Aid

Job description

Main area: Mental Health Support Team

Grade: NHS AfC: Band 5

Contract: Permanent

Hours: Full time (37.5 hours per week, flexible working options available)

Job ref: 274-11326-SP

Employer: Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Employer type: NHS

Site: Gainsborough/Lincoln/Louth

Salary: £29,970 - £36,483 per annum

Salary period: Yearly

Closing: 10/02/2025 23:59

Interview date: 25/02/2025

Low-Intensity CBT Practitioner/EMHP (Qualified)

NHS AfC: Band 5

Job overview

We currently have an exciting opportunity to join our Gainsborough Mental Health Support Team as a qualified Education Mental Health Practitioner (EMHP)/Children's Wellbeing Practitioner at Band 5 (Agenda for Change).

This is a diverse role, and an opportunity to make a real difference in outcomes for children, young people, and families by offering early support and intervention.

The Mental Health Support Teams (MHSTs) support children and young people aged 5-18 within school and college settings who are presenting with mental health or emotional wellbeing problems which are of a low to moderate level of complexity and/or intensity.

You will support several allocated education settings, offering support to children and young people and their families. A key part of the role is around implementing Public Health England’s Whole School Approach, which will include delivering training, workshops, and assemblies to the wider educational communities and promoting awareness of mental health within the educational settings.

Main duties of the job

You will hold a caseload of young people, providing interventions for mild-moderate mental health needs using Low-Intensity CBT and other evidence-based interventions. You will also lead in implementing the Whole School Approach within your allocated settings by providing regular consultation, advice, and training to professionals.

You will receive regular managerial and clinical supervision to support you throughout this role. There will be opportunities to access internal training as well as identification of other development needs via your appraisal.

This is advertised as a full-time post operating Monday to Friday, 9 am-5 pm; however, other working patterns can be considered and base can be negotiated.

Working for our organisation

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism, and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,900 staff and serving a population of over 768,400, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.

You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England. We firmly believe the key to high-quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of ‘outstanding’ for well-led and ‘good’ overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top-scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We’re really proud of this!

We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff network groups, and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for complete details regarding this post.

When completing your application, please demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.

We can also offer you many staff benefits to help support you, which include:

• Early access to Psychological Therapies and Physiotherapy
• Competitive annual leave allowance
• Car leasing scheme
• Free eye tests
• Money-saving options through our salary sacrifice scheme
• Discounts on major high street retailers and restaurants

Person specification

Qualifications

• Successful completion of the HEE commissioned 1-year ‘Education Mental Health Practitioner’ course OR
• Other low intensity-CBT qualification (e.g., Children’s Wellbeing Practitioner qualification, Enhanced Evidence Based Practitioner, Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner)
• Teaching qualification
• Youth Mental Health First Aid trained

Experience

• Experience of delivering low intensity CBT interventions
• Experience of working with children and their families in a healthcare setting
• Experience of delivering whole school approach work
• Experience of working and liaising with a wide variety of agencies and stakeholders
• Experience of working with children and young people who have social, emotional, and/or behavioural difficulties
• Experience of working with anxiety disorders
• Experience of working with affective (mood) disorders
• Experience of delivering other therapeutic interventions to children, young people, or their families
• Experience of monitoring and recording outcome measures for children’s emotional wellbeing
• Experience of navigating complex social systems and environments, which may have conflicting priorities or agendas
• Experience of working with looked after children
• Experience of working with other vulnerable groups

Skills

• Ability to carry out 1:1 therapeutic mental health interventions with children
• Ability to carry out 1:1 therapeutic mental health interventions with families
• Ability to conduct group therapeutic interventions with children and their families
• Ability to conduct group parenting programmes
• Ability to work within educational settings to increase mental health awareness within the staff group
• Ability to conduct mental health assessments of children and young people
• Ability to make an assessment of risk and to record and communicate appropriately
• Ability to take appropriate action to mitigate or manage risk
• Ability to teach others about mental health issues

Knowledge

• Knowledge of educational environments
• Knowledge of safeguarding issues
• Knowledge of capacity and consent issues including Gillick competence
• Knowledge of the functional operation of children and young people's services

As an ethical recruiter, we will not pursue applications from red list countries as defined by the World Health Organisation. In order to pursue and apply for this role, you must have UK NHS experience.

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

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.