Qualified Educational Mental Health Practitioner/CWP

NELFT NHS FOUNDATION TRUST; Southend-on-Sea; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional health service provider is seeking a qualified health care professional to deliver mental health interventions to children and young people in schools and colleges. The role requires qualifications such as EMHP or similar, with a strong emphasis on emotional wellbeing and leadership. Applicants should have extensive clinical experience. This position offers the opportunity to work flexibly, supporting both your needs and those of the community.

Benefits

Flexible working opportunities

Health and wellbeing support

Support networks for diverse staff

Qualifications

• Experience working with emotional and behavioural difficulties in children.
• Registered with appropriate professional or regulatory body.
• Completion of relevant courses such as Senior Wellbeing Practitioner.

Responsibilities

• Deliver mental health interventions within schools and colleges.
• Conduct assessments and develop care plans for CYP.
• Lead and support peer team members.

Skills

Clinical experience with Children and Young People (CYP)

Emotional wellbeing support

Leadership skills

Education

Graduate qualified health care professional or equivalent

Education Mental Health Practitioner (EMHP) qualification

Job description

The post holder will be responsible for delivering interventions within MHSTs in and around schools and colleges whilst receiving clinical supervision.

Act as an autonomous, registered (where appropriate) practitioner who is legally and professionally accountable for own unsupervised actions guided by the professional code of conduct and Trust guidelines and protocols.

Initiate referrals to other health professional specialist services and agencies.

To provide expert emotional wellbeing and mental health support as part of plans to transform CYPs mental health through the NHS Long- Term Plan.

To undertake school based and community-based assessments, risk assessments, care plans and to deliver a range of early interventions to CYP with a range of emotional and behavioural difficulties.

Responsible, and accountable, for service delivery to clients/patients, via NICE compliant pathways and in accordance with the crisis care concordat.

Provide leadership and to promote initiative, creativity and motivation in the MHSTs.

To communicate complex patient related information facilitating positive outcomes and ensuring collaborative working.

To support peers and team leader and be an effective team member whilst working on their own initiative.

Requirements

The post-holder will be a graduate qualified health care professional (e.g. nurse, social worker, occupational therapist), or have completed Education Mental Health Practitioner (EMHP)/Children Wellbeing Practitioner (CWP) qualification and will be fully registered with the appropriate professional or regulatory body (e.g. HCPC, NMC, BPS, BABCP).

They will have extensive clinical experience working with Children and Young People (CYP) with emotional wellbeing and mental health difficulties.

The successful post holders will have completed or be supported to complete the Senior Wellbeing Practitioner (SWP) course or CYP IAPT Low Intensity Supervisor course.

Benefits

We believe in bringing your authentic and best self to work, in order to deliver the best care to our patients.

We are committed to supporting our employees holistically.

• A long-standing and award-winning approach to equality and diversity with supportive networks for ethnic minority staff, staff with disabilities or long term/chronic conditions and LGBT staff.
• A commitment to supporting colleagues to achieve a work life balance, through flexible working opportunities and our efforts to support our working parents and carers.
• Proactive health and wellbeing support, including access to our employee assistance programme, staff psychological support, individual wellbeing conversations and a network of health and wellbeing ambassadors.

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you.

Our Values

We have co-produced three new values that we aim to embed within our culture here at NELFT.

• We are kind.
• We are respectful.
• We work together with our communities.