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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 and will be based within Warrington, working as a member of the Warrington Mental Health Support Team. They will have the 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 successfully completed the HEE commissioned 1-year Education Mental Health Practitioner course or the Children\'s Wellbeing Practitioner course. Those currently undertaking the EMHP training and near completion will also be considered. Please do not apply if you do not meet these criteria.

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. The post is identified within the CYPMH strategy and is expected to 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. These principles will recognise the need to promote safe practices, value the aims of service users, work in partnership and offer meaningful choice, be optimistic about meaningful change, and value social inclusion.

We are Mersey Care, 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 that cover 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. We are committed to delivering at the heart of all we do: “perfect care” – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families and carers to design and develop future services together. We are delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to improve quality and safely reduce cost as we do so.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

• Deliver the 3 core functions of a Mental Health Support Team in schools to support mild to moderate mental health and wellbeing needs for children and young people in allocated schools.
• Provide interventions to children and young people and their families / carers referred into the service.
• Work within the THRIVE Framework for service delivery and align practices with national and local initiatives.

• Successful completion of the HEE commissioned 1-year Education Mental Health Practitioner course or the Children\'s Wellbeing Practitioner course.
• Those currently undertaking EMHP training and near completion will be considered.
• Please do not apply unless you meet the criteria.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Toni Alcock, Job title: Team Manager. Email: toni.alcock@merseycare.nhs.uk. Telephone: 01925 664120