South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Trust
Our CAMHS Future in Mind MHST (Mental Health Support Team) is a growing and developing service which provides early intervention to improve the lives of children and young people experiencing mild to moderate mental health problems. We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic qualified Education Mental Health Practitioner to join our friendly and supportive team. You must have a relevant EMHP Post Graduate Diploma qualification and be registered and accredited with a professional body such as BPS or BABCP.
The successful applicant will be allocated a number of education settings alongside their Senior School Practitioner in which they will have the opportunity to develop strong working relationships and provide support to the school community. With appropriate supervision, you will work as an autonomous and responsible practitioner, offering CBT informed evidence-based interventions whilst also promoting a Whole School Approach to mental health and wellbeing.
At the time of advertising, this role does meet the minimum requirements set by UK Visas and Immigration to sponsor candidates to work in the UK. We look forward to receiving your application.
Main duties of the job
Responsibilities of the Education Mental Health Practitioner include:
1. Delivering evidence-based interventions to children, young people, parents/carers through individual and group work.
2. Carrying out holistic and child-centred mental health assessments.
3. Developing and delivering psychoeducation sessions to children, young people, parents/carers through assemblies, classroom, and parent sessions.
4. Ensuring children/young people play an active part in decision making about the support they need.
5. Providing advice/consultation to education staff to support children/young people getting the right help at the right time.
6. Supporting education settings in developing and embedding whole school approaches to mental health through collaboration and coproduction within the school.
7. Participating in the delivery of training programmes for education settings and community services.
8. Developing local knowledge of services particularly in relation to mental health to enable effective signposting and planning.
All employees of the Trust are strongly encouraged to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 to protect patients.
About us
We are a specialist NHS Foundation Trust that provides community, mental health and learning disability services for the people of Barnsley, Calderdale, Kirklees, and Wakefield. We also provide low and medium secure services and are the lead for the West Yorkshire secure provider collaborative.
Our mission is to help people reach their potential and live well in their communities; we do this by providing high-quality care in the right place at the right time. We employ staff in both clinical and non-clinical services who work hard to make a difference to the lives of service users, families, and carers.
We encourage and welcome applications from all protected characteristic groups; we value diversity and want our workforce to be reflective of our communities.
Being a foundation Trust means we’re accountable to our members, who can have a say in how we’re run. Around 14,300 local people (including staff) are members of our Trust.
Join us and you will be one of over 4,500 staff committed to supporting and improving the mental, physical, and social needs of the thousands of people we meet and help each year.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people, and vulnerable adults and expect all colleagues and volunteers to share this commitment.
We do reserve the right to close the vacancy before the advertised closing date if necessary, so please apply as soon as possible.
Job responsibilities
JOB SUMMARY
The Children and Young People's Improving Access to Psychological Therapies programme (CYP IAPT) is a service transformation programme delivered by Health Education England and partners that aims to improve existing children and young people’s mental health services (CYP MHS) working in the community. Children’s Wellbeing Practitioner training will benefit from being integrated fully within CYP MHS and linked to the CYP IAPT collaborative, which brings a valuable organisational infrastructure.
As part of Mental Health Support Teams (MHSTs), Education Mental Health Practitioners (EMHPs) will work in both education and healthcare settings to support children and young people with mental ill health. The new roles support the Government's priority of increasing access to and availability of mental health and wellbeing support for children and young people.
The post is for a team player who has already qualified through the Education Mental Health Practitioner framework.
For full Job Description, please see the attached in Supporting Information.
Person Specification
SPECIAL KNOWLEDGE/SKILLS
* Excellent oral and written communication skills.
* Ability to deliver low intensity evidenced based interventions under supervision to children and young people.
* Ability to devise and deliver group-based interventions to children and young people.
* Ability to deliver parent-led interventions where children have a mental health need.
* Ability to keep clinical records to a high standard.
* Skilled at engaging and building relationships with children, young people, and parents.
* Ability to work collaboratively with young people, parents, colleagues, and partner agencies.
KNOWLEDGE
* Good working knowledge of nationally agreed routine outcome measures within the CYP-IAPT Programme.
* Working knowledge of the educational system.
* Knowledge of children and young people gained through academic study in child development, child wellbeing, or mental health.
* Knowledge of safeguarding issues and legal framework.
* Knowledge and experience of capacity and consent issues when working with young people.
* Knowledge of the whole school approach to mental health.
* Knowledge of other neurodevelopmental and mental health conditions; both in type and severity.
* Knowledge of service pathways and remits and ability to navigate these processes.
* Knowledge of how contextual factors affect children and young people's mental health and the impact this can have on delivering effective interventions.
Qualifications
* HEE PG Diploma in Education Mental Health Practice for children & young people or PG Diploma in Psychological Wellbeing Practice for children and young people.
* Relevant qualification or experience within an educational setting.
Experience
* At least one year's experience of delivery of low intensity evidenced based CBT interventions for mild to moderate mental health issues.
* At least one year's experience of work within both health and educational settings.
* Experience of consultation and liaison with education and multidisciplinary colleagues.
* Experience of service development.
* Experience of forging new working relationships within a complex interagency framework.
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.
Employer name
South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Trust
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