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Job Summary
As a qualified EMHP/CWP you will be joining a diverse team offering both clinical and non-clinical support to children, young people, and their families across Swindon. You will deliver evidence-based assessments and interventions for children and young people in educational settings with mild to moderate mental health difficulties, under expert supervision and as part of a dynamic and evolving mental health support team. You will work in partnership with school/college mental health leads by developing a Whole School and College Approach to mental health within your allocated schools.
Main duties of the job
Key Responsibilities:
1. Work in collaboration with other EMHPs, CWPs and mental health professionals, supervisors to deliver 1:1 interventions, groups, parent led interventions, workshops and staff training.
2. Assess and deliver outcome focused, low intensity, evidence-based interventions in educational settings for children and young people experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties.
3. Help children and young people within these settings who present with needing more support to rapidly access more specialist services.
About Us
ABL is an exciting fast-paced, growing community health organisation. As an experienced, CQC registered, provider of community health services, we are passionate about delivering evidence-based, innovative, effective and relevant health care services in partnership with individuals, communities and stakeholders.
We are a values-driven organisation, dedicated to reducing health inequalities and improving people's lives. We would love to hear from you if you would like the opportunity to work with a close team of committed professionals and share our values of designing and delivering health services.
Salary: £31,920 a year
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time
Job Description
Job responsibilities
Therapeutic Assessment and Intervention
1. Support children and young people experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties and their parents/carers, families, and educators in the self-management of presenting difficulties.
2. Work in effective, evidence-based partnership with children, young people, their families and their educators in the development of plans for the intervention and agreed outcomes.
3. Operate from an inclusive values base, recognising and respecting diversity.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Qualification from CYP Educational Mental Health Practitioners Course (EMHP), - Post Graduate Diploma/Graduate Dip Mental Health Practice in Education Settings.
Experience
* Experience of working with anxiety disorders.
* Experience of working with affective (mood) disorders.
* Experience of the delivery of specific therapeutic interventions to children, young people or their families (e.g. CBT, solution focused brief therapy).
* Experience of working with children and their families in an education setting.
Skills and Knowledge
* Knowledge of educational environments.
* Ability to carry out 1:1 therapeutic mental health interventions with children and families.
Job Specific Requirements
* The ability to travel independently across the service footprint.
* Excellent oral and written communication skills.
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.
Employer name: ABL Health Ltd
Employer's website: https://www.ablhealth.co.uk/work-for-us/join-our-team/
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