Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust
An exciting opportunity has arisen in the Gloucestershire Mental Health Support Team for the recruitment of Qualified Education Mental Health Practitioner's (EMHP) or Children's Wellbeing Practitioners. In line with the government's priority to increase access and availability of mental health and wellbeing support for children and young people, the EMHP role is an exciting opportunity to deliver evidence-based early interventions for children and young people, working across both educational settings and healthcare sectors.
Successful candidates will be employed on a full-time basis based within Gloucestershire, and will play a key role as members of the Mental Health Support Team, who will have the responsibility for delivering schools' overarching approach to providing mental health and wellbeing support for children and young people.
Potential candidates will have already successfully completed the HEE commissioned 1yr 'Education Mental Health Practitioner' course or the equivalent 'Children's Wellbeing Practitioner' course.
As part of this role there may be a requirement to travel across the localities.
Please be advised that this vacancy may close ahead of schedule due to a high volume of applicants.
We welcome applications from newly qualified nurses.
Main duties of the job
* Deliver evidence-based intervention for children and young people in educational settings with mild to moderate mental health problems.
* Help children and young people within these settings who present with more severe problems to rapidly access more specialist services.
* Support and facilitate staff in education settings to identify and where appropriate manage issues related to mental health and wellbeing.
* Work with and within education environments to afford better access to specialist mental health services.
The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.
Job responsibilities
* Assess and deliver outcome focused, evidence-based interventions in educational settings for children and young people experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties.
* Work in partnership to support children and young people experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties and their parents/carers.
* 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.
* Support and empower children, young people, their parents/carers and families to make informed choices about the interventions being offered.
* Accept referrals within educational settings according to agreed local and national protocols.
* Undertake and record accurate assessments of risk and operate clear risk management processes in line with locally agreed procedures including the safeguarding protocols.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Successful completion of the HEE commissioned 1yr 'Education Mental Health Practitioner' course or the equivalent 'Children's Wellbeing Practitioner' course or 'Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner' course.
* Postgraduate Diploma/Graduate Diploma Psychological Therapies Practice (Low Intensity CBT for Children, Young People & Families).
* Teaching qualification.
* Youth Mental Health First Aid trained.
Experience
* Experience of working with children and young people, their families and others.
* Experience of working and liaising with a wide variety of agencies and stakeholders.
* Experience of working with children and their families in a healthcare setting.
* Experience of working with children and their families in an education setting.
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.
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