In line with the government's priority to increase access and availability of mental health and wellbeing support for children and young people, the Education Mental Health Practitioner (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 in England.
Main duties of the job
This is a training position; the post holder will undertake training at Kings College London alongside working in service for the Mental Health Support Teams at Achieving for Children. They will be taught to deliver evidence-based guided self-help interventions for children and young people experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties. The post holder will use their newly developed skills to support children and young people who are referred into the service, and trainees will receive supervision to support their professional development.
Applicants will need to be ready to start work in mid-January 2025, and posts cannot be offered to candidates unless they can guarantee this start date.
About us
Achieving for Children is a Community Interest Company that has a public sector ethos, combined with the freedom to innovate, enabling us to do things differently. As a not-for-profit social enterprise owned by three local authorities (Windsor & Maidenhead, Kingston, and Richmond), we offer the freedoms of a social enterprise with the employment benefits of local government.
Job responsibilities
We are seeking to recruit five graduate level practitioners to provide guided self-help therapy and parenting interventions. These posts are salaried at NHS Agenda for Change band 4 and fully funded for a one-year post-graduate diploma in Education Mental Health Practice through Kings College London. Further intensive supervision and on-the-job training will be provided by an experienced supervisor within each team. There will be a strong expectation for trainees to continue in post on successful completion of the one-year training, with a salary increase to NHS Band 5 scale for the second year onwards.
Successful candidates will be employed on a full-time basis within a Mental Health Support Team delivering individual, group, and workshop-based mental health interventions within a borough-based cluster of schools.
During training, the post-holders will work under close supervision to gain experience across healthcare and educational settings to enable them to gain the level of competence required to deliver high-quality, evidence-based early interventions for children and young people experiencing mild to moderate mental health problems.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Undergraduate degree, upper second class or above, in Psychology OR related subject (e.g. Psychology, Education, Childhood development, Social Work etc) OR any subject with further training or experience in a relevant field (e.g., Teaching/TA; Learning Support; HCA; Youth Work; Counselling etc)
* OR relevant professional experience in CYP Mental Health/Education/Mentorship (to be considered on a case-by-case basis)
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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