To work as a member of the Mental Health Support Team (Healthy Heads), providing assessment and evidence-based interventions based on a Low Intensity CBT model to Children and Young People with mild to moderate mental health difficulties and their parents/carers.
To build relationships with education staff and key stakeholders with the aim of embedding a whole school approach, promoting early intervention and preventative emotional wellbeing work, and developing a positive mental health culture within the school environment.
To provide consultation advice and signposting.
To deliver high-quality evidence-based training and support to Education providers within allocated schools.
To develop and support the implementation of Whole School Approach within the school setting to embed a positive emotional health culture and ethos.
To provide support to Education Mental Health Practitioners (EMHP) with developing their clinical skills, competence, and practice, including supporting trainee EMHPs with relevant clinical experiences.
To provide support to EMHPs to plan and deliver Whole School Approach activities within their school and support school engagement.
The role of the Senior Education Mental Health Practitioner includes working in partnership with existing services, including Universal Services such as Education, Voluntary, Public, and Health sectors; Targeted Services such as Education Psychology, Sexual Health, Family Intervention Team, Adult Mental Health, and Drug and Alcohol Prevention; and Specialist Services, for instance, Children and Young Peoples Mental Health Service.
Providing individual and group work using brief therapeutic tools and models. Offering consultation, advice, and signposting that will ensure, where appropriate, children, young people, and their families are referred to services that will meet identified needs.
Contribute to the development of clear referral pathways that support the emotional health and wellbeing of children, young people, and their families.
Developing a systematic approach to prevent children from developing mental health issues.
Developing, testing, and reviewing innovative education and training concepts, models, and practices to support the Emotional Health and Wellbeing of children, young people, staff, parents, carers, and the wider community.
Providing education and raising awareness of children's emotional and mental health issues to key stakeholders.
Involving children, young people, and their families in reviewing current service provision and delivery.
Identifying children who are at risk of developing mental health issues and ascertaining the needs of children and young people. Identifying how coping strategies for children, young people, and their families, who are considered to be at risk, can be implemented.
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