Education Mental Health Practitioner

Job Description

An exciting opportunity has become available for qualified Education Mental Health Practitioners (EMHPs) to join our dynamic and energetic award-winning Oxleas MHST service. We are recruiting to EMHP posts in our established Bexley & Greenwich Mental Health Support Teams, both of which have recently expanded. Mental Health Support Teams are part of an exciting National initiative, working in collaboration with education settings, to improve the mental health and wellbeing of children and young people in response to the government's Green Paper: Transforming children and young people's mental health provision. Main duties of the job There is a specific focus on early intervention, improving access and supporting the general culture of mental health and wellbeing support within primary and secondary schools. Teams work within a Thrive framework alongside education colleagues and community partners, providing quality care to children, young people and families. EMHP Role The post holders will work within education settings providing low intensity manualised CBT informed guided self-help intervention to children and young people with mild to moderate anxiety or low mood. The post holder will also offer manualised parent interventions to primary age pupils and support a comprehensive psycho-educational groups and workshops programme across a range of local schools. They will also support the whole school approach to mental health and wellbeing across educational settings. We seek to appoint enthusiastic and dynamic individuals who are passionate about improving health outcomes for children and young people. Applicants must have completed the required EMHP post graduate training and have professional registration with either BPS or BABCP as an Education Mental Health Practitioner. Please note applicants who do not meet this criteria will not be short listed. About us Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes. We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people. Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values: We're Kind We Listen We Care Job responsibilities The service offers a range of internal and external training opportunities to support professional development and a specific menu of CPD courses have been identified to support EMHP role development with a commitment from the Trust to support ongoing learning. Flexible working arrangements are also considered. Person Specification Qualifications Successful completion of the HEE commissioned 1yr 'Education Mental Health Practitioner' post graduate diploma Professional registration with BPS or BABCP Experience Experience of working with children and young people, their families and others in educational and health settings with mild to moderate mental health problems. Experience of delivering specific therapeutic interventions to children, young people or their families (e.g. Guided Self Help, CBT, parent work) Experience of liaising and working effectively with the wider network around the child including educational, social care, family and health. Experience of working with cultural diverse populations and adapting services to improve access. Skills Ability to conduct other group therapeutic interventions with children and their families Ability to make an assessment of risk and to record and communicate it appropriately and to take appropriate action to mitigate or manage 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. #J-18808-Ljbffr