Band 5 - Education Mental Health Practitioner

Islington's Schools Wellbeing Service is part of the national Mental Health Support Teams initiative, aiming to improve access to help and the general culture of emotional support within primary and secondary schools. The service is delivered as a partnership between Whittington Health and LB Islington.

We are recruiting proactive, creative and skilled colleagues to join our thriving team. The successful applicant will be passionate about mental health in schools, widening access to services and enjoy inter-agency working.

To apply, you should have completed a recognised postgraduate EMHP training course.

Please explain clearly in your supporting statement how you meet the essential and desirable criteria in the Person Specification (pages 5-6 of the JD/PS attachment).

Main duties of the job

Please see the Job Description and the Person Specification attachments for full details of this role.

The successful applicant will join one of our two locality teams in Islington's Schools Wellbeing Service. The teams deliver preventative and early intervention mental health work to all the borough's mainstream schools. This work includes workshops, assemblies, groups and individual interventions with children, young people, family members or school staff, as well as whole-school approaches to mental health.

The post holders will deliver groups, workshops and 1:1 brief therapeutic interventions with young people and/or their parents/carers. Other duties include liaison with school staff, contributing to whole-school approaches for mental health, screenings and assessments, observations, joint working, service development work (e.g. producing new workshops), clinical communication via notes, reports and letters, etc.

Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trustbelieves that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.