Education Mental Health Practitioner

Manchester University Foundation Trust were successful in their bid to be allocated funding as part of the governments green paper ambitions to transform children and young people's mental health support in England..

The Mental Health Support Teams in Manchester, Salford and Trafford will form part of a Thrive In Education model working in an integrated manner with our partnership agencies from the voluntary sector and provide 'Getting Help' and 'Getting Advice' as part of the MFT Thrive offer.

The Thrive In Education team will work flexibly in and around several educational settings, working alongside education colleagues to develop and provide preventive and early help support to meet the needs of their pupils experiencing low intensity mental health issues, mainly anxiety, low mood and emotional regulation. A multi professional team around the school has been developed to work collaboratively to support schools including professionals from Educational Psychology, Early Help, 42nd Street, Mind and Place2Be., This post in based with the Salford I-Reach team wihich forms part of the Thrive In Education offer across Salford schools and education settings.

The Thrive In Education Teams will have three core functions:-

Delivering evidence based interventions for mild to moderate mental health presentations

Supporting the mental health leads in each school/college to support a whole school approach to wellbeing and mental health.

Providing timely advice and guidance to school/education staff and liaising with specialist services to support children and young people to receive effective support to remain in education.

The Thrive In Education Teams will mainly deliver low intensity, short-term, evidence based interventions to Children and Young People in education settings as well as providing rapid access to relevant specialist mental health services via a Single Point Of Contact.

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of £2.8bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We're creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you'll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.

We've also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.

We're proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What's more, we're excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.

At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.