Education Mental Health Practitioner

Our CAMHS Future in Mind MHST (Mental Health Support Team) is a growing and developing service which provides early intervention to improve the lives of children and young people experiencing mild to moderate mental health problems. We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic qualified Education Mental Health Practitioner to join our friendly and supportive team. You must have a relevant EMHP Post Graduate Diploma qualification and be registered and accredited with a professional body such as BPS or BABCP.

The successful applicant will be allocated a number of education settings alongside their Senior School Practitioner in which they will have the opportunity to develop strong working relationships and provide support to the school community. With appropriate supervision, you will work as an autonomous and responsible practitioner, offering CBT informed evidence-based interventions whilst also promoting a Whole School Approach to mental health and wellbeing., Responsibilities of the Education Mental Health Practitioner include:

Delivering evidenced based interventions to children, young people, parents/carers through individual and group work.

Carrying out holistic and child-centred mental health assessments.

Developing and Delivering psychoeducation sessions to children, young people, parents/carers through assemblies, classroom, and parent sessions.

Ensuring children/young people play an active part in decision making about the support they need.

Providing advice/consultation to education staff to support children/young people getting the right help at the right time.

Supporting education settings in developing and embedding whole school approaches to mental health through collaboration and coproduction within the school.

Participating in the delivery of training programmes for education settings and community services.

Developing local knowledge of services particularly in relation to mental health to enable effective signposting and planning.

All employees of the Trust are strongly encouraged to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 to protect patients

We are a specialist NHS Foundation Trust that provides community, mental health and learning disability services for the people of Barnsley, Calderdale, Kirklees and Wakefield. We also provide low and medium secure services and are the lead for the west Yorkshire secure provider collaborative.

Our mission is to help people reach their potential and live well in their communities, we do this by providing high-quality care in the right place at the right time. We employ staff in both clinical and non-clinical services who work hard to make a difference to the lives of service users, families and carers.

We encourage and welcome applications from all protected characteristic groups, we value diversity and want our workforce to be reflective of our communities.

Being a foundation Trust means were accountable to our members, who can have a say in how were run. Around 14,300 local people (including staff) are members of our Trust.

Join us and you will be one of over 4,500 staff committed to supporting and improving the mental, physical and social needs of the thousands of people we meet and help each year.