Trainee Educational Mental Health Practitioner (Mid Mersey)

To allow the postholder, under supervision and with support, to develop knowledge and practice skills in the following:
+ Delivering evidence-based intervention for children and young people in education setting with mild to moderate mental health problems.
+ Helping children and young people within these settings who present with more severe problems to rapidly access more specialist services.
+ Supporting and facilitating staff in education settings to identify and where appropriate manage issues related to mental health and wellbeing.
+ Working with and within education environments to afford better access to specialist mental health services.
+ Working with and within education environments to promote a whole school approach to mental health wellbeing.
+ To evidence development of those skills with associated knowledge acquisition to record and evidence progression towards an academic award and demonstrable practical ability., To allow the postholder, under supervision and with support, to develop knowledge and practice skills in the following:
+ Delivering evidence-based intervention for children and young people in education setting with mild to moderate mental health problems
+ Helping children and young people within these settings who present with more severe problems to rapidly access more specialist services
+ Supporting and facilitating staff in education settings to identify and where appropriate manage issues related to mental health and wellbeing
+ Working with and within education environments to afford better access to specialist mental health services
To evidence development of those skills with associated knowledge acquisition to record and evidence progression towards an academic award and demonstrable practical ability.
Once qualified you may be required to work across other boroughs.
You will work under supervision to gain experience in healthcare and educational settings to gain the level of competence required to deliver high-quality, evidence-based early interventions for children and young people experiencing mild to moderate mental health problems.
The training course is divided into 6 modules, developing skills and knowledge in areas such as working with children, learning to manage a caseload, preparing, and presenting caseload information, working with colleagues to provide better access, supporting colleagues in education to identify and manage issues related to mental health and wellbeing.
All individuals regardless of race, age, disability, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership are encouraged to apply for this post.
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We celebrate diversity and promote equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect.
We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and also particularly encourage applications from ethnic minorities, disabled and LGBTQIA+ people that are under-represented in our workforce. Furthermore we welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces personnel as we recognise the benefits of the values, skills, training and experience that they bring to their work with us. We encourage all applicants to share their equality information with us.
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Training Post - Trainee Education Mental Health Practitioner (Mental Health Support Teams in Schools) - Band 4 leading to Band 5 once qualified.

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the Northwest, serving more than 11 million people.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction, and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' - care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We're currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.

An exciting training opportunity has arisen for multiple Trainee Education Mental Health Practitioners (EMHPs) within our established Mental Health Support Team in Schools, based in Warrington. We would like to invite applicants from children and young people's mental health, wellbeing and education backgrounds to apply for this opportunity.
This opportunity will offer a fully funded Post Graduate Diploma leading to qualification and professional registration as an Education Mental Health Practitioner (EMHP), via an approximately 12-month training programme, beginning January 2025, delivered by Edge Hill University. Those who successfully qualify as EMHPs will be uplifted to Band 5 and placed on a permanent contract.
This vacancy may close early due to high quantities of applicants.