Trainee Educational Mental Health Practitioners

This is an exciting opportunity to train become a fully qualified Educational Mental Health Practitioner and build the Mental Health Support Team (MHST) offering to children, families and schools, who can have a great need for mental health support, whilst working very creatively with the training to meet the children's additional needs and support the schools. You will be required to fully participate in the Educational Mental Health Practitioner training course, whilst receiving continual supervision and support.

• Creative and flexible in their approach
• Have a good understanding of children with additional needs learning styles, and how to adapt practice to support children and their families
• Able to work and build relationships with a wide variety of professionals, schools, and families
• Be able to deliver evidence-based interventions for children and young people in education settings
• Have a good understanding of risk assessing and seek support from supervisor to manage risk
• Have good basic literacy and numeracy qualifications, at a minimum of level 2.
• Be willing and able to participate fully in supervision
• Flexible in their approach and have resilience under pressure
• Able to work both in a team environment and autonomously
• Able to maintain a high degree of professionalism when working in settings where there is a highly emotive atmosphere.
You will be working in a variety of school environments across Hertfordshire and West Essex. We operate from 7-7 Monday to Friday.

The Mental Health Support Team is a National trailblazer scheme offering early intervention mental health support, to children and their families, within schools. The Sen's MHST is the only MHST within the country, to offer support to SEN schools we are hosted by PALMS and work within Hertfordshire and West Essex. We currently work in 14 SEN schools offering tailored support to children with additional needs, learning disabilities, and Autistic Spectrum Disorder aged 5-18. As the only SEN's MHST in the country we are also paving the way, and supporting other teams to develop their wellbeing services, for children with additional needs. A big thank you for considering joining us at Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust. You'll find it a great place to work with many benefits offered to you as a member of our staff We put our patients, their families and carers at the centre of our vision - Outstanding Services and Healthier Communities Our staff are proud to be Innovative, Caring and Agile in their work to help achieve the Trust visionWe welcome diversity in our workforce and are interested in applicants from all backgrounds and ages