Education Mental Health Practitioner - Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom - North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust

North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust
North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust
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Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Our Trust is on an incredible journey of innovation and we'd like you to be part of it.


To excel you will be an enthusiastic, caring and compassionate Registered Practitioner who is looking to work within a Trust that is ambitious to perform well and has been told by the Care Quality Commission that it is the fastest improving mental health Trust in the country.

Whether you are about to qualify, newly qualified or an experienced practitioner, we want to meet you and discuss the possibility of you joining this great multi-disciplinary team.


Our vision is 'To be Outstanding in all we do and how we do it.' Our teams pride themselves on compassion, team work and resilience.

The Trust supports you by offering a flexible shift system including twilight shifts and compressed hours to support working families and our staff parking is free on all our main sites.


You will be expected to provide support for the work of other members of the multidisciplinary team and signpost children, young people and families to appropriate support.

Finally, to contribute where appropriate, to the service development and consultation to the wider MDT.


This is a unique opportunity to be part of a developing service with high expectations for improving the outcomes for children and families in North Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent.

As an employee and representative of the Trust, you are required to demonstrate and uphold the Trust's Values


These are:

Proud to CARE:

Compassionate

Caring with compassion, it's about how we listen, what we say, what we do.

Approachable

Friendly, welcoming, sharing ideas and being open

Responsible

Taking personal and collective responsibility, being accountable for our actions

Excellent

Striving for the best, for high-quality safe care and continually improving


In return you will receive supervision and in line with the Trust values you will be offered opportunity to develop your skills and knowledge as part of your Continuing Professional development.


You can expect Continuing Professional Development (CPD) which is tailored to meet your professional development; individual CPD advice is available from our Practice Education Team.

The CPD offer includes the option to rotate within the Trust to widen your breadth of experience, skills and knowledge.


This is an exciting time in the Transformation of Children and Young People's Mental Health Services, and as one of the founding areas for this service, this role is a perfect opportunity to help shape the services we provide in North Staffordshire and The Moorlands in our Trailblazer schools.


Education Mental Health Practitioners (EMHPs) are part of the government's Mental Health Support Team's (MHST) plans for schools to provide early intervention mental health support.

This will allow the post holder, with appropriate supervision, to work as an autonomous and responsible practitioner as their training affords and within the scope of their local job description, to engage in;

  • Delivering evidencebased 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
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