Education Mental Health Practitioner - Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom - The Children's Society
Description
Newcastle or GatesheadPermanent contract
37 hours per week
Salary :
£26, £29,840.10 per annum / pro rata (plus allowances)
Benefits flexible and some home working, discounts across many major brands, competitive pension scheme. 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays.
Location:
Various across Newcastle and Gateshead
The Children's Society has been helping children and young people in this country for over 140 years.
We run local services that support children when they are at their most vulnerable and in desperate need of help.
We're there for children, every step of the way.
This role sits within our children and families directorate, which works to provide immediate one-to-one and group support for children and young people to support their emotional and mental health across Schools and colleges that are signed up to the Department of Health and Department of Education Trailblazer initiative.
Your role will be to provide interventions that will help a range of children & young people, aged between to understand their emotional and mental health.
We are currently looking for a qualified Eductaion Mental Health Practitioner to join our dynamic, ambitious team.
A key part of this role will be your ability to
KEY SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES
In order to be successful in this role, you must have:
- HEE PG Diploma in Education Mental Health Practice for children & young people or PG Diploma in Psychological Wellbeing Practice for children and young people
- Good working knowledge of nationally agreed routine outcome measures within the CYP-IAPT Programme.
- Working knowledge of the educational system.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills.
- Ability to deliver low intensity evidenced based interventions under supervision to children and young people.
- Ability to devise and deliver groupbased interventions to children and young people.
- Ability to delver parent led interventions where children have a mental health need.
INFO ABOUT THE CHILDREN'S SOCIETY
The Children's Society runs over 100 local services that help thousands of young people who desperately need our support, and we campaign to get laws and policies changed to make children's lives happier and safer.
Every day we're changing the lives of children in this country for the better - and with your help, tomorrow we can be there for even more.
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