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    Education Mental Health Practitioner - Warrington, United Kingdom - Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

    Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
    Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust Warrington, United Kingdom

    1 week ago

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    Full time - 37.5 hours per week (2 days per week at university)
    Description

    Job overview

    Training Post – Trainee Education Mental Health Practitioner (Mental Health Support Teams in Schools) - Band 4 leading to Band 5 once qualified.

    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 September 2024, delivered by Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS FT (, Prestwich. Those who successfully qualify as EMHPs will be uplifted to Band 5.

    Main duties of the job

    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.

    • Working for our organisation

    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.

    Detailed job description and main responsibilities

    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.

    Person specification

    Qualifications

    Essential criteria

  • Requirement to study at degree level
  • Proven record of previous academic attainment
  • Good solid basic literacy and numeracy qualifications at a minimum of level 2
  • Requirement to complete PGDip Education Mental Health Practitionertraining (CBT informed practice)

    • Desirable criteria

  • Degree qualification

    • Knowledge/Experience

    Essential criteria

  • Knowledge of the educational system in England
  • Knowledge of children and young people gained through academic study in child development, child wellbeing or mental health
  • Knowledge of safeguarding, care planning,risk assessment, holistic assessment and supervision procedures

    • Desirable criteria

  • Previous experience of working with children and young people

    • Values

    Essential criteria

  • Continuous Improvement
  • Accountability
  • Respectfulness
  • Enthusiasm
  • Support

    • Skills

    Essential criteria

  • Ability to learn in a variety of settings and using a variety of learning methods
  • Ability to be responsible for management of own diary, booking roomsin education and community settings, arranging appointments, liaising with parents/careers, making changes/adapting diary depending on service pressures
  • Ability to contribute to service development
  • Computer literate – knowledge of Microsoft office
  • Ability to study as a self-motivated learner who can formulate their own progress towards learning objectives and negotiate pathways to achievement with supervisory teams
  • Ability to personally manage a sensitive,traumatic and potentially emotionally distressing caseload
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Able to travel to meet the requirements of the post
  • Team player
  • Excellent time management and organisational skill
  • Ability to monitor own caseload
  • Ability to participate in weekly clinical 1:1s
  • Demonstrate high levels of concentration particularly for assessments, report writing, and university assignments
  • Ability to prioritise and organise own workload
  • Ability to manage expectations of children & young persons, parents, carers, professionals, and external stakeholders
  • Ability to assess mild to moderate mental health issues of children and young people referred by education settings – identifying appropriate therapeutic offer to support cyp needs, under the supervision of clinical supervisor, and providing evidence to university as part of EMHP training programme (including video evidence of interventions offered

    • Desirable criteria

  • Experience of using of RiO, Attend Anywhere (virtual interventions) and OBS studio

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