Child Wellbeing Practitioner or Education Mental Health Practitioner - London, United Kingdom - Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Description
Mental Health Support Teams are part of a national initiative between NHS England and the Department for Education aimed at improving the mental health and wellbeing of children and young people.
There is a specific focus on early intervention, improving access and supporting the general culture of mental health and wellbeing support within all primary and secondary schools.
Bexley Mental Health Support Team has been operational since January 2021, working alongside education colleagues and community partners the Mental Health Support Team is part of Bexley CAMHS schools pathway.
We seek to appoint enthusiastic and dynamic individuals who are passionate about improving health outcomes for children and young people.
The post holder will work within Bexley education settings providing low intensity manualised CBT informed guided self-help intervention to children and young people with mild to moderate anxiety or low mood.
The post holder will also offer manualised parent interventions to primary age pupils and support a comprehensive psycho-educational groups and workshops programme across a range of local schools.
They will also support the whole school approach to mental health and wellbeing across educational settings.Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings.
Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies.
Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives.
Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes.
We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs.
We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London.
We are proud of the care we provide and our people.Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. We Care
Applicants must have completed the required EMHP post graduate training and have previous experience working with children and young people in either a health or educational setting to be considered for this post.
The service offers a range of internal and external training opportunities to support professional development and a specific menu of CPD courses have been identified to support EMHP role development with a commitment from the Trust to support ongoing learning.
Jenny Eldred, MHST Team Manager, Bexley CAMHS ) or tele:
Undergraduate degree, upper second class or above, in Psychology or related subject
Successful completion of the HEE commissioned 1yr 'Education Mental Health Practitioner' post graduate diploma
Evidence of CPD - Continuous Professional Development in Child and Adolescent Mental Health or Family work training
Experience of working with children and young people, their families and others in educational and health settings with mild to moderate mental health problems.
Ability to conduct other group therapeutic interventions with children and their families
Experience of liaising and working effectively with the wider network around the child including educational, social care, family and health.
Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust