Education Mental Health Practitioner - Haverhill, United Kingdom - Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust

Description

Job summary

Are you passionate about the mental health and wellbeing of children and young people? We are excited to be recruiting an Education Mental Health Practitioner (EMHP) or a Children's Wellbeing Practitioner (CWP). The Suffolk Mental Health Support Team (MHST) is based within education settings, ensuring children and young people receive faster access to earlier mental health support and the successful candidate will play a key role in delivering this service.

We are a dynamic mental health team working in a creative environment to continue developing this new service. Suffolk has had MHSTs since 2020 and we continue to expand. This role is in our existing team based in the East Suffolk. You will need to be adaptable and have a passion for working with children and young people in education settings.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will complete assessments with children, young people and their parents/carers to inform targeted and evidence-based interventions to support the management of mild to moderate mental health needs. Using a collaboration and coproduction approach, the successful candidate will also support the team's delivery of the Whole School/College approach to emotional wellbeing and mental health.

You will work closely alongside a team of mental health professionals, will utilise regular supervision sessions, reflective practice and training opportunities in the team to continue to develop your practice and ensure a high level of clinical support is provided.

You must have successfully completed the EMHP course or equivalent for CWP/PWP. However, we would welcome applications or interest from trainee EMHP's /CWP's who are about to qualify.

The position is based in West Suffolk: Haverhill and Bury St Edmunds.

About us

A job in the Suffolk MHSTs will inevitably be challenging and demanding at times, but it will also be immensely rewarding and provide you with great opportunities to make a genuine difference to the lives of others. You will join a team that has developed a caring, creative and hard-working environment; your ideas about how this new service continues to develop and grow will be highly valued.

We will ensure that you continue to access training and supervision to develop your own practice and further your career ambitions.

Job responsibilities

Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing experiences and learning from each other. In addition to ongoing training and development opportunities, we are committed to providing an environment in which you can thrive.

Why work for us? We have challenges as a Trust, but we have ambitious aspirations, are pushing ahead with exciting transformation work and we need dedicated individuals to support us on our journey. We have strong, established nursing networks coupled with an exceptional leadership team who will ensure you are truly cared for and cared about.

Why Norfolk and Suffolk? The people here are warm and welcoming, youll never be far from the beautiful coastline or Broads National Park. Were an hour and a half away from London and have an international airport in Norwich too. Our villages, towns and cities are packed full of history, independent cafes, shops and theatres. We have excellent shopping, eating out, top ranking schooling and affordable house prices too.

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