Education Mental Health Practitioner - Grimsby, United Kingdom - Compass

Compass

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Grimsby, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

About The Role:

The role of the Education Mental Health Practitioner (EMHP) is to improve access to high quality mental health support to children and young people in education settings.

With appropriate supervision the EMHP will deliver evidence-based interventions to children and young people with mild to moderate mental health needs.

The EMHP also provide advice, guidance and signposting to education staff and will support Senior Mental Health Leads in education settings to develop their Whole School Approach.

About You:

To succeed in the role of Education Mental Health Practitioner, you will:

Be enthusiastic about and experienced in working with children and young people to recognise and intervene early when mental health or emotional wellbeing needs are identified.
Have experience in working individually and in groups using a creative, flexible and personcentred approach.
Have a willingness to share your experience and contribute to the development of a range of whole school approaches to support educational settings to meet the mental health and emotional needs of the pupil population, staff and parents.

About Us:

Established for over 30 years, Compass is a national charity which works in communities across the UK providing services spanning substance misuse treatment and rehabilitation, early interventions for vulnerable young people, school aged health programmes and associated prevention as well as treatment and health promotion initiatives.

Benefits

We offer a range of benefits including: