Educational Mental Health Practitioner - Preston, United Kingdom - Service Care

Service Care
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Preston, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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We are recruiting an Educational Mental Health Practitioner (EMHP) to work within a Children and Young Peoples Mental Health Support Team in Lancashire.

The service supports children, young people and their families focusing on early intervention and delivered on a community and educational setting.

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The successful applicant will be working within a Children and Young People (CYP) Mental Health Support Team who have bases in Greater Preston, Chorley, South Ribble and West Lancashire.


The service offers early intervention health and wellbeing services for children and young people using a wide range of creative and dynamic methods of engagement, including digital interventions, across community and educational settings.

The service supports CYP and their families or carers providing extra capacity for Early Intervention support withing Schools and College settings within 3 core areas:

  • Providing evidence-based interventions for mild to moderate mental health and emotional wellbeing issues.
  • Support designated senior mental health leads in each setting.
  • Provide timely advice to school and college staff and parents as required.


The Education Mental Health Practitioner will deliver short term low intensity CBT informed interventions for children and young people aged 5-19 years with anxiety, low mood, common challenging behaviours, family and peer relationship difficulties, difficulty adjusting to change and transition or difficulty managing emotions in educational settings.

Working with Mental Health Leads and other educational staff to build on and develop evidenced-based Whole School Approaches.

As part of your work, you might:

  • Advise on sleep hygiene, problem solving and panic attacks.
  • Provide education for managing anxiety and depression.
  • Promote approaches to improve emotional health and wellbeing.
  • Advise and signpost education staff on further information to ensure children and young people get the right support.
  • You will provide support to children and young people on a onetoone basis. You will also support schools and colleges with wholeorganisation approaches to mental health and wellbeing. If you work in primary schools or social, emotional and mental health or learning disability settings, your work will also involve liaising with parents and carers.

Pay and Contract

  • Temporary Pay: £25ph (Ltd) _negotiable depending on qualification and previous experience._
  • Permanent Salary: £27,043 £33,453pa


  • Hours: Monday

  • Friday 09:0017:00 Friday 09:00 14:00

Person Specification

  • Graduate / Post Graduate Diploma EMHP training course that is commissioned by Health Education England (HEE)

SCS Benefits

At Service Care Solutions, we recognise increasing pressures on care staff, both work-based and financial, and want to help ease that burden.


£250 Registration and Referral Bonus

Limited Company / PSC Payment

£150 Job Referral

FREE Registration Process Enhanced DBS Check, Occupational Health Appointments, Mandatory and Practical Training, Uniform


£250 Yearly CPD / Training Allowance / Registration Body Renewal
Interested? Contact Carly Harrison at Service Care Solutions
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