Educational Mental Health Practitioner in Training

Northumbria Healthcare Foundation Trust (NHCFT) wishes to appoint 4 Educational Mental Health Practitioner trainees to join Northumberland's 'Be You' Mental Health Support Team. The Primary Mental Health Work Service will host the posts building on the Be You teams across County , to work into the Cramlington and Seaton Valley partnership of schools.
These posts involve a 12-month training on the Post graduate Diploma in Emotional Wellbeing in the Educational Environment (EMHP) at University of Northumbria in September 2024. Recruitment will be led by NHCFT and the University of Northumbria, to ensure the clinical and academic requirements are met.
We are looking for enthusiastic staff to join our Be You team providing an early intervention and prevention support to schools. These training posts will provide opportunities to work with current Education Mental Health Practitioners, supporting pupils with children and young people with mild to moderate mental health needs. The posts will work collaboratively with the PMHW team supporting pupils with moderate mental health needs , a Peer mentor worker , Educational Psychologists, a Designated Senior Mental Health Lead in schools Coordinator and our voluntary partner Cygnus.
You will develop skills to deliver the 3 core functions of a mental health in schools team, including low intensity interventions in school settings, whole schools approaches , staff training, consultation, and signposting roles ., These posts will be trained to provide support to deliver the 3 core functions of a mental health support team in schools, namely- Delivering evidence-based intervention for children and young people in education setting with mild to moderate mental health problems.
Supporting and facilitating staff in education settings to identify and where appropriate manage issues related to mental health and wellbeing.
To provide advice, support and signposting to schools to ensure that children have access to the right source of emotional well-being and mental health support across the mental health pathways in Northumberland . To work closely with school settings and members of the Be You team and Designated Senior Mental health Leads to deliver whole schools approaches to promote positive well-being and evidenced based prevention programmes.
Post holders will be required to meet the work experience entry requirements for the Trust and the academic requirements for the University of Northumbria at Newcastle., + Be educationally supervised, supported and assessed oneself to assess and deliver outcome focused, evidence-based interventions in educational settings for children and young people experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties.
+ Developing skills in supporting children and young people experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties, their parents/carers, families and educators in the self-management of presenting difficulties.
+ Developing and practicing evidence-based skills under supervisory support of working in partnership with children, young people, their families and educators in the development of plans for the specific intervention and agreeing outcomes.
+ Developing and learning the skills required in order to enable children and young people in education, and where appropriate parents/carers to collaborate and coproduce their own agreed plan of care.
+ Show evidence in a variety of forms that at all times assessment and intervention is provided from an inclusive values base, which recognises and respects diversity.
+ Discuss with supervisors and agree to accept appropriate referrals for children and young people in educational settings, according to agreed local and national and local referral routes, processes and procedures.
+ Under supervision, undertake accurate assessments of risk to self and others.
+ Engage along with more senior staff in the signposting of referrals for children and young people with more complex needs to the relevant service.
+ Engage in robust managerial and clinical supervision, identifying the scope of practice of the individual postholder within the role, and working safely within that scope.
+ Gain and practice a range of interventions related to provision of information and support for evidence based psychological treatments, primarily guided self-help.
+ Contribute to the development of individual or group clinical materials or training materials and go on to develop further such materials as falls within own degree of competence.
+ Ensure that confidentiality is always protected.
+ Ensure that any risks or issues related to the safety and wellbeing of anyone the postholder comes into contact with in the course of their professional duties are communicated and shared with appropriate parties in order to maintain individual safety and the public interest.
+ Successful post holders will be placed within the Primary mental health work service and will commence a 12 month Post Graduate Diploma in Mental Health and Emotional Wellbeing Studies in the Education Environment (EMHP) at the University of Northumbria Newcastle in September 2024 . As these training posts are a Level 7 Masters level programme aimed at developing trainees into qualified Education Mental Health Practitioners (EMHPs), entry to the programme will be through a value based interview within NHCFT leading to subsequent employment as a trainee EMHP with NHCFT.
Applicants who are members of the Armed Forces, and those who have a disability that requires support in the work place (two ticks pledge) and who meet the essential criteria will be interviewed under the Trust's interview guarantee scheme.
We recognise the positive value of diversity and inclusion and are committed to a workforce that is diverse, equal and inclusive. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME people are currently under-represented in our workforce as well as other under-represented groups such as LGBT+ and disabled candidates. We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, a Stonewall Diversity Champion, we have a Gold award from the Defense Recognition Scheme, and we are delighted to support Apprenticeships, Age Posi+ive and are a mindful employer.
If you require any reasonable adjustments to attend interview please make the recruitment team aware as soon as possible by calling our HR Recruitment Team on option 2.
Applicants who meet the Fit and Proper Person Requirements (FPPR) will require additional pre-employment checks in line with CQC and NHS England statutory guidance.
Make sure to read the 'applicant guidance notes' before submitting your application and make sure you know everything there is to know before joining our fantastic trust!
After applying via NHS Jobs, your submitted application will be imported into our preferred Third party recruitment system. All subsequent information regarding your application will be generated from apps.trac.jobs. You will not be able to track the progress of your application or receive messages through the NHS Jobs website, and furthermore, that as an employer, we will not be able to respond to any e-mails sent to us via the NHS Jobs website. By applying for this post, you are agreeing to Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust transferring the information contained in this application to its preferred applicant management system. If you are offered a job information will also be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.
Please note that it is a requirement of this Trust that all successful applicants pay for their own DBS certification if a DBS check is required for the post. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first monthly pay.

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+ Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
+ On-site nursery places via salary sacrifice
+ Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank
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