Senior Educational Mental Health Practitioner

Northumbria Healthcare Foundation Trust (NHCFT) wishes to appoint 2 Band 6 Senior Educational Mental Health Practitioners to join the Northumberland 'Be You' Mental Health Support Team., We are interested in passionate EMHP clinicians committed to delivering innovative ways of working,. to co-ordinate interventions , deliver whole schools approaches and school-based consultation models .
Clinical, case management and peer led clinical skills supervision and training is available and hybrid working., To provide consolidated & Enhanced Clinical Skills in the role of an EMHP.
To deliver evidence-based intervention for children and young people in education setting with mild to moderate mental health problems.
To provide enhanced System Working Skills.
To provide support to other professionals in their Development.
To ensure understanding of Relevant Legislation for the role of an EMHP.
To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries., The post holder will be expected to demonstrate the following knowledge and skills in: Helping children and young people within these settings who present with a deterioration in their emotional/mental wellbeing access the necessary support in a timely way to rapidly access more specialist services.
Supporting and facilitating staff in education settings and those EMHPs that are supervised to identify and where appropriate manage issues related to mental health and wellbeing.
Working with and within education environments to afford better access to specialist mental health services.
Skills with associated knowledge acquisition to record and evidence progression towards an academic award including the post graduate programme in supervision of EMHPs and demonstrable practical ability.
Demonstrating skills in and experience and competence in the full range of low-intensity interventions for mild-moderate low mood, anxiety-based, and behavioural difficulties, covered in core EMHP training 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.
Demonstrating and practicing evidence-based intervention to independently under the guidance and supervisory support working in partnership with children, young people, their families and educators in the development of plans for the specific intervention and agreeing outcomes.
Demonstrating confidence in developing and learning the skills required in order to enable children and young people in education, and where appropriate parents/carers to collaborate and co-produce their own agreed plan of care there will be an expectation to work independently within service remote working arrangements.
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.
To contribute to decision making and to agree to accept 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.
To be expected to conduct, initiate, and undertake accurate assessments of risk to self and others.
As a senior EMHP to support EMHPs under your supervision in the signposting of referrals for children and young people with more complex needs to the relevant service.
Engage in and provide robust managerial and clinical supervision, identifying the scope of practice of the individual post holder 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.
To lead on the 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.
To co-ordinate and deliver a range of psycho education and training to children/ young people parents/carers and school staff based on evidence based knowledge.
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.
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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.

Post holders will have completed a Post graduate diploma in Mental Health and Emotional Wellbeing in an education environment[AB1] , or further training as a Senior EMHP qualification[AB2] or an EMHP clinical supervision programme. Posts are hosted in the Primary Mental Health Work Service to provide senior clinician role within the Cramlington and Seaton Valley partnership of schools.
We are looking for enthusiastic qualified Senior EMHPs with 2 years[AB3] of post-qualifying experience .The role will provide Enhanced EMHP Clinical Skills, delivery of evidence-based interventions for pupils with mild to moderate mental health needs and support to the development of others.
Experience of providing EMHP supervision would be a benefit, if not achieved post-holders will attend an EMHP clinical supervision course at Northumbria University in September 2024.

Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022). Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn't, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this is…the Northumbria Way!
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+ Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
+ Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
+ A range of flexible working opportunities
+ Generous annual leave and pension scheme
+ Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
+ 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
We are proud to be one of the country's top performing NHS trusts - rated 'outstanding' overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people's homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.
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