Job summary
- Main area
- Qualified Education Mental Health Practitioner / Children’s Wellbeing Practitioner
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (8 - 4)
- Job ref
- 306-BEH-2028
- Employer
- Barnet, Enfield & Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- St Ann's Hospital
- Town
- Tottenham
- Salary
- £32,720 - £39,769 per annum including outer London allowance
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 04/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Education Mental Health Practitioner/Children Wellbeing Practitioner
Band 5
We have been working together in a Partnership between Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust and Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust for some time, with a single Chair and Chief Executive since 2021 and single Executive Team since 2022. We launched our North London Mental Health Partnership Strategy in May 2023 and in July 2023 our Boards agreed that coming together to create one new Trust is best for our service users, our staff and our local communities. Subject to final approvals, we will be formally established as one new Trust on 1 October 2024.
Our new trust website is: Home | North London Mental Health Partnership
Job overview
We are the Haringey MHST: a supportive, creative and joyful team within Haringey CAMHS. We are looking for 3 EMHPs or CWPs to join us in doing what we love - supporting Children and Young people in the community!
We spend our days within the diverse schools across Haringey, working hard to build the whole school approach, while always keeping in mind the unique need of each school and their students and families.
While we are a community- based team, we love to stay connected and are always ready to support each other.
Haringey has secured additional NHS England funding to continue developing Mental Health Support Teams (MHSTs) in Schools, as part of the government’s green paper ambitions to transform mental health support in England and we are looking to appoint 3 qualified EMHPs or CWPs to continue to deliver our service.
The qualified Education and Mental Health Practitioners (EMHPs) or Children’s Wellbeing Practitioners (CWPs) will join the growing team to support work within schools and provide support for children and adolescents with mild moderate emotional and mental health difficulties. This will be through delivery of evidence-based 1:1 and group interventions employing CYP-IAPT principles (Children and Young Peoples Improving Access to Psychological Therapies). The post holder will develop relationships with designated mental health leads in schools, and help them develop their approaches for mental health and wellbeing in schools.
Main duties of the job
- Provide support for children and adolescents with mild moderate emotional and mental health difficulties and deliver evidence-based 1:1 and group interventions in schools
- Holistic assessment of mental health
- Work in partnership with Primary Mental Health, CAMHS, Schools and GPs
- Offer high quality brief outcome focused evidence-based practice
- Develop, support and train CWPs, EMHPs and other colleagues in evidence based, innovate practice within and outside of the organization.
- Provide support to junior colleagues under the direction of a senior colleague.
Working for our organisation
The partnership between Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust (BEH) and Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust (C&I) is going from strength to strength since it was originally established in 2021 forming the North London Mental Health Partnership.
In order to meet the needs of the new Partnership services you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Enfield and Harringay Trust and Camden and Islington Trust. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Contribute to the assessment, and deliver outcome focused, evidence-based interventions to children and young people experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties.
- Working in partnership, support children, young people experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties and their families
- Work in partnership with children, young people, and families in the development of plans for the intervention and agreed outcomes.
- Support and empower children, young people, and families to make informed choices about intervention.
- Undertake assessment of risk to self and others.
- Adhere to the service referral protocols and signpost unsuitable referrals to the relevant service as necessary
- Provide a range of information and support for evidence based psychological treatments. This may include guided self-help. This work may be face-to-face, by telephone or via other media.
- Adhere to an agreed activity contract relating to the overall number of children and young people contacts offered, and sessions carried out per week to improve timely access and minimise waiting times.
- Attend multi-disciplinary meetings relating to referrals or CYP in treatment, where appropriate.
- Keep coherent records of all activity in line with service protocols and use these records and outcome data to inform decision making. Complete all requirements relating to data collection.
- Assess and integrate issues relating to transitions, education, and training/employment into the overall therapeutic process.
- Work within a collaborative approach involving a range of relevant others when indicated.
- Work in collaboration with children, young people, and communities to enhance and widen access.
- To provide a service that is equitable and non-discriminatory in terms of age, gender, ethnicity, and disability.
PREVIOUS APPLICANTS NEED NOT APPLY
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- A relevant degree, from a UK university or an overseas qualification of an equivalent standard in a relevant subject (e.g. psychology) with relevant experience and competencies as required Children and Young People’s Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner Qualification or Education and Mental Health Practitioner from accredited training provider
Experience
Essential criteria
- Evidence of working with children and young people with a range of emotional concerns and mental health difficulties, and their parents, using evidence-based approaches and routine outcome measures to evaluate work and develop collaborative care plans with the CYP and families Ability to adapt work to school and community based contexts Demonstrates high standards in written communication Able to demonstrate an appropriate level of knowledge of mental health practice from previous experience Demonstrate effective risk assessment and risk management experience
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Pamela Beck
- Job title
- MHST Team Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0208 702 3400
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