Job summary
- Main area
- Education Mental Health Practitioner
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent: Substantive
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 342-CAMH101-0824
- Employer
- Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Off the Record
- Town
- Bristol
- Salary
- £28,407 - £34,581 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 05/09/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Band 5 Education Mental Health Practitioner
Band 5
Job overview
We are recruiting for a Qualified Education Mental Health Practitioner for our Bristol Mental Health Support Team. This is a full time positions that carries a portfolio of both Primary and Secondary Schools that the post holder will be based in for most of their working week.
*Please note we are looking for qualified Education Mental Health Practitioners, therefore, we can only accept candidates that has completed a Education Mental Health Practitioner course.
At AWP we actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds; we are particularly keen to encourage applications from people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities and from the LGBTQ+ community. We want people to bring their unique blend of experiences, backgrounds, perspectives and knowledge to AWP, as diversity makes us stronger.
Main duties of the job
The post-holder will deliver, under regular supervision, high-quality; outcome-informed, focused, evidence-based interventions for children and young people experiencing mild to moderate anxiety, low mood and behavioural difficulties.
This will include one-one work, group work, whole class, or larger assemblies.
The post holder will have the necessary knowledge, attitude and capabilities to ensure that children and young people will have access to timely, high quality, evidence based mental health support.
Working for our organisation
We are AWP (Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust) a diverse organisation with over 5,000 dedicated staff providing inpatient and community-based mental health care.
We provide services from a range of locations to approximately 1.8 million people living in Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES), Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Swindon, across the county of Wiltshire and in parts of Dorset.
Our outstanding people promote mental health and wellbeing. The expertise and resources within AWP are dedicated to a person-centred approach for those who use our services and for all employees. We recognise that happy and fulfilled employees give better care.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
This post is for a qualified Education Mental Health Practitioners (EMHP) who has completed the Child and Young Person’s (CYP) Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) course. The EMHP will have skills in assessment and treatment in delivering low intensity evidence-based interventions with CYP presenting with anxiety, low mood and behavioural difficulties. The EMHP will also deliver whole school approaches with a strong emphasis on participation with young people, their families and carers.
This vacancy sits within our Bristol Team.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Successful completion of the HEE commissioned 1yr ‘Education Mental Health Practitioner’ course.
Desirable criteria
- A further relevant degree qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working with children and young people, their families
- Experience of working of multi-agency working
- Experience of assessing and managing risk
Desirable criteria
- Experience of navigating complex systems, who may have competing agendas
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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
- Stacey McDonald
- Job title
- Clinical Service Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0117 403 8735
- Additional information
Ruth Clinch
South & East Bristol MHST Team Manager
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