Job summary
In line with the governments priority to increase access and
availability of mental health and wellbeing support for children and young
people, the new Education Mental Health Practitioner (EMHP) role is an exciting
opportunity to deliver evidence-based early interventions for children and
young people, working across both educational settings and healthcare sectors
in England.
Applicants will need to be ready to start work in early/mid-January
2023 and posts cannot be offered to candidates unless they can guarantee this
start date.The KCL EMHP PGDip
Course start date is 23rd January 2023.
Shortlisted candidates will also need to submit an
application form to KCL for a place on the Diploma in Education Mental Health
Practice. The application form details are attached and will need to be
completed at the same time as your application for a post. Theuniversity portals
are open until the 21st of November 2022. If an applicant has not
applied to the university before the portal closing date then they will be
ineligible for the course.
Main duties of the job
We are seeking to recruit 1 graduate level practitioner to provide guided self-help therapy and parenting interventions. These posts are salaried at NHS Agenda for Change band 4 and fully funded for a one year post graduate diploma in Education Mental Health Practice through Kings College London. Further intensive supervision and on the job training will be provided by an experienced supervisor within each team. There will be a strong expectation for trainees to continue in post on successful completion of the one year training, with a salary increase to NHS Band 5 scale for the second year onwards.
Successful candidates will be employed on a full-time basis within a Mental Health Support Team delivering individual, group and workshop-based mental health interventions within a borough-based cluster of schools.
During training, the post-holders will work under close supervision to gain experience across healthcare and educational settings to enable them to gain the level of competence required to deliver high-quality, evidence-based early interventions for children and young people experiencing mild to moderate mental health problems.
About us
Hammersmith, Fulham, Ealing and Hounslow Mind are a specialist mental health provider and part of the Mind Federation. We provide support to empower anyone experiencing a mental health problem.
The lived experience of people with mental health problems is at the heart of everything we say and do.
We campaign to improve services and are committed to empowering local residents, promoting wellbeing and supporting recovery.
We work to transform understanding of mental health in the workplace, in schools and public services.
We do this by providing a range of services that are empowering, recovery focused and preventative.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Job Purpose
Under supervision and with support, to develop knowledge and practice
skills in:
- Delivering evidence-based interventions for children and
young people in education settings with mild to moderate mental health
problems as part of the broader new and developing mental health support
team (MHST)
- Helping children and young people within these education settings
who present with more severe problems to to access / be signposted to more
specialist services
- Supporting and facilitating staff in education settings to identify
and where appropriate manage issues related to mental health and wellbeing
- Developing an awareness of and engagement with issues of
power, discrimination and diversity throughout the systems where the work
is carried out
- Fulfilling
the requirements of and completing a PG diploma at Kings College London (remotely
or at university at Denmark Hill campus) to enable progression to a fully qualified
EMHP; evidence development of clinical skills with associated knowledge
acquisition to record and evidence progression towards this academic award
and demonstrable practical ability.
Key Responsibilities:
Clinical and Client Care
- Be supervised, supported and assessed as a trainee then
qualified EMHP to assess and deliver outcome focused, evidence-based
interventions in educational settings for children and young people
experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties.
- Develop skills in supporting children and young people
experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties, and 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.
- Learn, understand, rationalise and adhere to the protocols
within the educational service to which the postholder is attached.
- 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.
- Be supervised, supported and assessed to deliver a range of
low intensity interventions for mild to moderate mental health
difficulties in CYP; primarily guided self-help delivered to either YP
directly or through their parent(s) / carer(s) but also group work and
workshops.
- Practice, evidence, reflect on and demonstrate an ability to
manage ones own caseload in conjunction with the requirements of the team
and training course.
- Attend multi-disciplinary and multi-agency meetings relating
to referrals or children and young people in treatment, where appropriate,
both for personal educational benefit in discussion with supervisors, or
to provide direct assistance.
- Keep coherent records of all training and clinical activity
in line with both health and education service protocols and use these
records and outcome data to inform decision making.
- Complete all requirements relating to data collection.
- Show evidence of working within a collaborative approach,
involving a range of relevant others when indicated. Specifically, work in
collaboration with teachers and other educational staff, parents,
children, young people and the wider community to enhance and broaden
access to mental health services.
- 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.
Training & Supervision
- Attend and fulfil all the requirements of the training
element of the post including practical, academic and practice-based
assessments and assignments to successfully complete the PG Diploma as
part of becoming a fully qualified EMHP.
- As well as attendance at the University for training, fulfil
private study requirements to enhance learning and prepare assignments for
examination, for at least one day a week.
- Apply learning from the training program directly to practice
through the course.
- Receive practice tutoring from educational and clinical
providers in relation to course work to meet the required standards.
- Prepare and present case load information to supervisors
within the service on an agreed and scheduled basis, in order to ensure
safe practice and the governance obligations of the trainee, supervisor
and service are delivered.
- Respond to and evidence the implementation of improved
practice because of supervisor feedback.
- Engage in and respond to personal development supervision to
improve competences and practice.
- Be involved in the evaluation of the course.
- Disseminate research and service evaluation findings through
presentations and supervisory discussions.
Professional
- Ensure the maintenance of standards of own professional
practice according to both the postholders employer and the Higher
Education Institution in which they are enrolled.
- Ensure appropriate adherence to any new recommendations or
guidelines set by the relevant departments.
- 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.
- Ensure clear objectives are identified, discussed and
reviewed with supervisor and senior colleagues on a regular basis as part
of continuing professional development.
- Participate in individual performance review and respond to
agreed objectives.
- Keep all records up to date in relation to Continuous
Professional Development and the requirements of the post and ensure
personal development plans maintains up to date specialist knowledge of
latest theoretical and service delivery models/developments.
- Attend relevant educational opportunities in line with
identified professional objectives
Job description
Job responsibilities
Job Purpose
Under supervision and with support, to develop knowledge and practice
skills in:
- Delivering evidence-based interventions for children and
young people in education settings with mild to moderate mental health
problems as part of the broader new and developing mental health support
team (MHST)
- Helping children and young people within these education settings
who present with more severe problems to to access / be signposted to more
specialist services
- Supporting and facilitating staff in education settings to identify
and where appropriate manage issues related to mental health and wellbeing
- Developing an awareness of and engagement with issues of
power, discrimination and diversity throughout the systems where the work
is carried out
- Fulfilling
the requirements of and completing a PG diploma at Kings College London (remotely
or at university at Denmark Hill campus) to enable progression to a fully qualified
EMHP; evidence development of clinical skills with associated knowledge
acquisition to record and evidence progression towards this academic award
and demonstrable practical ability.
Key Responsibilities:
Clinical and Client Care
- Be supervised, supported and assessed as a trainee then
qualified EMHP to assess and deliver outcome focused, evidence-based
interventions in educational settings for children and young people
experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties.
- Develop skills in supporting children and young people
experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties, and 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.
- Learn, understand, rationalise and adhere to the protocols
within the educational service to which the postholder is attached.
- 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.
- Be supervised, supported and assessed to deliver a range of
low intensity interventions for mild to moderate mental health
difficulties in CYP; primarily guided self-help delivered to either YP
directly or through their parent(s) / carer(s) but also group work and
workshops.
- Practice, evidence, reflect on and demonstrate an ability to
manage ones own caseload in conjunction with the requirements of the team
and training course.
- Attend multi-disciplinary and multi-agency meetings relating
to referrals or children and young people in treatment, where appropriate,
both for personal educational benefit in discussion with supervisors, or
to provide direct assistance.
- Keep coherent records of all training and clinical activity
in line with both health and education service protocols and use these
records and outcome data to inform decision making.
- Complete all requirements relating to data collection.
- Show evidence of working within a collaborative approach,
involving a range of relevant others when indicated. Specifically, work in
collaboration with teachers and other educational staff, parents,
children, young people and the wider community to enhance and broaden
access to mental health services.
- 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.
Training & Supervision
- Attend and fulfil all the requirements of the training
element of the post including practical, academic and practice-based
assessments and assignments to successfully complete the PG Diploma as
part of becoming a fully qualified EMHP.
- As well as attendance at the University for training, fulfil
private study requirements to enhance learning and prepare assignments for
examination, for at least one day a week.
- Apply learning from the training program directly to practice
through the course.
- Receive practice tutoring from educational and clinical
providers in relation to course work to meet the required standards.
- Prepare and present case load information to supervisors
within the service on an agreed and scheduled basis, in order to ensure
safe practice and the governance obligations of the trainee, supervisor
and service are delivered.
- Respond to and evidence the implementation of improved
practice because of supervisor feedback.
- Engage in and respond to personal development supervision to
improve competences and practice.
- Be involved in the evaluation of the course.
- Disseminate research and service evaluation findings through
presentations and supervisory discussions.
Professional
- Ensure the maintenance of standards of own professional
practice according to both the postholders employer and the Higher
Education Institution in which they are enrolled.
- Ensure appropriate adherence to any new recommendations or
guidelines set by the relevant departments.
- 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.
- Ensure clear objectives are identified, discussed and
reviewed with supervisor and senior colleagues on a regular basis as part
of continuing professional development.
- Participate in individual performance review and respond to
agreed objectives.
- Keep all records up to date in relation to Continuous
Professional Development and the requirements of the post and ensure
personal development plans maintains up to date specialist knowledge of
latest theoretical and service delivery models/developments.
- Attend relevant educational opportunities in line with
identified professional objectives
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Previous experience of working with children and young people
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Knowledge of the educational system in England
- Knowledge of children and young people gained through academic study in child development, child wellbeing or mental health
- Ability to learn in a variety of settings and using a variety of learning methods, including remote delivery of teaching
- Computer literate
- Ability to study as a self-motivated learner who can formulate their own progress towards learning objectives and negotiate pathways to achievement with supervisory teams
- Full, enhanced and current satisfactory DBS disclosure for the role
- Ability to personally manage a sensitive, traumatic and potentially emotionally distressing caseload
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Flexibility to travel to meet the requirements of the post
- Team player
- Good time management and organisational skills
- Able to meet the physical requirements of the role after reasonable adjustments have been made for any illness or disability
Qualifications
Essential
- Undergraduate degree, upper second class or above, in Psychology OR related subject (e.g., Psychology, Education, Childhood development, Social Work etc), OR any subject with further training or experience in a relevant field (e.g., Teaching/TA; Learning Support; HCA; Youth Work; Counselling etc)
- OR relevant professional experience in CYP Mental Health/Education/Mentorship (to be considered on a case-by-case basis)
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Previous experience of working with children and young people
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Knowledge of the educational system in England
- Knowledge of children and young people gained through academic study in child development, child wellbeing or mental health
- Ability to learn in a variety of settings and using a variety of learning methods, including remote delivery of teaching
- Computer literate
- Ability to study as a self-motivated learner who can formulate their own progress towards learning objectives and negotiate pathways to achievement with supervisory teams
- Full, enhanced and current satisfactory DBS disclosure for the role
- Ability to personally manage a sensitive, traumatic and potentially emotionally distressing caseload
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Flexibility to travel to meet the requirements of the post
- Team player
- Good time management and organisational skills
- Able to meet the physical requirements of the role after reasonable adjustments have been made for any illness or disability
Qualifications
Essential
- Undergraduate degree, upper second class or above, in Psychology OR related subject (e.g., Psychology, Education, Childhood development, Social Work etc), OR any subject with further training or experience in a relevant field (e.g., Teaching/TA; Learning Support; HCA; Youth Work; Counselling etc)
- OR relevant professional experience in CYP Mental Health/Education/Mentorship (to be considered on a case-by-case basis)
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
