Trainee Education Mental Health Practitioner (EMHP)

The Junction

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Job summary

The post-holder will be employed by The Junction and will work into the InsideOut Mental Health Support Team, alongside a wider team of practitioners. The Trainee Education Mental Health Practitioner (EMHP) is an active member of the team working with others to support the delivery of mental health and emotional wellbeing activities and to deliver positive outcomes for children, young people and their families.

The post holder will deliver a range of delegated activities as part of a multidisciplinary team to support children, young people and their families by offering age-appropriate information and advice on a range of emotional health, lifestyle and behaviour related issues. The role will assist the more senior members of the team delivering Whole School Approach, training and group work.

Main duties of the job

Successful candidates will be offered a full-time educational programme specifically for the role in partnership with Northumbria University. To enable this, all applicants must demonstrate in their application the ability to work at degree level or have an equivalent level of relevant experience, with a proven record of previous learning or formal study in child development, wellbeing or mental health. Further to that experience of working with children and young people and an understanding of the educational system is highly desirable.

The training programme for this post is due to start in September/October 2024, is 12 months in duration and will consist of academic and supervised practice learning across mental health services and educational settings, such as primary and secondary schools, and further education colleges. Delivery of the programme will be provided through a combination of taught days within the University, independent self-guided study days and experience gained in education wellbeing and mainstream mental health services.

During training, the post-holder will work under 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

There are a range of services within The Junction all working towards shared goals and all focused on making a difference to the lives of children, young people and their families, including:

Youth Employment Services

Young Carers Services

Youth Services

Children and Young Peoples Emotional Wellbeing and Mental Health Services

Children and Young Peoples Specialist Transport Services

We pride ourselves on being able to provide multiple specialist services under one roof with each service interacting together to provide the best possible seamless service to children and young people. We employ multi-disciplinary teams of professionals with backgrounds in psychology, social work, counselling, youth work and youth unemployment as well as other qualified and experienced practitioners who:

Understand the issues facing children and young people

Have the skills to effectively support them

Can deliver outcome focused interventions

We have developed a unique service delivery model to ensure that clients are able to access a service that supports their individual needs. However, the ethos of The Junction ensures our services do not work in silos, although we recognise the need for service identities and separate lines of accountability to stakeholders.

Date posted

11 July 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 4

Salary

£26,799 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

B0605-24-0001

Job locations

Westfield Farm

The Green, Dormanstown

Redcar

Cleveland

TS10 5NA

Job description

Job responsibilities

Key Deliverables

To allow the postholder, under supervision and with support, to develop knowledge and practice skills in;

Delivering evidence-based intervention for children and young people in education setting with mild to moderate mental health problems

Helping children and young people within these settings who present with more severe problems to rapidly access more specialist services

Supporting and facilitating staff in education settings 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

To develop an understanding of what schools already do to support the emotional well-being and positive mental health of students.

And to evidence development of those skills with associated knowledge acquisition to record and evidence progression towards an academic award and demonstrable practical ability.

Key Duties

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. Under supervision, undertake accurate assessments of risk to self and others.

8. Learn, understand, rationalise and adhere to the protocols within the educational service to which the postholder is attached.

9. Engage along with more senior staff in the signposting of referrals for children and young people with more complex needs to the relevant service.

10. 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.

11. Gain and practice a range of interventions related to provision of information and support for evidence based psychological treatments, primarily guided self-help.

12. Practice, evidence, reflect on and demonstrate an ability to manage ones own caseload in conjunction with the requirements of the team.

13. 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.

14. 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.

15. Complete all requirements relating to data collection.

16. 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.

17. 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.