Job summary
Bexley Mental Health Support Team will be expanding in January 2025 and is looking to recruit six Education Mental Health Practitioner Trainees to join our established team.
We are seeking graduate level practitioners to provide guided self-help interventions 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.
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.
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. Intensive supervision and on the job training will be provided by an experienced supervisor within each team.
Main duties of the job
Successful candidates will be employed on a full-time basis within Bexley Mental Health Support Team delivering individual, group and workshop-based mental health interventions in a number of London Borough of Bexley mainstream education settings.
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 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.
Main duties of the job
This is a training position with post holders undertaking training at Kings College London alongside working in service for Oxleas CAMHS. Trainees will be taught to deliver evidence based guided self-help interventions for children and young people experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties. The post holders will use their newly developed skills to support children and young people who are referred into the service and trainees will receive supervision to support their professional development.
About us
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes.We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.
Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:
- We're Kind
- We're Fair
- We Listen
- We Care
Job description
Job responsibilities
Applicants will need to be ready to start work in early/mid-January 2025 and posts cannot be offered to candidates unless they can guarantee this start date.
In addition to the Oxleas job application potential candidates ALSO need to submit an additional 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 the Oxleas application and no later than 4th October 2024 to be considered for the post.
KCL EMHP Wave 12 Jan 2025 - KCL Application Guidance.pdf
KCL EMHP Wave 12 Jan 2025 - Course Brochure.pdf
Please read the attached Job Description and Person Specification before applying for the role.
Please contact: cyp-mh@kcl.ac.uk if you have any questions about the course.
Please contact: Jenny Eldred, MHST Team Manager, Bexley CAMHS (jenny.eldred@nhs.net) or tele: 0203 260 5200 if you have any questions about the job role.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Applicants will need to be ready to start work in early/mid-January 2025 and posts cannot be offered to candidates unless they can guarantee this start date.
In addition to the Oxleas job application potential candidates ALSO need to submit an additional 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 the Oxleas application and no later than 4th October 2024 to be considered for the post.
KCL EMHP Wave 12 Jan 2025 - KCL Application Guidance.pdf
KCL EMHP Wave 12 Jan 2025 - Course Brochure.pdf
Please read the attached Job Description and Person Specification before applying for the role.
Please contact: cyp-mh@kcl.ac.uk if you have any questions about the course.
Please contact: Jenny Eldred, MHST Team Manager, Bexley CAMHS (jenny.eldred@nhs.net) or tele: 0203 260 5200 if you have any questions about the job role.
Person Specification
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 oRelevant professional experience in CYP Mental Health/Education/Mentorship (to be considered on a case-by-case basis)
Experience
Essential
- It is essential that the applicant has previous experience of working with children and young people in either a health or educational setting
Knowledge
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.
Skills
Essential
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- 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
- Ability to learn in a variety of settings and using a variety of learning methods
- Excellent time management and organisational skills
Person Specification
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 oRelevant professional experience in CYP Mental Health/Education/Mentorship (to be considered on a case-by-case basis)
Experience
Essential
- It is essential that the applicant has previous experience of working with children and young people in either a health or educational setting
Knowledge
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.
Skills
Essential
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- 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
- Ability to learn in a variety of settings and using a variety of learning methods
- Excellent time management and organisational skills
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Additional information
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
