Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust Hiring for Trainee Educational Mental Health practitioner Job at London, England , UK Full Time

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.

The training course is divided into 6 modules, developing skills and knowledge in areas such as:

• Working with children, young people and their parents/carers to support self-management including development of plans for specific interventions and agreeing outcomes
• Learning to manage own caseload, gaining the necessary skills to practice a range of interventions such as guided self-help
• Preparing and presenting caseload information to supervisors
• Working with colleagues to provide better access to specialist mental health services and supporting referrals where required
• Supporting colleagues in education to identify and manage issues related to mental health and wellbeing

Post training: On successful completion of training, trainee EMHPs will be equipped with the necessary skills, knowledge and capabilities to work as a qualified EMHP as autonomous and responsible practitioners within their scope of practice, alongside education colleagues.

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CNWL NHS is currently recruiting to the next wave of Education Mental Health Practitioner Trainees (EMHP)as past of The Mental Health Support Teams v(MHST) funded by NHS England, Health Education England and partners to be based in the London Borough of Hillingdon.

Their aim is to work across educational settings and healthcare sectors in improving the mental health and wellbeing of children and young people in schools. The Education Mental Health Practitioner (EMHP) role is an exciting opportunity to deliver evidence-based early interventions for children and young people.

Application process: Interested candidates must review eligibility in line with the job description/specification and must complete both an application for the role via this NHS job advert and an application to UCL will be required, https://www.ucl.ac.uk/prospective-students/graduate/apply .The UCL portal is live, please review the UCL website to submit your application directly.Shortlisted applicants will be supported with this if required.

The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.

The EHMP Training programme: To enable this, all applicants must demonstrate in their application the ability to work at degree level and 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 in England is highly desirable.

Successful candidates will be offered a full-time educational programme (details below) specifically for the role. The course fees are fully funded, and the salary support for the job post will be funded at NHS Agenda for Change (AfC) at beginning Band 4.