Education Mental Health Practitioner (EMHP) Supervisor in Wolverhampton

Location: NHS Jobs

Pay: £39,959.00 to £48,117.00 per year

Contract Type: Permanent

Hours: Full time

Closing Date: 31/05/2026

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Provide evidence based CBT-informed supervision to Education Mental Health Practitioners (EMHPs).
• Provide formal and informal education, training and supervision to other members of the team including schools.
• Work with a defined caseload of service users as part of a multi-disciplinary team (MDT), providing assessment, care planning and care delivery for service users with mild to moderate mental health difficulties.
• Provide highly skilled professional care, psychological interventions, group work, clinical assessment, risk assessments/risk management, and promote recovery and inclusion.
• Ensure co-production with service users, families, carers, and education staff.
• Provide specialist advice/consultation and guidance to school mental health leads, team members, and trainees.
• Liaise with all members of the MDT, schools, and outside agencies in the implementation of early intervention.
• Ensure that interventions are evidence based.
• Provide an all age inclusive service, focusing on early identification and rapid response that supports effective clinical decision making and education of education staff.
• Participate in risk assessment and risk management activities.
• Contribute to the development of ideas and innovative practice and propose changes to protocols and procedures within the MHST and CAMHS where required.
• Shape and influence developing referral pathways and access.
• Provide a flexible service, with occasional evening and weekend working to facilitate parent psycho-education and community activities.
• Perform other duties as necessary for the development of other services and the requirements of the changing service.
• Demonstrate a range of assessment skills.
• Provide clinical leadership to staff working within multi-disciplinary teams to assess, develop, deliver, and evaluate effective programmes of care.
• Assist the Team Manager in the effective management of the function and act up in their absence.
• Provide effective clinical supervision to staff within the team, mentoring individuals and groups around the chosen area of clinical practice.
• Maintain continuing professional development by engaging in the appraisal system, clinical supervision, and through specific mentorship provided by a member of the senior clinical team.
• Participate in and lead junior staff in the continuous improvement of services through the Trust's approach to service redesign and quality improvement.
• Support others in their continuing professional development by delivering appraisal and supporting the development of PDPs with individuals.
• Provide supervision to trainees and maintain accurate and up-to-date records in line with Trust policy.
• Use clinical leadership skills to maintain an environment of high quality care and treatment.
• Organise the work of others to promote a responsive timely service ensuring children, families, and carers receive high quality care and treatment as determined by their care plan.
• Maintain an up-to-date understanding of staffing capacity ensuring that the deployment of staff and resources is planned and maintained within budgeted levels.
• Authorised signatory for budgets.
• Contribute to the recruitment of staff supporting both pre and post recruitment processes.
• Demonstrate personal qualities and skills which involve taking the lead in teaching and/or having presentation skills against various individuals and groups across the sectors.
• Maintain timely data collection and regular inputting of information through the use of data collection systems e.g. daily diaries/RIO, Safeguard.
• Knowledge and implementation of Microsoft programmes/applications.
• Work in partnership with schools, social care colleagues, and others adopting a multi-agency approach to support children/young people and their families/carers.
• Work integrally with CAMHS in developing the core offer for children, young people, and families.
• Work co-productively with service users and their carers and families.
• Maintain awareness of current developments in children and young people's practice, best practice, trends, issues, and research in mental health and education.
• Be familiar with the government Green Paper, Future in Mind document, and Five Year Forward View.
• Undertake a comprehensive and specialist assessment resulting in an individualised care plan.
• Regularly make judgements and decisions affecting the care of a challenging client group.
• Assess and manage ongoing risks as identified during assessment, ensuring collaboration with children, families, and carers.
• Regularly review risk factors and make changes to the management of them as necessary.
• Make judgements and decisions concerning day-to-day management of the team and its resources.
• Ensure that practice is evidence-based paying particular attention to the Trust's guidelines, policies, protocols, and pathways.
• Be available for individual supervision with agreed clinical supervisor in line with Trust policies.
• Implement, review, and maintain Trust Policies and Procedures and propose changes to working practices within the team.
• Demonstrate strong interpersonal and communication skills both written and verbal.
• Plan and organise work according to identified need and in line with Team Manager and Service Transformation Leads.
• Demonstrate effective time management, planning, and prioritising the assessment and treatment of individuals, activities, and programmes.
• Develop joint working arrangements and referral pathways with colleagues from schools to promote the development and effective functioning of MHST.
• Develop and implement systems of audit for Client records, Team activity, Outcome Measures, CYP experience measures.
• Promote and maintain effective relationships with all involved in patient care to deliver a high quality service to children, families, and carers.
• Communicate sensitive diagnosis and treatment related information with children, families, and carers, utilising highly developed communication skills to overcome barriers to understanding.
• Liaise with and advise children, families, and carers, local authority, Primary Care teams, and other statutory bodies and third sector agencies.
• Communicate sensitive information to children, families, carers, and relatives often requiring tact, diplomacy, empathy, and negotiation skills.
• Manage emotive situations through utilising well-developed interpersonal skills.
• Communicate clinical and non-clinical information within the team environment using effective verbal, written, and IT skills.
• Communicate clinical and non-clinical information throughout the function, Trust, and other relevant agencies using effective verbal, written, and IT skills.
• There is a frequent requirement for light physical effort for several short periods during a shift, involving carrying of equipment.
• Requirement to travel to various geographical locations.
• Undertake the management of severely challenging and disturbed children, families, and carers with difficult backgrounds and history.
• There will be a frequent requirement to concentrate whilst assessing patients and formulating plans of care and risk management plans whilst responding to requests from staff.
• The post holder may be occasionally exposed to potential incidents of physical and non-physical assault.
• Standard keyboard skills required for inputting data onto RiO, Health Roster, etc.