qualified Educational Mental Health Practitioner in Hitchin

Overview

We are looking for a qualified Educational Mental Health Practitioner (EMHP) or Children\'s Wellbeing Practitioner (CWP) who wishes to join an existing school based Mental Health Support Team (MHST). The post-holder will work in the North Herts team which is a fully established MHST. The team is a caring, supportive, fun and flexible environment to work in with good leadership providing clear objectives and direction with regular supervision. The North Herts team supports 20 educational settings across the borough and have built solid working relationships with each setting. The Hertfordshire MHST is continuing to expand year on year and therefore offers plenty of opportunity for career development. Although we have a full time position available we are willing to consider part-time hours, please contact Lauren Bailey to discuss before making an application.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain professional relationships with education staff
• Be on site at allocated educational settings each day of the week
• Provide 1-1 interventions such as low intensity CBT (guided self-help) for children, young people, parent/carers and school staff
• Group interventions
• Workshops for children, young people, parent/carers and school staff
• Drop-in surgeries for children, young people and school staff
• Facilitate co-production to support service development
• Support the team in resource development
• Any other duties commensurate with the grade which may be required to enable effective and efficient running of the service

Aim of Interventions

• Reduce stigma around Mental Health
• Enhance emotional wellbeing by promoting and building resilience in children and young people through educational workshops, assemblies and PSHE lessons
• Deliver psycho-education and support to parent/carers and teachers to improve their understanding of children and young people\'s needs
• Support children and young people at the early stages of emotional wellbeing challenges to prevent further Mental Health intervention later in life

Qualifications and Experience

• Demonstrates an understanding of anxiety, depression and challenging behaviour and how it may present in universal services
• Demonstrates understanding of the need to use evidence based psychological models and how it relates to this post
• Knowledge of capacity and consent issues including Gillick competence
• Knowledge of educational environments
• Knowledge of safeguarding issues
• Ability to carry out 1:1 therapeutic mental health interventions with children/families
• Ability to conduct group parenting programmes
• Ability to work within educational settings to increase mental health awareness within the staff group
• Ability to conduct mental health assessments of children and young people
• Ability to make an assessment of risk and to record and communicate it appropriately
• Ability take appropriate action to mitigate or manage risk
• You must have appropriate UK professional registration

Desirable Criteria

• Knowledge of factors affecting acceptability and accessibility of mental health care
• Demonstrates knowledge of the stressors young people may encounter in an educational setting and the impact that these can have on mental health
• Knowledge of the functional operation of specialist CAMHS teams
• Knowledge of the school\'s safeguarding procedures and who the Designated Safeguarding Lead, (DSL), is in each establishment that they work in
• Ability to teach others about mental health issues
• Ability to conduct other group therapeutic interventions with children and their families
• Experience of working and liaising with a wide variety of agencies and stakeholders
• Experience working in a service which has agreed targets in place demonstrating clinical outcomes
• Experience in using an electronic clinical records and data collection system
• Experience of working with children and young people who have social, emotional and/or behavioural difficulties, and those who have experienced a mental health problem
• Experience of working with anxiety disorders, affective (mood) disorders
• Experience of the delivery of specific therapeutic interventions to children, young people or their families (e.g. CBT, solution focused brief therapy)
• Experience of working with children and their families in a healthcare and education setting
• Experience of monitoring and recording outcome measures for children\'s emotional wellbeing
• Experience of navigating complex social systems and environments, who may have conflicting priorities or agendas
• Experience of working with looked after children
• Experience of working with other vulnerable groups
• Successful completion of the HEE commissioned 1yr \"Education Mental Health Practitioner\" or the \"Child and Young Persons Psychological Wellbeing Practice\" course
• A further relevant degree qualification
• Teaching qualification
• Youth Mental Health First Aid trained, Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Able to write clear reports and letters
• Ability to work within a team and foster good working relationships
• Ability to use clinical supervision positively and effectively
• Ability to facilitate psychoeducation sessions to professionals (i.e. teachers)
• Skills in delivering Guided Self-Help interventions
• Ability to deliver interventions to groups (Young people and parent groups)
• Able to develop good therapeutic relationships with young people

Analytical and Essential Skills

• Ability to be self-reflective, whilst working with service users, in own personal and professional development and in supervision
• Ability to assess risk assessments and understanding of the importance of assessing risk

Physical and Technical Requirements

• Good IT skills and experience of use of software such as Word and Excel
• Car driver
• Able to travel independently across the Trust
• Ability and willingness to work outside office hours when required by the role
• Ability to manage own caseload and demonstrate good time management and prioritisation skills
• Regular requirement to deal with distressing or emotionally charged situations
• Values/Motivational/Personal Qualities/Diversity in line with HPFT\'s values (Welcoming, Kind, Positive, Respectful & Professional)

Visa and Professional Registration

Eligible candidates who require a Skilled Worker visa must determine the likelihood of obtaining a Certificate of Sponsorship for this position by assessing their circumstances against the criteria specified on the Check if you need a UK visa - GOV.UK website. We would encourage all applicants to review the criteria carefully to understand their eligibility for sponsorship.