This is a 12-month fixed-term training post in the Mental Health Support Team at Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, based in education settings. The work centres on low-intensity CBT and other evidence-based interventions for children and young people with mild to moderate difficulties, plus helping school staff manage wellbeing. The post carries a fully funded training year with Derby University, taught in a hybrid format alongside supervised practice. Entry needs a 2:2 or higher relevant degree, with the NHSE-commissioned EMHP course completed on qualification.
What the job involves
- Deliver low-intensity CBT and other evidence-based interventions to children and young people with mild to moderate mental health problems
- Provide one-to-one and group support sessions to students experiencing mental health challenges
- Refer children and young people with more severe problems rapidly to specialist services
- Work with teachers and school staff to identify students needing support and develop tailored plans through the consultation model
- Support and facilitate education staff to identify and manage mental health and wellbeing issues
- Deliver Whole School Approach activities such as assemblies, workshops and drop-ins
- Organise and take part in school-wide mental health initiatives
- Create and distribute mental health resources for students, parents and staff
- Work with parents and healthcare professionals to deliver targeted interventions
- Build a service in education settings that complements existing initiatives without replacing them
- Work with education environments to improve access to specialist mental health services
- Complete the funded Postgraduate Diploma to become an accredited EMHP
What’s required
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree at 2:2 or above in a relevant subject for Level 7 entry, or Level 5 credit for Level 6 entry (Level 4 in exceptional circumstances)
- NHSE-commissioned 1-year EMHP course completed when qualified
Registration & licences
- Registered with BABCP or BPS as an EMHP (when qualified)
Experience
- Previous experience of working with children and young people (in training)
- Working and liaising with a range of agencies and stakeholders
- Working with children and young people with social, emotional or behavioural difficulties
- Working with anxiety and affective (mood) disorders
- Delivering specific therapeutic interventions such as CBT or solution focused brief therapy
Skills & knowledge
- Learning in varied settings and methods, and self-motivated study with supervisors
- Computer literacy
- Good interpersonal skills to build helping relationships with children and young people
- 1:1 therapeutic interventions and group parenting programmes (when qualified)
- Conducting mental health assessments of children and young people
- Knowledge of educational environments, and raising mental health awareness among staff within them
Other
- Assessing risk and managing it, recording and communicating it (when qualified)
- Knowledge of safeguarding, and of capacity and consent including Gillick competence
Nice to have
- Further relevant degree qualification
- Teaching qualification or Youth Mental Health First Aid training
- Experience working with children and families in healthcare or education settings
- Experience monitoring and recording outcome measures for children's emotional wellbeingExperience navigating complex social systems with conflicting priorities
- Experience working with looked after children and other vulnerable groups
- Ability to teach others about mental health and run other group therapeutic interventions
- Knowledge of how children and young people's services operate
What’s offered
- Fully funded postgraduate training year with Derby University, hybrid learning
- Comprehensive training and regular clinical supervision
- Dedicated support throughout development
- Options for flexible working
- Wide range of training and promotion opportunities
- Active staff networks and support for diversity
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