Are you a qualified Education Mental Health Practitioner (EMHP)? Do you have a real passion for education and for supporting the social, emotional, and mental well-being needs of young people? Do you want to make a real difference?
We are excited to recruit qualified EMHPs to join our Hull Mental Health Support Teams.
The teams work directly within schools and colleges, supporting children and young people aged 5 to 18.
They provide support to schools and the wider system, with a particular focus on a whole-school approach, offering advice, guidance, support, and consultation.
The teams also deliver targeted low-intensity CBT-informed 1:1 and group interventions, parent-led workshops, and creative-based interventions to support children and young people with mild to moderate social, emotional, and mental health needs.
Please only apply if you are a qualified EMHP.
The successful candidate with appropriate supervision, will work as an autonomous and responsible practitioner as their training affords and within the scope of their local job description, to engage in.
Delivering evidence-based intervention for children and young people in education setting with mild to moderate mental health problems.
Helping children and young people within these settings who present with more severe problems to rapidly access more specialist services.
Supporting and facilitating staff in education settings to identify and where appropriate manage issues related to mental health and well-being.
Working with and within education environments to afford better access to specialist mental health services, and use the acquired skills, knowledge and abilities to deliver a service based within education settings that builds on and reinforces but does not replace those initiatives that already exist within these environments.
Mentor trainees and offer Peer to peer support to other qualified EMHP’s.
You will be required to travel across the locality independently as part of your role.
We are an award winning and CQC rated good health and social care Trust delivering integrated services across Hull, East and North Yorkshire. Find out more on our website
We are a forward thinking and dynamic Trust with a real commitment to staff development. We value our colleagues and invest in them to ensure they have the right skills to deliver outstanding care.
We are proud to score above or equal to the average for all NHS People Promise theme areas demonstrating our commitment to improve the experience of working in the NHS for everyone. Wherever you work we know you will receive a warm welcome and all the support you’ll need to get you started.
We recognise the positive value of diversity and promotes equality whilst challenging discrimination. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.
Work life balance is about having influence and flexibility over when, where and how you work. If the work pattern for this role does not meet your needs, we welcome an application and are happy to discuss working arrangements that differ from those advertised.
We offer a unique range of benefits that go above and beyond other NHS Trusts including an enhanced leave package and health and wellbeing support.
From city to countryside, market towns to moors you’ll find a place to call home including some of the most affordable places to live in the UK.
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