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 Stevenage team which is a fully established MHST; one of the first trailblazer sites nationally. The Stevenage team is a caring, supportive, environment to work in with good leadership providing clear objectives and direction with regular supervision. The Stevenage team supports 20 educational settings across the borough and have built solid working relationships with each setting.
This role will involve working alongside qualified and trainee EMHPs, Senior Practitioners and a Team Leader. The service provides early interventions to children and young people experiencing mild to moderate mental health concerns in an educational setting.
The Mental Health Support Teams operate year-round, providing support to young people during school holidays in addition to term time. The core hours will be Monday - Friday 9-5 but some work (facilitation of group work/workshops) may be required outside of these times
The post-holder will work with people of different cultural backgrounds and ages, using interpreters when necessary and should be committed to equal opportunities.
This post affords opportunity for involvement in, and contribution to service development. The Hertfordshire MHST is continuing to expand year on year and therefore offers plenty of opportunity for career development.
All applicants must be registered with a relevant governing body, i.e. BPS, BABCP
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is an outstanding organisation with ambitions to match. We are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of ‘Outstanding’ from the Care Quality Commission , and our aim is to be the leading provider of mental health and specialist learning disability services in the country.
Our family of over 3500 members of staff provide health and social care for over 400,000 people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. We also deliver a range of nationally commissioned specialist services including Tier 4 services for children and young people, perinatal services, plus medium and low secure learning disabilities services.
The care we provide makes a fantastic difference to the lives of our service users, their families and carers - everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:
Our Trust values are:
Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.
These values are at the core of who we are, everything we do, and how we do it!
Would you like to be part of the HPFT family? Would you like work with us to ensure our service users live the fullest lives possible they can? Would you like to be supported in your career to be the best that you can be?
Then please read on…
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.
The aim of these interventions is to:
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.
