MHST EMHP / CWP/ Mental Health Practitioner

Harrow Mental Health Support Team is looking for a Qualified EMHP or Generic Mental Health Practitioner who has experience of working with Children and Young People in Mental Health Services in the provision of individual and group treatments. We seek to appoint an enthusiastic and vibrant individual who is passionate about improving health outcomes for children and young people.

Mental health professionals with post graduate training in a recognised therapy modality and experience of working with CYP may also apply. We are open to applications from newly qualified occupational therapists, mental health nurses, social workers or other relevant therapy post graduate qualifications.

You will work alongside other EMHPs, Mental Health Practitioners and a Senior Practitioner to support the wellbeing and mental health needs of schools and colleges in the borough of Harrow.

The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.

Main duties of the job

This is a role within the Green Paper for Transforming children and young people's mental health programme. The post holder will work within a service providing low intensity interventions. The post-holder will provide a range of cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) based self- management interventions to children and young people with mild to moderate anxiety and depression and/or behavioural difficulties and their parent(s)/carer(s).

The post holder will work with children, young people and parents with different cultural backgrounds and ages, using interpreters when necessary and should be committed to equal opportunities.

• Undertaking assessments and delivering evidence-based, low-intensity, brief intervention for children and young people,with mild to moderate mental health problems, in an education setting.
• Helping children and young people within these settings who present with more severe problems to rapidly access more specialist service.
• Supporting and facilitating staff in education settings to identify, and where appropriate, manage issues related to mental health and wellbeing.
• Working with and within educational environments to afford better access to CYP mental health services.
• Training and consultation to schools and other agencies about mental health in children and young people.
• Support schools in developing their Whole School Approach to mental health.

About us

We are passionate about delivering first-class patient-centred, safe and effective care, whether it is in a hospital setting, in a community clinic or in the patients own home. Patients are at the heart of everything we do. Providing top quality care depends on our ability to employ the best people.

We're always looking to recruit outstanding people who will go the extra mile to support our patients, colleagues, teams and the Trust. With every new employee were hoping to find our future leaders and well support our staff by providing opportunities to develop your career.

With a diverse culture and equally diverse range of opportunities across mental health, community services, addictions, eating disorders, learning disabilities and more whatever stage of your career you're at, there's always a place for you at CNWL.

Central and North West London NHS Trust expects all staff to act in a way which shows you understand our core values and are willing to put them into practice with young people, their friends family and carers and also other staff members.

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Job description

Job responsibilities

Assess and deliver outcome focused, evidence-based interventions in educational settings for children and young people experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties, working at all times in collaboration with and giving respect to the education function of the setting in which the post-holder is deployed.

Work in partnership to support children and young people experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties and their parents/carers, families and educators in the self-management of presenting difficulties.

Work in effective, evidence-based partnership with children, young people, their families and their educators in the development of plans for the intervention and agreed outcomes.

Support and empower children, young people, their parents/carers and families and their educators to make informed choices about the interventions being offered.

See job description and person specification for full list of key responsibilities.

Person Specification

Education and Qualifications

Essential

• Qualified Education Mental Health Practitioner or CYP Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner Or / Mental Health Nurse, Occupational Therapist, Social Worker with additional CBT or other relevant therapy post graduate qualification

Desirable

• Any other relevant degree qualification

Previous Experience

Essential

• Experience of working with children and young people, their families and others in a healthcare or school setting.
• Experience of working with children and young people who have social, emotional and/or behavioural difficulties
• Experience of working with anxiety disorders
• Experience of working with affective disorders
• Experience of the delivery of specific low intensity therapeutic interventions to children, young people or their families (e.g. CBT, solution focused brief therapy)
• Ability to conduct other group therapeutic interventions with children and their families

Desirable

• Experience of monitoring and recording outcome measures for children's emotional wellbeing

Skills/Competencies

Essential

• Ability to work within educational settings to increase mental health awareness within the staff group
• Ability to make an assessment of risk and to record and communicate it appropriately.

Desirable

• Ability to teach others about mental health issues

Knowledge

Essential

• Knowledge of educational environments
• Knowledge of safeguarding issues

Attitudes, aptitudes, personal characteristics

Essential

• Excellent oral and written communication skills

Desirable

• Proven commitment to continuous professional development.

Other

Essential

• Access to car or other motor vehicle for use for work purposes.
• Able to travel to meet the requirements of the post

Employer details

Employer name

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Ash Tree Clinic

Northolt Road

South Harrow

HA28EQ

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