NHCFT has an exciting opportunity for a qualified Educational Mental Health Practitioner to join the Northumberland Primary Mental Health Work Service, to provide support the Northumberland Be You mental health in schools team. This post will be based in the Ashington family hub in the Central locality of the County, specifically supporting the Ashington and Bedlington partnership of schools.

We are looking for an enthusiastic, dynamic and self-motivated individual with a passion for delivering early intervention and innovative new models of working in Children's mental health.

The post holder will be responsible for delivering the 3 core functions of the EMHP role into the 'Be You' mental health support team, within the 'getting help 'sector of the Thrive model.

This role will may also support the teams in the Blyth, Hexham, and Alnwick partnerships.

Our established 'getting help service 'provides excellent clinical, case management and peer led clinical skills supervision arrangements, training and CPD.

We support a blended /hybrid model of working recognizing the value of home life balance. We will ensure we consider suitable arrangements are made to your work and home base to guarantee suitable travel expenses are provided to support in this role.

Main duties of the job

The role will involve the delivering a range of evidenced based low intensity psychological interventions for children and young people with mild / moderate need. These will be delivered individually and in small group based programmes. This will also include the facilitation of a range of psychoeducation sessions and staff training.

The role will provide support to schools to improve their the whole schools approach to emotional well-being.

The post holder will also deliver a consultation and signposting role to a range of early help, targeted and specialist support services supporting children and young peoples emotional health and wellbeing.

About us

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Delivering evidence-based intervention for children and young people in education setting with mild to moderate mental health problems.

To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Degree or an equivalent level of relevant experience
• Basic literacy and numeracy qualifications
• Relevant knowledge acquired through successful completion of post graduate diploma in Mental Health and Emotional Wellbeing in education environment
• Requirement for postholder to hold up to date professional registration with a professional body e.g British Association for Counselling Psychotherapy or British Psychological Society

Experience

Essential

• Experience of working with children and young people and an understanding of the education system in England is highly desirable

Employer details

Employer name

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Ashington Childrens Centre

Alexandra Road

Ashington

NE63 9EF

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