Applicants must be a qualified registered Education Mental Health Practitioner (EMHP) or a Children and Young People Wellbeing Practitioner (CYP WP) with experience of working with CYP in Mental Health Services in the provision of both individual and group treatments. Mental health professionals with post graduate experience of working with young people with emotional and mental health issues and with experience of delivering evidenced-based CBT interventions for mild to moderate mental health issues such as anxiety, low mood and behavioural problems to CYP both individually and in groups may also apply.

MK MHST works with Young people with mild to moderate mental health presentations attending school.

The purpose of the team is to

• Provide evidence-based interventions for mild to moderate mental health issues.
• Support the senior mental health lead in each education setting to introduce or develop their whole school or college approach.
• Give timely advice to school and college staff, and liaising with external specialist services, to help children and young people to get the right support and stay in education.

Main duties of the job

You will be part of a successfully established Mental Health Support Team (MHST) created to increase access and availability of mental health and wellbeing support for children and young people and to play a key part in a team of people delivering low intensity interventions into schools and other settings in the north of Milton Keynes. You will work alongside other EMHPs and CYPWPs, Mental Health Practitioners and a Senior Practitioner.

The post holder will undertake assessments of children and young people and deliver evidence based low intensity group and individual interventions to children and young people with mild to moderate anxiety and depression and/or behavioural difficulties and their families and carers. You will also provide training and consultation to schools and other agencies about mental health in children and young people and support schools in identifying specific areas of need as part of the 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 patient's 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 are 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 we will 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.

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.

Job description

Job responsibilities

• To deliver low intensity evidence-based intervention for children and young people in education setting with mild to moderate mental health problems
• To help children and young people within these settings who present with more severe problems to rapidly access more specialist services
• To support and facilitating staff in education settings to identify and where appropriate manage issues related to mental health and wellbeing
• To work with and within education environments to afford better access to specialist mental health services

Please see attached job description for more details

Person Specification

education and qualification

Essential

• Qualified Education Mental Health Practitioner or CYP Wellbeing Practitioner Post Graduate Qualification or Degree level Mental Health Nursing, Social Work, Occupational Therapy or equivalent substantial
• Registered with a relevant professional body or pending completion

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 and 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

skills

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.

Knowledge

Essential

• Knowledge of safeguarding issues

communication

Essential

• Excellent written communication skills

Personal

Essential

• Able to travel to meet the requirements of the post

Employer details

Employer name

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

Address

CNWL MKHQ

Standing Way

Milton Keynes

MK6 5NG

Any attachments will be accessible after you click to apply.

333-D-MK-MH-1175-B