Education Mental Health Practitioner

3 days ago


Kent, United Kingdom Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Bexley Mental Health Support Team (MHST) is excited to announce that we are recruiting two Band 5 Education Mental Health Practitioners to join our large team of practitioners, offering CBT informed early intervention to children, young people and families within a number of primary and secondary schools within the borough.

Mental Health Support Teams are part of a large-scale national initiative, aiming to improve the mental health and wellbeing of children and young people within the community, address health inequalities, improve access and support education colleagues with a whole school approach to wellbeing.

There is a specific focus on developing more access to helping and improving the general culture of emotional support within all primary and secondary schools. Working alongside community partners the Mental Health Support Teams will be part of Bexley CAMHS schools pathway.

The post holders will work within Bexley education settings providing low intensity manualised 1:1 guided self-help interventions, groups and workshops to children, young people and families and support the whole school approach to mental health and wellbeing within education.

The post holders 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. The post
- holders will work for Bexley CAMHS providing a service within a number of Bexley education settings.

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

- We’re Kind
- We’re
- We Listen
- We Care

Applicants MUST have completed the required EMHP post graduate trainingto be considered for this post. Applicants who do not have this qualification will not be short listed.

If you would like to find out more about this national initiative and the EMHP role within Bexley MHST we would be more than happy to facilitate discussion via telephone or MS Teams call.



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