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Job Advert
**Job Title**:
Educational Mental Health Practitioner (EMHP)
**Grade & Salary**:
Band 5 Equivalent
**Hours of work**:
Monday to Friday (37.5h a week)
**Line Management Reports**:
n/a
**Accountable to**:
Clinical Supervisor
**Functional Responsibility**:
MHST Leadership Team
**Job Purpose**:
To provide a preventative, early intervention service to children and young people with mild to moderate mental health needs in identified schools. To use the acquired skills, knowledge and abilities to deliver a service based within education settings that builds on and reinforces, but does not replace those initiatives that already exist within these environments
**Main Responsibilities**
**To allow the post holder, with appropriate supervision, to work as an autonomous and responsible practitioner and to engage in**:
- Delivering evidence-based intervention for children and young people in education settings with mild to moderate mental health problems
- Helping children and young people within these settings who present with more severe problems to rapidly access more specialist services
- Supporting and facilitating staff in education settings to identify and where appropriate manage issues related to mental health and wellbeing
- Working with and within education environments to afford better access to specialist mental health services
Key relationships:
- Designated Mental Health Lead in education settings
- Identified school settings
- Mental Health Support Team
- Line Manager
- Clinical Supervisor
- Local CAMHS providers
- Colleagues from Mind in Brent, Wandsworth and Westminster
Therapeutic Assessment and Intervention
1. 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.
2. 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.
4. Support and empower children, young people, their parents/carers and families and their educators to make informed choices about the interventions being offered.
5. Operate at all times from an inclusive values base, which recognises and respects diversity.
6. Accept referrals within educational settings according to agreed local and national and local protocols.
Undertake and record accurate assessments of risk and operate clear risk management processes in line with locally agreed procedures including the safeguarding protocols of the educational setting and Local Safeguarding Board guidance.
8. Adhere to all regulations, processes and procedures within the educational service to which the post holder is attached and within the organization where the post-holder is employed including (but not limited to) HR policies, training requirements, referral protocols, and emergency procedures. Signpost referrals of children with more complex needs to a locally identified appropriate relevant service
9. Through case management, supervision and any other relevant local pathway, escalate cases where the level of need or risk is beyond the scope of practice of the post holder.
10. Provide a range of information and support for evidence based psychological treatments, primarily guided self-help.
11. Practice, evidence and demonstrate an ability to manage one’s own caseload in conjunction with the requirements of the team.
12. Attend multi-disciplinary and multi-agency meetings relating to referrals or children and young people in treatment, where appropriate.
13. Keep clear, professionally coherent records of all activity in line with both health and education service protocols and use these records and outcome data to inform decision making.
14. Complete all requirements relating to data collection.
15. Assess and integrate issues relating to transitions, education and training/employment into the overall therapeutic process.
16. Work within a collaborative approach involving a range of relevant others when indicated.
17. Contribute to the development of individual or group clinical materials or training materials, and in addition to develop such materials independently as falls within own degree of competence, and under direction of the wider team.
Training and Supervision
19. Prepare and present case load information to supervisors within the service on an agreed and scheduled basis to ensure safe practice and the governance obligations of the EMHP, supervisor and service are delivered.
20. Respond to and implement supervision suggestions by supervisors
