Trainee Education Mental Health Practitoner

Passionate about the mental health and wellbeing of children and young people? Suffolk Mental Health Support Team (MHST) is based within education settings, ensuring children and young people receive faster access to earlier mental health support. We are excited to be recruiting two Trainee Education Mental Health Practitioners (EMHP) as part of our expanding service.
As a Trainee EMHP you will work under supervision as part of a dynamic mental health team in a creative environment. You will need to be adaptable and have a passion for working with children and young people in education settings. During the training year, post-holders will, under supervision, develop knowledge and practice skills to employ a range of evidence-based interventions for common mental health problems via direct individual and group support for children, young people and their parents, as well as whole school/college approaches, in line with the university expectations.
Vacancies are in our East Suffolk MHST, based in Ipswich. We have additional vacancies in the West Suffolk team, based in Bury St Edmunds, please see the relevant advert for details.
**Trainee EMHPs will**:

- Work alongside a team of mental health professionals delivering a wide range of evidence-informed interventions, under supervision
- Develop and practice evidence-based skills under supervision to work directly with children, young people and families.
- Develop and practice evidence-based skills under supervision to carry out holistic and child-centered mental health assessments, including risk assessments.

**Trainee EMHPs are required to**:

- Demonstrate the ability to work at degree level, with a proven record of previous learning or formal study in child development, wellbeing or mental health
- Attend the EMHP training course, 100% attendance at teaching is expected.

**Trainee EMHPs will have experience of**:

- Working with children, young people and their families
- Working and liaising with a wide variety of agencies and stakeholders
- Working with children and young people who have social, emotional and/or mental health difficulties

Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing experiences and learning from each other. In addition to ongoing training and development opportunities, we are committed to providing an environment in which you can thrive.
Why work for us? We have challenges as a Trust, but we have ambitious aspirations, are pushing ahead with exciting transformation work and we need dedicated individuals to support us on our journey. We have strong, established professional networks coupled with an exceptional leadership team who will ensure you are truly cared for and cared about.
Why Norfolk and Suffolk? The people here are warm and welcoming, you’ll never be far from the beautiful coastline or Broads National Park. We’re an hour and a half away from London and have an international airport in Norwich too. Our villages, towns and cities are packed full of history, independent cafes, shops and theatres. We have excellent shopping, eating out, top ranking schooling and affordable house prices too.
Being a Trainee EMHP will be challenging at times, particularly working and studying concurrently, but will also be immensely rewarding and provide opportunities to make a genuine difference to the lives of others. You will join a caring, creative and hard-working environment.
Please note that you would need to be available to start in the post from the 5th January to ensure you do not miss any of the course.
Interviews are anticipated to take place at the end of September and beginning of October.
For further details regarding the role, please see attached job description and person specification.