Trainee Education Mental Health Practitioner

Trainee Education Mental Health Practitioner (EMHP) - Mid Essex
Across Essex & Kent NELFT are the largest providers of MHST services, you will be joining a large and experienced team who can fully support you on your journey to becoming a Education Mental Health Practitioner. More information about us can be found here: Essex schools mental health support teams | NELFT NHS Foundation Trust
**The Trainee Education Mental Health Practitioner role will**:
Work closely as part of a team of mental health professionals delivering a wide range of evidence informed interventions, under clinical supervision (e.g., guided self-help, parenting interventions, working through teaching staff)
Develop and practice evidence-based skills under clinical supervision to work directly with children, young people and families
Develop and practice evidence-based skills under clinical supervision to carry out holistic and child-centred mental health assessments, including risk assessments
Learn behavioural and cognitive behavioural guided self-help techniques with which to help children, young people and their families
The Trainee Education Mental Health Practitioner is required to:
Demonstrate the ability to work at university degree level or have an equivalent level of relevant experience, with a proven record of previous learning or formal study in child development, wellbeing or mental health
Have experience of working with children, young people and their families
Have experience of working and liaising with a wide variety of agencies and stakeholders
Have experience of working with children and young people who have social, emotional and/or mental health difficulties
Starting with NELFT
NELFT place a great deal of importance on new starters being properly welcomed and inducted into the Trust. All new starters will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and will undertake a comprehensive induction of up to two weeks which will include mandatory training, systems training and the allocation of equipment. As part of the process new starters will have the opportunity to also meet the executive team, senior managers and attend a number of drop in sessions focusing in engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes. The induction will be held at our head office in Rainham, Essex.
Probationary Period
The South-West MHST ONLY
This post also attracts payment for High Cost Area Supplement of 5% of the basic salary (minimum payment of £1,258 and a maximum payment of £2,122 per annum pro rata).
An Introduction to the EMHP Programme at UEA
The EMHP Programme at UEA uses blended learning, comprised of face-to-face teaching at UEA and online teaching, self-directed study days and supervised practice within employing MHSTs to allow trainees to develop the required clinical competence and confidence relevant to the role of an EMHP. Our team have extensive experience of working psychologically with children and young people across a range of settings and interventions. The teaching team includes lecturers with experience of delivering low intensity mental health interventions - who can use their experience to support, model and teach these skills positively - alongside those with expertise in the field of children and young people’s mental health and education. We also use a range of external Associate Tutors and Guest lecturers to support teaching.
Throughout the year are a range of assessments and assignments to demonstrate learning outcomes and assess clinical skills and competency. In addition to learning the theory and practice for delivering evidence-based low intensity assessments and treatments for children and young people, taught modules will cover how to work in, understand the processes of, and engage with education settings. This is a full-time training programme which requires the successful completion of each of the 6 modules outlined below, as well as a portfolio evidencing clinical practice competencies
**Module 1 Children and Young People’s Mental Health Settings**: Context and Values
Module 2 Assessment & Engagement
Module 3 Evidence-based Interventions for Common Mental Health Problems with Children and Young People (Theory and Skills)
Module 4 Working, Assessing and Engaging in Educational Settings Module 5 Common Problems and Processes in Educational Settings Module 6 Interventions for Emerging Mental Health Difficulties in Educational Settings
On successful completion of the course, trainees will qualify as an Educational Mental Health Practitioner with a Diploma / PG Diploma (120 credits).
Key Dates and Attendance
There are 70 teaching days across the calendar year with some intensive teaching blocks early in the course. These include cross modular/induction activities and top up/review sessions.
Employment with NELFT will begin on Tuesday 2nd January, where you will start a 2 week induction. The Course start date for 2024 will be Tuesday 14th January. More detail about the timetable will be made ava