Educational Mental Health Practitioner

4 weeks ago


London, United Kingdom Groundwork Full time

Location: Schools across the borough of Southwark

Contract: Fixed Term Contract until March 2025

Salary: £32,000

Hours: 37.5 (Applicants for part-time work will be considered on a pro-rata salary )

Groundwork London is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all members of the community. We are particularly seeking applicants from under-represented backgrounds including but not exclusive to, males, transgender people and those from an Asian background.

Join our ambitious and passionate team which provides a range of vital therapeutic interventions across primary and secondary schools in Southwark. The Mental Health Support Team (MHST) works to improve children, young people and their families’ mental health and wellbeing through a range of early intervention and prevention programmes across the diverse borough of Southwark.

Groundwork’s MHST is part of a national, government-funded, pioneering programme transforming mental health and wellbeing provision for children and young people via early intervention. The service was launched in Southwark in January 2022 and currently works across 20 schools, with plans to continue expanding over the academic year. The MHST is dynamic, flexible and diverse, representing the community which we serve.

We are currently seeking a qualified Educational Mental Health Practitioner (EMHP) to join our team. You will work alongside the existing MHST staff to deliver evidence-based individual low-intensity CBT interventions with children, young people and their parents/carers. EMHPs also deliver one-off workshops within schools and the wider community, group work, remote courses and staff training.

Applicants should be ready to start work in early May 2024.

Applicants to this post must have successfully completed training as an EMHP or CWP and be able to evidence their use of the necessary knowledge and capabilities in CYP IAPT principles, evidence-based interventions and routine outcome measures.



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