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Job Summary
Band 5 MHST EMHP/CWP Practitioner who works closely with young people, families, carers, staff, and schools to ensure safe and effective mental health support. The Practitioner demonstrates kindness, responsiveness, professionalism, and contributes to service quality through clinical skills, risk assessment, evidence-based practice, partnership working, and patient experience improvement.
Key Deliverables
* Deliver low intensity evidence-based intervention for children and young people in education settings with mild to moderate mental health problems.
* Help children and young people with more severe problems to rapidly access specialist services.
* Support and facilitate staff in education settings to identify and manage mental health and wellbeing issues.
* Work within education environments to improve access to specialist services.
* Implement group/whole school approaches and consult on referrals.
* Use acquired skills, knowledge and abilities to deliver a service that reinforces existing initiatives within schools.
Essential Qualifications and Experience
* Qualified Education Mental Health Practitioner (EMHP) or equivalent qualification with experience of working with children and young people in mental health or school settings.
* Experience of delivering individual and group treatments, low intensity interventions, CBT or solution focused brief therapy.
* Experience working with anxiety, affective and behavioural difficulties.
* Experience liaising with agencies, stakeholders and navigating complex social systems.
* Ability to conduct therapeutic mental health interventions with children and families.
Desirable Qualifications and Experience
* Further relevant degree qualification.
* Teaching qualification.
* Experience with looked‑after children and other vulnerable groups.
* Experience monitoring and recording outcome measures.
* Experience in education setting and working with additional vulnerable groups.
Essential Skills
* Strong communication with team and service users at face‑to‑face, telephone, and written.
* Accurate, timely and legible clinical records as per CNWL policies.
* Care planning: assessment, implementation and evaluation.
* Knowledge of the Mental Capacity Act, Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards.
* Understanding of quality improvement and patient experience.
* 1:1 therapeutic interventions with children and families.
* Risk assessment and communication.
* Promoting mental health awareness in educational settings.
Desirable Skills
* Teaching others about mental health issues.
Essential Knowledge
* Educational environments and safeguarding issues.
* Capacity and consent issues including Gillick competence.
Desirable Knowledge
* Knowledge of specialist CAMHS teams.
Attitudes and Characteristics
* Compassionate, respectful, and empowering.
* Working in partnership with service users, carers, and staff.
* Willingness to support and improve the wellbeing of others.
* Commitment to continuous professional development.
Other Essential Requirements
* Access to a car or other motor vehicle for work purposes.
* Team player.
* Excellent time management and organisational skills.
Contact
For an informal discussion please contact Jonah Seto, Service Lead (j.seto@nhs.net) or Rebecca Ward, Senior Clinical Supervisor (rebecca.ward92@nhs.net).
Job Details
Date posted: 21 October 2025
Pay scheme: £35,763 – £43,466 per annum incl. Outer HCAS
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full‑time, Part‑time, Flexible working
Reference number: 333‑G‑CA‑1615
Job location: Monks Park Clinic, 4 Monks Park, London, HA9 6JE
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975. A Disclosure and Barring Service check is required to verify any prior convictions.
Employer
Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
Monks Park Clinic, 4 Monks Park, London, HA9 6JE
Website: https://www.cnwl.nhs.uk/work
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