This is an exciting opportunity to train and become a fully qualified Educational Mental Health Practitioner and build the Mental Health Support Team (MHST) offering to children, families, and schools, who need mental health support, whilst working creatively with the training to meet the children’s additional needs and support schools.
You will be required to fully participate in the Educational Mental Health Practitioner training course, whilst receiving continual supervision and support.
The role involves:
* Delivering evidence-based intervention for children and young people in an education setting with mild to moderate mental health problems.
* Helping children and young people within school 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.
* Supporting schools in developing strategies/activities to promote emotional well-being and positive mental health.
* Working with families following the parent as therapist method to support emotional wellbeing within the home.
* Supporting the school to develop their overall whole school approach to emotional wellbeing.
The Mental Health Support Team is a National trailblazer scheme offering early intervention mental health support, to children and their families, within schools. The SEND MHST is the only MHST within the country, to offer support to SEND schools across Hertfordshire and West Essex.
The ideal candidate will be:
* Creative and flexible in their approach.
* Have a good understanding of children with additional needs learning styles, and how to adapt practice to support children and their families.
* Able to work and build relationships with a wide variety of professionals, schools, and families.
* Able to deliver evidence-based interventions for children and young people in education settings.
* Have a good understanding of risk assessing and seek support from supervisor to manage risk.
* Have good basic literacy and numeracy qualifications, at a minimum of level 2.
* Be willing and able to participate fully in supervision.
* Flexible in their approach and have resilience under pressure.
* Able to work both in a team environment and autonomously.
* Able to maintain a high degree of professionalism when working in settings where there is a highly emotive atmosphere.
We can offer you:
* Regular clinical and professional supervision.
* Regular appraisal, personal development planning and opportunities for continuing professional development.
* Regular opportunities to meet as a team.
* Regular CPD and Peer Reflection.
* Opportunities to work closely with a multi-disciplinary team including from PALMS and Crisis service, learning from other evidence-based frameworks and approaches.
* Involvement in service development.
* Opportunities to provide line management and clinical supervision to other members of the MHST team.
A full valid driving license and access to a car to use regularly for business purposes is essential (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010). We welcome diversity in our workforce and are interested in applicants from all backgrounds and ages.
We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all sections of the community. Please note that this advert may close earlier than stated if the maximum number of applicants is reached.
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