Trainee Education Mental Health Practitioner (TEMHP), Band 4 in Mental Health Support Teams (MHST) partnered with East Midlands Academy Trust (EMAT).
Are you interested in mental health, early intervention and working with children and young people?
Here is a great opportunity to complete a 1 year under or post graduate CBT approach evidence-based intervention course.
The course allows you to offer clinical interventions and group work and parent led work at an Early Intervention level.
Are you currently a Family Support Worker? Working within a health team or within an education setting? Working as a HCA or TA? This opportunity may be for you.
Working hours are Monday-Friday 9-5 with expectation to start earlier and finish late on some occasions.
You will need a valid UK driving license and a car to use for work.
If interested, please apply now, there is often a lot of interest in these posts and the advert may be closed early due to high demand.
This is a different opportunity – to work in a new project, NHFT partnered with EMAT. You remain employed by NHFT and will be based just in EMAT schools, primarily Prince William School, Oundle.
As a trainee Education Mental Health Practitioner, you will be expected to work under supervision as part of a dynamic mental health team in a creative environment where evidence-based interventions, new ideas, ways of working and supporting children and young people are actively encouraged.
This approach requires flexibility and working in educational settings. The team 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.
East Midlands Academy Trust (EMAT) comprises of a family of seven schools and currently includes an all-through school in Northampton, a secondary school in Oundle, and five primary schools in Northamptonshire and Milton Keynes serving over 5,000 pupils through the tenacity and professionalism of 600 colleagues.
"Every child deserves to be the best they can be" is EMAT's core aim, therefore inclusion is at the heart of everything that we do in EMAT schools. We pride ourselves on supporting our pupils to learn and develop through the highest quality teaching and wellbeing support across our family of schools.
You will begin on a training contract, and on successful completion of the EMHP course, trainee EMHPs will be automatically change to Band 5 on Agenda for Change Pay scale. At this stage, you will have a Fixed Term Contract for 2 years.
As a health and wellbeing organisation here at team NHFT we are dedicated to continually innovate and strive to make a difference to our community and those working for our Trust, we aim to serve the people of Northamptonshire and surrounding areas with safe, quality care. We deliver this from an understanding of our local healthcare needs, economy and the changing demands of our community.
Our mission, making a difference for you, with you was chosen by our staff and stakeholders. It means in everything we do and through every service we provide, we want to make a positive difference in people's lives – for those we care for, those we work with and those who work with us. Everyone is part of our team.
Our core strategy is to be an employer of choice, a great place to work and be known for a diverse and inclusive culture whose staff feel valued. We provide a range of NHS services including physical, mental health and specialty services provided in hospital settings and out in the community within schools, GP clinics and patients own homes.Here at NHFT we pride ourselves on our 54321 roadmap, which encompasses our PRIDE values, leadership behaviours, teams, enablers and our mission all of which are driven by our vision of 'being a leading provider of outstanding, compassionate care'. We are extremely proud to say this has also been recognised by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) and our CQC rating of Outstanding for team NHFT
For further information on the advertised role, please refer to the job description located under the Supporting Documents heading. The full person specification can be accessed under the 'About You' Section of the document.