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Senior Education Mental Health Practitioner
The closing date is 04 September 2025
As an autonomous EMHP you will play a key part in the delivery of high-quality service provision that promotes and improves the mental health and well-being of children and young people, their families, and carers. In a school-based team you will provide direct intervention for young people presenting with mild/moderate mental health difficulties within professional practice guidelines and a structured supervision framework.The post holder will be required to adapt to and undertake different or new duties in line with professional and service developments.
The MHST in Salford is well established having been part of the trail blazer sites across GM. As such there is a team of dynamic, innovative and creative practitioners who are fully comitted to furhter developing integrated practice with community partners. With a central locality base in Salford, the team have access to multiple resoures across the community and are keen to facilitate professional development, support training opportunities and nurture personal growth within a welcoming team ethos.
Main duties of the job
The successful applicant will practice within the MHST national framework, providing assessments and interventions for children, young people and parents/carers in education settings, supporting schools and education providers to develop whole settings approaches to emotional health and wellbeing and providing advice, consultation, support and training to servies to ensure appropriate interventions are identified to address young peoples mental health difficulties.
As a senior member of the team, the successful applicant will contirbute to the development of the team projects, supervise junior members of staff/trainees and act as a respresentative for the team at communityand partnership meetings.
About us
MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of over £3bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We're creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.
Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 30,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you'll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.
We've also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.
We're proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What's more, we're excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.
At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.
Job responsibilities
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience youll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading. So that youre even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, youll need to take time to read the Candidate Essentials Guide that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how we care for you as you care for others. Most importantly, it also contains critical information youll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating, and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at resourcing@mft.nhs.uk.
Were looking forward to hearing from you!
Person Specification
Qualifications
* You must be registered/accredited (or, if EMHP/CWP, in the process of becoming accredited) with a professional body. e.g. NMC, SW England, UKCP, HCPC, BABCP
* You must have a recognised qualification. Recognised qualifications are: Registered Nursing: RMN/RSCN/RNMH Social Work (CQSW/DipSW) Occupational Therapy Other relevant accreditable qualification
* Qualifications in Psychological Therapies e.g. CBT / SFT/ IPT
* Mentorship course ENB998 or equivalent
Experience
* Proven experience of working effectively with people with mental health difficulties
* Experience of assessing and managing risk: including safeguarding
* Experience of developing and providing evidenced based assessments, formulations, and care plans
* Experience of liaison and working with a range of other relevant agencies and professionals
* Experience of autonomously managing a caseload within a service
* Experience of mentoring and supervision of others
* Understanding of the principles of Clinical Governance and a willingness to follow Trust Policy and Procedures
* Experience of working in Child and Adolescent Mental Health
* Experience of providing interventions for children and young people with mental health problems and their families
* Community mental health experience
Knowledge, Skills and Ability
* Up to date knowledge of child mental health and relevant legislation
* Understanding of evidence-based practice and the ability to demonstrate how this influences clinical practice
* The ability to assess, formulate and manage care appropriately, ensuring discharge is timely
* The ability to use assessment tools and outcome measures / ROMs effectively and in collaboration with the child, young person, and family
* To be able to function as a part of a multi-disciplinary team and to liaise effectively with other agencies i.e., education, GP's, maintaining positive working relationships
* The ability to reflect on and critically appraise own practice
* To have the ability to manage own caseload
* Ability to manage and organise own time and diary
* The ability to follow policy and make proposals for change
* The ability to work independently with the support of clinical and ma2nagement supervision
* The ability to maintain clinical records both written and electronic
* Experience of delivering training
* Demonstrable therapeutic skills
* IT competent
* Knowledge and understanding of the research process
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
£38,682 to £46,580 a yearper annum (pro rata)
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