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Job Summary
Our CAMHS Future in Mind MHST (Mental Health Support Team) is a growing and developing service which provides early intervention to improve the lives of children and young people experiencing mild to moderate mental health problems. Due to additional funding are looking to recruit an enthusiastic qualified Education Mental Health Practitioner to join our friendly and supportive team. You must have a EMHP Post Graduate qualification and be registered with a professional body such as BPS or BABCP.
The successful applicant will be allocated a number of education settings alongside their Senior School Practitioner in which they will have the opportunity to develop strong working relationships and provide support to the school community. With appropriate supervision, you will work as an autonomous practitioner, offering Low Intensity CBT interventions whilst also promoting a Whole School Approach to mental health and wellbeing.
Informal enquires are encouraged. Please contact Sarah Dixon Team Manager for more information.
Responsibilities Of The Education Mental Health Practitioner Include:
* Delivering evidenced based interventions to children, young people, parents/carers through individual and group work.
* Carrying out holistic and child-centred mental health assessments.
* Developing and Delivering psychoeducation sessions to children, young people, parents/carers through assemblies, classroom, and parent sessions.
* Ensuring children/young people play an active part in decision making about the support they need.
* Providing advice/consultation to education staff to support children/young people getting the right help at the right time.
* Supporting education settings in developing and embedding whole school approaches to mental health through collaboration and coproduction within the school.
* Participating in the delivery of training programmes for education settings and community services.
* Developing local knowledge of services particularly in relation to mental health to enable effective signposting and planning.
About Us
We are a specialist NHS Foundation Trust that provides community, mental health and learning disability services for the people of Barnsley, Calderdale, Kirklees and Wakefield. We also provide low and medium secure services and are the lead for the west Yorkshire secure provider collaborative.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* HEE PG Diploma in Education Mental Health Practice for children & young people
* Relevant qualification or experience within an educational setting.
Experience
* At least one years experience of delivery of low intensity evidenced based CBT interventions for mild to moderate mental health issues.
* At least one-year experience of work within both health and educational settings.
* Experience of consultation and liaison with education and multidisciplinary colleagues.
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