Overview
Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
Education Mental Health Practitioner Brent MHST
The closing date is 03 November 2025
Band 5 MHST EMHP/CWP Practitioners work closely with young people and families, parents and carers and staff in schools and play an important contribution in how people experience our services. Band 5 Practitioners are expected to be kind and responsive but professional and informative and contribute to the quality of the services we provide by:
* keeping the people who use our services as safe as possible through the use of sound clinical skills and effective risk assessments
* ensuring the best possible clinical outcomes by using up-to-date skills and adhering to evidence-based policies and procedures
* ensuring the people using our services have a good experience by respecting, empowering and working in partnership with people throughout the care planning process
We believe that the best health care is delivered by multi-disciplinary teams working well together and in partnership with other teams and services to provide seamless care.
As a Band 5 Practitioner you will work alongside more experienced mental health practitioners, other health professionals and EMHP/CWP peers delivering a service to schools.
As a team you will work together to ensure that the team is working to the standards which the people using our services deserve.
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Main duties of the job
Applicants must be a qualified Education Mental Health Practitioner (EMHP) or an equivalent qualification with experience of working with Children and Young People in Mental Health Services or Schools in the provision of individual and group treatments.
Brent Mental Health Support Team is looking for qualified EMHP with experience of working with Children and Young People in Mental Health Services in the delivery of individual and group treatments in school settings. We are seeking to appoint enthusiastic and dynamic practitioners who are creative in their approach and passionate about improving health outcomes for children and young people.
You will work alongside EMHPs, Mental Health Practitioners and a Senior Clinical Leads to support the wellbeing and mental health of children and young people based in participating schools in Brent.
Brent MHST works with children and young people with mild to moderate mental health presentations attending schools in the area.
CNWL are committed to progressing and supporting their staff with career development and training, and ensuring staff health and wellbeing and job satisfaction.
For an informal discussion please contact Jonah Seto (Service Lead) j.seto@nhs.net or Rebecca Ward (Senior Clinical Supervisor) rebecca.ward92@nhs.net
About us
Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust expects all Band 5 Practitioners to act in a way which shows you understand our core values and are willing to put them into practice with young people, their friends and family, carers, teachers and other staff members.
As a Band 5 Practitioner we expect you to show COMPASSION, contribute to a caring and kind environment and recognise that what you do and say helps can make the lives of others better.
We expect you to RESPECT everyone and acknowledge and welcome people's differences rather than ignore them or see them as problematic.
We expect you to EMPOWER others and continually try to provide information, resources and support to help others make their own decisions and meet their own needs.
We expect you to work in PARTNERSHIP and behave in a way that shows that you recognise that commissioners and users of our services are the people who generate and pay for our work.
Job responsibilities
To allow the post holder, with appropriate supervision, to work as an autonomous and responsible practitioner as their training affords and within the scope of their local job description, to engage in:
* Delivering low intensity evidence-based intervention for children and young people in education settings with mild to moderate mental health problems.
* Helping children and young people within these 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.
* Group/Whole school approach implementation/Consultation on referrals.
* And to use the acquired skills, knowledge and abilities to deliver a service based within education settings that builds on and reinforces but does not replace those initiatives that already exist within these environments.
Person Specification
Education and Qualifications
* Qualified Education Mental Health Practitioner or CYP Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner Or / Mental Health Nurse, Occupational Therapist, Social Worker with additional CBT qualification
* Teaching qualification
Previous Experience
* Experience of working with children and young people, their families and others in a healthcare or school setting
* Experience of working and liaising with a wide variety of agencies and stakeholders
* Experience of working with children and young people who have social, emotional and/or behavioural difficulties
* Experience of working with anxiety disorders
* Experience of working with affective disorders
* Experience of the delivery of specific low intensity therapeutic interventions to children, young people or their families (e.g. CBT, solution focused brief therapy)
* Ability to conduct other group therapeutic interventions with children and their families
* Experience of working with children and their families in an education setting
* Experience of monitoring and recording outcome measures for children\'s emotional wellbeing
* Experience of navigating complex social systems and environments, who may have conflicting priorities or agendas
* Experience of working with looked after children
* Experience of working with other vulnerable groups
Skills
* Able to communicate with the team, present young people, take note of actions, update others in the team and use team meetings effectively. Speaking face to face but also by telephone and writing letters and reports.
* Maintaining accurate, timely, concise and legible clinical records both electronic and handwritten which adhere to the CNWL policies
* Care planning: being able to assess young people, develop, implement and evaluate a care plan
* Understanding how the Mental Capacity Act and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards impacts on their work and the people they are working with
* Understanding the concept of quality and their role in improving safety, clinical outcomes and the patient experience
* Ability to carry out 1:1 therapeutic mental health interventions with children
* Ability to carry out 1:1 therapeutic mental health interventions with families
* Ability to make an assessment of risk and to record and communicate it appropriately.
* Ability to work within educational settings to increase mental health awareness within the staff group
* Ability to teach others about mental health issues
Knowledge
* Knowledge of educational environments
* Knowledge of safeguarding issues
* Knowledge of capacity and consent issues including Gillick competence
* Knowledge of the functional operation of specialist CAMHS teams
* Caring for the people who use our services, their families and carers, and other staff
* Respectful of others and genuinely treating them how you would want to be treated
* Able and willing to work with service users, family and carers, and other staff in a way which empowers and supports others and makes them feel better about themselves
* Able and willing to work in partnership with service users, their friends and family as well as other health care professionals
* Proven commitment to continuous professional development
Other
* Access to car or other motor vehicle for use for work purposes.
* Team player
* Excellent time management and organisational skills
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.
Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
£35,763 to £43,466 a yearPer annum incl. Outer HCAS
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