Education Mental Health Practitioner (EMHP)
Two permanent and one Fixed Term (1 year) Band 5 post are available in Islington's School Wellbeing Service.
Islington's School Wellbeing Service is part of the national Mental Health Support Teams initiative, aiming to improve access to help and the general culture of emotional support within primary and secondary schools. The service is delivered as a partnership between Whittington Health and LB Islington.
We are recruiting proactive, creative and skilled colleagues to join our thriving team. The successful applicant will be passionate about mental health in schools, widening access to services and enjoy inter-agency working.
To apply, you should have completed a recognised postgraduate EMHP or CWP training course.
Please explain clearly in your supporting statement how you meet the essential and desirable criteria in the Person Specification (pages 5-6 of the JD/PS attachment).
Please see the Job Description and the Person Specification attachments for full details of this role.
The successful applicants will join one of our two locality teams in Islington's Schools Wellbeing Service. The teams deliver preventative and early intervention mental health work to all the borough's mainstream schools. This work includes workshops, assemblies, groups and individual interventions with children, young people, family members or school staff, as well as whole-school approaches to mental health.
The post holders will deliver groups, workshops and 1:1 brief therapeutic interventions with young people and/or their parents/carers. Other duties include liaison with school staff, contributing to whole-school approaches for mental health, screenings and assessments, observations, joint working, service development work (e.g. producing new workshops), clinical communication via notes, reports and letters, etc.
This is a great time to join our service. We are a strong, well established friendly team with professionals from a wide range of therapeutic
backgrounds and experiences. We are excited about developing the MHST in Islington so that more children and families can receive this vital
support at an earlier stage in their schools.
We are committed to supporting staff development and offer additional training opportunities and reflective spaces to support your wellbeing and
further promote your development as a clinician while working with us.
The community served is multi-ethnic and culturally diverse and we welcome applicants who are skilled at working with the richness and
complexity of our multicultural context. We are keen to recruit applicants that reflect the local community and support them to remain in post.
We offer an exciting and dynamic environment where your ideas and career development will be valued. You will be supported directly by senior colleagues and we will develop the service together.
Please see the Job Description and the Person Specification attachments for full details of this role.
The role will include delivering a wide range of interventions, and mental health and wellbeing approaches to supporting young people's mental health, delivered in a school setting.
In addition to providing comprehensive assessment and interventions for young people experiencing emotional and mental health difficulties this post is an opportunity to work with school staff and school cultures in developing school environments that better support emotional health and wellbeing.
We have two teams in Islington. Each team is led by joint team leads from CAMHS and Educational Psychology, with six EMHPs in each team, supervised by the team leads.
We are looking for two Band 5 clinicians one to join our South locality team and one to join our North locality team. The successful applicants will hold their own caseload and contribute to interventions such as group work and training.
We have been working closely with schools and local authority partners for well over a decade and have helped develop innovative whole school approaches in the borough including Islington Mental Health and Resiliency Framework (IMHARS) and Islington Trauma Informed Practices in Schools (ITIPS). As such we believe we are particularly well placed to develop a service that realises the ambitions laid out in the Green Paper.
The post will be working in primary and secondary schools and will be based in the community, whilst enjoying a close working relationship with our award-winning Community CAMHS provision and innovative Central Point of Access for Social, Emotional and Mental Health.