Trainee Education Mental Health Practitioner Role Description Responsible to: Senior Mental Health Practitioner Salary: NHS Band 4 FTE (£32,199), inclusive of Outer London Weighting Annual Leave: Pro rata of 28 days per annum (plus bank holidays) Hours: Full-time (35 hpw) Occasional evening work and attendance at Saturday meetings (currently 2 times p.a.) for which TOIL will be given Location: Across schools within the borough of Croydon as well as office based in our Croydon, Merton or Sutton service premises or other in-borough community venues. Croydon 72 Queens Road, Croydon CR0 2PR Merton Vestry Hall, 336 London Rd, Mitcham CR4 3UD Sutton 172 Croydon Road, Beddington CR0 4PG Croydon 678 London Road, CR7 7HU Job Summary: In line with the governments priority to increase access and availability of mental health and wellbeing support for children and young people, the Trainee Education Mental Health Practitioner (EMHP) role is an exciting opportunity to deliver evidence-based early interventions for children and young people, working across both educational settings and healthcare sectors in England. DUTIES: This is a training position post holder will undertake training at Kings College London alongside working in service for Off The Record. They will be taught to deliver evidence based guided self-help interventions for children and young people experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties.
The post holder will use their newly developed skills to support children and young people who are referred into the service and trainees will receive supervision to support their professional development. Applicants will need to be ready to start work in early/mid-January 2026 and posts cannot be offered to candidates unless they can guarantee this start date. Shortlisted candidates will also need to submit an application form to KCL for a place on the Diploma in Education Mental Health Practice. The application form details are attached/linked below and will need to be completed at the same time as your application for a post.
1. To offer a range of flexible, compassionate and engaging mental health interventions for young people in schools including individual support, group work, counselling and psycho-educational work 2. To support the delivery of the Whole School Approach across the school cluster 3. To build relationships with schools through liaising with key staff and offering consultations and signposting to other borough wide services 4.
To monitor the effectiveness of interventions offered through the routine use of outcome monitoring tools reviewed directly with young people 5. Working with other staff across Off the Record to identify new areas for development, creativity and innovation within our existing services, researching unmet need and developing new responses. 6. To maintain high levels of safeguarding awareness and to respond to risk and safeguarding issues as they arise whilst respecting the young person's autonomy wherever possible.
1. To maintain accurate and up to date records of all work delivered on relevant data systems and to contribute to the monitoring and evaluation of our services 8. To ensure young people's voices are always central to service developments and contributing to young peoples participation and engagement activities in the charity 9. Undertaking direct promotion and publicity of the charitys services to young people, communities and professionals 10.
To attend regular clinical and line management supervision and to attend other team/charity meetings as appropriate including occasional Saturday meetings/training days 11. To actively implement the charitys equalities and diversity & user engagement policies. 12. Any other tasks, not listed here, but deemed necessary and in the interest of the charity Training and Supervision 13.
Attend and fulfil all the requirements of the training element of the post including practical, academic and practice-based assessments and assignments to successfully complete the PG Diploma as part of becoming a fully qualified EMHP 14. As well as attendance at the University for training, fulfil private study requirements to enhance learning and prepare assignments for examination, for at least one day a week. 15. Apply learning from the training program directly to practice through the course.
Receive practice tutoring from educational and clinical providers in relation to course work to meet the required standards. 16. Prepare and present case load information to supervisors within the service on an agreed and scheduled basis, in order to ensure safe practice and the governance obligations of the trainee, supervisor and service are delivered. 17.
Prepare and present case load information to supervisors within the service on an agreed and scheduled basis, in order to ensure safe practice and the governance obligations of the trainee, supervisor and service are delivered. 18. Engage in and respond to personal development supervision to improve competences and practice