Education Mental Health Practitioner

Job description
An exciting opportunity has arisen for 2 Qualified Education Mental Health Practitioners (EMHP) to join a dynamic Mental Health Support Teams in schools service in Halton.

Successful candidates will be employed on a full-time basis based within Halton (Runcorn and Widnes) and will play a key role as member of the Halton Mental Health Support Team. They will have the responsibility for delivering the 3 core functions of an MHST to support the mild to moderate mental health and wellbeing needs for children and young people in allocated schools.

Potential candidates will have already successfully completed the HEE commissioned 1yr 'Education Mental Health Practitioner' course or the 'Children's Wellbeing Practitioner' course. Those currently undertaking the EMHP training and are near completion will also be considered. PLEASE DO NOT APPLY IF YOU DO NOT MEET THESE CRITERIA.

Please note that the advert may close early if we receive a significant number of applications.

As an Education Mental Health Practitioner, the post holder will provide high standards of evidence-based client centred care to children and young people with mild to moderate mental health needs within the THRIVE Framework for service delivery.

The post holder will be expected to provide interventions to children and young people and their families / carers referred into the service.

As the post is identified within the CYPMH strategy, it is expected the role will continue to develop in line with national and local initiatives.

The post holder will demonstrate an attitude which respects and values service users’ and their carers.

The Post Holder Will Embrace The Core Values Of The Organisation And Adopt The Principles Of Recovery And THRIVE. These Principles Will Recognise The Need To
• Promote safe practices
• Value the aims of service users
• Work in partnership and offer meaningful choice
• Be optimistic about the possibilities of meaningful change
• Value social inclusion

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.

We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.

At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Peter Styzaker Job title: Team Manager Email address: peter.styzaker@merseycare.nhs.uk Telephone number: 01+25 664120