Qualified Education Mental Health Practitioner EMHP

Job Description

South West London and St Georges Mental Health NHS Trust has a rich history, well-established community links and an international reputation. We provide a full range of local mental health services to the Kingston, Merton, Richmond, Sutton and Wandsworth London boroughs, as well as specialist forensic mental health services, including high secure services, at Springfield Hospital.We take pride in providing specialist care to our service users where our Trust values; being consistent, compassionate, collaborative, respectful and open is at the heart of everything we do. When you join us, you’ll be part of something special – an innovative and rapidly growing organisation that is helping to redefine the Mental Health, education and social care landscape in the UK.About the team:SWLSTG MH Trust is a lead provider within the South West London Trailblazer programme and currently runs six Mental Health Support Teams (MHST) across Merton, Sutton and Wandsworth. Each MHST works within a cluster of schools and offers a schools based mental health service, as well as supporting the implementation of a whole schools approach to mental health across the cluster.The Sutton MHST is an original trailblazer team, started in January 2019 and comprises of 4 qualified EMHPs, a band 7 post (currently out to advert) and a Clinical Psychologist who is the team supervisor and coordinator. The band 7 post provides additional clinical input around challenging behaviour and emotional regulation, consultation to school staff and support within each MHST and school cluster, working closely with team members to provide a coordinated service. The Clinical Psychologist offers supervision, consultation and supports the whole school approach, in addition to providing more specialist clinical interventions. The team also have strong links with a self-harm community nurse who is attached to CAMHS but works largely in schools. The cluster includes two specialist schools and there are good opportunities for cross team learning with the other teams in Sutton, including a specialist ASD / LD MHST, a new MHST with a specialist focus around domestic abuse and a well-established CWP team.About the role:We are advertising for two qualified EMHPs (qualified CWPs are eligible to apply). Both posts are Agenda for Change band 5 full time posts working with a cluster of schools across Sutton.Postholders will work primarily with parents of primary school aged children and young people referred by secondary schools, providing low-intensity interventions for anxiety, depression or behavioural difficulties. The service also offers a wide variety of parent workshops, groups and whole class year 6 workshops as part of a whole school approach to mental health.EMHPs are supervised weekly by a Clinical Psychologist for individual supervision and also offered regular group supervision. Additional contact with supervisors or other senior staff is available throughout the week as needed to manage risk or other urgent issues. There is a strong peer support network across all the EMHPs within the Trust and in normal times there are a number of social events between all the different teams.These posts will require:

Qualification as an EMHP or CWP – applicants will not be considered unless they have completed a registered training course

Strong communication skills

The ability to work cohesively and collaboratively both within a small team and within the wider school cluster

Ability to work independently in schools while understanding the need for regular supervision to do so

The ability to use feedback, reflect and adapt accordingly

Strong organisational skills, including thoroughly preparing for weekly supervision and keeping all clinical notes up to date

Good experience of working with children, young people & parents and an understanding of how to talk with them

Commitment to using data and relevant measures to assess clinical outcomes

About the location:The cluster lead school is Greenshaw High School. The team is usually based within a local children’s centre for supervision, training, note writing etc but will see clients within allocated schools. Some travel between schools and base is to be expected but this can be managed by public transport, owning a car is not necessary.Benefits:We offer a number of excellent staff benefits and understand the importance of a healthy work life balance. Some of our benefits are highlighted here:

Generous pay, pensions and leave, we offer a comprehensive pay, pensions and leave package which is dependent on the role and length of service.

Work life balance, we support a range of flexible options, such as: part-time working, job sharing, term-time working, compressed hours and working from home.

Career development, There are plenty of opportunities to progress your career and we support your development through a number of programmes such as mentoring, coaching, positive people management, collective leadership and other talent programmes

Subsidised car parking - You can park at any of our sites at a reduced rate of £20/month.

NHS discounts, with discounts up to 10% from a variety of well-known retail brands though Health Service Discounts website.

Other benefits include:

Eye examinations

Looking after your health

Cycle to work scheme

Car lease scheme

Season ticket loan

Childcare vouchers

Staff restaurants

Free gym membership

We look forward to receiving your application.For furt