Education Mental Health Practitioner (Trainee) Lincoln, England
Job description
Lincolnshire has been successful in a bid to NHS England for a new Mental Health Support Team (MHSTs) in the North Kesteven/South Lincoln area. We currently have 4 established MHSTs in the County covering Lincoln, Gainsborough, Boston, and Skegness, with an additional 3 currently completing their training year in Spalding, Grantham & Sleaford.
We are looking to recruit 4 x trainee Education Mental Health Practitioners (EMHPs) to work within the North Kesteven/South Lincoln area to deliver evidence-based interventions for children & young people with mild to moderate mental health issues in schools and other education settings.
As a Trainee EMHP you will be expected to work under supervision as part of a dynamic mental health team in a creative environment where evidence-based interventions, new ideas, ways of working and supporting children and young people are actively encouraged. You will be offered a 12 month full-time educational programme delivered specifically for the role in partnership with the University of Exeter and delivered remotely. Over the course of the training year, you will, under supervision, develop knowledge and practice skills to deliver evidence based early interventions.
This advert may close before the closing date.
Group interviews: 29th September and 2nd October.
Interviews: 5th, 9th, 10th October
For more information, please contact Lynne Tyblewski 07849832791 [email protected] or Hayley Slater 07870 916609 [email protected]
The training programme for this post starts in January 2024, and will consist of academic and supervised practice learning across mental health services and educational settings. Delivery of the programme will be provided through a combination of taught days within a University, independent self-guided study days and experience gained in education wellbeing and mainstream mental health services
During training, you will work under supervision to gain experience across healthcare and educational settings to enable them to gain the level of competence required to deliver high-quality, evidence-based early interventions for children and young people experiencing mild to moderate mental health problems. On successful completion of training, trainee EMHPs will be equipped with the necessary skills, knowledge and capabilities to work as a qualified EMHP as autonomous and responsible practitioners within their scope of practice, alongside education colleagues.
EMHPs will play a key role as members of the new Mental Health Support Teams, who will have the responsibility for delivering schools’ overarching approach to providing mental health and wellbeing support for children and young people.
This post will be funded at NHS Agenda for Change (AfC) Band 4, moving into a Band 5 role on successful completion of the course. You will be expected to work flexibly between home, base and education settings.
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,800 staff, and serving a population of over 766,000, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.
You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England, in an area heralded as a fantastic place to live and work. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of ‘outstanding’ for well-led and ‘good’ overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We’re really proud of this!
We are also leading the way in transforming care, with multi-million-pound transformation of patient environments and radical redesign of community services.
This is the time to join and help redesign our services of the future. We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.
The Trainee Education Mental Health Practitioner/Education Mental Health Practitioner role will:
- Work closely alongside a team of mental health professionals delivering a wide range of evidence informed interventions, under supervision.
- Develop and practice evidence-based skills under supervision to carry out holistic and child-centered mental health assessments, including risk assessments.
- Helping children and young people within these settings who present with more severe problems to rapidly access more specialist services and Working with and within education environments to afford better access to specialist mental health services.
- Supporting and facilitating staff in education settings to identify and where appropriate manage issues related to mental health and wellbeing.
- Offering whole school approach interventions within educational settings.
