Education Mental Health Practitioners / Child Wellbeing Practitioners United Kingdom
Job description
The Ealing Mental Health Support Teams are seeking to recruit 2 Agenda for Change B 5 Qualified Education Mental Health Practitioners (EMHPs)/ Child Wellbeing Practitioners(CWPs).
We are looking forward to hearing from candidates that share our Team’s passion for deliver high quality, evidence based early interventions at schools and enhancing the mental health and emotional wellbeing of the local community.
Salary : £24,907 - £30,615 pa plus HCAS
The main focus of this role is to deliver comprehensive assessment, evidence informed brief interventions, and outreach work to children and young people presenting with mild to moderate mental health difficulties. As part of our core offer to schools is group work, the post holders will have the opportunity to work closely with the rest of the Ealing MHSTs to develop and deliver universal and targeted group interventions to clusters of schools and the local community as a whole.
The B5 EMHPs/CWPs will work closely with the MHST Clinical Lead, The MHST Manager, their Supervisor and other clinician’s / partner agencies. They may also be required to collaborate with practitioners from other MHST sites.
West London NHS Trust is one of the most diverse providers of mental health, community and social care in the UK.
Our 3,982 staff care for people in hospital and in the community, helping them to recover and go on to lead full and productive lives. We aim to be the best organisation of our kind in the country.
We provide care and treatment for more than 800,000 people living in the London boroughs of Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham and Hounslow, delivering services in the community (at home, in GP surgeries and care homes), hospital, specialist clinics and forensic (secure) units.
We’re rated good overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
Together, we’re committed to promoting hope and wellbeing, working with patients, service users, carers, families and partners across the communities we serve.
We are keen to ensure that our workforce reflects the community it serves, particularly in terms of ethnicity, gender, disability, LGBTQ+ and experience of mental illness.
Covid-19 vaccination is a condition of employment for this role, unless an exemption applies. The successful applicant may have contact with vulnerable service users and we will therefore seek proof of being fully vaccinated during the recruitment process.
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Key Deliverables
With appropriate supervision, to work as an autonomous and responsible practitioner as their training affords and within the scope of their local job description, to engage in;
- Delivering evidence-based intervention for children and young people in education setting with mild to moderate mental health problems
- Helping children and young people within these settings who present with more severe problems to rapidly access more specialist services
- Supporting and facilitating staff in education settings to identify and where appropriate manage issues related to mental health and wellbeing
- Working with and within education environments to afford better access to specialist mental health services
Key Result Areas & Performance
Therapeutic Assessment and Intervention
1. Assess and deliver outcome focused, evidence-based interventions in educational settings for children and young people experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties, working at all times in collaboration with and giving respect to the education function of the setting in which the post-holder is deployed.
2. Work in partnership to support children and young people experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties and their parents/carers, families and educators in the self-management of presenting difficulties.
3. Work in effective, evidence-based partnership with children, young people, their families and their educators in the development of plans for the intervention and agreed outcomes.
4. Support and empower children, young people, their parents/carers and families and their educators to make informed choices about the interventions being offered.
5. Operate at all times from an inclusive values base, which recognises and respects diversity.
6. Accept referrals within educational settings according to agreed local and national and local protocols.
7. Undertake and record accurate assessments of risk and operate clear risk management processes in line with locally agreed procedures including the safeguarding protocols of the educational setting and Local Safeguarding Board guidance.
8. Adhere to all regulations, processes and procedures within the educational service to which the postholder is attached within the educational setting where the post-holder working including (but not limited to) HR policies, training requirements, referral protocols, and emergency procedures. Signpost referrals of children with more complex needs to a locally identified appropriate relevant service
9. Through case management, supervision and any other relevant local pathway, escalate cases where the level of need or risk is beyond the scope of practice of the postholder.
10. Provide a range of information and support for evidence based psychological treatments, primarily guided self-help.
11. Practice, evidence and demonstrate an ability to manage one’s own caseload in conjunction with the requirements of the team.
12. Attend multi-disciplinary and multi- agency meetings relating to referrals or children and young people in treatment, where appropriate.
13. Keep clear, professionally coherent records of all activity in line with both health and education service protocols and use these records and outcome data to inform decision making.
14. Complete all requirements relating to data collection.
15. Assess and integrate issues relating to transitions, education and training/employment into the overall therapeutic process.
16. Work within a collaborative approach involving a range of relevant others when indicated.
17. Contribute to the development of individual or group clinical materials or training materials, and in addition to develop such materials independently as falls within own degree of competence, and under direction of the wider team.
Training & Supervision
18. Continue to apply learning gained on the training program directly to practice.
19. Prepare and present case load information to supervisors within the service on an agreed and scheduled basis to ensure safe practice and the governance obligations of the trainee, supervisor and service are delivered.
20. Respond to and implement supervision suggestions by supervisors in practice.
21. Engage in and respond to personal development supervision to improve competences and practice.
22. To disseminate research and service evaluation findings in appropriate formats through agreed channels.
Professional
23. Ensure the maintenance of standards of own professional practice according to both the postholder’s employer and the Higher Education Institution in which they are enrolled.
24. Ensure appropriate adherence to any new recommendations or guidelines set by the relevant departments.
25. Ensure that confidentiality is always protected.
26. Ensure that any risks or issues related to the safety and wellbeing of anyone the postholder comes into contact with in the course of their professional duties are communicated and shared with appropriate parties in order to maintain individual safety and the public interest.
27. Ensure clear objectives are identified, discussed and reviewed with supervisor and senior colleagues on a regular basis as part of continuing professional development.
28. Participate in individual performance review and respond to agreed objectives.
29. Keep all records up to date in relation to Continuous Professional Development and the requirements of the post and ensure personal development plans maintains up to date specialist knowledge of latest theoretical and service delivery models/developments.
30. Attend relevant educational opportunities in line with identified professional objectives.
