Educational Mental Health Practitioner

at  Northumbria Healthcare NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

NHCFT has an exciting opportunity for a qualified Educational Mental Health Practitioner to join the Northumberland Primary Mental Health Work Service, to provide support the Northumberland Be You mental health in schools team. This post will be based in the Ashington family hub in the Central locality of the County, specifically supporting the Ashington and Bedlington partnership of schools.
We are looking for an enthusiastic, dynamic and self-motivated individual with a passion for delivering early intervention and innovative new models of working in Children’s mental health.
The post holder will be responsible for delivering the 3 core functions of the EMHP role into the ‘Be You’ mental health support team, within the ‘getting help ‘sector of the Thrive model.
This role will may also support the teams in the Blyth, Hexham, and Alnwick partnerships.
Our established ‘getting help service ‘provides excellent clinical, case management and peer led clinical skills supervision arrangements, training and CPD.
We support a blended /hybrid model of working recognizing the value of home life balance. We will ensure we consider suitable arrangements are made to your work and home base to guarantee suitable travel expenses are provided to support in this role.
The role will involve the delivering a range of evidenced based low intensity psychological interventions for children and young people with mild / moderate need. These will be delivered individually and in small group based programmes. This will also include the facilitation of a range of psychoeducation sessions and staff training.
The role will provide support to schools to improve their the whole schools approach to emotional well-being.
The post holder will also deliver a consultation and signposting role to a range of early help, targeted and specialist support services supporting children and young peoples emotional health and wellbeing.
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.
Delivering evidence-based intervention for children and young people in education setting with mild to moderate mental health problems.
To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries

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