Job summary
- Main area
- Mental Health
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 411-COM-25-7162080
- Employer
- Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Alder Hey
- Town
- Liverpool
- Salary
- £29,970 - £36,483 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 02/07/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 21/06/2025
Employer heading
Education Mental Health Practitioner
Band 5
Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust is a provider of specialist health care and has a presence in community outreach sites and, in collaboration with other providers, our clinicians help deliver care closer to patients’ homes by holding local clinics at locations from Cumbria to Shropshire, in Wales and the Isle of Man. The Trust also provides inpatient care for children with complex mental health needs at our Sunflower House building newly relocated, and opened on the hospital site.
We currently have more than 4,000 staff working across our community and hospital sites. We’re also a teaching and training hospital providing education and training to around 540 medical and over 500 nursing and allied health professional students each year.
As black and minority ethnic (BME) employees are currently under-represented in this area, we particularly welcome applications from members of our BME communities. All appointments will be made on merit.
You can expect a warm welcome at Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust, our staff are friendly and welcoming. We listen to each other and work together to embed our Trusts values and behaviours. At Alder Hey we appreciate our staff and reward them with an outstanding benefits package including:
- Great flexible working opportunities
- Lease car scheme and Home Electronics Scheme
- Generous annual leave and pension scheme
- Extensive staff health and well-being programmes
Job overview
Permanent - Band 5 Education Mental Health Practitioner
37.5 Hours per week
This is an exciting opportunity for a qualified Education Mental Health Practitioner (EMHP) to join our Mental Health Services Team (MHST) working with schools across Liverpool. From April 2024, EMHPs were be required to be registered with either British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP) or the British Psychological Society (BPS) - this is a requirement of this post.
We are looking for individuals who have skills and experience in engaging families who are from communities that may be at increased risk of social exclusion or marginalisation. Postholders will work as part of an integrated multi-disciplinary team. They will act as case managers for children and young people with mild to moderate mental health problems and deliver evidence-based interventions alongside or under supervision of senior CAMHS practitioners.
Main duties of the job
• Delivering Evidence-Based Interventions for children and young people, with mild to moderate mental health problems, in Education Settings.
• 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 educational environments to afford better access to specialist mental health services.
• Working with low level risk and recognise higher level risk, escalating this appropriately to relevant services e.g., CAMHS /Child Care Services/MASH.
• The post holder will be developing polices and protocols with Mental Health Leads in school around Mental Health.
Working for our organisation
Alder Hey MHST is part of the Schools Mental Health Team within Liverpool CAMHS, alongside key stakeholder and partners as part of the Whole School Approach in Liverpool.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
• Delivering outcome focused, Evidence-Based Interventions in Educational Settings for children and young people experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties.
• Developing skills in supporting children and young people experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties, their parents/carers, families, and educators in the self-management of presenting difficulties.
• Developing and practicing Evidence-Based skills and working in partnership with children, young people, their families, and educators in the development of treatment plans for the specific intervention and agreeing outcomes.
• Work in collaboration with children and young people and where appropriate parents/carers to formulate and develop agreed treatment plan.
• Incorporate Participation and Inclusivity when delivering services which recognises and respects diversity.
• Discuss with supervisors and agree to accept appropriate referrals for children and young people in Educational Settings, according to agreed local and national and local referral routes, processes, and procedures.
• Undertake accurate assessments of risk to self and others.
• Learn, understand, rationalise, and adhere to the protocols within the educational setting to which the post holder is attached.
• Engage along with more senior staff in the signposting of referrals for children and young people with more complex needs to the relevant service.
• Gain and practice a range of interventions related to provision of information and support for evidence based psychological treatments.
• Practice, evidence, reflect on and demonstrate an ability to manage one’s own caseload in conjunction with the requirements of the team.
• Attend multi-disciplinary and multi-agency meetings relating to referrals or children and young people in treatment, where appropriate, both for personal development, to benefit in discussion with supervisors, or to provide direct assistance.
• Keep coherent records of all clinical activity in line with health and education service protocols and use these records and outcome data to inform decision making.
• Complete all requirements relating to data collection.
• Show evidence of working within a collaborative approach, involving a range of relevant others when indicated. Specifically, work in collaboration with teachers and other educational staff, parents, children, young people and the wider community to enhance and broaden access to mental health services.
• Contribute to the development of individual or group clinical materials or training materials and go on to develop further such materials as falls within own degree of competence.
• To deliver interventions either on an individual basis or within a group format.
• To deliver Psychoeducation Workshops to Young People and School Based Staff.
Person specification
Education and Training
Essential criteria
- Post Graduate Diploma in Educational Health Practice for Children and Young People (EMHP Qualification)
- BABCP and or BPS registered/registerable or working towards registration
Desirable criteria
- Training in Nursing, Social Work, Occupational Therapy, Counselling or within a Psychological Therapy.
- Psychology or other Health related undergraduate degree.
- BABCP accreditation.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Suzi Hutchinson
- Job title
- Stategic Clinical Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
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