Job summary
- Main area
- BABCP
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 371-CFS614
- Employer
- Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Mental Health Support Teams - Slough 2
- Town
- Slough
- Salary
- £32,602 - £39,686 per annum (incl of HCAS)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 30/11/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 11/12/2025
Employer heading
Education Mental Health Practitioner (EMHP)
Band 5
Job overview
This is an exciting time of growth and change within East Berkshire NHS Trust as our CAMH service is currently working collaboratively with children and young people, and partners to deliver the Governments Programme for mental health support to be available in schools.
To support the development of our Mental Help Support Teams, we are looking to recruit an Education Mental Health Practitioner in Slough. You must have an Education Mental Health Practitioner (EMHP) qualification to apply for this role.
In line with the Government’s priority to increase access and availability of mental health and wellbeing support for children and young people, the Education Mental Health Practitioner (EMHP) role is an exciting opportunity to deliver evidence-based early interventions for children and young people, working across both educational and community settings and healthcare sectors in England.
Main duties of the job
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To be trained and confident in the use of CYP IAPT principles, evidence based interventions and routine outcome measures.
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To care co-ordinate and manage a defined caseload of children and young people presenting with emotional health and wellbeing difficulties in schools
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To co-ordinate and deliver individualised care packages / programmes for children and young people and evaluate these programmes, ensuring high standards of practice in accordance with national guidelines and trust policy.
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To provide day to day clinical and supervisory support for the Education Mental Health Practitioners (EMHP).
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To provide specialist mental health advice, consultation and signposted using an outcome based triage model, to schools
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To provide training to schools staff, parents and carers in conjunction with colleagues.
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Within schools actively promote the whole school based approach to developing and maintaining emotional health and well-being.
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To train and mentor students and less experienced members of the team.
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To act as an autonomous practitioner with an understanding of own limitations and recognition of when to seek support.
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To provide clinical supervision to the team
Working for our organisation
Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health and community health services trust. Rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC, we’re committed to providing the best possible care to people across Berkshire. As an employer, we’re committed to offering an inclusive and compassionate environment where our people share in a sense of belonging and are supported to flourish.
Our values at Berkshire Healthcare are:
- Caring for and about you is our top priority
- Committed to providing good quality, safe services
- Working Together with you to develop innovative solutions
Your wellbeing is important to us. Some of the benefits of working for us include:
- Flexible working options to support work-life balance
- 27 days’ annual leave rising with service + opportunity to buy and sell
- Generous NHS pension scheme
- Excellent learning and career development opportunities
- ‘Cycle to Work’ and car leasing scheme including electric vehicles
- Access to a range of wellbeing tools and services
- Discounts at hundreds of popular retailers and restaurants
- Staff networks for race, diversity, disabilities, the environment and armed forces community to support equality
- Generous maternity, paternity, adoption and special leave
- Free parking across Trust sites
FOR SECONDMENT ROLES ONLY - If the secondment role becomes permanent, the successful candidate may be offered the permanent position.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The “must haves” for this role:
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be friendly, self-motivated, and self-organising,
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be confident in working in a multiagency setting, working collaboratively with colleagues in schools and across the wider system,
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enjoy regular collaboration with your peers and the senior colleagues to whom you report,
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as a person, will always be looking for new or better ways to deliver care and be keen to learn,
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and most of all will have a calm, friendly and compassionate outlook and have a keen interest in working in a school setting.
For further information about the role, please see attached job description and person specification.
We strongly encourage you to review how you meet the criteria in the person specification and write about this point-by-point in your supporting statement for the best chance of being shortlisted.
We’re committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community. Our commitment to inclusion is reflected in our accreditations: Race Equality Matters Silver Trailblazer, Neurodiversity in Business Corporate Member, Disability Confident Leader, Carer Confident Level 2, and the Armed Forces Covenant Gold Award. Reasonable adjustments will be provided to candidates as needed.
For further information about the role, please see attached job description and person specification.
We strongly encourage you to review how you meet the criteria in the person specification and write about this point-by-point in your supporting statement for the best chance of being shortlisted.
We’re committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community. Our commitment to inclusion is reflected in our accreditations: Race Equality Matters Silver Trailblazer, Neurodiversity in Business Corporate Member, Disability Confident Leader, Carer Confident Level 2, and the Armed Forces Covenant Gold Award. Reasonable adjustments will be provided to candidates as needed.
Please note, if we receive a high number of applications, we may close this role earlier than the advertised closing date, so please submit your application as soon as possible.
Person specification
Education/Qualifications/Training
Essential criteria
- Pre January 2023: successful completion of a Health Education England Quality Assured EMHP training programme or
- Post January 2023: successful completion of a BPS accredited EMHP training programme
- Registration as a EMHP on the British Psychological Society (BPS) Wider Psychological Workforce Register or or
- EMHP registration with the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP)
Continuous Professional Development
Essential criteria
- Commitment to ongoing training and development
Previous Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working as a Trainee and/or qualified Educational Mental Health Practitioner
- Significant experience of working with CYP
- Experience of delivering specific evidence based low intensity interventions to CYP and their families
- Experience of working in a service where agreed targets are in place to demonstrate outcomes
- Experience of working in or with a diverse or multi-cultural community
- Experience of working and liaising with a wide variety of agencies and stakeholders
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
Essential criteria
- Demonstrates an understanding of common mental health issues experienced by CYP and how they may present
- Understanding the importance of increasing access to evidence based mental health care for CYP and their families
- Knowledge of evidence-based low intensity interventions for CYP
- Ability to work within educational settings to increase mental health awareness within the staff group
- Knowledge of and ability to use routine outcome measures (ROMS) with CYP and families
- Understanding the importance of collecting feedback from service users and other key stakeholders, and using this to contribute to quality improvement
- Ability to undertake comprehensive risk assessments within scope of practice
- Knowledge of safeguarding issues and a commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of CYP and vulnerable adults.
- Understanding of ethics and patient confidentiality in relation to working with CYP
- Ability to personally manage a sensitive, and potentially emotionally distressing caseload
- Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to build and develop therapeutic and professional relationships with a range of people
- Ability to communicate clearly and effectively with colleagues, clients, and families, in a manner that is sensitive to and acknowledging of their needs, experience and all aspects of diversity
- Computer literate and able to use Microsoft programmes including Excel database, word, and outlook
Additional Requirements
Essential criteria
- Able to work flexibly around working patterns as required
- Able to travel independently between locations (including schools, NHS premises and service user homes etc) to fulfil the requirements and duties of the position
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
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.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Jade Hens
- Job title
- Team Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0300 247 3002
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