Job summary
- Main area
- EMHP/CWP
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 455-NLFT-0257
- Employer
- North London NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Bay Tree House,
- Town
- Enfield
- Salary
- £35,763 - £43,466 Per annum including HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 31/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Educational Mental Health/Child Wellbeing Practitioner
NHS AfC: Band 5
Thank you for your interest in the North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT). This is an exciting time to join us and be part of our journey to improve mental health care across North London and deliver excellent services to our local people. We will achieve this through the North London Way, as we:
- Collaborate at every level by living our values to create the right conditions for us all to work together.
- Develop our new Trust culture, to help make our new Trust a great place to work and to receive great care.
- Empower our teams to lead the planned improvements in our services, by skilling them and giving them the tools to make the changes.
- Focus on delivering excellence at every level to improve our performance and ensure consistently high-quality care across all our services.
- Ensure that research, quality improvement, and technology lead the way and are embedded in our services.
- Take a trauma informed approach to everything we do
We proactively welcome diversity in our workforce and pride ourselves on being an inclusive employer. We aim to recruit from our local communities and provide opportunities to all including apprenticeships, veterans, care leavers and more.
The North London Way to deliver: Better Mental Health, Better Lives, Better Communities.
Our trust website is: https://www.northlondonmentalhealth.nhs.uk/
Job overview
The qualified Education and Mental Health Practitioners (EMHPs) or Children’s Wellbeing Practitioners (CWPs) or will join this growing team (that includes CAMHS clinicians, Educational psychologists, and trainee EMHPs) to support the work within schools. The post holder will provide support for children and adolescents with mild moderate emotional and mental health difficulties and deliver evidence-based 1:1 and group interventions in schools, employing CYP-IAPT principles (Children and Young Peoples Improving Access to Psychological Therapies). The post holder will develop relationships with designated mental health leads in schools, alongside CAMHS clinicians / supervisors, and educational psychologists, and help them develop their approaches for mental health and wellbeing in schools. They will gain some experience of teaching, training and consultation through this joint working.
Main duties of the job
- Contribute to the assessment, and deliver outcome focused, evidence-based interventions
- Work in partnership with children and families
- Support and empower children, young people and families to make informed choices about intervention.
- Adhere to the service referral protocols and signpost unsuitable referrals
- Provide a range of information and support for evidence based psychological treatments.
- Adhere to an agreed activity contract relating to the overall number of children and young people contacts offered,
- Attend multi-disciplinary meetings
- Keep coherent records of all activity in line with service protocols
- Assess and integrate issues relating to transitions, education and training
- Work within a collaborative approach involving a range of relevant others when indicated.
- Work in collaboration with children, young people and communities
- To provide a service that is equitable and non-discriminatory
- Make appropriate referrals to other service providers
- Develop a ‘local knowledge’ of the locality and its services and facilities
- Provide a service that is flexible as far as possible in terms of clinic hours
- Conduct risk assessments,
- Along with supervisors, make decisions on suitability of new referrals with advice sought from senior MHST practitioners and / or CAMHS
- Assess and integrate issues surrounding work and employment into the overall therapy process
- Prepare and present clinical information
- Complete all requirements of data collection
Working for our organisation
North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.
Our Five-Year Strategy:
- We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
- With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
- We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
- We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.
In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Manage a caseload and the provision of mental healthcare services, to children and young people with mild to moderate mental health difficulties.
- Holistic assessment of mental health
- Work in partnership with Primary Mental Health, CAMHS, Schools and GPs
- Offer high quality brief outcome focused evidence-based practice
- Develop, support and train CWPs, EMHPs and other colleagues in evidence based, innovate practice within and outside of the organization.
- Provide support to junior colleagues under the direction of a senior colleague.
Person specification
Education
Essential criteria
- A relevant degree, from a UK university or an overseas qualification of an equivalent standard in a relevant subject (e.g. psychology) with relevant experience and competencies as required
- Children and Young People’s Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner Qualification or Education and Mental Health Practitioner from accredited training provider
Desirable criteria
- EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS -Psychology or other health / social care / youth related undergraduate degree.
Experience
Essential criteria
- The qualified Education and Mental Health Practitioners (EMHPs) or Children’s Wellbeing Practitioners (CWPs) or will join this growing team (that includes CAMHS clinicians, Educational psychologists, and trainee EMHPs) to support the work within schools. The post holder will provide support for children and adolescents with mild moderate emotional and mental health difficulties and deliver evidence-based 1:1 and group interventions in schools, employing CYP-IAPT principles (Children and Young Peoples Improving Access to Psychological Therapies). The post holder will develop relationships with designated mental health leads in schools, alongside CAMHS clinicians / supervisors, and educational psychologists, and help them develop their approaches for mental health and wellbeing in schools. They will gain some experience of teaching, training and consultation through this joint working.
Desirable criteria
- Experience- Experience of working in mental health, education or related services Worked in a service where agreed targets in place to demonstrating outcomes Ability to manage own caseload and time Experience of screening, assessing and clinical intervention Experience in supporting service development
Skills and Abilities
Essential criteria
- SKILLS AND ABILITIES- Ability to assess, plan, implement and evaluate risk/care plans to meet the needs of clients. • Ability to work to standards for quality within the Service. Ability to work as a member of a multi-disciplinary Experience of screening, assessing and clinical intervention Experience in supporting service development. • team and demonstrate awareness of MDT functioning. • Ability to maintain and manage own workload and work autonomously within the specialist area • Willingness and ability to develop specialist knowledge of clinical aspects of child & adolescent mental health. • Ability to recognise own limits & seek support re supervision as appropriate. • To have developed computer skills to enable input of relevant data and typing of summaries and reports etc • The ability to supervise, teach and develop the skills of student and junior staff as and when appropriate. • Excellent written & verbal communication skills. • Good interpersonal skills & demonstrable ability to work flexibly and
Desirable criteria
- Skills and Abilities- Competent assessment skills Effective analytical and decision-making skills. Care planning skills Risk assessment knowledge and skills Competent and effective treatment skills
Knowledge and Training
Essential criteria
- KNOWLEDGE AND TRAINING-Demonstrates an understanding of children and young people’s mental health and how it may present Knowledge of NHS policies, procedures and guidelines Demonstrates an understanding for the need to use evidence-based psychological therapies and how it relates to this post Models of assessment, screening and risk assessment and risk management
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge and Training-Knowledge of outcome measures and their use for clinical and audit purposes Knowledge of health promotion An awareness of serious mental health presentations Evidence of further training in psychological interventions/therapy Knowledge of local wider systems and networks Effects of drug and alcohol use on mental health
Other
Essential criteria
- Other- High level of enthusiasm and motivation .Advanced communication skills Ability to work within a team and foster good working relationships Ability to use supervision and personal development positively and effectively Ability to work under pressure Regard for others and respect for individual rights of autonomy and confidentiality Ability to be self-reflective in personal and professional development and in supervision Ability and willingness to travel to locations throughout the organization
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
- Hulya Karabulut
- Job title
- Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0203 2825636
- Additional information
Sarah McGillen
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