Job summary
- Main area
- Mental Health
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent: Qualified EMHPs only
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 411-COM-26-8005051
- Employer
- Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Thornton Family Wellbeing Centre
- Town
- Liverpool
- Salary
- £32,073 - £39,043 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 23/06/2026 08:00
Employer heading
Educational Mental Health Practitioner - Sefton
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 B5 Qualified Education Mental Health Practitioner
37.5 Hours per week
PLEASE DO NOT APPLY UNLESS YOU HAVE COMPLETED: Post Graduate Diploma as an Educational Mental Health Practitioner
This is an exciting opportunity for Qualified Education Mental Health Practitioners (EMHPs) to join our Mental Health Services Team (MHST) working with schools across Sefton.
The successful candidate will work as part of an integrated multi-disciplinary team either in the North, South, Central or specialist 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 practitioners.
Main duties of the job
- Working as a member of an integrated multi-disciplinary team providing comprehensive assessment of children, young people and families. Planning, implementing and evaluating interventions to address identified needs.
- To work alongside partner agencies to offer Whole School Approach (WSA)
- Acting as case manager for children and young people with mild to moderate mental health problems.
- Delivering evidence-based interventions in a group format alongside or under supervision of senior` practitioners.
- Monitoring risk and supporting children and young people who present with more severe problems to rapidly access assessment and intervention from senior practitioners.
- Promoting the safeguarding and welfare of children and young people.
- Adhering to Trust policies and procedures and the legislative framework in which children’s mental health care is delivered.
Working for our organisation
Alder Hey MHST is part of the Education Mental Health Team within the Liverpool CAMHS; and North and South Sefton Partnership. MHST covers both Liverpool and Sefton and currently has links with around 200 schools. Liverpool MHST comprises 5 teams, North, Central, South along with a Transitions Team. Sefton MHST has four teams North, South and Central (with a focus on transition) along with the new Wave 11 team focusing on LD support across the three MDTs.
Alder Hey are offering excellent benefit schemes;
Refer a friend – Alder Hey staff
Successful candidates who are introduced to the trust by existing staff members will receive £1000 after completion of six months in post. Please include the name/Alder Hey email for your friend in the additional information section of your application.
This will be paid in two parts, £250 in first month pay on commencement in post, and £750 on completion of six months.
Accommodation
Alder Hey will support the cost of accommodation for up to 3 months from the date of employment (up to £500 per month)
The cost is to be paid by the staff member and reclaimed as expenses.
Relocation package
Relocation packages to support new hires and will be consulted on an individual basis, please link in with [email protected] for further information.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To join one of our existing teams (North, South, Central, Specialist), working within allocated schools across Sefton offering WSA and 1:1/Group interventions to children young people and their families.
Person specification
Qualifications, Experience and Training
Essential criteria
- Post Graduate Diploma in Educational Health Practice for Children and Young People (EMHP Qualification)
- BABCP and or BPS registration and accreditation
Desirable criteria
- Training in Nursing, Social Work, Occupational Therapy, Counselling or within a Psychological Therapy.
- Psychology or other Health related undergraduate degree.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of mental health issues in young people.
- Knowledge of legislation and National policies in relation to mental health issues in young people.
- Low Intensity Interventions for low mood, worry/ anxiety
- Understanding how difficulties can be maintained by the wider system and family.
- Working Knowledge of the Whole School Approach to mental health
- Knowledge of children and young people gained through academic study in child development, child wellbeing or mental health.
- An understanding of mild to moderate mental health difficulties.
- An understanding of mental health in community settings
- An understanding of The Mental Health Act/Mental Capacity Act.
- Understanding how difficulties can be maintained by the wider system and family
- An understanding of Safeguarding responsibilities and the importance of multi-agency working for children and families in the community.
- Understanding of CYP-IAPT Principles including the use of Routine Outcome Measures
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of the functional operation of specialist mental health services
- Knowledge of the school’s safeguarding procedures and who the Designated Safeguarding Lead, (DSL), is in each establishment that they work in.
Personal Attribute
Essential criteria
- Willing to perform all duties and responsibilities of the post in accordance with the Trust’s Equal Opportunities and Equality and Diversity policies.
- Appointments to regulated and controlled activities require an enhanced DBS disclosure.
- Use of a car or access to a means of mobility to travel across the Trust footprint in line with service needs.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Jenna Crosbie
- Job title
- Operational Service Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
Emma Dawes - MHST Clinical Lead
Email: [email protected]
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