Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust Hiring for Education Mental Health Practitioner (EMHP) Job at United Kingdom Full Time

The Mental Health in Schools Teams (MHST) are part of an exciting trailblazer project funded by NHS England, Health Education England and partners with the aim of improving mental health and wellbeing of children and young people in the community in response to the government’s Green Paper for Young People’s Mental Health.

MHSTs are a new service designed to help meet the mental health needs of children and young people in education settings. They are made up of Senior Practitioners, Lead Practitioners and qualified Education Mental Health Practitioners (EMHPs). We are an additional resource within a whole-system approach to promote resilience and wellbeing, support earlier intervention, enable appropriate signposting and deliver evidence-based support, care and interventions.

You will have successfully completed training as a trainee EMHP/CWP. You will be equipped with the necessary skills, knowledge and capabilities to work as a qualified EMHP/ CWP, as an autonomous and responsible practitioner within your scope of practice, alongside education and health colleagues.

Please note we are awaiting and hopeful of confirmation of substantive funding, so it’s most likely that this post will be confirmed as permanent very soon.

Interviews will take place week commencing 25.04.22

MHSTs partner with education settings to design a bespoke offer, based on the school’s individual needs and work with the mental health services that are already in place, such as counselling, educational psychology, Early Intervention Team, school nurses, pastoral care, educational welfare officers, VCSEs, the local authority, including children’s social care and NHS Children and Young People Mental Health Services (CYPMHS). You will work with schools remotely and face to face in delivering low level Guided Self Help to Young People and Families across various educational settings within Greenwich schools, remote working from home and Greenwich CAMHS.

EMHP’s play a key role as members of the MHST, who have responsibility for delivering schools’ whole school approach to mental health and emotional wellbeing for children and young people.

You will be confident in providing Guided Self Help to young people and families in anxiety, low mood and challenging behaviours. You will be flexible and creative in responding to the needs of school populations, with excellent support from your team and supervision. You will be able to adapt to working remotely, prioritising access to services and resources. You will support the team in continuing to build on our working relationships with Greenwich schools and provide low intensity interventions, creating workshops and groups and adapting services to meet the needs of schools, young people and families in line with CYP-IAPT principles.

Oxleas – About Us

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people living in South East London and Kent and to people in prison. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,000 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, childrens centres, schools and peoples homes. We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations across the London Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent and manage hospital sites including Queen Marys Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital in Woolwich as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are one of the largest providers of prison health services providing healthcare to prisoners across Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

• We’re Kind
• We’re Fair
• We Listen
• We Care

Clinical and Client Care

1. Be supervised and supported whilst delivering outcome focused, evidence-based interventions in educational settings for children and young people experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties.

2. Use clinical 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.

3. Practice evidence-based skills under supervisory support of working in partnership with children, young people, their families and educators in the development of plans for the specific intervention and agreeing outcomes.

4. Use skills required in order to enable children and young people in education, and where appropriate parents/carers to collaborate and co-produce their own agreed plan of care.

5. Show evidence in a variety of forms that at all times assessment and intervention is provided from an inclusive values base, which recognises and respects diversity.

6. 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.

7. With supervision and independently, undertake accurate assessments of risk to self and others.

8. Learn, understand, rationalise and adhere to the protocols within the educational service to which the post holder is attached.

9. Engage along with more senior staff in the signposting of referrals for children and young people with more complex needs to the relevant service.

10. Engage in robust managerial and clinical supervision, identifying the scope of practice of the individual post holder within the role, and working safely within that scope.

11. Gain and practice a range of interventions related to provision of information and support for evidence based psychological treatments.

12. Practice, evidence, reflect on and demonstrate an ability to manage one’s own caseload in conjunction with the requirements of the team.

13. Attend multi-disciplinary and multi-agency meetings relating to referrals of children and young people in treatment, where appropriate, both for personal educational benefit in discussion with supervisors, or to provide direct assistance.

14. Keep coherent records of all training and clinical activity in line with both health and education service protocols and use these records and outcome data to inform decision making.

15. Complete all requirements relating to data collection.

16. 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.

17. 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.

Training & Supervision

1. Prepare and present case load information to supervisors within the service on an agreed and scheduled basis, to ensure safe practice and the governance obligations of the post holder, supervisor and service are delivered.

2. Respond to and evidence the implementation of improved practice because of supervisor feedback.

3. Engage in and respond to personal development supervision to improve competencies and practice.

4. Disseminate research and service evaluation findings through presentations and supervisory discussions.

Professional

1. Ensure the maintenance of standards of own professional practice according to the post holder’s employer. Ensure appropriate adherence to any new recommendations or guidelines set by the relevant departments.

2. Ensure that confidentiality is always protected.

3. Ensure that any risks or issues related to the safety and wellbeing of anyone the post holder comes into contact with during their professional duties are communicated and shared with appropriate parties in order to maintain individual safety and the public interest.

4. Ensure clear objectives are identified, discussed and reviewed with supervisor and senior colleagues on a regular basis as part of continuing professional development.

5. Participate in individual performance review and respond to agreed objectives.

6. Keep all records up to date in relation to Continuous Professional Development and the requirements of the post and ensure personal development plans maintains up to date specialist knowledge of latest theoretical and service delivery models/developments.

7. Attend relevant educational opportunities in line with identified professional objectives

8. Follow policies in own role and may be required to comment or propose changes to existing policies and procedures.

9. The Post holder will have a personal duty of care in relation to equipment and resources used.