Job overview

The Ealing Mental Health Support Teams are looking for qualified or about to qualify Educational Mental Health Practitioners (EMHP), Children's Wellbeing Practitioners (CWP) or Educational Wellbeing Practitioners (EWP) to apply for this Agenda for Change B 5 permanent roles.

We are looking forward to hearing from candidates that share our Team’s passion for delivering high quality, evidence based early interventions, enhancing the mental health and emotional wellbeing of the local community.

The successful candidates will be joining a friendly, supportive and enthusiastic team working at schools and in collaboration with the local CAMHS and Neurodevelopmental Teams.

If successful, in addition to our trust’s induction, you will be provided with comprehensive local introduction to the role. You will have weekly supervision by an experienced supervisor and ongoing, easily accessible, support with clinical matters as they arise.

 In addition, within the Ealing MHST, there is a strong peer support structure and buddy system available to all new starters.

We are committed to the continues professional and skills development of our team members and are developing robust progression pathways for established agenda for change Band 5 clinicians to progress to senior practitioner roles.

Main duties of the job

For those interested in working with neurodiversity there are opportunities to work alongside the Ealing MHST Learning Disability and Autism Practitioners and our colleagues from the CAMHS Neurodevelopmental Team.

Candidates must have a child wellbeing practitioner or educational mental health practitioner qualification

If, however, your interest lays with experiencing CAMHS MDT working, there are opportunities to shadow our colleagues from CAMHS, exposing you to conducting CAMHS assessments and observing how a variety of specialist CAMHS services operate.

Your main role will be providing mental health support for children, young people and their families / carers across Ealing primary and secondary schools. You will be working with children and young people experiencing mild to moderate mental health issues and supporting those with more complex difficulties to access specialist help.

The main focus of this role is to deliver evidence based brief interventions to children and young people presenting with mild to moderate mental health difficulties. As part of our core offer to schools we also work with groups of children, young people, parents and teachers raising awareness of common mental health difficulties and any available support.

Working for our organisation

West London NHS Trust is one of the most diverse healthcare providers in the UK, delivering a range of mental health and physical healthcare and community services. The Trust runs Broadmoor Hospital, one of three high secure hospitals in the country, with an international reputation.

Our high secure services care for patients from South of England and we provide low and medium secure services across eight London boroughs. The Trust also provides mental and physical healthcare in three London boroughs (Ealing, Hounslow and   Hammersmith & Fulham).  We employ over 5,000 staff, of whom 59% are BME. Our turnover for 2024-25 is over £500m.

The Trust is rated as ‘Good’ overall by the Care Quality Commission. Forensic services are rated as ‘Outstanding’.

The Trust is an established partner and contributor in the development of the evolving North West London Integrated Care System and the Integrated Care Board. The Trust leads the NW London Children and Adolescent Mental Health provider collaborative.