Job summary
- Main area
- Education Mental Health Practitioner / EMHP B5 - MHST
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 350-CC7887136
- Employer
- Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Warrington Mental Health Support Team
- Town
- Warrington
- Salary
- £31,049 - £37,796 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 15/04/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Education Mental Health Practitioner
Band 5
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Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust celebrates diversity and promotes equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect.
We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and also particularly encourage applications from ethnically diverse, disabled and LGBTQIA+ people that are under-represented in our workforce. Furthermore we welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces personnel as we recognise the benefits of the values, skills, training and experience that they bring to their work with us. We encourage all applicants to share their equality information with us.
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Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Qualified Education Mental Health Practitioner (EMHP) to join a dynamic Mental Health Support Team service in Warrington schools on a permanent basis.
Successful candidates will be employed on a full-time basis based within Warrington and will play a key role as member of the Warrington Mental Health Support Team.
They will have the responsibility for delivering the 3 core functions of the MHST, to support the mild to moderate mental health and wellbeing needs for children and young people.
Potential candidates will have already successfully completed the HEE commissioned 1yr 'Education Mental Health Practitioner' course or the 'Children and Young People's Wellbeing Practitioner' course.
Those currently undertaking the EMHP training and are near completion will also be considered.
PLEASE DO NOT APPLY IF YOU DO NOT MEET THESE CRITERIA.
Main duties of the job
As an Education Mental Health Practitioner, the post holder will provide high standards of evidence-based client centred care to children and young people with mild to moderate mental health needs within the THRIVE Framework for service delivery.
The post holder will be expected to provide interventions to children and young people and their families / carers referred into the service.
As the post is identified within the CYPMH strategy, it is expected the role will continue to develop in line with national and local initiatives.
The post holder will demonstrate an attitude which respects and values service users’ and their carers.
The post holder will embrace the core values of the organisation and adopt the principles of Recovery and THRIVE. These principles will recognise the need to:
Promote safe practices
Value the aims of service users
Work in partnership and offer meaningful choice
Be optimistic about the possibilities of meaningful change
Value social inclusion
Working for our organisation
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
PRINCIPAL RESPONSIBILITIES -
The role aims to promote the early detection and prevention of mental health problems across the whole school and strengthen links between schools and mental health services.
The post holder will provide direct, ongoing support to schools around mental health and wellbeing. This will include:
Delivering evidence-based interventions for mild moderate mental health issues.
Support designated school staff to develop a whole school approach.
Give advice to school staff and liaise with other mental health services to help children and young people get the right support.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Successful completion of the HEE commissioned 1yr ‘Education Mental Health Practitioner’ (EMHP) course.
- Must have professional qualification and registration with an appropriate accrediting body (BPS/BABCP) or ability to attain this within 12 months of employment. Registration must be maintained throughout employment.
Desirable criteria
- A further relevant degree qualification
- Teaching qualification
- Youth Mental Health First Aid trained
Values
Essential criteria
- Continuous improvement
- Accountability
- Respectfulness
- Enthusiasm
- Support
- High professional standards
- Transparency and honesty
- Change oriented
- Responsive to service users
- Engaging leadership style
- Strong customer service belief
- Discreet
- Change oriented
Knowledge & Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of mental health assessments and therapeutic interventions with children and young people with mental health problems and their families.
- Experience of working with a wide variety of patient groups including a degree of professionalism in the face of emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse
- Experienced in and the ability to undertake case management.
- Experience of delivering training
- Experience in consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
- Interpersonal skills to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing, in order to convey clinically sensitive information to family members of all ages and to a wide range of lay and professional persons, within and outside of the NHS.
- Demonstrate the ability to coordinate care plan / risk management plan
- Awareness of legislation and strategic frameworks and their implications for both clinical practice and professional management in relation to the full range of client groups
- Knowledge of educational environments
- Knowledge of safeguarding issues
- Knowledge of capacity and consent issues including Gillick competence
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of research design and methodology consistent with practice to at least Degree level or equivalent.
- Knowledge of children services.
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of therapies in specific difficult to treat groups
Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to learn in a variety of settings and using a variety of learning methods.
- Computer literate
- Ability to identify and provide appropriate means of support to carers exposed to distressing situations and challenging behaviours.
- Ability to identify and employ as appropriate clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of clinical practice
- Demonstrate a commitment to always respecting and displaying the Trust Values
- Ability to personally manage a sensitive, traumatic and potentially emotionally distressing caseload
- Ability to carry out 1:1 therapeutic mental health intervention with children.
- Ability to carry out 1:1 therapeutic mental health intervention with families.
- Ability to conduct group parenting programmes
- Ability to work within educational settings to increase mental health awareness within the staff group
- Ability to conduct mental health assessments of children and young people.
- Ability to make an assessment of risk and to record and communicate it appropriately
- Ability to take appropriate action to mitigate or manage risk.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Able to travel to meet the requirements of the post
- Team player
- Excellent time management and organisational skills
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
- Dave Mulholland
- Job title
- Assistant Operational Manger
- Email address
- [email protected]
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