Job summary
- Main area
- Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- 12 months (Fixed term)
- Hours
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Home or remote working
- Compressed hours
- Annualised hours
- Job ref
- 267-OC7200492
- Employer
- Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Raglan House
- Town
- Oxford
- Salary
- £37,338 - £44,962 pro-rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 19/06/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 25/06/2025
Employer heading

EMHP Supervisor/Senior Wellbeing Practitioner - Oxford
Band 6
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust has been rated as Good by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
We are a responsive and innovative Foundation Trust that places our values of Caring, Safe and Excellent at the heart of everything we do. We take great pride in our staff and believe that investing in you is key to us achieving our vision of outstanding care delivered by outstanding people.
We work with a wide range of partner organisations to deliver care and support to people in their own homes and from a number of hospitals and community bases. We focus on delivering care as close to home as possible for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset.
We actively support anti-racism, equality, diversity, and inclusion so, if you’re excited about this job opportunity and you meet our Trust values, but feel unsure about applying, then please get in touch and we will be happy to have a conversation with you.
We are also committed to increasing diversity in the workforce, that is why we actively encourage applications from those groups of people who are currently under-represented, which include amongst others: people with disabilities; men from all socio-economic backgrounds; people from diverse ethnic backgrounds; and people from the LGBTQIA+ community.
Good luck and we hope to hear from you.
Job overview
This is an exciting time of growth and change within the Oxford Health NHS Trust as our Mental Help Support Teams (MHST ) Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) are currently working collaboratively with children and young people, and partners to deliver the Governments Programme for mental health support to be available in schools.
To support the operational delivery of our Mental Health Support Teams, we are looking to recruit a Supervisor to be based in Oxford City to cover a maternity leave.
Main duties of the job
On a day-to-day basis, you will be overseeing the workload of EMHPs, conducting both Case Management and Clinical Skills supervision, as well as holding a small caseload of patients yourself.
Typical tasks within this might include reviewing suitability for treatment within the MHST, gathering information and facilitating onward referrals, and liaising with schools as part of the wider MHST.
Working for our organisation
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust provides physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset.
Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics and people’s homes, delivering care as close to home as possible
Our vision is that no matter who you are or where you are, you will tell us that you receive: “Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team”
Our values are: “Caring, safe and excellent”
At Oxford Health we offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include:
- Excellent opportunities for career progression
- Access to tailored individual and Trust wide learning and development
- 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
- NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers
- Competitive pension scheme
- Lease car scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Mental Health First Aiders
- Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists may apply)
- Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Some of your responsibilities:
To be trained and confident in the use of CYP IAPT principles, evidence based interventions and routine outcome measures.
To manage a defined caseload of children and young people presenting with emotional health and wellbeing difficulties in schools
To co-ordinate and deliver individualised care packages / programmes for children and young people and evaluate these programmes, ensuring high standards of practice in accordance with national guidelines and trust policy.
To provide day to day clinical and supervisory support for the Education Mental Health Practitioners (EMHP).
To provide specialist mental health advice, consultation and signposted using an outcome based triage model, to schools.
To provide training to schools staff, parents and carers in conjunction with colleagues.
Within schools actively promote the whole school based approach to developing and maintaining emotional health and well-being.
To act as an autonomous practitioner with an understanding of own limitations and recognition of when to seek support.
If you have any questions or queries regarding the role, or our team, please get in contact with Jo Colley (see below)
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Post Graduate or Graduate Certificate in Brief Evidence Based Interventions for Children and Young People with Common Health Problems (CWP or EMHP) from a Health Education England (HEE) Quality Assured EMHP Training Course (prior to January 2023) or a British Psychological Society (BPS) Accredited EMHP training course (January 2023 onwards).
- Post Graduate certificate for supervising low intensity CBT interventions
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working with children and young people, their families, and others
- Experience of working and liaising with a wide variety of agencies and stakeholders
- Working with children/young people presenting with a range of moderate mental health presentations.
- Working within a community mental health setting.
Skills/Abilities
Essential criteria
- Excellent communication skills including the ability to engage with children/young people of all ages experiencing a wide range of mental health presentations
- Ability to carry out 1:1 therapeutic mental health assessments and interventions with children and families,
Desirable criteria
- Ability to adhere to defensible documentation and provide clear reports
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
- Jo Colley
- Job title
- Deputy Clinical Team Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01865 903722
- Additional information
At Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust we want to employ people not just with experience, but with the aptitude and motivation to succeed and whose values resonate with our own.
Therefore, if you don’t meet all the requirements of the role and are unsure about applying but are excited about the opportunity, please do get in touch. We will be happy to discuss the requirements in more detail ahead of making a written application.
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