Job summary
- Main area
- Child and Adolescent Mental Health
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 319-7504485IO
- Employer
- Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Blyth Hospital
- Town
- Blyth
- Salary
- £38,682 - £46,580 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 20/10/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Education Mental Health Practitioner
NHS AfC: Band 6
Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022). Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this is…the Northumbria Way!
What the Northumbria Way means for you:
- Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
- Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
- A range of flexible working opportunities
- Generous annual leave and pension scheme
- Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
- Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
- On-site nursery places via salary sacrifice
- Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank
We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts – rated ‘outstanding’ overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.
We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise – a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people’s lives, such as education, employment and the economy.
If Northumbria Healthcare sounds like somewhere you could belong we would love to hear from you. Visit our website to catch up on our latest news.
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Job overview
Northumbria Healthcare Foundation Trust (NHCFT) has an opportunity to recruit trainee Senior Education Mental Health Practitioners to join the Northumberland ‘Be You’ Mental Health Support Team (MHST). Our current Be You teams are in Hexham, Blyth, Bedlington, Ashington, Alnwick, Coquet, Cramlington and Seaton Valley.
These posts involve the completion of a 12-month Senior Wellbeing Practitioner course through the University of Northumbria commencing in January 2026, whilst working and delivering the 3 core functions of an MHST. You will receive both University and service support and supervision throughout the training programme.
These training posts will work alongside Education Mental Health Practitioners, supporting pupils with mild to moderate mental health needs. In addition, you also work with the Be You OTs, Peer Mentor and a Designated Senior Mental Health Lead in schools Coordinator. We work closely with colleagues from Northumberland Council , Educational Psychologist, assistants and voluntary partner Cygnus.
As a Senior EMHP you will also provide clinical and case management supervision to both trainee and qualified EMHPs.
Main duties of the job
During your training year you will continue to deliver on the 3 core functions of an MHST: one-to-one support for young people, whole school delivery and providing advice and guidance. As part of the Senior Wellbeing Practitioner training you will develop enhanced clinical skills which will then become part of your role as you progress through the training programme.
The post will require you to support trainee and qualified Education Mental Health Practitioners within the MHST both informally and through formal clinical and case management supervision arrangements. You will have your own supervision and line management arrangements in place to ensure you are supported in your role too.
Post holders will be required to meet the work experience entry requirements for the Trust and the academic requirements for the University of Northumbria.
Working for our organisation
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality – opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To provide consolidated & enhanced clinical skills in the role of a Senior
EMHP.
To deliver evidence-based intervention for children and young people in
education and community settings with mild to moderate mental health
problems.
To provide support to other professionals working with young people by
way of whole school approach and consultation methods
Demonstrating and practicing evidence-based intervention independently
and where appropriate with guidance and supervisory support.
To work in partnership with children, young people, their families and
educators in the development of plans for the specific intervention and
agreeing outcomes.
Demonstrating confidence in developing the skills required in order to
enable children and young people in education, and where appropriate
parents/carers to collaborate and coproduce their own agreed plan of care
there will be an expectation to work independently within service remote
working arrangements
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.
To contribute to decision making and to 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.
To conduct, initiate, and undertake accurate assessments of risk to self and
others
As a senior EMHP to support EMHPs under your supervision in the
signposting of referrals for children and young people with more complex
needs to the relevant service.
Engage in and provide robust managerial and clinical supervision,
identifying the scope of practice of the individual postholder within the role,
and working safely within that scope.
Gain and practice a range of interventions related to provision of
information and support for evidence based psychological treatments,
primarily guided self-help.
To 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. To co-ordinate and deliver a range of psycho
education and training to children/ young people parents/carers and school
staff based on evidence based knowledge.
Ensure that confidentiality is always protected. Ensure that any risks or issues related to the safety and wellbeing of anyone the postholder comes into contact with, in the course of their professional duties, are communicated and shared with appropriate parties in order to maintain individual safety and the public interest.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Degree or an equivalent level of relevant experience
- Basic literacy and numeracy qualifications
- Relevant knowledge acquired through successful completion of post graduate diploma in Mental Health and Emotional Wellbeing in education environment
- Relevant knowledge acquired through successful completion of post graduate diploma in Mental Health and Emotional Wellbeing in education environment
- Membership and registration of relevant professional body
Desirable criteria
- Relevant postqualification training that may have been attended in an EMHP to remove
- A qualification in delivering CYP IAPT low intensity supervision
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
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
- Suzanne Wile
- Job title
- Primary Mental Health Team Senior Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0191 2933012