Job summary
- Main area
- Children and Adolescent Mental Health
- Grade
- Band 4
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 319-7455843LH
- Employer
- Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Blyth Central Family Hub
- Town
- Blyth
- Salary
- £27,485 - £30,162 Per Annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 07/10/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Educational Mental Health Practitioner in Training
Band 4
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 Educational Mental Health Practitioners to join the Northumberland ‘Be You’ Mental Health Support Team. These posts build on the success of our current Be You teams in Hexham, Blyth, Bedlington, Ashington, Alnwick, Coquet, Cramlington and Seaton Valley. Post holders will be trained to deliver the 3 core functions within the existing partnership of schools.
These training posts will work alongside Education Mental Health Practitioners and Senior Wellbeing practitioners, supporting pupils with mild to moderate mental health needs. The posts will also work with the Be You OTs, Peer Mentor and a Designated Senior Mental Health Lead in schools Coordinator. We work closley with colleagues from Northumberland Council , Educational Psychologist, assistants and voluntary partner Cygnus.
During your training year you will develop a core skills and knowledge in the 3 core functions of a mental health in schools’ team. This will include clinical skills and knowledge in low intensity, individual and group evidence-based interventions in school settings. You will provide advice and support to improve whole school approaches to the emotional well-being of pupils. With support from Senior Wellbeing Practitioners within the service, the role also includes the facilitation of staff training, consultation, and signposting to other services .
Main duties of the job
These posts will be trained to deliver the 3 core functions of a mental health support team in schools. Supporting and facilitating staff in education settings to identify and where appropriate manage issues related to mental health and wellbeing.
To provide advice, support and signposting to schools to ensure that children have access to the right source of emotional well-being and mental health support across the mental health pathways in Northumberland . To work closely with school settings and members of the Be You team and Designated Senior Mental health Leads to deliver whole schools approaches to promote positive well-being and evidenced based prevention programmes.
These posts will involve the completion of a 12-month training programme on the Post graduate Diploma in Emotional Wellbeing in the Educational Environment (EMHP) at the University of Northumbria commencing in January 2026. The recruitment process will be led by Northumbria Health Care Foundation Trust as the employing service, in collaboration with the University of Northumbria. The interview process will ensure that both the clinical and academic requirements of the programme can be met.
Post holders will be required to meet the work experience entry requirements for the Trust and the academic requirements for the University of Northumbria at Newcastle.
This post falls within the provisions of Agenda for Change Annex 20 - Development of Professional Roles, whereby upon completion of an agreed set of competencies you may move onto the next pay band without the need for an application for a post at a higher level.
For further information on Annex 20, please see:
http://www.nhsemployers.org/tchandbook/annex-16-to-20/annex-20-development-of-professional-roles
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
- Be educationally supervised, supported and assessed oneself to assess and deliver outcome focused, evidence-based interventions in educational settings for children and young people experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties.
- Developing 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.
- Developing and practicing 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.
- Developing and learning 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Under supervision, undertake accurate assessments of risk to self and others.
- Engage along with more senior staff in the signposting of referrals for children and young people with more complex needs to the relevant service.
- Engage in 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Successful post holders will be placed within the Primary mental health work service and will commence a 12 month Post Graduate Diploma in Mental Health and Emotional Wellbeing Studies in the Education Environment (EMHP) at the University of Northumbria Newcastle in January 2026 . As these training posts are a Level 7 Masters level programme aimed at developing trainees into qualified Education Mental Health Practitioners (EMHPs), entry to the programme will be through a value based interview within NHCFT leading to subsequent employment as a trainee EMHP with NHCFT.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Good solid basic literacy and numeracy qualifications at a minimum of level 2
- Applicants must have as a minimum a Foundation degree, DipHE, HND or equivalent this will enable applicants to access the degree level training for the post. Or an equivalent level of relevant experience, with a proven record of previous learning or formal study in child development, wellbeing or mental health
Experience and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Experience of working with children and young people and an understanding of the education system in England is highly desirable
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of or experience in coaching and mentoring practices and tools
Other requirements
Essential criteria
- It is an essential requirement of the role that the post holder has a valid driving licence and is either a car owner and able to use the car for work purposes, or has a Trust personal lease vehicle which may be used for the role. However, the Trust would consider making reasonable adjustments to the role, if necessary, to enable a disabled person to undertake the role
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
- Senior PMHW Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0191 2933012
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