4 x Trainee Educational Mental Health Practitioners- Harlow & Epping

This is a training role within the Green Paper for Transforming children and young
people's mental health programme. The post holder will work within Mind in West
Essex providing low intensity interventions whilst undertaking a programme of
training for this role. The training post will equip the post-holder to provide a range of
cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) based self- management interventions to
children and young people with mild to moderate anxiety and depression and/or
behavioural difficulties. The post- holder will attend all taught and self-study days
required by the education provider, as specified within the EMHP curriculum and

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work in the service for the remaining days of the week using their newly developed
skills.
The post holder will work with children, young people and parents with different
cultural backgrounds and ages, using interpreters when necessary and should be
committed to equal opportunities.
Under supervision and with support, to develop knowledge and practice skills in:

• Delivering evidence-based 1:1, group and whole class interventions for

children and young people, with mild to moderate mental health problems, in
an education setting.

• Helping children and young people within these settings who present with

more severe problems to rapidly access more specialist service.

• Supporting and facilitating staff in education settings to identify, and where

appropriate, manage issues related to mental health and wellbeing.

• Working with and within educational environments to afford better access to

specialist mental health services.

• Providing evidence of the development of those skills with associated

knowledge acquisition to record and evidence progression towards an
academic award and demonstrable practical ability.

• Working within education settings to deliver a whole school approach in

relation to mental/emotional health. This will also include upskilling school
staff.
Key Task Areas and Responsibilities:
The successful post holder will:
Clinical and Client Care

• Be educationally supervised, supported and assessed to deliver outcome

focused, evidence-based interventions in educational settings for children and
young people experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties,
primarily guided self-help.

• Develop 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.

• Develop and practice 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.

• Develop and learn the skills required in order to enable children and young

people in education, and where appropriate parents/carers to collaborate and
co-produce 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.

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• 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.


• Where risk is identified to implement appropriate procedures to maintain

safety

• Learn, understand, rationalise and adhere to the protocols within the

educational service to which the post holder is attached.

• 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 post-holder 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.

• Practice, evidence, reflect on and demonstrate an ability to manage one's

own caseload in conjunction with the requirements of the team.

• Attend multi-disciplinary and multi-agency meetings relating to referrals or

children and young people in treatment, where appropriate, both for personal
educational benefit in discussion with supervisors, or to provide direct
assistance

• Keep coherent records of all training and clinical activity in line with both

health and education service protocols and use these records and outcome
data to inform decision making.

• Complete all requirements relating to data collection.


• Show evidence of working within a collaborative approach, involving a range

of relevant others when indicated. Specifically, work in collaboration with
teachers and other educational staff, parents, children, young people and the
wider community to enhance and broaden access to mental health services.

• 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.