Trainee Educational Mental Health Practitioners | Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 03 October 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £27,485 - £30,162 per annum pro rata |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 02 November 2025 |
| Location: | St Albans, AL4 9XR |
| Company: | Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7522272/812-25-SG-TEMHP5 |
Summary
This is an exciting opportunity to train become a fully qualified Educational Mental Health Practitioner and build the Mental Health Support Team (MHST) offering to children, families and schools, who need for mental health support, whilst working creatively with the training to meet the children’s additional needs and support schools.
You will be required to fully participate in the Educational Mental Health Practitioner training course, whilst receiving continual supervision and support.
Please note this advertmay close earlierthan stated if maximum number of applicants reached. Interviews will run from the 3rd - 12th November.Interviews will be run using MS Teams and full details and instructions will be provided to successful candidates.
To attend and fully participate in the Educational Mental Health Practitioner course.
Deliver evidence-based intervention for children and young people in an education setting with mild to moderate mental health problems.
Helping children and young people within school settings who present with more severe problems to rapidly access more specialist services.
Supporting and facilitating staff in education settings to identify and where appropriate manage issues related to mental health and wellbeing.
Working with and within education environments to afford better access to specialist mental health services.
To support schools in developing strategies/activities to promote emotional well-being and positive mental health.
To work with families following the parent as therapist method to support emotional wellbeing within the home.
To support the school to develop their overall whole school approach to emotional wellbeing.
And to use the acquired skills, knowledge, and abilities to deliver a service based within education settings that builds on and reinforces but does not replace those initiatives that already exist within these environments.
The Mental Health Support Team is a National trailblazer scheme offering early intervention mental health support, to children and their families, within schools. The SEND MHST is the only MHST within the country, to offer support to SEND schools across Hertfordshire and West Essex. We currently work in over 50 schools offering tailored support to children with additional needs, learning disabilities, and Autistic Spectrum Disorder aged 5-18. As the only SEND MHST in the country we are also paving the way, and supporting other teams to develop their wellbeing services, for children with additional needs.
Thank you for considering joining us at Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust. You’ll find it a great place to work with many benefits offered to you as a member of our staff
We put our patients, their families and carers at the centre of our vision - Outstanding Services and Healthier Communities
Our staff are proud to be Innovative, Caring and Agile in their work to help achieve the Trust vision
We welcome diversity in our workforce and are interested in applicants from all backgrounds and ages.
The ideal candidate will be:
• Creative and flexible in their approach.
• Have a good understanding of children with additional needs learning styles, and how to adapt practice to support children and their families.
• Able to work and build relationships with a wide variety of professionals, schools, and families.
• Be able to deliver evidence-based interventions for children and young people in education settings.
• Have a good understanding of risk assessing and seek support from supervisor to manage risk.
• Have good basic literacy and numeracy qualifications, at a minimum of level 2.
• Be willing and able to participate fully in supervision.
• Flexible in their approach and have resilience under pressure.
• Able to work both in a team environment and autonomously.
• Able to maintain a high degree of professionalism when working in settings where there is a highly emotive atmosphere.
We can offer you:
• Regular clinical and professional supervision.
• Regular appraisal, personal development planning and opportunities for continuing professional development. This includes specific support with regards to fulfilling the MHST role such as co-facilitating workshops.
• Regular opportunities to meet as a team.
• Regular CPD and Peer Reflection.
• Opportunities to work closely with a multi-disciplinary team including from PALMS and Crisis service, learning from other evidence-based frameworks and approaches.
• Involvement in service development.
• Opportunities to provide line management and clinical supervision to other members of the MHST team.
A full valid driving license and access to a car to use regularly for business purposes is essential (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010).
Word versions of documents are available if needed to allow for any adaptations to be made i.e. font, colour, background, convert to Read Aloud.
This advert closes on Monday 13 Oct 2025
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