Trainee Educational Mental Health Practitioners
| Posting date: | 03 October 2025 |
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| Salary: | £27,485.00 to £30,162.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £27485.00 - £30162.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 13 October 2025 |
| Location: | St Albans, AL4 9XR |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9812-25-0468 |
Summary
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.