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Trainee Educational Mental Health Practitioner | East London NHS Foundation Trust
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 03 Hydref 2025 |
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| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £27,485 - £30,162 per annum |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 16 Tachwedd 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | London, N4 2NU |
| Cwmni: | East London NHS Foundation Trust |
| Math o swydd: | Cytundeb |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 7527209/363-SSLB7527209 |
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Mental Health in Schools Support Team (MHST) Educational Mental Health Practitioner
X4 Posts Band 4 Full-Time
City & Hackney CAMHS are excited to be recruiting to 4 x full time posts as Educational Mental Health Practitioners in Schools Support Team. This service commenced in September 2019 and it has now received funding to increase the number of MHSTs in City & Hackney as part of Wave 14 roll out January 2026.
In line with the government’s priority to increase access and availability of mental health and wellbeing support for children and young people, the Education Mental Health Practitioner (EMHP) role is an exciting opportunity to deliver evidence-based early interventions for children and young people, working across both educational settings and healthcare sectors in England.
Successful candidates will be offered a full-time educational programme specifically for the role. The course fees are fully funded, and the salary support for the job post will be funded at NHS Agenda for Change (AfC) at beginning Band 4. You will gain credits towards completing with a postgraduate degree diploma level qualification, with potential for employment on completion of training with a starting salary projected to be based on the NHS AfC Band scale. Re-banding to Band 5 will be subject to successful completion of diploma.
NB. A permanent position cannot be guaranteed within City & Hackney CAMHS post qualification, however it may be possible depending on the service needs at that time.
Under supervision and with support, to develop knowledge and practice skills in:
· Delivering evidence-based intervention for children and young people, with mild to moderate mental health problems, in aneducation 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
· To evidence development of those skills with associated knowledge acquisition to record and evidence progression towards an academic award and demonstrable practical ability.
Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.
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 a service 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 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.
https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/transforming-children-and-young-peoples-mental-health-provision-a-green-paper
PLEASE NOTE:You will need to submit an application to University College London for a place on the Postgraduate Diploma in Education Mental Health Practice,in addition to your job application.
Please click the links below to apply and find out more:
UCL AF EMHP Programme Brochure
Apply for the Postgraduate Diploma in Education Mental Health Practice at UCL.
This advert closes on Sunday 16 Nov 2025