Educational Mental Health Practitioner | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 12 Ionawr 2026 |
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| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £31,049 - £37,796 Per annum |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 11 Chwefror 2026 |
| Lleoliad: | Warrington, WA2 8WA |
| Cwmni: | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 7718325/350-CC7718325 |
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Qualified Education Mental Health Practitioner (Mental Health Support Teams in Schools Knowsley) Band 5
An opportunity has arisen for a hard working and compassionate professional to join the newly established children and young peoples Mental Health Support Team in Knowsley (permanent post).
Shortlisting planned for 19 January.
Interviews planned for 26 January.
Delivering evidence-based intervention for children and young people in education setting with mild to moderate mental health problems
Helping children and young people within these 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
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Clinical
To hold a caseload of both specialist and generic work dependent on clinical competence
To undertake assessments and treatment based upon a conceptual framework and employing research-based evidence.
To provide direct therapeutic interventions in line with the grading of the post, including assessments, formulation and therapeutic input into children, young people and families referred into the service with mild to moderate mental health problems.
Delivering evidence-based intervention for children and young people in education
Help children and young people within these settings who present with more severe problems to rapidly access more specialist services.
Support and facilitate 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 service.
Undertake risk assessments and care plans accordingly, in line with the THRIVE framework
To work in ways that are sensitive to the needs of children and young people and families from a wide range of racial, cultural, and religious backgrounds.
To participate directly in the team’s duty rotas in line with the grading
To exercise responsibility within supervisory, managerial and accountability structures, for the assessment, treatment, and discharge of clients.
To deliver care, ensuring effective assessment, care planning and risk management processes are maintained. Involve the views of children, their families, referring agents and other professionals involved in the network of care
To produce a clinical formulation and intervention plan founded on evidence-based practice in co-operation with the child young person and carers.
To hold responsibility for standards of clinical practice within area of
To work jointly and collaboratively with other team members in order to enhance and develop the provision of services to young people and their To have an effective knowledge base of other modalities to engage and work effectively with colleagues in other disciplines.U
Undertake risk management for all children including the protective and risk factors present in the network of significant relationships.
Identify and respond appropriately to child protection issues, as described with the guidelines of Local Safeguarding Children’s Board and Merseycare NHS Foundation Trust safeguarding
Maintain clear and comprehensive electronic clinical records, to ensure information is accurate and complies with Data Protection Act and professional body and Trust standards.
To engage with using routine outcome measures as clinically appropriate including their use in clinical practice and inputting data into clinical records.
To work collaboratively with children, young people and their families and contribute to the trust’s service user participation agenda.
Communication
To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner information concerning the assessment, formulation, and treatment plans of clients and to monitor and evaluate progress during the course of the care.
Attend Child Protection Case conferences as a representative from children and young people’s mental health services.
Provide and receive sensitive or contentious information to children, young people, and families and to other professionals within young people’s services.
Communicate effectively with children, young people, and their careers, when in crisis and in challenging family situations.
Organise and facilitate multi-agency meetings and
Elicit sensitive information using engagement/ communication skills which are appropriate to the young person’s stage of development.
Work, as part of an integrated multi professional team, ensuring good communication and working relationships with other professionals.
Provide written reports detailing the progress of the mental health
Teaching, Training and Supervision
Participate in regular supervision, engage in reflective practice, and committed to continued support
To provide specific training and /or presentations schools, other agencies, statutory and voluntary, and promote and deliver specialist training programmes.
To contribute to training placements for a range of professional disciplines from different background so that trainees acquire the necessary skills, competencies, and experience to contribute effectively to positive change. To assess trainees’ competencies and write placement reports for trainees in line with Trust, professional body regulations.
Work collaboratively with partner agencies within the principles of This will include joint working; consultation; and training aiming to develop joint working across agencies.
Completion of preceptorship programme
To engage in and respond to personal development supervision to improve competencies and clinical practice.
Maintain registration requirements in accordance with the appropriate professional body in line with their professional qualification.
Be accountable for own clinical practice and professional
Management, Policy and Service Development
Contribute to the service’s evidence-based practice by engaging with audits and evaluations
To contribute to recruitment processes and the induction of recruited employees
Research and Service Evaluation
To maintain an up-to-date knowledge of the evidence, base in relation to mental health knowledge and other interventions.
To contribute to planning and implementing systems for evaluation and monitoring of therapeutic practice and outcomes of clinical work within the service.
Participate in research, evaluation, and audit in response to the clinical and professional interest of the post, and to monitor standards, quality, and consumer reaction to the provision of services in accordance with NICE guidance.
Participate in appropriate Quality assurance programmes and research as directed.
Continuing Professional Development
To receive and engage in regular clinical supervision in accordance with Trust Clinical Governance Standards and the Code of Practice and ethical guidelines of professional body.
To contribute to the development and maintenance of the highest professional standards of practice through active participation in internal and external CPD training in consultation with the post holders service manager to meet professional body requirements for CPD and registration.
To contribute to the development of best practice in the service by taking part in regular supervision and appraisal and maintaining awareness of current developments in the field.
To maintain professional body
Ensure the maintenance of standards of own professional practice
Postholder’s employer and the Higher Education Institution in which they are enrolled.
Ensure appropriate adherence to any new recommendations or guidelines
Ensure that confidentiality is always adhered to
Ensure that any risks or issues related to the safety and wellbeing of anyone the postholder comes into contact within the course of their professional duties are communicated and shared with appropriate parties in order to maintain individual safety and the public interest.
Ensure clear objectives are identified, discussed, and reviewed with supervisor and senior colleagues on a regular basis as part of continuing professional development.
Participate in individual performance review and respond to agreed
Keep all records up to date in relation to Continuous Professional Development and the requirements of the post and ensure personal development plans maintains up to date specialist knowledge of latest theoretical and service delivery models/developments.
Attend relevant educational opportunities
Attend a one day Just and Learning & Civility and Respect training
Be an ambassador for Just & Learning and Civility & Respect
Positively advocate the just and learning culture within your Team
Be a confident supporter and implementer of the Trust CARES Values including Civility & Respect within your team.
Support their team/ services to create a positive environment for Just and Learning
Participate in Just and Learning Culture
Bring Just and Learning Culture updates/ information to the attention of team members and other MCT colleagues they work with.
Support and encourage the sharing of concerns about the safety and quality of care with senior leaders with the aim of improving safety and quality.
Actively participate in creating an open culture within your team so that concerns and difficulties can be discussed safely and respectfully.
Speaking up in the event that they are exposed to incivility between colleagues in the workplace I will speak up.
Listening and understanding others who have concerns and taking a collaborative approach to work towards a solution to improve civility and respect.
This advert closes on Thursday 22 Jan 2026