Educational Mental Health Practitioner
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 16 Chwefror 2026 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £31,049 - £37,796 Per Annum |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 18 Mawrth 2026 |
| Lleoliad: | Northumberland locality TBC at interview, NE24 1DX |
| Cwmni: | Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 7789965/319-7789965LH |
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A Vacancy at Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.
We have an exciting opportunity for 2 qualified Educational Mental Health Practitioners to join the Northumberland Primary Mental Health Team. These posts will work directly into the Northumberland Be You Mental Health Support Teams.
We are looking for an enthusiastic, dynamic and self-motivated individuals with a passion for delivering early intervention and innovative new models of working in children's mental health.
The post holders will be responsible for delivering the 3 core functions of the EMHP role. These roles sit within the 'getting help 'sector of the Thrive model.
Our established ‘getting help service' provides excellent clinical, case management and peer led clinical skills supervision arrangements, training and CPD.
We support a blended /hybrid model of working recognising the value of home life balance. We will ensure we consider suitable arrangements are made to your work and home base to guarantee suitable travel expenses are provided to support in this role.
Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.
The role will involve delivering a range of evidenced based low intensity psychological interventions for children and young people with mild / moderate need. These will be delivered individually and in small group based programmes. This will also include the facilitation of a range of psychoeducation sessions and staff training.
The role will provide support to schools to improve their the whole schools approach to emotional well-being.
The post holder will also deliver a consultation and signposting role to a range of early help, targeted and specialist support services supporting children and young peoples emotional health and wellbeing.
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres.
We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.
The role involves delivering on the 3 core functions of the EMHP role within a Mental Health Support Team: delivering 1:1 low intensity intervention, whole school delivery and providing an advisory and consultative role.
The role will involve holding a caseload, managing this in terms of delivering intervention and supporting through to discharge. There will be close working with education settings to support the delivery of the whole school approach.
We have a robust supervision structure in place and the post holders will take an active participation in both clinical and case management supervision and the group/peer supervision arrangements we have in place.
Part of the delivery will liaising with our system partners and contributing to the wider contribution across the emotional and mental health pathway in Northumberland.
To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which:
(a) engages, enables and empowers others
(b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and
(c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.
This advert closes on Monday 2 Mar 2026
We have an exciting opportunity for 2 qualified Educational Mental Health Practitioners to join the Northumberland Primary Mental Health Team. These posts will work directly into the Northumberland Be You Mental Health Support Teams.
We are looking for an enthusiastic, dynamic and self-motivated individuals with a passion for delivering early intervention and innovative new models of working in children's mental health.
The post holders will be responsible for delivering the 3 core functions of the EMHP role. These roles sit within the 'getting help 'sector of the Thrive model.
Our established ‘getting help service' provides excellent clinical, case management and peer led clinical skills supervision arrangements, training and CPD.
We support a blended /hybrid model of working recognising the value of home life balance. We will ensure we consider suitable arrangements are made to your work and home base to guarantee suitable travel expenses are provided to support in this role.
Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.
The role will involve delivering a range of evidenced based low intensity psychological interventions for children and young people with mild / moderate need. These will be delivered individually and in small group based programmes. This will also include the facilitation of a range of psychoeducation sessions and staff training.
The role will provide support to schools to improve their the whole schools approach to emotional well-being.
The post holder will also deliver a consultation and signposting role to a range of early help, targeted and specialist support services supporting children and young peoples emotional health and wellbeing.
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres.
We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.
The role involves delivering on the 3 core functions of the EMHP role within a Mental Health Support Team: delivering 1:1 low intensity intervention, whole school delivery and providing an advisory and consultative role.
The role will involve holding a caseload, managing this in terms of delivering intervention and supporting through to discharge. There will be close working with education settings to support the delivery of the whole school approach.
We have a robust supervision structure in place and the post holders will take an active participation in both clinical and case management supervision and the group/peer supervision arrangements we have in place.
Part of the delivery will liaising with our system partners and contributing to the wider contribution across the emotional and mental health pathway in Northumberland.
To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which:
(a) engages, enables and empowers others
(b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and
(c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.
This advert closes on Monday 2 Mar 2026