Trainee Educational Mental Health Practitioner

Location: Schools across the borough of Southwark

Contract: Fixed Term Contract until March 2027 dependent upon completion of Diploma

Salary: £26,000 rising to £28,000 upon successful completion of probation. Salary will increase further subject to completion of year-long diploma

Hours: 37.5 per week

Join our clients ambitious and passionate team, which provides a range of vital therapeutic interventions across primary and secondary schools in Southwark. The Mental Health Support Team (MHST) works to improve children, young people and their families’ mental health and wellbeing through a range of early intervention and prevention programmes across the diverse borough of Southwark.

The organisation is part of a national, government-funded, pioneering programme transforming mental health and wellbeing provision for children and young people via early intervention. The service was launched in Southwark in January 2022 and currently works across 27 schools, with plans to expand over the academic year. The organisation is dynamic, flexible and diverse, representing the community, which they serve.

The Role

They are looking for a highly motivated candidate, from the local community, able to achieve high standards of academic excellence at King’s College London, and work within their dynamic service whilst studying.

Staff are given the opportunity to participate in regular CPD opportunities to support their professional growth. The organisation’s Youth Team also provide whole team Wellbeing Days allowing colleagues to take the day off from their regular workday to socialise and participate in a range of activities to support positive wellbeing and team cohesion.

The organisation work closely with their Youth Forum, which is led by young people from within the community in which they serve. The Youth Forum is central to ensuring the young person’s voice is always at the heart and forefront of the work they do, enabling them to support positive change in young people’s lives in the ways that are the most important and meaningful to them.

The EMHP role is a unique paid training opportunity, where candidates study a one-year Diploma in Education Mental Health Practice at King’s College London (Denmark Hill campus), whilst working alongside existing MHST staff to deliver evidence-based individual low-intensity CBT interventions with children, young people and their parents/carers. EMHPs also deliver one-off workshops within schools and in the community, group work, remote courses and staff training.

Applicants will need to be ready to start work in early January 2025 and posts cannot be offered to candidates unless they can guarantee this start date.

Skills and Qualifications

• Experience of and passion for working with children and young people
• Experience of and passion for working in mental health and wellbeing.
• Knowledge and understanding of the barriers children and families face when accessing support
• An awareness of working to safeguard children, including relevant training
• The ability to work to a high academic standard expected at postgraduate level
• An understanding of the local community of Southwark

Benefits

Employees receive Health Shield benefits that mean staff are able to claim money back, for a wide variety of wellbeing services including dental work, optician’s appointments and massages.

To Apply

If you feel you are a suitable candidate and would like to work for this reputable organisation, please do not hesitate to apply.

Closing date for applications: 12:00, 7th October 2024

The first round of interviews will be conducted remotely