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SalaryEducational Mental Health Practitioner (Band 5)
Location: London
Salary: £32,000 per annum
Job Type: Fixed Term Contract until March 2025
Hours: 37.5 (Applicants for part-time work will be considered on a pro-rata salary)
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's MHST 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 20 schools, with plans to continue expanding over the academic year. The MHST is dynamic, flexible and diverse, representing the community which they serve.
The Role
The organisation is currently seeking a qualified Educational Mental Health Practitioner (EMHP) to join their team. You will work alongside the 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 the wider community, group work, remote courses and staff training.
Applicants should be ready to start work in early May 2024.
Skills and Experience
Applicants to this post must have successfully completed training as an EMHP or CWP and be able to evidence their use of the necessary knowledge and capabilities in CYP IAPT principles, evidence-based interventions and routine outcome measures.
To Apply
If you feel you are a suitable candidate and would like to work for this reputable organisation, then please do not hesitate in applying.
Our client is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all members of the community. They are particularly seeking applicants from under-represented backgrounds including but not exclusive to, males, transgender people and those from an Asian background.
