Trainee Educational Mental Health Practitioner


Company:	NHS Jobs
Salary:	£28,392 to £31,157 a year
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	Warrington, WA2 8WA
Job type:	Contract
Posting date:	7 Sept 2026
Closing date:	9 Sept 2026

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Summary

Developing skills in supporting children and young people experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties, their parents/carers, families, and educators in the self-management of presenting difficulties. Developing and practicing evidence-based skills under supervisory support of working in partnership with children, young people, their families, and educators in the development of plans for the specific intervention and agreeing outcomes. Developing and learning the skills required to enable children and young people in education, and where appropriate parents/carers to collaborate and coproduce their own agreed plan of care. Show evidence in a variety of forms that at all times assessment and intervention is provided from an inclusive values base, which recognises and respects diversity. Discuss with supervisors and agree to accept appropriate referrals for children and young people in educational settings, according to agreed local and national and local referral routes, processes and procedures. Under supervision, undertake accurate assessments of risk to self and others Learn, understand, rationalise, and adhere to the protocols within the educational service to which the postholder is attached. Engage along with more senior staff in the signposting of referrals for children and young people with more complex needs to the relevant service. Engage in robust managerial and clinical supervision, identifying the scope of practice of the individual postholder within the role and working safely within that scope. Gain and practice a range of interventions related to provision of information and support for evidence based psychological treatments, primarily guided self-help. Practice, evidence, reflect on and demonstrate an ability to manage ones own caseload in conjunction with the requirements of the team. Attend multi-disciplinary and multi-agency meetings relating to referrals or children and young people in treatment, where appropriate, both for personal educational benefit in discussion with supervisors, or to provide direct assistance. Keep coherent records of all training and clinical activity in line with both health and education service protocols and use these records and outcome data to inform decision making Complete all requirements relating to data collection. . Show evidence of working within a collaborative approach, involving a range of relevant others when indicated. Specifically, work in collaboration with teachers and other educational staff, parents, children, young people, and the wider community to enhance and broaden access to mental health services Contribute to the development of individual or group clinical materials or training materials and go on to develop further such materials as falls within own degree of competence. Training and Supervision Attend and fulfil all the requirements of the training element of the post including practical, academic and practice-based assessments. As well as attendance at the University for training, fulfil private study requirements to enhance learning and prepare assignments for examination, for at least one day a week. Apply learning from the training program directly to practice through the course. Receive practice tutoring from educational providers in relation to course work to meet the required standards.. Prepare and present case load information to supervisors within the service on an agreed and scheduled basis, in order to ensure safe practice and the governance obligations of the trainee, supervisor and service are delivered. Respond to and evidence the implementation of improved practice because of supervisor feedback. Engage in and respond to personal development supervision to improvecompetences and practice. Be involved in the evaluation of the course. Disseminate research and service evaluation findings through presentations and supervisory discussions.

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