Educational Mental Health & Child Well being Practitioner | North London NHS Foundation Trust


Company:	Camden And Islington NHS Foundation Trust
Salary:	£36,943 - £44,900 Per annum including HCAS
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	London, EN2 6NZ
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	28 Sept 2026
Closing date:	28 Oct 2026

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Summary

The qualified Education and Mental Health Practitioners (EMHPs) or Children’s Wellbeing Practitioners (CWPs) or will join this growing team (that includes CAMHS clinicians, Educational psychologists, and trainee EMHPs) to support the work within schools. The post holder will providesupport for children and adolescents with mild moderate emotional and mental health difficulties and deliver evidence-based 1:1 and group interventions in schools, employing CYP-IAPT principles (Children and Young Peoples Improving Access to Psychological Therapies). The post holder will develop relationships with designated mental health leads in schools, alongside CAMHS clinicians / supervisors, and educational psychologists, and help them develop their approaches for mental health and wellbeing in schools. They will gain some experience of teaching, training and consultation through this joint working.

• Manage a caseload and the provision of mental healthcare services, to children and young people with mild to moderate mental health difficulties.

• Holistic assessment of mental health

• Work in partnership with Primary Mental Health, CAMHS, Schools and GPs

• Offer high quality brief outcome focused evidence-based practice

• Develop, support and train CWPs, EMHPs and other colleagues in evidence based, innovate practice within and outside of the organization.

• Provide support to junior colleagues under the direction of a senior colleague.

North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.

Our Five-Year Strategy:

1. We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.

2. With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all

3. We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.

4. We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.

Why NLFT?

• We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities.

• We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.

• NHS Discounts, generous annual leave and NHS pension scheme

• Excellent internal staff networ

In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.

1. Contribute to the assessment, and deliver outcome focused, evidence-based interventions to children and young people experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties.

2. Working in partnership, support children, young people experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties and their families

3. Work in partnership with children, young people and families in the development of plans for the intervention and agreed outcomes.

4. Support and empower children, young people and families to make informed choices about intervention.

5. Undertake assessment of risk to self and others.

6. Adhere to the service referral protocols and signpost unsuitable referrals to the relevant service as necessary

7. Provide a range of information and support for evidence based psychological treatments. This may include guided self-help. This work may be face-to-face, by telephone or via other media.

8. Adhere to an agreed activity contract relating to the overall number of children and young people contacts offered, and sessions carried out per week in order to improve timely access and minimise waiting times.

9. Attend multi-disciplinary meetings relating to referrals or CYP in treatment, where appropriate.

10. Keep coherent records of all activity in line with service protocols and use these records and outcome data to inform decision making. Complete all requirements relating to data collection.

11. Assess and integrate issues relating to transitions, education and training/employment into the overall therapeutic process.

12. Work within a collaborative approach involving a range of relevant others when indicated.

13. Work in collaboration with children, young people and communities to enhance and widen access.

14. To provide a service that is equitable and non-discriminatory in terms of age, gender, ethnicity and disability.

15. Make appropriate referrals to other service providers in the statutory and voluntary sectors and redirect patients to other sources of appropriate support within the local community as required.

16. Develop a ‘local knowledge’ of the locality and its services and facilities, particularly in relation to mental health issues.

17. Educate and involve family members and others in treatment as necessary

18. Provide a service that is flexible as far as possible in terms of clinic hours or other arranged hours.

19. Conduct risk assessments, prepare risk management plans and initiate appropriate action where indicated (including requests for mental health act assessments and referrals to relevant secondary care services), and discuss and notify supervisors and safeguarding leads within the school and trust (as appropriate / required).

20. Along with supervisors, make decisions on suitability of new referrals with advice sought from senior MHST practitioners and / or CAMHS clinicians and supervisors, adhering to the department’s referral protocols, refer unsuitable clients on to the relevant service or back to the referral agent as necessary

21. Assess and integrate issues surrounding work and employment into the overall therapy process.

22. Operate at all times from an inclusive values base which promotes recovery and recognizes and respects diversity.

23. Prepare and present clinical information for all patients on their caseload to clinical case management supervisors within the service on an agreed and scheduled basis, in order to ensure safe practice and the clinical governance obligations of the worker, supervisor and service are delivered.

24. Complete all requirements of data collection

This advert closes on Monday 12 Oct 2026

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