Senior Education Mental Health Practitioner


Company:	NHS Jobs
Salary:	£39,959 to £48,117 a year
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	SOUTH SHIELDS, NE34 8PS
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	6 Oct 2026
Closing date:	20 Oct 2026

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Summary

To work as a member of the Mental Health Support Teams in Sunderland/South Tyneside providing an education based mental health service to children and young people. This includes the direct provision of evidence-based interventions and outcome focused standards of care to children and families/carers. The delivery of high-quality training, consultation, and support to other Education staff. To deliver a Whole School Approach to developing positive culture of mental health within the school environment. To deliver of clinical and caseload supervision. To support the facilitation and development of clinical development and expertise within the team. To lead, motivate and support the team. To support with service development and innovative models. To support with clinical governance and quality monitoring, ongoing research and audit of practice. To work autonomously, assessing child/young person needs, identify and implement a plan of care and initiate appropriate holistic research based heath information and care. Act as a cluster lead over an allocated group of schools and have oversight of EMHPs to support the delivery of all three functions of MHST. To take a lead / champion role in an area of specialist area of interest relevant to an MHST. Engage in further training required for the role / service delivery. The service will be delivered from Education bases as an integral part of an agreed iTHRIVE multi-agency model of Children and Young Peoples Mental Health Service provision. Work collaboratively with multi professional teams to ensure practice is efficient, effective, evidence based and safe This will be achieved by: Listening to and understanding the community Bringing people together to develop a shared local vision with service users as equal partners Assessing community assets, resources, needs and issues Empowering community members to identify local issues and articulate solutions Linking in with Community Mental Health Services (i.e. CYPS, IAPT, CTT) The post holder will ensure they uphold our Trust vision, values and behaviours. To promote at all times a positive image of children and young people with mental health conditions. To promote at all times a positive image of the specialist service area and the wider Trust. FOR FULL JOB DESCRIPTION SEE ATTACHMENT

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