Assistant Education Mental Health Practitioners

Equal Opportunities

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust celebrates diversity and promotes equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect. We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and also particularly encourage applications from ethnically diverse, disabled and LGBTQIA+ people that are under‑represented in our workforce.

Furthermore we welcome applications from reservists and ex‑armed forces personnel as we recognise the benefits of the values, skills, training and experience that they bring to their work with us. We encourage all applicants to share their equality information with us.

The Assistant Education Mental Health Practitioners will work closely with qualified Education Mental Health Practitioners, Senior Practitioners, CBT therapists and other team members to support young people with mild to moderate mental health difficulties.

• Deliver evidence‑based intervention for children and young people in education settings with mild to moderate mental health problems.
• Help children and young people within these settings who present with more severe problems to rapidly access more specialist services.
• Support and facilitate staff in education settings to identify and, where appropriate, manage issues related to mental health and wellbeing.
• Work with and within education environments to afford better access to specialist mental health services.
• Promote a whole‑school approach to mental health wellbeing in education settings.
• Record and evidence progression towards an academic award and demonstrable practical ability.
• Develop skills in supporting children and young people with mild to moderate mental health difficulties, their parents/carers, families and educators in the self‑management of presenting difficulties.
• Practice evidence‑based skills under supervisory support in partnership with children, young people, their families and educators, as detailed in Care Plans.
• Enable children and young people in education, and parents/carers where appropriate, to co‑produce their own agreed plan of care.
• Learn, understand, rationalise and adhere to protocols within the educational service to which the postholder is attached.
• Engage with senior staff in signposting referrals for children and young people with more complex needs to the relevant service.
• Complete all data‑collection requirements.
• Show evidence of collaboration with teachers, other educational staff, parents, children, young people and the wider community to broaden access to mental health services.
• Contribute to the development of clinical or training materials and further such materials as falls within own degree of competence.

Please ensure you check the email account from which you apply for all correspondence. All information regarding your application will come from apps.trac.jobs not NHS Jobs. Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview. As a Disability Confident Employer, we offer a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants who consider themselves to be disabled who meet the minimum (essential) criteria for the role in the person specification.

If you would like your application to be considered under the Trust's guaranteed interview scheme you can indicate this in the personal information section of your online application form. Should you require a reasonable adjustment to our recruitment process please email [email protected] to ensure that measures can be put in place to support you. We reserve the right to close any vacancies from further applications when we have received a minimum number of applications from which to make a shortlist.

Please ensure you apply without delay if you wish to be considered for this role. The Trust expects all post holders who require an enhanced DBS for their role and work in Children's & Young…