Total 2 job vacancies by CNWL NHS Foundation Trust

Trainee Education Mental Health Practitioner to Start in September 2024!

Band 4 Trainee EMHPs work closely with the people who use our services, their families, friends and carers and play an important contribution in how people experience our services. Band 4 trainee EMHPs are expected to be kind and responsive but professional and informative and contribute to the quality of the services we provide by:
• keeping the people who using our services as safe as possible through the use of sound clinical skills and effective risk assessments.
• ensuring the best possible clinical outcomes by using up-to-date skills and adhering to evidence-based policies and procedures.
• ensuring the people using our services have a good experience by respecting, empowering and working in partnership with people throughout the care planning process.



This course involves university study and clinical work as a practitioner working with children. Candidates will need to apply for the EMHP role with CNWL and the training at UCL via the training portal at the same time. Please use this link for the UCL application:https://www.ucl.ac.uk/prospective-students/graduate/taught-degrees/educational-mental-health-practitioner-pg-dip





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Brent, Harrow and Hillingdon CAMHS MHST
Trainee Education Mental Health Practitioner (EMHP)

As a Trainee Education Mental Health Practitioner, you will be expected to work under supervision as part of a dynamic mental health team in a creative environment where evidence-based interventions, new ideas, ways of working and supporting children and young people are actively encouraged. This approach requires flexibility and adaptability, and above all a passion for working with children and young people in educational settings. Over the course of the training year, the post-holder will, under supervision, develop knowledge and practice skills to employ a range of evidence-based interventions for common mental health problems via direct individual and group support for children, young people and their parents, in line with the university expectations.

Please note: Continued employment in this post is conditional on the successful completion of the course and a 13-week probationary period. The successful candidate will require to be available to commence training from September 2024. The successful candidates will be expected to attend university remotely and to travel to the University site as required in the first year to complete their training.

This post is one of 4 Positions availabledesigned to open up a new and exciting opportunity for a career in children’s and young people’s mental health in schools.

The purpose of the team is to
• Provide evidence-based interventions for mild to moderate mental health issues.
• Support the senior mental health lead in each education setting to introduce or develop their whole school or college approach.
• Give timely advice to school and college staff, and liaising with external specialist services, to help children and young people to get the right support and stay in education.

CNWL are committed to progressing and supporting their staff with career development and training, and ensuring staff health and wellbeing and job satisfaction.

The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.

The Trainee Education Mental Health Practitioner role will:
• Work closely alongside a team of mental health professionals delivering a wide range of evidence informed interventions, under supervision.
• Develop and practice evidence-based skills under supervision to work directly with children, young people and families.
• Develop and practice evidence-based skills under supervision to carry out holistic and child-centred mental health assessments, including risk assessments.

The Trainee Education Mental Health Practitioner is required to:
• Demonstrate the ability to study at degree level or have an equivalent level of relevant experience, with a proven record of previous learning or formal study in child development, wellbeing or mental health• Graduate route (level 6)

Applicants that may not hold an honours degree must have proven successful study at level 5; or successful part completion of an Honours degree
• Postgraduate route (level 7)

Honours Degree graded at 2.2 or above
• Experience of working with children and young people, their families and others.
• Experience of working and liaising with a wide variety of agencies and stakeholders
• Experience of working with children and young people who have social, emotional and/or mental health difficulties




This advert closes on Monday 12 Aug 2024

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Milton Keynes NHS Talking Therapies (MKTT) is seeking to recruitTrainee Psychological Wellbeing Practitionersto undertake their placement within the service.



The service wishes to recruit enthusiastic, motivated and experienced individuals to TRAIN to provide Low Intensity interventions within a CBT framework. This individual would train to deliver on a range of CBT informed low intensity interventions including monitoring of client outcomes and taking a positive role in the development of the MKTT service and programme treatments that it provides.



As a trainee PWP you will have a mix of service and university days. You will be employed within the MKTT service and required to attend our partner University of Reading to undertake and achieve the Postgraduate/Graduate Certificate in Evidence based Psychological Treatments (IAPT Pathway) as part of this role.
• · Attend and fulfil all the requirements of the training element of the post including practical, academic and practice based assessments.
• · Apply learning from the training programme in practice.
• · Receive supervision from educational providers in relation to course work to meet the required standards.
• · 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.
• · Respond to and implement supervision suggestions by supervisors in clinical practice.
• · Engage in and respond to personal development supervision to improve competences and clinical practice.

We are passionate about delivering first-class patient-centred, safe and effective care, whether it is in a hospital setting, in a community clinic or in the patients own home. Patients are at the heart of everything we do. Providing top quality care depends on our ability to employ the best people.

We're always looking to recruit outstanding people who will go the extra mile to support our patients, colleagues, teams and the Trust. With every new employee were hoping to find our future leaders and well support our staff by providing opportunities to develop your career. With a diverse culture and equally diverse range of opportunities across mental health, community services, addictions, eating disorders, learning disabilities and more whatever stage of your career you're at, there's always a place for you at CNWL.

The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.
• Undertake patient-centred interviews which identify areas where the person wishes to see change and or recovery and makes an accurate assessment of risk to self and others.
• Make decisions on suitability of new referrals, adhering to the departments referral protocols, refers unsuitable clients on to the relevant service or back to the referral agent as necessary or step-up the persons treatment to high intensity psychological therapy.
• Provide a range of information and support for evidence based high-volume low-intensity psychological treatments. This will include 1-1 guided self-help via face to face, telephone, video. To also co-facilitate guided self-help via groups/workshops with qualified PWPs.
• Adhere to an agreed activity contract relating to the overall number of client contacts offered, and clinical sessions carried out per week in order to minimise waiting times and ensure treatment delivery remains accessible and convenient.
• Keep coherent records of all clinical activity in line with service protocols and use these records and clinical outcome data in clinical decision-making.
• Work closely with other members of the team ensuring appropriate step-up and step-down arrangements are in place to maintain a stepped care approach.
• Assess and integrate issues surrounding work and employment into the overall therapy process, working alongside employment advisors within the service.
• To support with the delivery of psychoeducational groups to patients under the direction and guidance of Senior Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners and supervisor(s)
• To support Senior Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners with general administration tasks and patient-related administration. To support with planning and organisation of psycho-educational groups and any administration linked to courses.


This advert closes on Wednesday 3 Jul 2024

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