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Education Mental Health Practitioner - Qualified EMHP/CWP
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Are you passionate about the mental health and wellbeing of children and young people? We are excited to be recruiting 2 Education Mental Health Practitioners (EMHPs) or a Children’s Wellbeing Practitioners (CWPs).
About the Role
The Suffolk Mental Health Support Team (MHST) is based within education settings, ensuring children and young people receive faster access to earlier mental health support and the successful candidate will play a key role in delivering this service.
We are a dynamic mental health team working in a creative environment to continue developing this new service. Suffolk has had MHSTs since 2020 and we continue to expand. The roles are in our existing teams based one in our East Ipswich team and one in Coastal and Rural team.
Responsibilities
You will need to be adaptable and have a passion for working with children and young people in education settings.
The successful candidate will complete assessments with children, young people and their parents/carers to inform targeted and evidence-based interventions to support the management of mild to moderate mental health needs. Using a collaboration and coproduction approach, the successful candidate will also support the team’s delivery of the Whole School/College approach to emotional wellbeing and mental health.
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You will work closely alongside a team of mental health professionals, will utilise regular supervision sessions, reflective practice and training opportunities in the team to continue to develop your practice and ensure a high level of clinical support is provided.
Requirements
You must have successfully completed the EMHP course or equivalent for CWP. However, we would welcome applications or interest from trainee EMHP's /CWP's who are about to qualify.
Location
We have two positions based in the East Ipswich team and one in the coastal and rural team (Leiston, Framlingham, Eye and Debenham).
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As a community based team the ability to drive is a requirement of the post.
Interviews
Interviews are anticipated to take place week commencing 2nd November.
Benefits
A job in the Suffolk MHSTs will inevitably be challenging and demanding at times, but it will also be immensely rewarding and provide you with great opportunities to make a genuine difference to the lives of others. You will join a team that has developed a caring, creative and hard-working environment; your ideas about how this new service continues to develop and grow will be highly valued.
We will ensure that you continue to access training and supervision to develop your own practice and further your career ambitions.
Contact
For further details / informal visits contact:
Name: Grace Mitchell
Job title: Clinical Team Manager
Email address: Grace.Mitchell@nsft.nhs.uk
Alternative contact: Laura.kingwell@nsft.nhs.uk
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