South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
Educational Mental Health Practitioner (EMHP)
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About the Role
The MHSTs are a new service designed to help meet the mental health needs of children and young people in education settings. They are made up of senior clinicians, CAMHS Practitioners and Educational Mental Health Practitioners (EMHP)'s, who are also known in the SLaM Trust as Education Wellbeing Practitioners (EWPs). The MHST is based across education settings as an additional resource within a whole-system approach to promote resilience and wellbeing, to support earlier intervention, enable appropriate signposting and deliver evidence-based support, care and interventions. The MHSTs partner with education settings to design a bespoke offer, based on each school’s individual needs, and works with the mental health and wellbeing services that are already in place, such as counselling, educational psychology, school nurses, pastoral care, educational welfare officers, VCSEs, the local authority, including children’s social care, and NHS Children and Young People Mental Health Services (CYPMHS) and this work is supported and delivered by the EWP role.
The Post holder will be based in a small MHST Hub working with a cluster of schools and experienced MHST colleagues, to plan and deliver direct intervention to children and parents, as well as class groups, assemblies, welcome events, coffee mornings as well as access and participation events.
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There is a requirement to work with schools face to face as well as remotely in delivering low level Guided Self-Help to Young People and Families. This will be across various educational settings within the Lewisham school clusters, remote working from home and Lewisham CAMHS.
EWPs play a key role as members of the Mental Health Support Team, who have the responsibility for delivering whole school approaches to mental health and emotional wellbeing for children and young people.
Confidentiality of information is always maintained in accordance with Trust policies and code of ethics and professional conduct.
About the Trust
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLaM) provide the widest range of NHS mental health services in the UK as well as substance misuse services for people who are addicted to drugs and alcohol. We work closely with the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN), King's College London and are part of King's Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre. There are very few organisations in the world that have such wide-ranging capabilities working with mental illness. Our scope is unique because it is built on three major foundations: care and treatment, science and research, and training.
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By coming to work at SLaM, you will gain experience of being part of an organisation with a rich history and international reputation in mental health care. You will have access to professional development and learning opportunities, and have the chance to work alongside people who are world leaders in their field. SLaM delivered more than 14,000 training experiences in 2014; providing an extensive range of learning opportunities for staff at all levels. In addition, our working relationship with King's Health Partners allows those working at the Trust to get involved in academic research.
Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Zoe McLeod
- Job title: Lewisham MHST Clinical Service Lead North
- Email address: zoe.mcleod@slam.nhs.uk
- Telephone number: 07860 704 651
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