Cheswold Park Hospital
Senior Educational Mental Health Practitioner
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Job Summary
Are you an experienced Mental Health Practitioner looking for an exciting opportunity to make a difference in the lives of young people within the Kirklees area? Would you like to be part of a diverse and innovative service who offer mental health support in an educational setting?
We are seeking applicants to join our Mental Health Support Team who cover the schools and colleges in Kirklees. This is an exciting time to join our team who deliver evidence-based interventions to children within our schools with mild to moderate mental health conditions. Focusing on early intervention we also provide training and workshops to schools using the whole school approach, which enables schools to provide a culture of wellbeing for all their pupils.
You will be part of a supportive and resilient team within a trust which places staff health and wellbeing at the top of its agenda. Our team sits within our CAMHS service which means that we can provide expert CPD opportunities, further training and supervision from a diverse range of experienced practitioners.
All employees of the Trust are strongly encouraged to have their up-to-date flu vaccination to protect staff and patients.
Main duties of the job
This role would suit an experienced health care professional with experience in assessing and working with young people with mild-moderate mental health concerns and preferably experience delivering CBT interventions and delivery of supervision.
As a band 6 mental health practitioner you will be expected to confidently manage a caseload of young people including triaging, consulting with schools/parents and assessing CYP with a range of mental health issues and making decisions as to what support they may need.
You will support the senior leadership team and be involved with service development of the MHST, taking initiative to identify opportunities to improve the service.
You will be expected to draw on your experience to lead case management supervision and supervise the junior staff within the team.
You will be able to make decisions on suitability of new referrals, adhering to the services referral protocols, refer unsuitable clients on to the relevant service or back to the referral agent as necessary.
At the time of advertising, this role does meet the minimum requirements set by UK Visas and Immigration to sponsor candidates to work in the UK. We look forward to receiving your application.
About Us
We are a specialist NHS Foundation Trust that provides community, mental health and learning disability services for the people of Barnsley, Calderdale, Kirklees and Wakefield. We also provide low and medium secure services and are the lead for the west Yorkshire secure provider collaborative.
Our mission is to help people reach their potential and live well in their communities, we do this by providing high-quality care in the right place at the right time. We employ staff in both clinical and non-clinical services who work hard to make a difference to the lives of service users, families and carers.
We encourage and welcome applications from all protected characteristic groups, we value diversity and want our workforce to be reflective of our communities.
Being a foundation Trust means we're accountable to our members, who can have a say in how we're run. Around 14,300 local people (including staff) are members of our Trust.
Join us and you will be one of over 4,500 staff committed to supporting and improving the mental, physical and social needs of the thousands of people we meet and help each year.
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We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all colleagues and volunteers to share this commitment.
We do reserve the right to close vacancy before the advertised closing date if necessary, so please apply as soon as possible.
Details
Date posted
06 October 2026
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 6
Salary
£39,959 to £48,117 a year
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time, Flexible working
Reference number
C9378-CK2566
Job locations
Folly Hall Mills
St Thomas Road
Huddersfield
Kirklees
HD1 3LT
United Kingdom
Job Description
Job responsibilities
JOB SUMMARY
The post holder will work as part of the Kirklees Mental Health Support Team (MHST) to manage a defined caseload with a focus on providing comprehensive assessment, consultation and evidence-based interventions, for children and young people (CYP) with mental health difficulties and their parents/carers.
This post will involve supporting Educational Mental Health Practitioners (EMHP)s with developing their clinical practice, psychological formulation and school engagement.
The post holder will be expected to provide Case Management and Clinical Skills Supervision to a number of trainee/EMHPs within the service (training may be provided).
The post holder will be able to work flexibly across a range of education providers, be a keen contributor to joint working initiatives and adaptive to change in a ever-growing service. Kirklees MHSTs are delivered through a partnership involving CAMHS (South West Yorkshire Partnership Foundation Trust) as the lead provider, Educational Psychology services (Kirklees Council) and Northorpe Hall Child and Family Trust as wrap around services.
Key Result Areas:
The postholder will:
1.1 Care/service/function Provision:
- Work in partnership to deliver a range of evidence-based mental health interventions with children and young people (CYP) as well as some parent-led interventions.
- Facilitate evidence-based group interventions with CYP and/or parents.
- Offer specialist mental health-based consultation, advice and guidance with professionals.
- Be responsible and ensure the effective coordination of clinical care provided including consideration to safeguarding and clinical risk issues where indicated.
- Support clinical staff to identify children and young people with emerging mental health needs as well as psychological formulation.
- Promote overall access to Kirklees MHST where appropriate.
- Establish therapeutic relationships with children, young people and their families and implement evidence-based therapeutic interventions.
- Plan and organise interventions ensuring that reviews are held within the required time frames.
- Ensure that all members of the multi-disciplinary team, their colleagues, service users and appropriate others are informed/updated of changes involving current care plans, progress, mental state, and psychosocial factors in line with best practice.
- Liaise with and advise CYP and families, local authority and other statutory bodies and third sector agencies including children's safeguarding as necessary.
- Communicate sensitive information to carers and relatives.
- Use a range of inclusive communication styles and channels as appropriate to the task.
- Attend multi-disciplinary meetings relating to referrals or patients in treatment, where appropriate.
- Care plan and manage own caseload.
- Maintain accurate written records on the electronic record system of the Trust.
- Undertake mental health assessments, with an agreed plan of action and/or care and low moderate intervention.
- Set and monitor Goal Based Outcomes with CYP/parents.
- Undertake complex risk assessments and develop a formulation of risk which will lead to the development of risk management plans which have taken into consideration a range of possible options.
- Undertake and continuously re-evaluate complex bio-psycho-social assessments and develop a working formulation which will lead to the development of personalised care packages in line with evidence-based and routine outcome measures.
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Person Specification
Personal Attributes
Essential
- Able to work autonomously and as part of a team.
- Commitment to multi-agency approach.
- Ability to work and make decisions under pressure.
- Calm, confident, innovative, creative and assertive.
- Clarity of decision making.
- Willingness to be flexible and adaptable in accordance with changing service priorities.
- Commitment to challenging discrimination and improving accessibility of services.
- Ability to cope calmly in a crisis.
- To demonstrate good self-care and encourage the same in team members.
- A current driving licence and access to a car during the working day is essential (reasonable adjustments will be considered for any applicants who are unable to drive due to a disability).
Training
Essential
- Experience delivering training to a diverse audience (or group work).
Special Knowledge & Skills
Essential
- A good understanding of evidence-based, low intensity interventions for mild to moderate mental health difficulties.
- An understanding of mental health and wellbeing support within community settings.
- Understanding of safeguarding responsibilities and the importance of multi-agency work for children and families in the community.
- Understanding of CYP-IAPT principles including the use of evidence-based therapies and Routine Outcome Measures.
- Excellent communication skills including the ability to engage with children/young people of all ages experiencing a wide range of mental health presentations.
- Ability to communicate with a wide range of professionals from various settings.
- Ability to work effectively with partner services & external partners to promote and adapt change processes.
- Good verbal and communication skills.
- Ability to manage own caseload.
- Good negotiation skills, and problem-solving skills.
- Customer service orientation.
- Effective record keeping and report writing skills to include care planning and risk assessments.
- IT skills.
- Have good team working skills. Be able to work across disciplines with an ability to predict and manage inter-disciplinary tensions and foster good working practices.
Desirable
- A good understanding of the green paper initiative and the function of a MHST.
Experience
Essential
- Substantial post qualification experience, some of which must be working with children, young people and their carers in a mental health or community setting.
- Experience of working in Primary Care/MHST Services / or CAMHS.
- Experience of managing a caseload of children and young people with a range of moderate mental health needs.
- Experience in assessment and risk management and ability to implement evidence-based practice.
- Experience of delivering evidence-based psychological therapy e.g. CBT.
- Experience of working with parents (or with adults).
- Experience of
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