Trainee Education Mental Health Practitioner

We have Trainee EMHP posts available in Bradford and Craven District—a chance to work and study to be an EMHP with a fast-growing team across Bradford. The Green paper set out the ambitions to increase the mental health support for young people within school settings. Bradford currently has a developed team and is expanding.

These are 12-month fixed-term trainee posts at Agenda for Change (AfC) Band 4. Successful candidates will undertake the EMHP training programme, delivered at Sheffield, attending university two days per week, while working in service for the remaining three days.

Trainees will be paid at Band 4 during the training period. Upon successful completion of the EMHP Postgraduate Diploma and registration with a recognised professional body, the role will become permanent at AfC Band 5 as a qualified Education Mental Health Practitioner.

Job Purpose

Under supervision and with support, to develop knowledge and practice skills in:

• Delivering evidence-based interventions for children and young people, with mild to moderate mental health problems, in education settings.
• Helping children and young people within these settings who present with more severe problems to rapidly access more specialist services.
• Supporting and facilitating staff in education settings to identify, and where appropriate, manage issues related to mental health and wellbeing.
• Working with and within educational environments to afford better access to specialist mental health services.
• To evidence development of those skills with associated knowledge acquisition to record and evidence progression towards an academic award and demonstrable practical ability.