Education Mental Health Practitioner: Sponsorship Available

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Job Summary

An exciting opportunity has become available for qualified Education Mental Health Practitioners (EMHPs) or Children’s Wellbeing Practitioners (CWP) working towards dual accreditation as an EMHP, to join our dynamic and energetic award-winning Oxleas MHST service. Applicants must have a valid professional registration with BABCP or BPS.

Mental Health Support Teams are part of an exciting National initiative, working in collaboration with education settings, to improve the mental health and wellbeing of children and young people in response to the government’s Green Paper: Transforming children and young people’s mental health provision.

 

Main duties of the job

There is a specific focus on early intervention, improving access and supporting the general culture of mental health and wellbeing support within primary and secondary schools. Teams work within a Thrive framework alongside education colleagues and community partners, providing quality care to children, young people and families.

EMHP Role

The post holders will work within education settings providing low intensity manualised CBT informed guided self-help intervention to children and young people with mild to moderate anxiety or low mood. The post holder will also offer manualised parent interventions to primary age pupils and support a comprehensive psycho-educational groups and workshops programme across a range of local schools. They will also support the whole school approach to mental health and wellbeing across educational settings.

We seek to appoint enthusiastic and dynamic individuals who are passionate about improving health outcomes for children and young people.

Applicants must have completed the required EMHP or CWP post graduate training and have professional registration with either BPS or BABCP as an EMHP, or a CWP in the process of attaining dual accreditation as an EMHP. Please note applicants who do not meet this criteria will not be short listed.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Successful completion of the HEE commissioned 1yr EMHP/CWP post graduate diploma
  • Professional registration with BPS or BABCP

Experience

Essential

  • Experience of working with children and young people, their families and others in educational and health settings with mild to moderate mental health problems.
  • Experience of delivering specific therapeutic interventions to children, young people or their families (e.g. Guided Self Help, CBT, parent work)
  • Experience of liaising and working effectively with the wider network around the child including educational, social care, family and health.
  • Experience of working with cultural diverse populations and adapting services to improve access.

Skills

Essential

  • Ability to conduct other group therapeutic interventions with children and their families
  • Ability to make an assessment of risk and to record and communicate it appropriately and to take appropriate action to mitigate or manage

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Closing Date: 21 June 2026

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