Job Summary
Are you a qualified Education Mental Health Practitioner? Do you have a real passion for education, social, emotional and the mental wellbeing needs of our young people? Do you want to make a real difference?
We are excited to recruit the right qualified EMHPs. We have posts available in East Riding Mental Health Support Teams.
The teams work directly into schools and colleges with children and young people between the ages of 5 to 18.
The teams support schools and the wider system and have a particular focus on whole school approach, advice, support, guidance and consultation.
The teams also deliver targeted low intensity CBT informed based 1:1 and group sessions, parent led workshops and creative based interventions to support mild to moderate social, emotional and mental health needs.
Please only apply if you are a qualified EMHP.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate with appropriate supervision, will work as an autonomous and responsible practitioner as their training affords and within the scope of their local job description, to engage in.
- Delivering evidence-based intervention for children and young people in education setting with mild to moderate mental health problems
- 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 education environments to afford better access to specialist mental health services, and use the acquired skills, knowledge and abilities to deliver a service based within education settings that builds on and reinforces but does not replace those initiatives that already exist within these environments.
- Mentor trainees and offer Peer to peer support to other qualified EMHP’s
- You will be required to travel across the locality independently as part of your role.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Successful completion of the HEE commissioned 1yr Post Graduate Certificate ‘Education Mental Health Practitioner’ course.
- Undergraduate qualification is needed
- Knowledge of educational environments
Desirable
- A further relevant degree qualification
- Knowledge of the functional operation of specialist CAMHS teams
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working with children and young people, their families and others
- Experience of working and liaising with a wide variety of agencies and stakeholders
- Experience of the delivery of specific therapeutic interventions to children, young people or their families (e.g. CBT,solution focused brief therapy)
Desirable
- Experience of working with children and their families in a healthcare setting
- Experience of working with children and their families in an education setting
skills and competency
Essential
- Ability to work within educational settings to increase mental health awareness within the staff group
- Ability to carry out 1:1 therapeutic mental health interventions with children.
- Ability to carry out therapeutic mental health interventions with families.
- Ability to conduct group parenting programmes.
Desirable
- Ability to teach others about mental health issues
- Ability to conduct other group therapeutic interventions with children and their families
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.
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: 20 May 2026
