Senior Education Mental Health Practitioner

As an autonomous EMHP you will play a key part in the delivery of high-quality service provision that promotes and improves the mental health and well-being of children and young people, their families, and carers. In a school-based team you will provide direct intervention for young people presenting with mild/moderate mental health difficulties within professional practice guidelines and a structured supervision framework.     The post holder will be required to adapt to and undertake different or new duties in line with professional and service developments. The MHST in Salford is well established having been part of the trail blazer sites across GM. As such there is a team of dynamic, innovative and creative practitioners who are fully comitted to furhter developing integrated practice with community partners. With a central locality base in Salford, the team have access to multiple resoures across the community and are keen to facilitate professional development, support training opportunities and nurture personal growth within a welcoming team ethos. The successful applicant will practice within the MHST national framework, providing assessments and interventions for children, young people and parents/carers in education settings, supporting schools and education providers to develop whole settings approaches to emotional health and wellbeing and providing advice, consultation, support and training to servies to ensure appropriate interventions are identified to address young peoples mental health difficulties. As a senior member of the team, the successful applicant will contirbute to the development of the team projects, supervise junior members of staff/trainees and act as a respresentative for the team at communityand partnership meetings. MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of over £3bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year. Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 30,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary. We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022. We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable. At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together. For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Jane Davies Job title: MHST Service Lead Email address: jane.davies@mft.nhs.uk Telephone number: 07812519223 Kirsty Burton, ND Lead - kirsty.burton@mft.mnhs.uk