# Educational Mental Health Practitioner Trainee

**Company**: Allkind
**Location**: London
**Job type**: temporary
**Salary**: £33,670 a year
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are looking for 2 individuals who are ready to train as an Education Mental Health Practitioner (EMHP). You will undertake a funded one-year training programme while working under supervision to deliver low-intensity, evidence-based interventions to children, young people and their families in educational settings. A full, enhanced and current satisfactory DBS disclosure is required for this role.

You will:

- Work within a Mental Health Support Team (MHST) to increase and improve emotional and mental health provision within educational settings for 5-18 year olds in Westminster and RBKC

- Work in partnership to support children and young people experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties and their parents/carers, families and educators in the self-management of presenting difficulties

- Contribute to whole-school approaches and the development of individual or group clinical materials under the direction of the wider team

- Complete the KCL PG Dip in CYP-PT: Therapy (EMHP pathway), combining academic study with supervised clinical practice, assessment and outcome-focused intervention

You are:

- Able to study at degree level (degree preferred but not essential) and passionate about working with children and young people

- Experienced of working with children, young people or their families in an educational or mental health setting

- Eager to deliver evidence-based interventions (e.g. CBT informed guided self help) under supervision and make a difference within our MHST

- Committed to developing skills in supporting mild to moderate anxiety, low mood and related difficulties

## Skills

### Required
- DBS disclosure
- CBT informed guided self help
- KCL PG Dip in CYP-PT: Therapy

### Nice to have
- degree level study
- experience working with children and young people

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