Education Mental Health Practitioner

The successful candidate will be employed by Lambeth CAMHS where the MHST deliver emotional wellbeing interventions using Guided Self-Help strategies. You will have successfully completed training as a trainee EMHP. You will be equipped with the necessary skills, knowledge and capabilities to work as a qualified EMHP/ CWP, with supervision as an autonomous and responsible practitioner within your scope of practice, alongside education and health colleagues. You will be confident in providing Guided Self-Help to young people and families in anxiety, low mood and behaviours that challenge from different cultural backgrounds and ages, using interpreters when necessary and should be committed to equal opportunities . You will be flexible and creative in responding to the needs of the school populations, with excellent support from your team and supervision. You will also be able to adapt to working remotely and prioritising access to services and resources. 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. To 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.

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