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NELFT NHS Foundation Trust

About

NELFT NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health and community services for over 4.9 million people living in the London Boroughs of Waltham Forest, Redbridge, Barking and Dagenham, Havering, and across Essex and Kent.

We work to ensure our patients, their friends and family, feel confident that their health needs are well met. With an excellent reputation for research and development, our skilled health professionals are at the cutting edge of evidence-based innovation, opening up the possibilities for better ways of working and delivery of care.

Contact

Address: Trust Head Office; West Wing; CEME Centre; Marsh Way; Rainham; Essex; RM13 8GQ
Contact Number: 0300 300 1530

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Ref: 395-MH405-23 Vacancy ID: 5596005

Trainee Education Mental Health Practitioner (EMHP) Colchester

Closed for applications on: 22-Sept-2023 00:01

Vacancy status: Closed

Closed for applications on: 22-Sept-2023 00:01

Location

Site: North East Essex - Colchester, Tendering, Harwich & Clacton
Address: 900 The Crescent, Colchester Business Park
Town: Colchester
Postcode: CO4 9YQ
Major / Minor Region: London

Contract type & working pattern

Contract: Fixed term: 2 years (This 2 year FTC is subject to automatic promotion to a Band 5 EMHP permanent position upon successful ratified completion of the course.)
Hours: 37.5 hours per week (Full Time - 37.5 hours per week)

Salary

Salary: £25,147 - £27,596 per annum pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Grade: (NHS AFC: Band 4)

Specialty

Main area: Trainee - Mental health

Interview date: 16/10/2023

Joining #TeamNELFT means you’ll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We’re CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London, Essex, Kent and Medway. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.

The Trust has award winning equality and diversity initiatives and staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest heavily in your development, because when you are valued and supported, we provide the best care to our patients. We are a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, have been featured in the Working Families Top 10 Employers benchmark for three consecutive years, and we have achieved a Carers UK Level 1 Accreditation. Along with our staff networks and training opportunities, we work hard to embed a just and compassionate culture here at NELFT.

Find out more about NELFT careers and what makes our Trust a great place to work, in this video

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

An Introduction to the EMHP Programme at UEA

The EMHP Programme at UEA uses blended learning, comprised of face-to-face teaching at UEA and online teaching, self-directed study days and supervised practice within employing MHSTs to allow trainees to develop the required clinical competence and confidence relevant to the role of an EMHP. Our team have extensive experience of working psychologically with children and young people across a range of settings and interventions. The teaching team includes lecturers with experience of delivering low intensity mental health interventions - who can use their experience to support, model and teach these skills positively – alongside those with expertise in the field of children and young people’s mental health and education. We also use a range of external Associate Tutors and Guest lecturers to support teaching.

Throughout the year are a range of assessments and assignments to demonstrate learning outcomes and assess clinical skills and competency. In addition to learning the theory and practice for delivering evidence-based low intensity assessments and treatments for children and young people, taught modules will cover how to work in, understand the processes of, and engage with education settings. This is a full-time training programme which requires the successful completion of each of the 6 modules outlined below, as well as a portfolio evidencing clinical practice competencies

Module 1 Children and Young People’s Mental Health Settings: Context and Values

Module 2 Assessment & Engagement

Module 3 Evidence-based Interventions for Common Mental Health Problems with Children and Young People (Theory and Skills)

Module 4 Working, Assessing and Engaging in Educational Settings Module 5 Common Problems and Processes in Educational Settings Module 6 Interventions for Emerging Mental Health Difficulties in Educational Settings

On successful completion of the course, trainees will qualify as an Educational Mental Health Practitioner with a Diploma / PG Diploma (120 credits).

Key Dates and Attendance

A minimum of 64 teaching days take place throughout the calendar year with some intensive teaching blocks early in the course. Additional sessions will be scheduled for cross-modular/induction activities and top up/review sessions.

Employment with NELFT will begin on Tuesday 2nd January, where you will start a 2 week induction. The Course start date for 2024 will be Tuesday 16th January. More detail about the timetable will be made available to you for interviews to enable discussions around existing annual leave and other commitments.

Please read the attached job description.

Successful candidates will be offered a full-time educational programme specifically for the role. The course fees are fully funded (with employees signing a training contract), and the salary support for the job post will be funded at NHS Agenda for Change (AfC) at beginning Band 4. You will gain credits towards completing with a postgraduate degree diploma level qualification, plus guaranteed employment on successful completion of training, with a starting salary projected to be based on the NHS AfC Band 5 scale. For the training year, successful candidates will be employed by NELFT based in educational settings in across Essex (Location to be determined by candidate). Due to the nature of the school sites, an ability to travel independently to school settings and university is essential.

Please note: The EMHP posts are training positions subject to 2-year fixed term contracts, successful candidates will be expected to travel to the University of East Anglia in the first year to complete their training.

*Please note the training will be provided by University of East Anglia (UEA). 100% attendance is required to complete the course, please only proceed to application if you are able to meet this requirement. The timetable for the course is attached, also see below for more information*

The positions are highly desirable and the advert may close sooner than advertised if we receive a significant number of applications.

You will be joining an existing and growing team of EMHPs in NELFT who already work across other parts of our geography. We look forward to your application and to working with you as a Trainee EMHP with NELFT in Essex.

Annual Leave
Due to the nature of the role annual leave will be encouraged to be taken during school holidays, leave granted outside of these dates will be at manager’s discretion and under exceptional circumstances.

Equal opportunities employer

We are committed to equal opportunities and diversity, are Disability Confident and therefore welcome applications from all sections of the community, people of all protected characteristics.

Base

if successful you will be offered a position within our North East Essex Team. They cover a variety of education settings across Colchester, Clacton, Tendring and Harwich, you will have a nominal base of 900 The Crescent, Colchester and travel will be expected daily to and from school settings.

Benefits

We believe in bringing your authentic and best self to work, in order to deliver the best care to our patients. We are committed to supporting our employees holistically. Here is a snapshot of what is on offer at NELFT:

A long-standing and award-winning approach to equality and diversity with supportive networks for ethnic minority staff, staff with disabilities or long term/chronic conditions and LGBT staff.
A commitment to supporting colleagues to achieve a work life balance, through flexible working opportunities and our efforts to support our working parents and carers. This has resulted in us being recognised as a ‘Top 10 Family Friendly Employer’ from the Working Families Charity.
Proactive health and wellbeing support, including access to our employee assistance programme, staff psychological support, individual wellbeing conversations and a network of health and wellbeing ambassadors.
Detailed information about our wellbeing and benefits offer can be found in this link.

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s a job share, part time hours or another flexible pattern.

Supporting our Armed Forces

We recognise the valuable contribution that the Armed Forces community make to our organisation. We have signed the Armed Forces Covenant and achieved Gold Award under the Armed Forces Employer Recognition Scheme. We have supportive policies, guaranteed interview schemes for veterans. reservists and military spouses and give additional leave to our Reservists so that they can attend their annual camp.

Equal opportunities employer

We are committed to equal opportunities and diversity and positively encourage applications from all sections of the community regardless of any protected characteristic.

We are a Disability Confident employer and have made the pledge to commit to employing more people with disabilities. If you require this application in another format i.e. Braille or audio tape please contact the recruitment team on 0300 300 1530 or email [email protected].

Correspondence with us

You are advised to regularly check your emails (including any junk mail/spam folders) for correspondence related to this post.

As part of our recruitment process, we may be required to share information you provide on the application form with NHS Counter Fraud Authority (NHSCFA) and/or other organisations for the purpose of the prevention, detection, investigation and prosecution of fraud or any other unlawful activity affecting the NHS. We also use third party providers to check and verify your qualifications who may be contacting you on our behalf to verify the same.

Applicant requirements

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Person specification

Qualification

Essential criteria

Degree Qualification

Desirable criteria

Child development qualification
Degree in relevant subject - Mental Health, Child Development, Psychology etc

Knowledge

Essential criteria

Does their application provide you with a sense of confidence that they are committed to complete the training course and work as a qualified EMHP?

Desirable criteria

Within their personal statements is there a sense of a willingness to complete the training alongside clinical work and acknowledge the balance of academic work, assignments, and clinical practice?