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Rated ‘Outstanding’ by the Care Quality Commission, we are proud to provide high quality innovative services across most of the east of England that enable people to receive care closer to home and live healthier lives.

There’s one reason why our services are outstanding – and that’s our amazing staff - who for the seventh year running, rated us incredibly highly in the national staff survey.

If you share our passion for innovative and high-quality care delivery, then please submit your application and join us on our exciting journey as a leading-edge specialist community provider. All are welcome to apply and our promise to you is a culture which prioritises staff engagement and development.

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Address: Units 7/8; Meadow Park; St Ives; Cambridgeshire; PE27 4LG
Contact Number: 0300 555 6655

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Ref: 448-CCYP-6514895 Vacancy ID: 6514895

Trainee Education Mental Health Practitioner (EMHP)

Closed for applications on: 27-Aug-2024 00:01

Vacancy status: Closed

Closed for applications on: 27-Aug-2024 00:01

Location

Site: Peteborough
Address: Unit 2. Phorpres Close, Cygnet Park, Hampton
Town: Peterborough
Postcode: PE7 8FZ
Major / Minor Region: Cambridgeshire

Contract type & working pattern

Contract: Fixed term: 12 months (Training Contract for 12 months, Permenant contract upon successful completion of the EMHP training year at University Of East Anglia)
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week

Salary

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

Specialty

Main area: Trainee Education Mental Health Practitioner

Interview date: 23/09/2024

Driven by our Trust values: Honesty, Empathy, Ambition, Respect; the Trust's vision is to provide high quality care to the diverse communities we serve to make their lives better.

We are passionate about creating an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity. Our cultural diversity, long term conditions and disabilities, and LGBTQIA+ staff networks are a key part of this commitment, creating positive change and helping build an inclusive culture across the Trust.

Different ideas, experiences and backgrounds make us stronger and more creative and applications from all walks of life are welcomed - our processes ensure that all applicants are treated fairly at every stage of the recruitment process.

Options for flexible working are considered for all roles within CCS, including job share opportunities, compressed hours, annualised hours, tailored working patterns and more. If you are interested in flexible working, please talk to the recruiting manager for this vacancy.

Please note, the selection processes at Cambridgeshire Community Services are in place to ensure we recruit candidates with the right values and skills. Please be advised that the use of AI in applications are monitored, we remain watchful of candidates who misuse these tools to generate an application that doesn’t accurately reflect their skills.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Background to the MHST’s within CCS NHS Trust

In January 2020, Cambridgeshire Community Services (CCS) NHS Trust launched two MHST’s in Huntingdon and Cambridge. In 2021 and 2022, a further four were launched in Fenland and Peterborough. This was in collaboration with NHS England, Health Education England and the Department for Education, following on from the 2017 Green Paper Transforming children and young people’s mental health provision. This is a roll out of the work to improve access to mental health care for young people set out in the NHS Long Term Plan.

Since this time, CCS NHS Trust has been successful in being awarded four further MHSTs, to be launched over the next two years, bringing our total to 10 MHSTs by 2024-2025. MHSTs provide mental health and emotional wellbeing support to children and young people and their families and carers through schools and colleges.

Each MHST supports a cluster of schools and colleges in a geographical locality, covering a population of around 8,000 children and young people. The MHSTs sit within CCS’s wider Emotional Health and Wellbeing Service.

Each new MHST will comprise of a Team and Clinical Lead, a Senior Clinician, two Senior Wellbeing Practitioners, four Trainee Education Mental Health Practitioners (this position) and an administrative assistant.

The MHSTs work with education settings to provide early intervention for mild to moderate mental health difficulties and provide help to staff in schools and colleges on their ‘Whole School Approach’ (WSA) to mental health. Teams will also act as a link with local children and young people’s mental health services.

As a Trainee Education Mental Health Practitioner you will be expected to work under supervision as part of a dynamic mental health team in a creative environment where evidence-based interventions, new ideas, ways of working and supporting children and young people are actively encouraged.

This approach requires flexibility and adaptability, and above all a passion for working with children and young people in educational settings. Over the course of the training year, the post-holder will, under supervision, develop knowledge and practice skills to employ a range of evidence based interventions for common mental health problems via direct individual and group support for children, young people and their parents, in line with the university expectations.

Important Information for your application form:

Please answer the following question in the supporting information box (please put at the top before your supporting information). Do not exceed 500 words when answering the question:

Please read the 2017 green paper Transforming children and young people’s mental health provision and answer the following (no more than 500 words):

What experience and strengths are you able to bring to the MHST model of working?https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/transforming-children-and-young-peoples-mental-health-provision-a-green-paper

All applicants must demonstrate in their application the ability to work at degree level or have an equivalent level of relevant experience, with a proven record of previous learning or formal study in child development, wellbeing, psychology, mental health or education.

Further to that experience of working with children and young people and an understanding of the educational system in England is highly desirable. All applicants must be able to demonstrate they can balance the conflicting demands of academic study and clinical work.

For further information, please read JD & PS attached to this vacancy

On April 1st 2025, the Boards of Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust and Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust will come together to deliver services as a group, with a singular board operating across both organisations. Both trusts are high performing specialist community health and care providers working in the East of England. Both have a strong track record, with the highest ratings from the Care Quality Commission, best in class NHS staff survey outcomes, and a decade of experience in innovation and clinical development.

The group model provides health and care services to a population of 3.2 million in their homes and neighbourhoods. We provide care that supports people from the very beginning to the very end of their lives.

We will remain 2 separate employers until further notice and the specific role being advertised will be in employed by Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust

Certificate of Sponsorship

For roles that are eligible for sponsorship, applications from job seekers who require Skilled Worker Visa to work in the UK are welcome, and will be considered alongside all other applications. You are strongly advised to visit Check if you need a UK Visa website (Opens in a new tab), and familiarise yourself with what is required which should assist you in your understanding of the process

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. (Opens in a new tab)

UK Registration

For roles that require professional registration, applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new tab)

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Our safe recruitment pre-employment checks are undertaken before an appointment is confirmed and may include a DBS check. Where the role requires you to drive, we'll ask you to validate your driving licence online via the DVLA.

In submitting an application, you authorise Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process should you be appointed.

ALL CORRESPONDENCE will be via the e-mail address on your application form. If you have not been invited to interview within 2 weeks of the closing date, you unfortunately haven’t been successful on this occasion, but keep an eye on our vacancies as a job that’s just right for you may appear!

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

Skills/Competencies

Essential criteria

Ability to learn in a variety of settings and using a variety of learning methods
Computer Literate
Ability to study as a self-motivated learner who can formulate their own progress towards learning objectives and negotiate pathways to achievement with supervisory teams

Desirable criteria

Ability to teach others about mental health issues
Ability to conduct other group therapeutic interventions with children and their families

Qualifications

Essential criteria

Proven record of previous academic attainment
Good Solid Basic literacy and numeracy qualifications at minimum level 2
Ability to study at degree level.

Desirable criteria

A further relevant degree qualification
Teaching qualification

Knowledge

Essential criteria

Knowledge of the educational system in England
Knowledge of CYP gained through academic study in child development, child wellbeing or mental health
Knowledge of safeguarding issues

Desirable criteria

Knowledge of the functional operation of specialist CAMHS teams

Experience

Essential criteria

Experience of working with children and young people

Desirable criteria

Experience of working with children and their families in a healthcare setting
Experience of working with children and their families in an education setting

Documents

Further details / informal visits contact

Name: Emma Campbell-Scott
Job title: Clinical and Team Lead
Email address: [email protected]
Additional information: For more information and a confidential discussion please contact Emma Campbell-Scott on [email protected]