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Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust provides physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset.

Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics and people’s homes. We focus on delivering care as close to home as possible.

Contact

Address: Trust Headquarters; Warneford Hospital; Warneford Lane; Headington; Oxford; Oxfordshire; OX3 7JX
Contact Number: 01865 901000

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Ref: 267-OC8023130 Vacancy ID: 8023130

Trainee Education Mental Health Practitioner - Oxford

Closed for applications on: 5-Jun-2026 00:00

Vacancy status: Closed

Closed for applications on: 5-Jun-2026 00:00

Location

Site: Raglan House
Address: Between Towns Road, Cowley, Oxford
Town: Cowley
Postcode: OX4 3LX
Major / Minor Region: Oxfordshire

Contract type & working pattern

Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week

Salary

Salary: £28,392 - £31,157 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Grade: (Band 4)

Specialty

Main area: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust has been rated as Good by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).

We are a responsive and innovative Foundation Trust that places our values of Caring, Safe and Excellent at the heart of everything we do. We take great pride in our staff and believe that investing in you is key to us achieving our vision of outstanding care delivered by outstanding people.

We work with a wide range of partner organisations to deliver care and support to people in their own homes and from a number of hospitals and community bases. We focus on delivering care as close to home as possible for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset.

We actively support anti-racism, equality, diversity, and inclusion so, if you’re excited about this job opportunity and you meet our Trust values, but feel unsure about applying, then please get in touch and we will be happy to have a conversation with you.

We are also committed to increasing diversity in the workforce, that is why we actively encourage applications from those groups of people who are currently under-represented, which include amongst others: people with disabilities; men from all socio-economic backgrounds; people from diverse ethnic backgrounds; and people from the LGBTQIA+ community.

Good luck and we hope to hear from you.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The Mental Health Support Teams (MHST) are part of an exciting project funded by NHS England, Health Education England, with the aim of improving the mental health and wellbeing of children, young people and families, and schools in the community. This opportunity allows you to join an innovative service during an exciting time whilst working alongside an enthusiastic, compassionate and inspiring team!

MHST CAMHS Teams work across Oxfordshire, working as part of the multi-agency early intervention support for the education setting. The role offers an exciting opportunity to continue to innovate and deliver high quality evidence-based care and whole system interventions, with great ongoing CPD opportunities.

All applicants must demonstrate in their application the ability to work at degree level or have an equivalent level of relevant experience.

Level 6 route:

We encourage people to apply if they do not meet requirements for the level 7 postgraduate route as this would typically those who have a degree and our key is to widen access into the workforce:

Will not hold an Honours degree or may hold a degree of Third Class Honours standard or below;

Evidence of ability to study at Level 6 (e.g. previous successful study at level 5, or successful part completion of an Honours degree – level 6, or a pre-entry essay for the University of Reading that achieves a passing standard). Please note, an academic reference may be sought

Please Note:

Candidates who hold an Honours degree of 2.2 or above should apply for the Postgraduate route;
Good solid basic literacy and numeracy qualifications at a minimum of level 2.
Experience of working with children and young people and an understanding of the educational system in England is highly desirable.
Students cannot be accepted onto any training programme if they are currently undertaking studies elsewhere.
We do not accept candidates who have previously studied for the same award at another institution.
We are currently not allowed to accept candidates who have completed the CWP or PWP programmes, or other similar Health Education England (HEE)-funded training programmes.

The training programme for this post starts in September '26, is 12 months in duration and will consist of academic and supervised practice learning across mental health services and educational settings. During training, the post-holder will work under supervision to enable them to gain the level of competence required to deliver high-quality, evidence-based early interventions for children and young people experiencing mild to moderate mental health problems.

All new starters have a thorough induction process, both local and Trust wide, which aims to create a positive supportive working environment allowing new employees to learn key elements of their role over a reasonable timescale.
Appointment to this post is subject to the trust receiving satisfactory references covering 3 years of employment or study. Please ask your referees to respond promptly to reference requests.
We’re advocates of flexible working and many of our roles offer a range of employment options to help you balance your work and personal life.
Employees are expected to undertake mandatory and statutory training related to their role.
We are ambitious in our pursuit of excellence, driven by the belief that a fair, just and fully inclusive organisational culture enables our teams to deliver the best quality of care and services possible and we work hard to ensure that our diverse workforce reflects the communities that we serve.
We welcome applications from all sections of the community, are an Equal Opportunities employer with a number of internal networking groups to support our employees and where possible will always look to make reasonable adjustments in order that you can fulfil the role to recognise your full potential. All our employees are committed to demonstrating through their behaviour our core values – safe, caring and excellent.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults, we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
Oxford is a world-renowned centre of excellence for research. Oxford Health works closely with the University of Oxford department of Psychiatry and the Department of Primary care, has a Biomedical Research Centre dedicated to improving mental health and the NIHR Clinical Research Facility at the Warneford site. The Trust also hosts the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) which carries out applied research that directly impacts patient health and wellbeing

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

Qualifications

Essential criteria

Qualifications relevant to this role - Postgraduate route (Level 7) Education to Honours degree level to 2:2 or above Or Graduate route (Level 6) Applicants that may not hold an honours degree must have proven successful study at Level 5 or successful part completion of an Honours degree – Level 6.

Desirable criteria

Additional qualifications or training in relevant subjects related to child and family mental health

Experience

Essential criteria

Demonstratable experience of working with children and young people
Demonstratable experience working with vulnerable young people or children and their families (this could be in an education, mental health or social care, for example)