Education Mental Health Practitioner - CFHD
At a glance
- Band
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time, Flexible working
- Posted
- 11/09/2026
- Closes
- 24/09/2026
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Role summary
This role involves delivering evidence-based early interventions for children and young people with mental health needs within educational settings and healthcare sectors. You will conduct assessments, provide therapeutic interventions, and work collaboratively with families and other professionals. The position is part of a Mental Health Support Team across Devon and Torbay, focusing on a whole-school approach to mental health.
Key responsibilities
- Hold an appropriate caseload and undertake a key worker role for children with emotional and mental health needs in the community.
- Using a strengths-based approach; ensure clinical effectiveness through the use of evidence-based interventions, goal-based, collaborative practice and routine outcome measures.
- With supervision, undertake assessments, including risk assessments, contribute to care planning and deliver evidence-based interventions in collaboration with children/young people and families/carers.
- Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team offering early help in community settings and offering a range of individual, group and family focussed evidence-based interventions.
- Provide support to, and work with, other professionals across agencies in the community including health, social care and education, to meet the needs of children/young people and families/carers.
- Ensure clinical effectiveness through the use of evidence-based interventions, goal-based, collaborative practice and routine outcome measures.
Essential criteria
- CYP IAPT accredited Education Mental Health Practitioner Training
- Training in an evidence-based therapeutic approach.
- Experience of engaging/ working with children, young people, families and carers with mental health needs and undertaking specialist mental health assessments in the community, including risk assessments
- Experience of providing evidence-based therapeutic interventions for children and young people with mental health problems.
- Experience of collaborative working in community settings, with professionals across a range of agencies in health, social care and education.
- Ability to travel.
- Ability to manage and process emotionally distressing information, seeking support as required.
- The ability to work collaboratively with service users and their families/carers, adapting your approach according to the individual needs of the child to demonstrate excellent communication and interaction skills.
- Knowledge of mental health presentations and evidence based clinical interventions.
- Understanding of the use in practice of assessment tools, Routine Outcome Measures and goal-based care.
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of relevant CPD.
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 5 at £29,970 – £36,483 a year, across England.
This advert: £32,073 – £39,043 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
Posted 1d ago · Closes in 13d
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Devon Partnership NHS Trust
Education Mental Health Practitioner - CFHD
The closing date is 24 September 2026
Job summary
We are excited to be able to offer 3 roles in our Mental Health Support Team in Children and Family
Health Devon. We have teams located across Devon and Torbay
covering a range of primary, secondary and specialist schools.
We are looking for 3 full-time Trained Education Mental Health Practitioners to join our fast developing Devon-wide service.
In line
with the governments priority to increase access and availability of mental
health and wellbeing support for children and young people, the Education
Mental Health Practitioner (EMHP) role is an exciting opportunity to deliver
evidence-based early interventions for children and young people, working
across both educational settings and healthcare sectors in England.
Successful candidates will be employed substantively and based in Mental Health
Support Teams, which will be responsible for the delivery of mental health
support across a range of educational settings in the regions. You will have already completed the Education Mental Health Practitioner
Training.
Main duties of the job
To provide emotional and mental health assessments
and evidenced-based therapeutic interventions to children/young people and
their families who have been referred with a range of emotional and mental heal
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