Education Mental Health Practitioner Brent MHST

Job Description

CNWL (Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust) has almost 8,000 staff providing integrated healthcare to a third of London’s population, Milton Keynes, and areas beyond. We involve service users, carers, the public, staff and partner organisations in the way that we run.

Providing top quality care depends on our ability to employ the best people.

We're always looking to recruit outstanding people who will go the extra mile to support patients, colleagues, teams and the Trust. With every new employee we hope to find future leaders and offer opportunities to develop your career.

With a diverse culture and equally diverse став of opportunities across mental health, community services, addictions, eating disorders, learning disabilities and more, whatever stage of your career you’re at there’s always a place for you at CNWL.

CNWL is one of the largest NHS trusts in the UK, and the only NHS Foundation Trust in the North West of England specialising in specialist adult mental health. We pride ourselves on offering high quality, innovative healthcare, and on promoting equality for LGBT+, BME, and people with disabilities.

NHS AfC: Band 5 – Job Details MAKE

• Job reference: 333-G-CA-1651


• Main areas: EMHP, CYPWP, CWP, WP, MHCYP, CYP, CYP IAPT, CBT, Brent, Schools, MHST


• Grade: Band 5 (NHS AfC)


• Contract type: 12 months fixed‑term


• Hours: 37.5 per week (Full time)


• Location: Monks Park Clinic, Town London


• Salary: £35,763 – £43,466 per annum (incl. outer HCAS)


• Closing date: 28/01/2026 23:59

We offer a generous relocation package (subject to eligibility assessment) and flexible working options, including bank assignments for most roles. For more information on these and other benefits of working for us, see our Benefits, Reward and Wellbeing page.

CNWL is committed to safeguarding all children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We follow safe recruitment practices to protect children and vulnerable adults.

Job overview

Band 5 MHST EMHP/CWP practitioners work closely with young people and families, parents and carers and staff in schools. They play a pivotal role in shaping how people experience our services. Practitioners should be kind, responsive, professional disappointed, informative.

Practitioners are expected to contribute to the.KEY at the level of our services by:

• Keeping the people who use our services safe using exceed clinical skills and effective risk assessments.


• Ensuring the best possible clinical outcomes by using up‑to‑date skills and adhering to evidence‑based policies and procedures.


• Ensuring-level positive experience by respecting, empowering, and working in partnership with people throughout the care‑planning process.

We believe that the best healthcare is delivered by multidisciplinary teams that work well together and in partnership with other teams and services to provide seamless care.

As a Band 5 practitioner you will work alongside more experienced mental health practitioners, other health professionals and EMHP/CWP peers, delivering a service to schools.

Main duties of the job

Applicants must be a qualified Education Mental Health Practitioner (EMHP) or an equivalent qualification with experience of working with children and young people in mental health services or schools in the provision of individual and group treatments.

Brent Mental Health Support Team is looking for a qualified EMHP with experience of working within school settings, who is enthusiastic, dynamic, creative, and passionate about improving mental health outcomes for children and young people.

You will work alongside EMHPs, mental health practitioners and senior clinical leads to support the wellbeing and mental health of children and young people based in participating schools in Brent.

Brent MHST works for children and young people with mild to moderate mental health presentations attending schools in the area.

CNWL is committed to progressing and supporting staff with career development, training, and ensuring staff health and wellbeing and job satisfaction.

Working for our organisation

Central and North West London NHS Trust expects all Band 5 practitioners to act in a way that shows you understand our core values and are willing to put them into practice with young people, their friends, family, carers, teachers and other staff members.

As a Band 5 practitioner we expect you to show COMPASSION, contribute to a caring and kind environment, and recognise that what you do and say helps can make the lives of others better.

We expect you to RESPECT everyone and acknowledge and welcome people’s differences.

We expect you to EMPOWER others and continually try to provide information, resources, and support to help others make their own decisions and meet their own needs.

We expect you to work in PARTNERSHIP and behave in a way that recognizes that commissioners and users of our services are the people who generate and pay for our work.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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• Delivering low‑intensity evidence‑based intervention for children and young people in education settings with mild to moderate mental health problems.


• Helping children and young people with more severe problems access specialist services rapidly.


• Flavo rest करत support and facilitate 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.


• Group/whole‑school approach implementation and consultation on referrals.

And to use acquired skills and knowledge to deliver a service within education settings that builds on and reinforces but does not replace existing initiatives.

Person specification

Move and Qualifications

• Qualified Education Mental Health Practitioner or CYP Wellbeing Practitioner, or Mental Health Nurse, Occupational Therapist, Social Worker with additional CBT or other relevant therapeutic postgraduate qualification.


• Teaching qualification.

Previous Experience

• Experience of working with children and young people, their families and others in a healthcare or school setting.


• Experience working and liaising with a wide variety of agencies and stakeholders.


• Experience of working with children and young people who have social, emotional and/or behavioural difficulties.


• Experience of working with anxiety disorders.


• Experience of working with affective disorders.


• Experience delivering specific low‑intensity therapeutics to children, young people or their families (e.g., CBT, solution‑focused brief therapy).


• Ability to conduct other group therapeutic interventions with children and their families.


• Experience of working with children and their families in an educational setting.


• Experience monitoring and recording outcome measures for children’s emotional wellbeing.


• Experience navigating complex social systems and environments with conflicting priorities or agendas.


• Experience working with looked‑after children.


• Experience working with other vulnerable groups.

Skills

• Ability to communicate with the team, present young people, take notes of actions, update others, and use team meetings effectively – speaking face‑to‑face, by telephone and written letters and reports.


• Maintaining accurate, timely, concise, and legible clinical records both electronic and handwritten, in line with CNWL policies.


• Care planning: assessment, developing, implementing 강조 mō nok  and evaluate a care plan.


• Understanding how the Mental Capacity Act and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards impact work and the people they are working with.


• Understanding the concept of quality and role in improving safety, clinical outcomes and patient experience.


• Ability to carry out analiz 1:1 therapeutic mental health interventions with children.


• Ability to carry out 1:1 therapeutic mental health interventions with families.


• Ability to assess risk and record and communicate it appropriately.


• Capability to teach others about mental health issues.

Knowledge

• Knowledge of educational environments.


• Knowledge of safeguarding issues, capacity and consent issues including Gillick competence.


• Knowledge of the functional operation of specialist CAMHS teams.


• Commitment to continuous professional development.

Other

• Access to a car or other motor vehicle for use for work purposes.


• Team player.


• Excellent time‑management and organisational skills.

Other details

• Due to high response levels, we may expire any of these prior to the advertised closing date. Submit your application as soon as possible.


• Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. Check eligibility under UKVI points‑based system before submitting.


• Our Agenda for Change employment contracts are subject to a contractual 13‑week probationary period.


• If offered a job, information will be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.

Contact details

• Service Lead: Jonah Seto – Senior Clinical Supervisor & Service Lead – Email: j.seto@nhs.net – Phone: 07484 060040


• Service Lead: Amanda Pegrum – Senior Clinical Supervisor & Service Lead – Email: apegrum@nhs.net

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