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Job Title: Education Mental Health Practitioner
Agency: Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust
Location: Manchester, United Kingdom, Wigan
Salary/Rate: 31,049 – 37,796 £ / Year

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Job Summary

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***Only applicants with an existing Education Mental Health Practitioner Qualification will be considered***

Wigan Mental Health Support Team (MHST) in schools is designed to help meet the mental health needs of children and young people in education settings. Wigan MHST is made up of senior clinicians and higher-level therapists, and Education Mental Health Practitioners (EMHPs).

The Education Mental Health Practitioner role supports school staff to feel confident in recognising and responding to emerging mental health difficulties. Wigan MHST works with the mental health support services that already exist, such as counsellors, educational psychologists, Startwell, targeted youth support, Wigan Family Welfare, school nurses, pastoral care staff, and educational welfare officers.

Our Band 5 Education Mental Health Practitioner will be offered regular clinical and case management supervision to support our MHST core functions.

Delivering evidence-based interventions for children and young people with mild to moderate mental health problems.

Supporting the senior mental health lead in each education setting to introduce or develop their whole school/college approach.

Giving timely advice to school and college staff, and liaising with external specialist services, to help children and young people get the right support and stay in education

Main duties of the job

To be supported through supervision to deliver whole school mental health initiatives alongside young people, school staff, senior leads, and parents. To provide 1:1 brief intervention for mild to moderate mental health problems, develop support plans for children and young people regularly, and discuss in clinical supervision any issues that need addressing. To provide low-level interventions, including behavioural activation, CBT-informed worry and anxiety management, graded exposure, sleep and stress management, and behavioural experiments.

Person Specification

Core Competencies

Essential

  • Successful completion of an IAPT ‘Education Mental Health Practitioner’ course.

Desirable

  • Experience of developing and delivering whole school approaches to mental health.

Core Competencies

Essential

  • Experience of delivering evidence-based mental health interventions, including low-intensity cognitive behavioural therapy interventions to CYP and parents.

Desirable

  • Experience working within educational settings through consultation and training to increase mental health awareness within the staff group.

Core competencies

Essential

  • Understanding and knowledge of psychological models of brief intervention.

Desirable

  • Evidence of continuing professional development in the field of child and adolescent mental health

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

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 Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Closing Date: 13 April 2026

How to Apply;

Interested and qualified candidates should:
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