Person Specification

Education/ Qualification/ Training

Essential

• Successful completion of the HEE commissioned 1yr ‘Education Mental Health Practitioner’ or ‘ IAPT Child Wellbeing Practitioner’ postgraduate diploma. Post-qualification experience as an EMHP and experience of working in schools.

Desirable

• Evidence of CPD -Continuous Professional Development in Child and Adolescent Mental Health or Family work training

Experience

Essential

• Experience of working with children and young people, their families, and others in educational and health settings with mild to moderate mental health problems.
• Experience of delivering specific therapeutic interventions to children, young people, or their families (e.g. Guided Self Help, CBT, parent work)
• Experience of assessing children and young people who present with mild to moderate mental health problems and in rapidly accessing more specialist services.
• Ability to conduct other group therapeutic interventions with children and their families. Experience of liaising and working effectively with the wider network around the child, including educational, social care, family and health.
• Experience of working with culturally diverse populations and adapting services to improve access.

Desirable

• Experience of liaising and working effectively with the wider network around the child, including educational, social care, family and health.
• Experience of assessing and meeting the communication needs of the schools to deliver psycho-education on mental health or emotional wellbeing to different groups, including parents, teaching staff, and young people.
• Experience of adapting resources to be able to deliver online/ via phone/Google Classroom

Skills & Knowledge

Essential

• Ability to carry out 1:1 therapeutic mental health interventions with children and families.
• Ability to conduct group parenting and group young person programmes
• Ability to work within educational settings to increase mental health awareness among the staff group
• Ability to conduct mental health assessments and screenings of children and young people
• Ability to make an assessment of risk and to record and communicate it appropriately, and to take appropriate action to mitigate or manage it
• Strong understanding of how to work with children and young people who have social, emotional, and/or behavioural difficulties

Desirable

• Ability to teach others about mental health issues
• Ability to think and work systemically.
• Ability to conduct other group therapeutic interventions with children and their families

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: 29 March 2026