Senior Educational Mental Health Practitioner

South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Trust

The closing date is 20 October 2026

Areyou an experienced Mental Health Practitioner looking for an exciting opportunity to make a difference in the lives of young people within the Kirklees area? Would you like to be part of a diverse and innovative service who offer mental health support in an educational setting?

We are seeking applicants to join our Mental Health Support Team who cover the schools and colleges in Kirklees. This is an exciting time to join our team who deliver evidence based interventions to children within our schools with mild to moderate mental health conditions. Focusing on early intervention we also provide training and workshops to schools using the whole school approach,which enables schools to provide a culture of wellbeing for all their pupils.

Youwill be part of a supportive and resilient team within a trust which places staff health and wellbeing at the top of its agenda. Our team sits within our CAMHS service which means that we can provide expert CPD opportunities, further training and supervision from a diverse range of experienced practitioners.

All employees of the Trust are strongly encouraged tohave their up-to-date flu vaccination to protect staff and patients.

This role would suit an experienced healthcare professional with experience in assessing and working with young people with mild- moderate mental health concerns and preferably experience deliveringCBT interventions and delivery of supervision.

As a band 6mental health practitioner you will be expected to confidently manage acaseload of young people including triaging, consulting with schools/ parent sand assessing CYP with a range of mental health issues and making decisions asto what support they may need.

You will support the senior leadership team and be involved with service development of theMHST, taking initiative to identify opportunities to improve the service.

You will be expected to draw on your experience to lead case management supervision and supervise the junior staff within the team.

You will be ableto make decisions on suitability of new referrals, adhering to the services referral protocols, refer unsuitable clients on to the relevant service or backto the referral agent as necessary.

At the time of advertising, this role does meet the minimum requirements set by UK Visas and Immigration to sponsor candidates towork in the UK. We look forward to receiving your application.

Weare a specialist NHS Foundation Trust that provides community, mental healthand learning disability services for the people of Barnsley, Calderdale,Kirklees and Wakefield. We also provide low and medium secure services and arethe lead for the west Yorkshire secure provider collaborative.

Our mission isto help people reach their potential and live well in their communities, we do thisby providing high-quality care in the right place at the right time. We employ staff in both clinical and non-clinical services who work hard to make adifference to the lives of service users, families and carers.

We encourage and welcome applications from all protected characteristic groups, we value diversity and want our workforce to be reflective of our communities.

Beinga foundation Trust means were accountable to our members, who can have a say in how were run. Around 14,300 local people(including staff) are members of our Trust.

Joinus and you will be one of over 4,500 staff committed to supporting and improving the mental, physical and social needs of the thousands of people we meet andhelp each year.

Weare committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all colleagues and volunteers to share this commitment.

We do reserve to right to close vacancy before the advertised closing date if necessary, so please apply as soon as possible.

JOB SUMMARY

Thepost holder will work as part of the Kirklees Mental Health Support Team (MHST) to manage a defined case- load witha focus on providing comprehensive assessment, consultation and evidence-based interventions, for children and young people (CYP) with mental health difficulties and their parents/carers.

This post will involve supporting Educational Mental Health Practitioners (EMHP) s with developing their clinical practice, psychological formulation and school engagement.

The post holder will be expected to provide Case Management and Clinical Skills…