Educational Mental Health​/Child Wellbeing Practitioner

Educational Mental Health/Child Wellbeing Practitioner

The SEND MHST (Mental Health Support Team) are seeking to appoint a motivated, committed, flexible and forward thinking Qualified EMHP (Educational Mental Health Practitioner) or CWP (Child Wellbeing Practitioner) to work in our MHST team, who is committed to supporting Children and Young People (CYP) and their families across Hertfordshire.

The Mental Health Support Team works specifically with SEND children and families across Hertfordshire and West Essex schools, delivering early intervention mental health support and supporting schools to develop their whole school approach to emotional wellbeing.

This is a really exciting opportunity to take your EMHP or CWP training and build the MHST offering to children, families and schools who can have a great need for mental health support, whilst working very creatively with the training to meet the children's additional needs and support the schools.

* Proposed interview date: 4th March 2026*

You will be working in a variety of school environments across Hertfordshire and West Essex, combined with being part of a "virtual team" to deliver our service. We operate from 7am-7pm Monday to Friday.

The ideal candidate will match these criteria:

• Must have some SEND experience
• Creative and flexible in their approach
• Have a good understanding of children with additional needs and learning styles, and how to adapt practice to support children and their families
• Able to work and build relationships with a wide variety of professionals, schools, and families
• Be able to deliver evidence-based interventions for children and young people in education settings
• Have a good understanding of risk assessing and seek support from supervisor to manage risk
• Be willing and able to participate fully in supervision
• Have resilience under pressure
• Able to work both in a team environment and autonomously
• Able to maintain a high degree of professionalism when working in settings where there is a highly emotive atmosphere

We can offer you:

• Regular clinical and professional supervision
• Regular appraisals, personal development planning and opportunities for continuing professional development. This includes specific support with regards to fulfilling the MHST role such as co-facilitating workshops.
• Regular opportunities to meet as a team
• Regular CPD and Peer Reflection
• Opportunities to work closely with a multi-disciplinary team including learning from other evidence-based frameworks and approaches.
• Involvement in service development
• Opportunities to provide line management and clinical supervision to other members of the MHST team
• 27 days holiday rising to 33 days (depending on NHS Trust service) plus bank holidays (pro rata where applicable)
• One of the UK's best pension schemes
• Special Leave for family and personal reasons
• NHS Car Lease Scheme (for substantive staff)
• Eye Care Vouchers
• Employee Assistance Programme
• NHS Discounts

The post holder must hold a Educational Mental Health Practitioner or Child Wellbeing Practitioner qualification.

Delivering evidence-based intervention for children and young people in an education setting with mild to moderate mental health and SEND additional needs. Helping children and young people within these settings who present with more severe problems to rapidly access more specialist services. Supporting and facilitating 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. To support schools in developing strategies/activities to promote emotional well‑being and positive mental health. To work with families following the parent as therapist method to support emotional wellbeing within the home. To support the school to develop their overall whole school approach to emotional wellbeing.

And to use the acquired skills, knowledge, and abilities to deliver a service based within education settings that builds on and reinforces but does not replace those initiatives that already exist within these…