Assistant Education Mental Health Practitioner

Main area Mental Health Support Team in Schools Mid-Mersey Grade Band 4 Contract Permanent Hours 37.5 hours per week (Full Time) Job
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Employer Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site The Alders - Warrington Town Warrington Salary £27,485 - £30,162 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 16/03/2026 23:59 Interview date 25/03/2026

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust celebrates diversity and promotes equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect.

We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and also particularly encourage applications from ethnically diverse, disabled and LGBTQIA+ people that are under-represented in our workforce. Furthermore we welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces personnel as we recognise the benefits of the values, skills, training and experience that they bring to their work with us. We encourage all applicants to share their equality information with us.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for 2 full-time Band 4 Assistant Education Mental Health Practitioners, to work within our established Mental Health Support Teams in Schools. 1 position based in the Halton and Warrington Cluster, and 1 position in the St Helens and Knowsley Cluster.

We would like to invite applicants from children and young people’s mental health, wellbeing and education/pastoral backgrounds to apply for this opportunity.

The Assistant Education Mental Health Practitioners will work closely with qualified Education Mental Health Practitioners, Senior Practitioners, CBT therapists and other team members, to support young people with mild to moderate mental health difficulties.

To allow the postholder, under supervision and with support, to develop knowledge and practice skills in the following:

• Delivering evidence-based intervention for children and young people in education setting with mild to moderate mental health problems
• 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
• Working with and within education environments to promote a whole school approach to mental health wellbeing.
• To evidence development of those skills with associated knowledge acquisition to record and evidence progression towards an academic award and demonstrable practical ability.

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.

We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.

At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

Developing skills in supporting children and young people experiencing mild to moderate mental health…