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Education Mental Health Practitioner

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Fareham, PO16 7ES · Havant, PO9 2AX · Romsey, SO51 7ZA · Basingstoke, RG21 8UN

Salary

£32,073 to £39,043

Contract

Permanent

Hours

Not specified

Closing date

6 September 2026

6 days left

Job description

Are you looking for the next stage in your career? Do you hold a Post Graduate Diploma in Education Mental Health? Do you have experience working with...

To work as a member of a Mental Health Support Team in schools, providing a high quality, psychological therapy service to young people, their families, or carers. In addition, to support psychological practice within the team by communicating effectively about the psychological care of clients, by contributing to the supervision of psychological practitioners and trainees and less experienced psychological therapists, and by participating in systematic clinical governance.

Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.

We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.

Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.

We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.

Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence

Qualifications

Essential

  • Successful completion of the HEE commissioned 1yr Education Mental Health Practitioner' course.
  • A further degree qualification - Psychology or other health related undergraduate degree or demonstrate the ability to work at degree level (this will be assessed as a University entry requirement for the Band 4 EMHP Position)
  • Registered with the BABCP or BPS

Experience

Essential

  • *Knowledge of educational environments.
  • * Knowledge of safeguarding issues.
  • * Knowledge of capacity and consent issues including Gillick competence.
  • * Experience of working with children, young people and their families in a healthcare and education setting.
  • * Experience of working and liaising with a wide variety of agencies and stakeholders.
  • * Experience of working with children and young people who have social, emotional and/or behavioural difficulties.
  • * Experience of working with anxiety disorders.
  • * Experience of working with affective (mood) disorders.
  • * Experience of the delivery of specific therapeutic interventions to children, young people, or their families (e.g. CBT, solution focused brief therapy).

How to apply

Applications are handled entirely by the employer on the original advert. We do not collect CVs, supporting statements or application data.

Provenance

Source

NHS Jobs

First seen

21 August 2026

Last checked

25 August 2026

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About the employer

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Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

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