Trainee Education Mental Health Practitioner

This is a training role within theGreen Paper for Transforming children and young people's mental health programme. The post holder will work within education settings providing low intensity guided self-help interventions whilst undertaking a programme of training for this role at Kings College London University. The training starts on 18th January 2027 and on successful completion of the course trainees will be awarded a Post Graduate Diploma based on a nationally devised curriculum.

The training post will equip the post-holder to provide a range of cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) based self- management interventions to children and young people with mild to moderate anxiety and depression and/or behavioural difficulties. The postholder will attend all taught and self-study days required by the education provider, as specified within the EMHP curriculum and work in Oxleas MHST service for the remaining days of the week using their newly developed skills within education settings.

Applicants should have an undergraduate degree in psychology or related subjects (e.g. education, childhood development, social work etc) OR any subject with further training or experience in a relevant field (e.g., Teaching/TA; Learning Support; HCA; Youth Work; Counselling etc) and have previous experience working with children and young people in either a health or educational setting.

NB: Alongside the job application process applicants are required to submit a separate application to Kings College London regarding EMHP training. Details are attached regarding how to apply. To be considered for an Oxleas MHST EMHP Trainee position you will need to have submitted your application to KCL by 25th October 2026

For further enquiries please contact: John Rea, Bexley MHST Team Manager (john.rea1@nhs.net) or Linda Adedayo, Greenwich MHST Team Manager (linda.adedayo2@nhs.net)

Important Sponsorship Information for this post: We are unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post.

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes.We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

Qualifications

Experience

Essential: - It is essential that the applicant has previous experience of working with children and young people in either a health or educational setting

Knowledge

Skills

Desirable: - Full driving licence