Education Mental Health Professional Qualified

Contract Type: Permanent

Working Hours: 37 hours per week

Worker Type: Hybrid Worker

Salary: 32597 - 35412 per annum (pro rata for part-time)

Location: Various education provisions across Nottingham City. Office base: Southglade Access Centre Southglade Nottingham NG5 5GU

Weve got an exciting opportunity available for talented individuals to join our workforce - perhaps this is the opportunity youve been looking for Read on to find out more

Working for Nottingham City Council has great benefits. As well as competitive pay great leave entitlement and access to a generous pension scheme we strive to create an innovative inclusive and progressive work culture where everyone is supported to do and be their very best.

In return we are looking for people like you - people who are innovative driven and committed to serving and improving if you are passionate about making a difference to the lives of those who live and work in our city we want to hear from you.

* You can read more about the different benefits offered to colleagues working for Nottingham City Councilhere.

*****Please note that this is a Qualified position *****

Applicants must have completed an HEE commissioned 1yr Education Mental Health Practitioner post graduate diploma AND/OR Successful completion of Certificate in Childrens Wellbeing Practice (CWP) with post qualification experience as a CWP and experience of working in schools.

Applicants with a Certificate in Childrens Wellbeing Practice (CWP)
Applicants who have successfully completed the Certificate in Childrens Wellbeing Practice (CWP) hold post-qualification experience as a CWP and have experience of working in schools are encouraged to apply. Individuals with this background may be eligible to access the CYP IAPT Educational Mental Health Practitioner (EMHP) route via the Knowledge Skills and Attitudes (KSA) portfolio which enables CWPs to evidence equivalence and progress into an EMHP role.

If you hold this qualification and experience please contact the recruiting team directly to discuss the KSA portfolio route and training pathway in more detail.

About the Role

The Mental Health Support Team are recruiting for a Qualified Education Mental Health Practitioner to join their team.

WHATMHST do

The Mental Health Support Teams (MHST) were established in Nottingham City in February 2020 providing an early intervention and preventative service for over 892 children and young people and their families so far. This includes providing support for anxiety low mood and behavioural difficulties as well as running workshops to groups of children within educational settings on themes such as transition resilience and wellbeing general wellbeing hacks worry and distractions and emotions through puberty.

Currently MHST are supporting children and young people in over 70 educational settings which will increase over the next 18 months to around 100 sites across the city. The expansion is being funded through 1.01m from NHS England and Health Education England as part of a national initiative.

We work in partnership with the school community and other wellbeing services to develop a whole school approach to mental health and wellbeing building on what is being done already. We aim to achieve this goal through offering a range of services including:

• Improving access to mental health support and services.
• Delivering training and workshops for schools and parents
• Providing consultation to schools on mental health and wellbeing
• Individual and group interventions for children and young people experiencing difficulties with managing emotions
• And more!

About You

A successful candidate must have:

• A strong understanding of how to work with children and young people who have social emotional and/or behavioural difficulties
• Knowledge of the educational system in England. Knowledge of children and young people gained through academic study in child development child wellbeing or mental health.
• Successfully completed the HEE commissioned 1yr Education Mental Health Practitioner post graduate diploma AND/OR Successful completion of Certificate in Childrens Wellbeing Practice (CWP) with post qualification experience as a CWP and experience of working in schools.
• Experience of working with children and young people their families and others in educational and health settings with mild to moderate mental health problems.
• Experience of delivering specific therapeutic interventions to children young people or their families (e.g. Guided Self Help CBT parent work)
• Experience of assessing and meeting the communication needs of the schools to deliver psycho-education on mental health or emotional wellbeing to different groups including parents teaching staff and young people.

-A DBS enhanced check for a regulated activity is required for this post.

You can find the job description for this post here

At Nottingham City Council we believe that work is what you do not where you do it. We offer different working arrangements depending on the role including hybrid working. Further information on Worker Types and what these mean in terms of how and where you work can be found on theadditional informationfor applicants page.

For informal enquiriesplease contact Mira Gordhan via email hereor Corina Benjamin here

Closing Date: 28th February 2026

Please note there may be occasions where we close the advert before the closing date and we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

Interviews will be held:TBC

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