Job summary
We have an exciting opportunity for a qualified Educational Mental Health Practitioner to join the Northumberland Primary Mental Health Team. This posts will work directly into the Northumberland Be you Mental Health Support Teams.

We are looking for an enthusiastic, dynamic and self-motivated individual with a passion for delivering early intervention and innovative new models of working in children's mental health.

The post holder will be responsible for delivering the 3 core functions of the EMHP role. These roles sit within the 'getting help 'sector of the Thrive model.

Our established 'getting help service' provides excellent clinical, case management and peer led clinical skills supervision arrangements, training and CPD.

We support a blended /hybrid model of working recognising the value of home life balance. We will ensure we consider suitable arrangements are made to your work and home base to guarantee suitable travel expenses are provided to support in this role.

Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.

Main duties of the job
The role will involve delivering a range of evidenced based low intensity psychological interventions for children and young people with mild/moderate need. These will be delivered individually and in small group based programmes. This will also include the facilitation of a range of psychoeducation sessions and staff training.

The role will provide support to schools to improve their the whole school approach to emotional well-being.

The post holder will also deliver a consultation and signposting role to a range of early help, targeted and specialist support services supporting children and young peoples emotional health and wellbeing.

Engaging proactively with the wider team and our external partners is fundamental to the role and the delivery of the Mental Health Support Team functions.

About us
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres.

We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.

Details
Date posted: 28 August 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 5
Salary: £32,073 to £39,043 a year pro rata per annum
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Part-time, Flexible working
Reference number: 319-8231016IO
Job locations: Northumberland Mental Health Support Team, Blyth Community Hospital, Blyth, NE24 1DX, United Kingdom

Job responsibilities
The role involves delivering on the 3 core functions of the EMHP role within a Mental Health Support Team: delivering 1:1 low intensity intervention, whole school delivery and providing an advisory and consultative role.

The role will involve holding a caseload, managing this in terms of delivering intervention and supporting through to discharge. There will be close working with education settings to support the delivery of the whole school approach.

We have a robust supervision structure in place and the post holders will take an active participation in both clinical and case management supervision, group/peer supervision and the service safeguarding supervision arrangements we have in place.

Part of the delivery will liaising with our system partners and contributing to the wider contribution across the emotional and mental health pathway in Northumberland.

To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which:
(a) engages, enables and empowers others
(b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and
(c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.

Qualifications
Essential

• Degree or an equivalent level of relevant experience
• Basic literacy and numeracy qualifications
• Relevant knowledge acquired through successful completion of post graduate diploma in Mental Health and Emotional Wellbeing in education environment
• Requirement for postholder to hold up to date professional registration with a professional body e.g British Association for Counselling Psychotherapy or British Psychological Society

Experience
Essential

• Experience of working with children and young people and an understanding of the education system in England is highly desirable

Desirable

• Knowledge of or experience in coaching and mentoring practices and tools.
• Knowledge of or experience in Quality improvement tools, techniques and methods

Other
Essential

• It is an essential requirement of the role that the post holder has a valid driving licence and is either a car owner and able to use the car for work purposes, or has a Trust personal lease vehicle which may be used for the role. However, the Trust would consider making reasonable adjustments to the role, if necessary, to enable a disabled person to undertake the role

Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).