Qualified Educational Mental Health Practitioner (EMHP)
The closing date is 31 July 2026

Job summary
Following on from the governments green paper Dec 2017 Transforming children and young peoples mental health provision. Mind in West Essex has successfully implemented the Trailblazer programme, establishing a Children and Young Peoples (CYP) Mental Health Support Team.

The CYP Mental Health Support Team works with children, young people and their families, experiencing mild to moderate mental health issues such as low mood and anxiety. The Mental Health Support Team works with educational settings to develop Mental Health Support Teams in Schools the whole-school approach to mental health, and to strengthen the links between education, health services and families across West Essex.

Main duties of the job

• The post holder will provide low intensity CBT based interventions in: Child Anxiety; working with parent/carer; Challeng...