Changing Futures North East

Assistant / Trainee Educational Mental Health Practitioner (EMHP)

The closing date is 15 February 2026

Job summary

This is a fantastic opportunity to work alongside the South Tees 'Inside Out' Mental Health Support Team. You will have the opportunity to complete the post graduate Educational Mental Health Practitioner qualification if a place becomes available. You will be employed by Changing Futures North East, a vibrant and local charity with a wealth of experience in working with children and young people.

If you share our beliefs, we'd love to hear from you

Everyone has potential - our role is to help people unlock this and achieve the things that matter to them.

Parents love their children and this love needs to be acknowledged, worked with, and respected.

Parental relationships matter we must be curious about them and support them where needed, particularly given the critical impact inter-parental relationships have on children.

Wider relationships matter - people stand the best chance of thriving with a variety of positive family, peer, and other relationships.

Workplace relationships matter healthy and supportive workplace relationships are good for people at work, and they help them help people in the community better too.

Systems affect children, change and performance we need to understand and work together to best enable positive change.

Main duties of the job

The post-holder will be employed by Changing Futures North East and will work into The Link led Mental Health Support Team, alongside a wider team of practitioners. The Assistant Education Mental Health Practitioner (AEMHP) is an active member of the team working with others to support the delivery of mental health and emotional wellbeing activities and to deliver positive outcomes for children, young people and their families.

The post holder will deliver a range of delegated activities as part of a multidisciplinary team to support children, young people and their families by offering age-appropriate information and advice on a range of emotional health, lifestyle and behaviour related issues. The role will deliver alongside the more senior members of the team delivering Care Planning Meetings, Whole School Approach, Training and Group Work.

The successful candidate must be willing to complete the postgraduate Education Mental Health Practitioner qualification if and when a space is available at a suitable university such as Northumbria University.

About us

Changing Futures North East is a vibrant Charity that is in the privileged position to be able to trial new approaches to working with children and families to catalyse their own, sustainable change. Over the past 25 years, we have grown from an estate based youth club to a provider of children and families work across Tees Valley, particularly specialising in work that supports and is enabled through healthy relationships.

Changing Futures has particular strengths and experience in:

Pioneering delivery of emotional well-being and mental health services pioneering mentalisation based therapy for couples in Tees Valley, and providing EMHPs, CWP and Counsellors into the childrens emotional well-being system through two partnerships, as well as delivering adverse childhood experiences programmes for parents and children separately.

Supporting care experienced young people through a fostering service (underpinned by a bespoke trauma informed therapeutic training programme, changing futures through fostering) and through mentoring and befriending support

Reducing parental conflict services delivering mediation and group work programmes, and supporting statutory agencies to develop their local offer.

Staff value the organisation and rating the workplace culture and management support in particular.

Date posted

09 February 2026

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£25,000 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

B0449-26-0000

Job locations

3 Abbey Street

Hartlepool

TS24 0JR

Job description

Job responsibilities

Role Description (Main Duties and Responsibilities)Working with your Manager(s) and Team Members

Work with the Chief Executive and your Managers to ensure that they receive appropriate advice and information on all relevant matters thus enabling them to fulfill their responsibilities, and to effectively monitor plans and targets.

To model the organisations values and play a role in raising the profile of these values and associated behaviours across the organisation. This includes a positive contribution to workplace harmony displaying cooperative team behaviour

Therapeutic practice

Be supervised, supported, and assessed in the delivery of outcome focused, evidence-based interventions in educational settings to children and young people experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties.

Developing skills in supporting children and young people experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties and their families and educators in the self-management of presenting difficulties.

Developing and practicing skills under supervisory support of working in partnership with children, young people, their families, and educators in the development of treatment plans for specific interventions.

Developing and learning the skills required to enable children and young people in education to collaborate and coproduce their own agreed plan of care.

Show evidence in a variety of forms that interventions are provided from an inclusive values base, which recognises and respects diversity.

Discuss with supervisors and agree to accept appropriate referrals for children and young people in educational settings, according to agreed referral routes, processes, and procedures.

Under supervision, undertake accurate assessments of risk to self and others.

Learn, understand, rationalise, and adhere to the policies and protocols within the organisation and the educational service to which the postholder is attached.

Engage along with more senior staff in the signposting of referrals for children and young people with more complex needs to the relevant service.

Engage in robust managerial and clinical supervision, identifying the scope of practice of the individual postholder within the role, and working safely within that scope.

Gain and practice a range of interventions related to the provision of information and support for evidence based psychological treatments, primarily guided self-help.

Practice, evidence and demonstrate an ability to manage ones own caseload in conjunction with the requirements of the team. Attend multi-disciplinary and multi-agency meetings relating to referrals for children and young people in treatment.

Keep coherent records of all training and clinical activity in line with service protocols and use these records and outcome data to inform decision making.

Complete all requirements relating to data collection.

Show evidence of working within a collaborative approach, involving a range of relevant others when indicated.

Specifically, work in collaboration with teachers and other educational staff, parents, children, young people and the wider community to enhance and broaden access to mental health services.

Contribute to the development of individual or group clinical materials or training materials and go on to develop further such materials as falls within own degree of competence.

Training and supervision

Once a training place becomes available you will attend and fulfil all the requirements of the training element of the post including practical, academic, and practice-based assessments.

As well as attendance at the University for training, fulfil private study requirements to enhance learning and prepare assignments for examination, for at least one day a week.

Apply learning from the training programme directly to practice through the course.

Receive practice tutoring from educational providers in relation to course work to meet the required standards.

Prepare and present case load information to supervisors within the service on an agreed and scheduled basis, to ensure safe practice and the governance obligations of the trainee, supervisor, and service.

Engage in and respond to personal development supervision to improve competences and practice. Be involved in the evaluation of the course.

Professional

Ensure the maintenance of standards of own professional practice according to both the postholders employer and the Higher Education Institution in which they are enrolled.

Ensure appropriate adherence to any new recommendations or guidelines set by the relevant departments.

Ensure that confidentiality is always protected.

Ensure that any risks or issues related to the safety and wellbeing of anyone the postholder comes into contact within the course of their professional duties are communicated and shared with appropriate parties, in order to maintain individual safety and the public interest.

Ensure clear objectives are identified, discussed, and reviewed with supervisor and senior colleagues on a regular basis as part of continuing professional development.

Participate in individual performance review and respond to agreed objectives.

Keep all records up to date in relation to Continuous Professional Development and the requirements of the post and ensure personal development plans maintains up to date specialist knowledge of latest theoretical and service delivery models/developments.

Attend relevant educational opportunities in line with identified professional objectives.

Other

Work to, and implement policies and procedures of Changing Futures North East To undertake any other duties as identified by the Chief Executive or other Senior Leaders

It may be necessary to change these duties in accordance with the needs of the job and the organisation. Existing duties may be changed and new duties may be added. Any changes will be made in consultation with you.