Trainee Mental Health Practitioner

The service was launched in Southwark in January 2022 and currently works across 60 schools, with plans to expand over the academic year. The ewt is dynamic, flexible, and diverse, representing the community which we serve. We are looking for a highly motivated candidate, from the local community, able to achieve high standards of academic excellence at King’s College London, and work within our dynamic service whilst studying.

Groundwork’s ewt works closely with their Youth Forum, which is led by young people from the local community. The Youth Forum is central to ensuring the young person’s voice is always at the heart and forefront of the work we do, enabling us to support positive change in young people’s lives in the ways that are the most important and meaningful to them.

The role is a unique paid training opportunity, where candidates study an accredited one-year Diploma in Education Mental Health Practice at King’s College London (Denmark Hill campus), whilst working alongside existing MHST staff to deliver evidence-based individual low-intensity CBT interventions with children, young people and their parents/carers. EMHPs also deliver one-off workshops within schools and in the community, group work, remote courses and staff training.

Key requirements:

Please contact us if you have:
•Experience of and passion for working with children and young people
•Experience of and passion for working in mental health and wellbeing.
•Knowledge and understanding of the barriers children and families face when accessing support
•An awareness of working to safeguard children, including relevant training
•The ability to work to a high academic standard expected at postgraduate level
•An understanding of the local community of Southwark

Applicants must hold the right to work in the UK and will need to be ready to start work in early January 2027, posts cannot be offered to candidates unless they can guarantee this start date.

Successful applicants will need to submit an application form to KCL and be accepted on the Diploma in Education Mental Health Practice at King’s College London. Please note if you are successful at interview, you will be invited to submit your application to KCL. Your post is only able to be confirmed once KCL have accepted your application.

Vacancy Files

• Trainee Mental Health Practitioner Job description and person specification
• Groundwork London Prospectus

Interview Details

The first round of interviews will be conducted online on 13th October. Successful candidates will then be invited to an in-person interview on 22nd October.