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Education Mental Health Practitioner (EMHP)
- Salary £30,478 per annum, 37.5 hours per week
- Employee perks package including health and retail benefits.
- Enhanced pension at 5% of salary
- Birthday day off
Closing Date: Monday, 21st July 2025 at 9:00 AM
Interviews: Week commencing 28th July 2025
- Are you passionate about improving children’s emotional wellbeing?
- Would you like to join a well-established and successful Mental Health Support Team with a strong team culture and excellent support?
If so, we have the perfect opportunity for you!
We are recruiting for a Education Mental Health Practitioner (EMHP) to deliver evidence-based early interventions for children and young people. This exciting role spans both educational settings and healthcare sectors across South Tees.
You will be based with the well-established and successful trailblazer Mental Health Support Teams (MHST), known locally as Inside Out. The team is located in Middlesbrough and provides mental health support across a range of educational settings in the Middlesbrough and Redcar & Cleveland local authority areas.
The Inside Out Team is delivered by a consortium of partners, primarily from the voluntary and community sector. You will be employed by Changing Futures North East, a charity that has supported children, young people, and families for over 25 years. We help children and families thrive through strong, healthy relationships and are proud partners in several mental health support services across Hartlepool and Teesside.
We are looking for qualified Education Mental Health Practitioners with experience working in Mental Health Support Teams, either as trainees or qualified practitioner. You should be confident working as part of a team, and skilled at building effective relationships with a range of stakeholders, particularly within educational settings.
Please note: This post is subject to an enhanced DBS check with barring.
To apply, please visit the NHS Jobs website or complete the application form at: https://form.jotform.com/233374130372348
Interviews will take place during the week commencing 28th July. Shortlisted candidates will be notified of the exact date.
Children in Care Mentoring Worker
• £27,000 - £29,400 per annum, pro rata
• Intended hours as 37.5 but we are open to part time
• Intended as permanent employment, but roles may differ initial employment to 31/3/26
• Based in Hartlepool
• 27 to 30 days holiday depending on length of service
• Enhanced pension, death in service, employee benefits scheme
Passionate to help young people leave care with the relationships and skills they need for life?
Excited to help build our mentoring offer and refine it based on our learning and consultation with children and young people?
Ready for a fresh challenge?
We’d love to welcome you to Changing Futures, a small close-knit Charity where you will make a huge difference.
Changing Futures operates an excellent befriending and mentoring offer for young people in care, with 84 young people matched with dedicated volunteers across tees valley.
You will be part of the team delivering our mentoring project which will help young people build skills for independence, set and achieve their own goals, and strengthen and as needed broaden or repair family and peer networks. We intend that you will work in particular with young people and young adults before they leave care, but you will work with other young people in or who have recently left care too.
Ideally you will have experience of working with young people in care. You will spend the majority of your time mentoring young people either through groupwork programmes or on a 1:1 basis. You will hold a caseload of volunteer mentors who you will also supervise. You will deliver groupwork programmes with young people and volunteers.
Participation is absolutely key, and you’ll be proactive in seeking young people’s views and helping them design and evaluate all aspects of the programme.
It's important that this programme adds value to other things going on for young people. You’ll work closely with parents, carers volunteers and other professionals to ensure the young person’s needs are sustainably met.
You can read a full job description here
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Application process |
Initial CV acceptable alongside single page application form. You can complete the single page form on jot forms at this link: https://form.jotform.com/233374130372348 . You can upload your CV on the link too. You can also complete it as a word document and email it; please contact admin@changingfuturesne.co.uk if you need a copy. We can post it to you if you prefer. If you are shortlisted, you will be asked to submit a fuller application form that complies with our safer recruitment policy. |
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Deadline |
28th July 2025 9am Interviews to be held late July, early August. |
Family Group Conference Practitioner (optional trainee mediator)
- £26,000 - £32,000 per annum pro rata
- Initial contract to 30/06/26, could be extended subject to funding
- Based in Hartlepool
- 30 to 31 days depending on length of service pro rata
- Employee perks package including health and retail benefits, enhanced pension at 5% of salary, birthday day off
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Application process |
Initial CV acceptable alongside single page application form. You can complete the single page form on jot forms at this link: https://form.jotform.com/233374130372348 . You can upload your CV on the link too. You can also complete it as a word document and email it; please contact admin@changingfuturesne.co.uk if you need a copy. We can post it to you if you prefer. If you are shortlisted, you will be asked to submit a fuller application form that complies with our safer recruitment policy.
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Deadline |
28th July 2025
Interviews will be held in early August |
This position is subject to satisfactory references, Changing Future’s policies on Safeguarding of Children and Young People and Vulnerable Adults and an enhanced DBS check and subsequent re-checks.
Are you passionate about helping families create their own plans to overcome the challenges they face?
Excited to enable positive changes for children?
Ready for a fresh challenge?
We’d love to welcome you to Changing Futures North East, a small close-knit Charity where you will make a huge difference.
Changing Futures provides excellent relationship-focused support services for families.
As part of our continued commitment to empowering and enabling families to be the authors of their own process of change, we are pleased to be facilitating family group conferences for families in Hartlepool.
You will work with family members to help identify their family networks and make plans for a conference to draw on the network’s resources. You will facilitate Family Group Conferences to help families create plans that address children and young people’s needs and meet social workers’ essential criteria; to develop relevant, appropriate and effective plans which the family own.
As someone with experience of working with families, you will be skilled in working in a strengths based and relationship focused approach to identify and build rapport with the family network helping them to recognise their importance and role in children’s wellbeing. With an understanding of family relationships and dynamics, you will support the family to meet and create plans for change, to support children and young people to thrive.
You will ideally have either experience of facilitating family group conferences, family network meetings or groupwork or couples’ programmes (although other suitable experience will be considered). You will be committed to continuous professional development. We welcome interest from those looking for full or part time work.
There is an opportunity to train as a family mediator alongside this role and be fully funded to complete the training programme.
Why we do what we do
We believe that all individuals and families should be given the opportunity to identify their own solutions to the challenges they face.
Whilst it may not be simple and easy for everyone to identify these solutions, as challenges can feel so large, we believe people are experts in their own lives, and with the right supportive and helpful approaches, they can discover and draw on their own strengths to make their own sustainable plans for change.
Core aspects of the role
- Working under the direction and supervision of the partner agency leader and to work alongside and support Family Support Workers and Social Workers in identifying and establishing family networks.
- Engage family, and other network members in Family Network meetings to develop family led plans.
- Ensure that children’s views are understood and appreciated by family members when developing these plans.
- Maintain links to the Charity and its range of services and support and signpost families to them where appropriate.
Role duration
We’re investing in this role with an initial allocation of funding to 30th June 2026.
We are working closely with partners and expect high demand for Family Group Conference work into the future, but extensions will be subject to funding.
We have high demand for mediation and want to grow this service.
Working arrangements
You’ll need to do some evening work, and perhaps weekend work.
We try to be flexible when people need to adapt their working days to fit family and life commitments. We also offer a good holiday package, ranging from 27 to 30 days pro rata depending on length of service.
The vast majority of your time would be spent working in Hartlepool. You might be based in our team and work from home, as needed.
You can read a full job description here
