Job Vacancies

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

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.

Deadline

21^st July 2025 9am

Interviews to be held late July, early August.