Placement 1: South East Essex Adult Community Psychological Services (6 month Adult placement). October 2021-April 2022.Placement 2: South Essex Psychological Services for Older People and Memory Assessment Service (6 month Older Adult placement). April-September 2022. Placement 3: Southend Essex Thurrock (SET) Child Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) Castlepoint and Rochford. (6 month Child placement). October 2022-March 2023.Placement 4: Havering Community Learning Disability Psychological Service. (6 month Learning Disability placement). April-September 2023.Placement 5 and 6: Tavistock Camden Whole Family Service - based across the 0-5 Whole Family Team with Perinatal Specialism and the 5-18 Whole Family Team whilst also co-located in the Youth Justice Service. (Year-long Specialist placement). October 2023-September 2024.

I worked in a Mental Health Support Team (MHST) based in primary and secondary schools around Thurrock, Essex. I delivered low intensity evidence-based early interventions to young people and parents of children experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties including anxiety, low-mood/depression and common behaviour problems. I offered one-to-one sessions, bespoke groupwork within the school setting and signpost to other appropriate interventions for children and young people with mental health difficulties when needed.

Employed by North East London NHS Foundation Trust (NELFT). Training at University College London (UCL) and the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families. Working in primary/secondary schools and colleges around Thurrock, Essex. EMHP is a new role created by the government in 2019 as a response to the Government Green Paper, 'Transforming Children and Young People's Mental Health Provision: a green paper'. The new roles have been created as part of the Government’s new plans to put in new Mental Health Support Teams in all state-run primary and secondary schools and colleges. Part of their new strategy to try and decrease children’s mental health waiting lists of CAMHS from 12 weeks to 4 weeks by taking on their cases and to increase the availability of mental health for young people, as well as focusing on early intervention and prevention. In 2019 they started running a pilot of 7 trailblazer sites across the country and testing out different ways of working by training a select number of EMPHs, and eventually being implemented in most state-run primary and secondary schools and colleges by 2022. The new EMHP workforce will be trained to deliver evidence-based early interventions for children and young people, working across educational settings in England. Will provide direct, rapid access, low-intensity evidence-based treatment interventions for mild to moderate mental health difficulties including anxiety, low-mood/depression and common behaviour problems. Trained to offer one-to-one sessions, bespoke groupwork within the school setting, as well as signposting on to other appropriate interventions for children and young people with mental health difficulties when needed. I gained a Postgraduate Diploma (PGDip) in Educational Mental Health Practice (EMHP) from UCL and the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families when training to become an EMHP.