Emotional Health Academy Manager - 04726

The Emotional Health Academy (EHA) in West Berkshire is a thriving, well-established service, comprised of a highly skilled and specialist workforce. The team delivers a well-regarded therapeutic service to children and young people across community & educational settings, alongside a range of training packages. Strong partnership working is embedded within the service, with close links to CAMHS, Specialist CAMHS, the Mental Health Support Team (MHST), and Public Health.

Practitioners have regular opportunities to contribute to local authority wide initiatives, including work related to Emotionally Based School Non-Attendance (EBSNA/EBSA), exclusion, reintegration, and SEND.

The Emotional Health Academy is one of four specialist Social, Emotional and Mental Health (SEMH) services, working alongside the Educational Psychology Service (EPS), Exclusions and Reintegration team, and Promoting Inclusive Practice (PIP) team.

We currently have a rare opportunity to appoint an Emotional Health Academy Manager 0.6 FTE.

In This Role, You Will Have The Opportunity To

• Manage the Emotional Health and Clinical Workers within the Emotional Health Academy

Line manage EHA Clinicians and oversee their line management of Emotional Health Workers and the Referral Coordinator

Provide clinical governance oversight of professional practice, including supervision arrangements facilitated by EHA Clinicians

Hold responsibility for escalation of need and safeguarding within EHA therapeutic services

Strategically lead West Berkshire’s Emotional Health Triage system for children, ensuring effective operation and appropriate escalation

Manage the EHA business plan and budget, producing regular financial reports

Oversee commissioning arrangements with Berkshire West Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), Public Health, Children and Family Services, Education Services, and local schools

Represent West Berkshire Council at key strategic forums, including the Children and Young People’s Mental Health and Wellbeing Partnership and Learning Network

This is an exciting opportunity to lead a respected service and contribute to the continued development of early intervention emotional health provision across West Berkshire.

Our offer to you

A Competitive Salary Alongside a Range Of Benefits Including

• We offer flexible working wherever possible between the hours of 07.00-19.00
• We offer hybrid working wherever possible working 40% in the office
• Access to a wide range of training and development opportunities
• Local Government Pension Scheme
• Death in service benefit
• Family friendly policies
• Payment of professional registration fees
• A range of local discounts
• Wellbeing Programme including Employee Assistance Programme and employee benefits
• Ongoing training and development opportunities.
• You will also be entitled to a generous annual leave entitlement starting at 30 days per annum (plus public holidays) Rising by an additional 5 days after 5 years’ service.
  
  

All roles will be subject to an annual banding pay review until the top of the pay grade is reached (following successfully passing probation)

All roles will be eligible for the annual national pay award.

About Us

West Berkshire council is a forward thinking and ambitious council. We have a positive attitude to our work and focus on excellent teamwork to deliver award winning services for our residents and businesses.

We employ over 1,500 members of staff corporately, plus additional members of staff working across our local schools and education settings. We offer a wide array of opportunities for training and development and varied career progression opportunities.

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r staff support the delivery of a wide range of services on behalf of the Council. Ranging from garden waste collection, planning and roadworks to caring for those in our communities. Everything we do is focused on our priority for improvement and delivering our values of fairness, integrity and being customer focused.

This is a rolling campaign, and we aim to regularly review all applications and contact you shortly after your application is received to arrange an interview.

If you interested in working with us and want to know more, do not hesitate to contact Crystal Elkabbas (Principal Educational Psychologist and SEMH Service Manager) at crystal.elkabbas1@westberks.gov.uk in the first instance, to arrange a discussion.

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Equal Opportunities

The Council supports Equal Opportunity of employment, and positively encourages applications from people who fall within any of the nine protected characteristics under the Equality Act 2010.

How To Apply

Please now complete a short online application form. You will then be able to upload your CV.

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