- Overview
- Available Locations
- Contact us
- How do I register for this service?
- Meet the team
- Reviews and feedback
- Useful resources and links
Type
Mental Health Support TeamsThe Mental Health Support Team works with schools across Northamptonshire. Not all schools are part of the service yet, but we plan to support all schools by 2029.
We mainly work in schools. We offer one-to-one support for children and young people. We also run group workshops and school assemblies, based on what each school needs.
We meet with children, young people and their parents or carers to understand their mental health needs. Together, we agree goals and decide what support may help.
Our aim is to help children and young people understand and manage their feelings, stay well, and enjoy school and everyday life.
Who is this service for? Children and young people aged 5 to 18 years old.
Available Locations
- Mental Health Support Team - Brackley Health Centre, Brackley
- Mental Health Support Team - Danetre Hospital, Daventry
- Mental Health Support Team - Isebrook Hospital, Wellingborough
- Mental Health Support Team - Newland House, Northampton
- Mental Health Support Team - Rectory Road Health Clinic, Rushden
- Mental Health Support Team - Sudborough House, Kettering
- Mental Health Support Team - Willowbrook Health Centre, Corby
Contact us
Telephone: 03000 270 888
Email: CYP.MHST@nhft.nhs.uk
Each school will have an allocated Mental Health Support Team Practitioner. You can find out who this is by asking school staff or on the school noticeboards or website.
How do I register for this service?
You can speak to your school or your GP practice for a referral to the Mental Health Support Team.
The school mental health lead can discuss your referral with us at one of our consultation slots. GPs can refer via the Referral Management Centre (RMC).
Meet the team
Each Mental Health Support Team is made up of different practitioners:
- Team Lead
- Mental Health Practitioners
- Education Mental Health Practitioners
- Assistant Education Mental Health Practitioners
- Trainee Education Mental Health Practitioners
There are also two Clinical and Service Leads for the Mental Health Support Team, plus two Neuro-Specialist Practitioners, a Disordered Eating Practitioner and a team of admin staff.
Reviews and feedback
Feedback is a gift. It lets us know when we are doing well and helps us to develop and improve when we are not meeting your needs.
You can leave feedback on our service by completing one of our online surveys.
Useful resources and links
CAMHS Consultation Line
If you have concerns about your wellbeing you can contact the CAMHS Consultation Line on 0800 170 7055 (Option 1, Option 1) for advice and support. The line is open Monday to Friday from 9am to 7pm.
CAMHS Live
CAMHS Live is a live online chat service where young people (aged 13 years and older) and parents / carers can access emotional wellbeing and mental health support. Speak to a CAMHS healthcare professional at www.nhft.nhs.uk/camhslive any time between 9am and 7pm, Monday to Friday.
iDiscover
iDiscover is a community of children, young people and those who support them across Northamptonshire. Activities include workshops, courses, webinars and more, covering a range of themes including managing stress and anxiety, healthy lifestyles and self-care, staying well at school or work, and creative activities to support wellbeing. All activities and resources are completely free of charge.
Northamptonshire Drop-ins
If you need support with your mental health or find yourself in crisis, Northamptonshire Drop-ins give you a place for support. Drop-in sessions are held at locations around the county with no appointment needed. They have professional mental health workers who can offer you a safe space to talk and be listened to. There will also be wellbeing activities, telephone support available, one-to-one support and peer support.
Go to Northamptonshire Drop-ins
Young Minds
Information for young people and their parents, all about looking after young people's mental health. There is a free helpline for parents and carers on 0808 802 5544 (Open 9.30am to 4pm on Mondays, Thursdays and Fridays, and 9.30am to 6pm on Tuesdays and Wednesdays).
Action for Happiness
A website aimed at helping people improve their wellbeing and achieve happier living.
Smartphone apps
Search the Apple AppStore or Google Play Store for more information:
- Fear Tools - strategies for managing anxiety
- CALM - guided medications, mindfulness, gentle stretching and music to help you relax, focus and sleep
- Finch - helps with structuring your day and improving motivation and self care
- Smiling Mind - guided meditations for mindfulness, anxiety, sleep and mental fitness
- Molehill mountain - anxiety tracking and sharing, designed for people with autism
- More about our service
- What are education mental health practitioners?Back up
Education Mental Health Practitioners (EMHPs) are part of the government's Mental Health Support Teams (MHST) plans for schools to provide mental health early intervention support for children and young people.
Trainee EMHPs spend a year completing a post-graduate course covering evidence-based approaches for low-intensity care. This phase is the 'trainee phase'. During this time, they will build up their experience through individual, group and whole-school work with young people, families and staff. Once they have completed the course, they are fully qualified EMHPs.
- What is a trainee EMHP role?Back up
Education Mental Health Practioners (EMHPs) have clear criteria to support low-level (low-intensity) mental health needs such as low mood, anxiety and phobias through short-term pieces of work (4 to 8 sessions).
EMHPs will be able to provide assessments, evidence-based individual and group pupil work, shared decision-making with young people, parent-led approaches, onward signposting to other teams and services and whole-school projects.
The interventions offered will be cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT)-informed and robust clinical supervision is offered to all practitioners within the MHST.
- Trainee EMHPs will receive weekly clinical supervision from a supervisor to be able to discuss their cases
- Informed consent will be required from children, young people and parents/carers before any discussions or referrals
- As part of their training and supervision, trainee EMHPs will be required to video their sessions. The recording will be used for training and supervision requirements only and consent for this can be taken away at any point and will not affect the intervention offered the child, young person, or parent/carer
- A written record of interventions is completed on SystmOne, which is our health electronic record system
- All MHST staff have enhanced DBS (Disclosure and Barring Service) checks
- Support offered by trainee EMPHsBack up
There are many things EMHPs can help with in your school. Where needs are more complex, they may need to refer a young person to another team or service that is better placed to support them.
This table shows examples of the things that fully trained EMHP can support with. Support can change depending on the location so please make sure that mental health leads in schools can discuss cases within MHST consultations.
Support a fully trained EMHP can provide in school or college
EMHPs can work with children as individuals or in a group to provide interventions in cases of: EMHP's may work with children as individuals or in a group to provide interventions in cases of:
(Discretion and close supervision needed)EMHP's should not work with children as individuals or in a group to provide interventions in cases of:
(Significant levels of need / complex conditions)- Behavioural difficulties - identification, brief parenting support
- Support staff and help cofacilitate a full parenting programme (such as Triple P)
- Conduct disorder
- Anger management
- Full parenting programme (e.g. Triple P, Solihull approach)
- Training parents and teachers to support interventions with children
- Irritability as a symptom of depression - (can present as anger)
- Treatment of parents' depression and anxiety
- Low mood
- Low confidence, assertiveness or interpersonal challenges (e.g. with peers)
- Anger management training
- Chronic depression
- Worry management
- Some short-term phobia exposure work
- Low self-esteem
- Social anxiety disorder
- Anxiety / avoidance (e.g. simple phobias, separation anxiety)
- Thoughts of self-harm, self-harm not requiring medical attention
- Support to develop healthy coping strategies
- Extensive phobias (e.g. blood, needles, or vomit phobia)
- Panic management
- Insomnia (further training may be required)
- Severe, active or high risk of self-harm
- Assessing self-harm, thoughts of self-harm, and supporting with alternative coping strategies. Pupils with history of self-harm but not active
- Assessment of complex interpersonal challenges
- PTSD
- Trauma
- Nightmares
- Sleep hygiene
- Mild / early obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) (further training may be required)
- Relationship problems - counselling for issues such as relationship problems may be better suited to school counsellors
- Thought challenging - negative automatic thoughts
- Children who are displaying rigid, ritualistic behaviour that may or may not be within a diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder
- Moderate to severe obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD)
- Problem solving
- Moderate to severe attachment disorders
- Assessment and diagnosis of developmental disorders and learning difficulties.
Pain management - Historical or current experiences of abuse or violence
- Schools where we provide support
- Our schools in North NorthamptonshireBack up
Corby
- Beanfield Primary School
- Brooke Weston Academy
- Corby Business Academy
- Corby Technical School
- Danesholme Junior and Infants Academy
- Exeter: A Learning Community
- Little Stanion Primary School
- Lodge Park Academy
- Maplefields Academy
- Priors Hall: A Learning Community
- Red Kite Special Academy
- St Brendan's Catholic Primary School
- Studfall Infants
- Studfall Junior Academy
East Northants
- Alfred Street Juniors
- Denfield park primary
- Henry Chichele Primary
- Higham Ferrers Juniors
- Huxlow Academy
- Irchester primary
- Manor School Sports College
- Newton Road Primary
- Rushden Academy
- Rushden Primary
- Southend Infants
- Southend Juniors
- Stanwick Primary
- The Ferrers school
- Whitefriars Primary
- Windmill Primary School
Kettering
- Barton Seagrave Primary School
- Bishop Stopford School
- Brambleside Primary School
- Broughton Primary School
- Compass Primary Academy
- Great Addington CE Primary School
- Hall Meadow Primary School
- Havelock Infant School
- Havelock Junior School
- Hawthorn Community Primary
- Hayfield Cross Cof E School
- Isebrook School
- Kettering Buccleugh Academy
- Kettering Park Junior School
- Kettering Science Academy
- Kingsley Special Academy
- Latimer Arts College
- Loatlands Primary School
- Montsaye Academy
- Nassington Primary School
- Prince William School
- Pytchley Endowed Cof E Primary School
- Ringstead CofE Primary School
- Rothwell Infant School
- Rothwell Junior School
- Southfield School for Girls
- St Andrews Primary School
- St Edwards Catholic Primary School
- St Marys C of E Primary School, Burton Latimer
- St Mary's CofE VA Primary School, Kettering
- The Grange Primary School
- Tresham College, Kettering
- Wilbarston CofE Primary School
Wellingborough
- All Saints CEVA Primary School
- Ecton Village Primary School
- Freemans Endowed CE Junior Academy
- Friars Academy
- Irthlingborough Infant School
- Irthlingborough Junior school
- Little Harrowden Community Primary School
- Mears Ashby CofE Primary
- Oakway Academy
- Our Ladys Catholic Primary
- Park Junior School
- Rowan Gate Primary
- Sir Christopher Hatton Academy
- St Barnabus CofE School
- The Avenue Infant School
- Tresham College (Wellingborough)
- Wrenn Secondary School
- Wollaston School
- Our schools in West NorthamptonshireBack up
Daventry and South Northants
- Abbey Academy
- Ashby Fields Primary School
- Braunston Primary School
- Brixworth CEVA Primary School
- Daventry Hill School
- DSLV Academy
- Guilsborough Academy
- Long Buckby Junior School
- Monksmoor Primary School
- Newnham Primary School
- Overstone Primary School
- Spratton CE Primary School
- Staverton CofE Primary School
- St James Infant School
- St Mary's Primary School
- The Grange School
- The Parker E-ACT Academy
- Walgrave Primary School
- Welton CE Academy Primary School
- Woodford Halse CE Primary Academy
Northampton Central
- Duston School
- Kingsthorpe College
- Northampton College
- Northampton International Academy (NIA)
- Spring Lane Primary
- Stimpson Avenue
- St Lukes Primary
- St James Primary
Northampton Central and East
- Billing Brook School
- Briar Hill Primary School
- Caroline Chisholm School
- Castle Academy
- Malcolm Arnold Academy
- Northampton Academy
- Northampton School for Girls
- Purple Oaks Academy
- Queen Eleanor Primary School
- Simon de Senlis Primary School
Northampton Central and West
- Abbeyfield Secondary
- Boothville Primary
- Campion School
- Denton Primary School
- Greenfields (Specialist School)
- Lumbertubs Primary School
- Moulton School and Science College
- Thomas Becket Secondary
- Thorplands Primary School
- Weedon Bec Primary
- Weston Favell Secondary
- Yardley Hastings Primary
Towcester and Brackley
- Bracken Lees Primary School
- Brackley CE Junior School
- Chenderit School
- Greens Norton CE Primary School
- Helmdon Primary
- Magdelen College School
- Marie Weller Primary School
- Nicholas Hawksmoor
- Pattishall School Primary
- Paulerspury Primary School
- Silverstone Primary School
- Silverstone UTC
- Sponne School
- Stoke Bruerne CofE Primary
- The Gateway School
- The Radstone Primary School
- Tiffield Primary School
- Towcester CE Primary School
- Whittlebury Primary
- Yardley Gobion Primary School
- Towcester CE Primary School