MHST Team LeadNHS

Job summary

Are you looking for the next step in your leadership career? Do you have extensive experience working within Mental Health Support Teams (MHSTs) or Children and Young People's Mental Health Services? Are you passionate about supporting the development of staff, driving service improvement, and ensuring high quality mental health provision for children, young people, and schools? If so, we would love to hear from you.

This is an exciting opportunity to join our expanding Mental Health Support Team (MHST) service across Hampshire at a time of continued growth and development. We are seeking an enthusiastic, experienced, and motivated professional to provide operational, clinical, and professional leadership to one of our MHSTs.

As an MHST Team Lead, you will play a pivotal role in leading a multidisciplinary team of Education Mental Health Practitioners (EMHPs), Children's Wellbeing Practitioners (CWPs) and Senior Wellbeing Practitioners. You will be responsible for overseeing the delivery of high quality, evidence-based mental health interventions, ensuring safe and effective practice, and promoting positive outcomes for young people, families, and education settings.

You will provide day-to-day leadership, line management, and clinical oversight to team members, supporting their professional development, wellbeing, and performance. You will work collaboratively with schools, partner agencies, and stakeholders to ensure the effective implementation of the MHST model and Whole School Approach.

Main duties of the job

The role will involve:

*Providing leadership and operational management within the MHST.

*Supporting and developing the EMHP, CWP, and wider practitioner workforce.

*Delivering and overseeing evidence-based interventions for children and young people presenting with mild to moderate mental health difficulties.

*Providing clinical guidance, consultation, and risk management support to staff.

Our MHSTs work collaboratively with schools, families, and local communities to improve access to early intervention mental health support. We are committed to developing an inclusive, compassionate, and innovative service that supports both our workforce and young people.

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced practitioner and leader who is passionate about shaping services, supporting staff development, and driving excellence.

Please include within your application your first and second preferred geographical area(s) of work should your application be successful from the following localities: South East Hampshire, Mid Hampshire, North Hampshire, or West Hampshire.

Job description

Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.

We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.

About us

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.

Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.

We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.

Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence