MHST SupervisorNHS

Job summary

This is an exciting opportunity for a Clinical or Educational Psychologist, Cognitive Behavioural Therapist, Arts, Occupational or Systemic Therapist with a background of working with education settings and/or experience in child and adolescent mental health. We are looking for a clinician with a Post-graduate qualification in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) , who is able to offer appropriate supervision and consultation within a growing multi-disciplinary Mental Health Support in Schools Team (MHST).

You will also work closely with families, as well as colleagues in CAMHS, the Local Authority, education settings and other local services.

Lead one of four established Clusters in the London Borough of Lambeth.

To supervise EMHP's and band 6 practitioners. To contribute in multi-disciplinary team discussions and service development.

Main duties of the job

• Lead one of the established Clusters in the Mental Health Support Teams in the London Borough of Lambeth.
• To supervise qualified EMHP's and band 6 practitioners
• To contribute in multi-disciplinary team discussions and service development
• To be a link worker for MHST schools
• To contribute and facilitate whole school approach workshops

Job description

• To enhance accessibility to mental health services for children and young people in schools.
• To collaborate with the newly appointed Schools Mental Health Leads to support early identification of developmental, emotional and mental health difficulties in children and young people living or being educated in Lambeth.
• To work jointly with providers to increase their capacity to intervene following early identification through the delivery of brief evidence based interventions and through liaison, consultation, training and joint working across services.
• To provide clinical supervision to Education Mental Health Practitioners (EMHPs)) and/or Band 6 CAMHS practitioners working within school settings
• To be part of a multi-agency training team for schools.
• To function as a specialist in CYP-IAPT principles and practice for the EMHPs.
• To review applications to the MHST team and where required to facilitate appropriate step- up referrals to specialist CAMHS and/or access to other relevant agencies according to the level of need.
• To monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of work undertaken, and demonstrate professional accountability at all times.
• To agree outcomes/results with clinical/professional lead and to decide how they are best used.
• To collaboratively develop and embed the MHST programme in schools.
• To contribute to enabling other staff, service users and carers from diverse backgrounds to flourish by working to create a psychologically safe environment.
• To work as an autonomous professional within professional guidelines and codes of conduct, and guided by principles and policies or procedures of the service, taking responsibility for interpreting policies within defined parameters

We are unable to consider applications from candidates who have applied for this position in within the last six months

About us

We are an early intervention service supporting mild to moderate mental health needs in over 60 primary and secondary schools and college across Lambeth. Our service will be expanding to more schools from 2027. The team currently consists of a 2 x Clinical Service Leads, 4 x Team Leads .

About our locations:

Our main office is at Liz Atkinson Children's Centre, and we present online and in-person across MHST schools in Lambeth. We offer some flexibility and home working.