# MHST Senior Clinician and Supervisor > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for North East London NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/mhst-senior-clinician-and-supervisor/3bfbd33b-0e9b-40ee-9ddf-55ac029e736f - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/mhst-senior-clinician-and-supervisor/3bfbd33b-0e9b-40ee-9ddf-55ac029e736f.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** North East London NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Meadow Court - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Nurse (adult and children) - **Grade:** Band 7 - **Salary:** £49397.00 to £56515.00 - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full-time - **Closing date:** 2026-09-25T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-09-11T13:54:27.532Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/C9395-26-0519 - **Application URL:** https://jobs.careers.nelft.nhs.uk/Job/JobDetail?jobid=2072&source=JobtrainNHSJobs - **Employer website:** https://www.nelft.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job summary Come and join our friendly, supportive team making a difference to the lives of children and young people. NELFT is the largest providers of Mental Health Support Teams (MHSTs) in England. Our Southend, Essex and Thurrock. The MHSTs deliver evidence-based individual and group interventions in educational settings for children experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties aged 5 to 18 years old. The teams also have a strong focus on whole school approaches to improve mental health outcomes for children and young people. The South-West MHST covers a large geographical area incorporating the districts of Basildon, Brentwood, and Billericay and Thurrock. We are an early intervention and prevention evidence-based service and as a team we are supportive and passionate in what we deliver. We are a friendly team of professionals who come from multidisciplinary backgrounds. We recognise the needs for a healthy work life balance, and we will consider flexible working applications in line with the trust policies and process. We encourage Continual Professional Development (CPD) and are keen to support our staff to grow and progress. We are a welcoming, compassionate and considerate team, that work incredibly hard to support one another to improve the mental health of our community. Our localities cover large areas so you will need access to a vehicle and have the ability to travel efficiently across the county. ### Main duties of the job We are looking for an experienced Mental Health Practitioner with a UK Professional Registration to join our MHST. MHST's are a service designed to support Children and Young People (CYP) with mild to moderate mental health and emotional difficulties within education settings; ensuring they receive faster access to early intervention mental health support. In this post, you will be a senior clinical team member, holding a clinical caseload and supervising junior staff and trainee EMHPs. You will work alongside partner agencies to develop and co-produce training materials and support the delivery of whole school approach models for mental health. Work in partnership with schools CYP, and families in the development of plans for the intervention and agreed outcomes. Support the Locality Clinical Lead with the formulation and treatment and management plans for schools, parents, CYP using a range of specialist psychological interventions appropriate to the service, individual and group. Effectively manage a caseload of CYP with mild to moderate mental health difficulties, complete thorough assessments, risk assessments, care plans and reviews. Provide caseload management and supervision to Trainee Education Mental Health Practitioners, Education Mental Health Practitioner's and Senior Mental Health Practitioner's. Support in the delivery of evidence-based Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT). To work as part of a Multi-Disciplinary Team within your locali ### About us NELFT NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health and community services for over 4.9 million people living in the London Boroughs of Waltham Forest, Redbridge, Barking and Dagenham, Havering, and across Essex. We work to ensure our patients, their friends and family, feel confident that their health needs are well met. With an excellent reputation for research and development, our skilled health professionals are at the cutting edge of evidence-based innovation, opening up the possibilities for better ways of working and delivery of care. ### Details - Date posted: 11 September 2026 - Pay scheme: Agenda for change - Band: Band 7 - Salary: £49,397 to £56,515 a year - Contract: Permanent - Working pattern: Full-time - Reference number: PHX-3EL-002045 - Job locations: Phoenix House, Basildon, Essex, SS14 3EZ, United Kingdom ### Job responsibilities Detailed job description We are seeking to recruit Supervisors to specifically support the supervision of the Education Mental Health Practitioners (EMHP) within the MHSTs. These post holders must have a good understanding of CBT and have clinically practiced using this model. We want our post holder to be able to lead by example in clinical practice and be able to support junior staff to develop their skills and knowledge of the evidence bases for our low intensity interventions. The Senior Clinician will be a graduate qualified health care professional, and ideally have formal CBT training for example: - Qualified CBT Therapist - Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) - Children and Young People-IAPT (CYP-IAPT) Or will have substantial Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) clinical experience which includes CPD in delivering evidence-based psychological interventions. Applicants need to be fully registered/accredited with the appropriate professional or regulatory body (e.g. HCPC, NMC, BABCP). This Senior Clinician and Supervisor role will work closely with the MHST Locality Clinical Leads, the MHST Operational Manager, and other clinical colleagues/partner agencies. The role is predominantly supervisory. However, the post holder will deliver clinical interventions, both targeted and under the Whole School Approach, to maintain professional registrations and continue to develop. The post holder will need to remain current in evidence-based interventions and have a good working knowledge of CBT. Supervisors are also key to service development in progressing and adapting interventions to ensure we are an inclusive service and contributing to research and development of the MHST's nationally. Please see person specification and job description for full details and responsibilities required for this role. Starting with NELFT NELFT place a great deal of importance on new starters being properly welcomed and inducted into the Trust. All new starters will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and will undertake a comprehensive induction of up to two weeks which will include mandatory training, systems training and the allocation of equipment. As part of the process new starters will have the opportunity to also meet the executive team, senior managers and attend a number of drop-in sessions focusing on engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes. The induction will be held at our head office in Goodmayes, Essex. Working for Us Joining #TeamNELFT means you’ll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We’re CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London and Essex. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas. The Trust has award-winning equality and diversity initiatives, along with staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest significantly in your development because when you feel valued and supported, we can deliver the highest quality care to our patients. We are a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, have been recognised in the Working Families Top 10 Employers benchmark for five consecutive years, and hold a Carers UK Level 1 Accreditation. Through our staff networks and training opportunities, we strive to foster a just and compassionate culture at NELFT. Probationary Period This post will be subject to a probationary period. Internal applicants are exempt from the probationary period (unless you are an internal applicant currently part way through a probationary period or currently a bank member of staff). High Cost Area Supplement – Fringe (Basildon, Thurrock, Brentwood, Harlow and Dartford only) This post also attracts payment for High Cost Area Supplement of 5% of the basic salary (with a minimum of £1,346 to a maximum of £2,270 p.a. pro rata for part time) ## Person Specification ### Other **Essential** - To be able to travel efficiently throughout the area - To be aware and demonstrate the Trust Values - Interest and ability to contribute to the MHST service development - Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of multi-media materials suitable for presentations with clients and /or professionals - Confident speaking with a range of audiences in different settings including education settings - Ability to study at post-graduate level ### Skills **Essential** - Ability to develop, manage and lead on outcomes data and data reporting for the service - Ability to work autonomously - High level skills in working with professional networks and the ability to advocate for and advance the mental health needs of parents and their children - Ability to chair team meetings, undertake delegated management tasks and support the CYPMHS Service Manager in general team tasks/development as required - Ability to form excellent working relationships with colleagues and work flexibly with others in multidisciplinary and multi-agency settings - Knowledge and skills in effective communication, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS (e.g. schools) - Effectively manage a clinical caseload, complete outcomes measure routinely, update clinical records in line with team, service and Trust requirements - Basic awareness of IT and IT skills ### Knowledge **Essential** - An awareness of NHS priorities - High level knowledge of the theory and practice of psychological interventions including low-intensity CBT interventions. - High level knowledge of the theory and practice of whole school approaches to emotional wellbeing and mental health. - Knowledge of CYP-IAPT principles and their application in practice. - Knowledge of the relevant clinical research literature and ability to apply it to field of parent support/child mental health/staff wellbeing ### Experience **Essential** - Experience of working closely with education settings. - Experience of delivering CBT-informed supervision. supervising CYPMHS clinicians and trainees - Experience of working with evidence based approaches to low mood, anxiety and behaviour problems - Experience of using Routine Outcome Measures, including in supervision. - Experience of working with children, young people and parents presenting with a range of mental health difficulties and challenging behaviour. - Formulation and treatment of children and young people with mental health difficulties. - Experience of undertaking delegated leadership tasks and managing trainee staff effectively. - Experience of multidisciplinary and multiagency working and co-working assessments and treatment - Experience of providing a culturally sensitive service. - Contributing to multidisciplinary team meetings and co-working assessments and treatment within clinic-based and education-based settings. - Experience in managing safeguarding concerns and risk to self/others. ### Qualifications **Essential** - Successful completion of a graduate training (e.g. nursing, social work, occupational therapy) - Further professional knowledge will have been gained through accredited courses workshops, study and in house training programmes (e.g. CYP-IAPT training) - To be eligible for registration as a full member of the appropriate professional body NMC, HCPC, BABCP AFT, ACP ### Demonstration of Trust Values **Essential** - We are kind - We are respectful - We work together with our communities ## Documents - [Senior Clinician and Supervisor job description (PDF, KB)](https://jobs.careers.nelft.nhs.uk/Job/GetJobAdvertDocument?Id=1996&JobId=2072) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.