MHST Senior Practitioner

Job overview

Mental Health Support Teams work with children, young people and families across schools in Greenwich .

We seek to appoint an enthusiastic and dynamic individual with a passion for early intervention and prevention. Candidates should have worked previously in mental health clinical settings and ideally have some CAMHS and supervision experience.

Mental Health Support Teams are part of an exciting National initiative, working in collaboration with education settings, to improve the mental health and wellbeing of children and young people.

There is a focus on early intervention, improving access and supporting the whole school approach to mental health and wellbeing within schools. Oxleas MHST work within a Thrive framework alongside education colleagues and community partners,

Please note we welcome applicants who have not completed the EMHP supervision course.

There will be an expectation that successful candidates, who have not completed the course, commence the fully funded one year supervision course at Kings College London from January 2027.

Previous applicants need not apply.

Main duties of the job

The MHST Senior Practitioner role supports the delivery of evidence-based 1:1 and group interventions for children and young people presenting with mild to moderate mental health need.

The role requires joint working and close liaison with education colleagues to support the whole school approach to mental health and wellbeing within school settings, facilitating appropriate signposting to other services as required. The post holder will actively contribute to the delivery and development of a quality MHST service within Oxleas.

The MHST Senior Practitioners, together with MHST Lead practitioners, offer support and supervision to the MHST workforce and it is an expectation of the role that the post holder have completed, or are willing to complete, the required Education Mental Health Practitioner supervision course in order to appropriately support the EMHP workforce.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To be trained and confident in the use of CYP IAPT principles, evidence-based interventions and routine outcome measures.
• To be trained and deliver supervision to Education Mental Health Practitioners.
• To manage a defined caseload of children and young people presenting with mild to moderate mental health and emotional wellbeing difficulties in schools.

If you would like to find out more about this National initiative, Oxleas MHST teams and the MHST Senior Practitioner role we would be more than happy to facilitate discussion via telephone or MS Teams call or facilitate a visit to our service.

• To co-ordinate and deliver individualised interventions for children, young people and families and evaluate these programmes, ensuring high standards of practice in accordance with service remit, national guidelines and trust policy.
• To actively promote and contribute to the Whole School Approach to developing and maintaining emotional health and well-being within education settings
• To be able to assess and manage risk in children and young people and to do this on an on-going basis.

To apply for this position you need to hold a core profession.

For further enquiries please contact Linda Adedayo, Greenwich MHST Team Manager (linda.adedayo2@nhs.net)

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.