Practice Lead - Mental Health Support Team

Job summary

We are recruiting for a Practice Lead position in the MHST who will have a particular focus on supporting; governance, data, analysis, performance, evaluation and evidence-based impact. The successful postholder will contribute to the development of early intervention and prevention service in Bromley for children and young people and actively leading continuous improvement activity.

The post represents an opportunity for a qualified and experienced Educator and qualified Therapeutic Practitioner, with leadership and management experience, ideally in education or health settings, who is committed to the principle of the whole school approach to wellbeing to further their career.

The post holder will be responsible for oversight of Bromley Ys Mental Health Support Team offer to schools that promotes and supports a whole school approach in supporting the whole school community, for; children and young people, parents and carers and school staff and adopting evidence -based approaches that compliments and supports the pastoral care offer, and ethos in each school.

The successful post-holder will work with young people from diverse backgrounds and should be committed to diversity and ensuring access to services for all.

Main duties of the job

Responsible for line management including but not limited to coaching and developing staff, managing minor issues of conduct and performance, carrying out year Performance Development Reviews

Conduct case auditing to ensure Bromley Y professional standards are met and maintained.

To contribute to develop of the workforce and ensure training requirements are identified and training programmes implemented

Provide casework supervision to identified qualified and trainee staff.

To identify, monitor and manage risk to self or others in every contact.

To support with, develop and manage processing of referrals into MHST, and the timely allocation to practitioners

To respond to user experience and support effective support whilst families and children are waiting for interventions

To provide an evidenced based service for children and young people as part of early identification and intervention for children and young people with emotional and mental health needs.

To hold a small caseload and provide evidence-based psychological interventions. This work may be face to face, on the telephone or via other media.

Complete all data entry as required within the service and to keep up to date and clear records of all interventions in line with service policies and procedures.

About us

Bromley Y are a long-established charity for over 60 years, which runs the Mental Health and Emotional Wellbeing Service for Children and Young People in Bromley. We are a supportive, inclusive, collaborative organisation with an opportunity for an experienced mental health practitioner, counsellor or equivalent to join our Mental Health Support Team on a full-time contract. If you are looking for a service that believes in developing and upskilling its practitioners, this is the role for you!

Details

• Date posted: 08 October 2026
• Pay scheme: Other
• Salary: £44,554.35 to £51,980.08 a year
• Contract: Permanent
• Working pattern: Full-time, Flexible working
• Reference number: B0435-26-0009
• Job locations: 17 Ethelbert Road, Bromley, Kent, BR1 1JA, United Kingdom

Job responsibilities

To contribute to the development of early intervention and prevention service in Bromley for children and young people. The post represents an opportunity for a qualified and experienced Educator and qualified Therapeutic Practitioner, with leadership and management experience in education settings, who is committed to the principle of the whole school approach to wellbeing to further their career. The post holder will be responsible for oversight of Bromley Ys Mental Health Support Team offer to schools that promotes and supports a whole school approach in supporting the whole school community, for; children and young people, parents and carers and school staff and adopting evidence -based approaches that compliments and supports the pastoral care offer, and ethos in each school. They will also be responsible for leading on the development of the graduated response for Emotionally Based School Avoidance (EBSA), which will involve working with available resources and education partners to support children, parents/carers and schools.

The post holder will work closely with the MHST Specialist Lead, MHST Practice Leads and Bromley Y Clinical Director to develop and continually improve the mental health and wellbeing offer to school communities, contributing to service development in our preventative early support offer in order to reduce wait times and ensure children receive timely suitable therapeutic and systemic support. The post holder will deputise where required for the MHST Specialist Lead at network and partnership meetings.

The post-holder will also work alongside MHST Practice Leads to ensure contact by staff is maintained with the individual whilst they receive the agreed intervention provided by Bromley Y. The post-holder will work with schools, organisations and other charities and staff to ensure that young people from diverse backgrounds receive a service and should be committed to diversity and ensuring access to services for all. Some of the work will be carried out digitally from home with the opportunity to see some children and young people at Ethelbert Road. The majority of the work will be in schools, but may also include the community to support Bromley children in gaining access to appropriate activities, resources and interventions.

The post holder must be prepared to be flexible in their working arrangements to ensure that and all children and young people can access support at a time which suits their needs. This may entail some evening sessions and Saturday working. In addition to prioritising safeguarding and overseeing the assessment and management of risk the post-holder will support and line manage qualified and trainee staff.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).