Senior Mental Health Clinician and Clinical Supervisor MHST

Job overview

This role is a secondment opportunity. The post holder must agree to a minimum of 6 months, but an extension can be negotiated.

This is a senior role in our established MHST teams, providing clinical leadership to the MHST team, and supporting the development of the MHST alongside senior colleagues within the service.

The role for MHST will support the delivery of all interventions within the MHST teams, ensuring that a wide range of evidence-based interventions, using CBT based principles and a CBT informed framework, are used to support young people with mild to moderate mental health difficulties, and to ensure early help and access to specialist services is seamless and transparent.  The post holder will need to be flexible with a clear understanding of THRIVE and how all providers and organizations build on collaborative working with children, young people and families at the heart of all we do.

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Main duties of the job

Main Responsibilities

The post holder will be working across schools supporting trainee EMHPs and junior clinicians in the team by providing line management and clinical supervision. They will support clinicians in delivering consultation, mental health assessments and evidenced based mental health treatments to children, young people and their families within education settings.  They will provide support to frontline children’s services in developing their capacity in early identification and intervention with children’s mental health need.  Promoting the emotional and mental health of children, young people and their families in the community, facilitating appropriate access to specialist CAMHS and other relevant local provision.

As a senior supervisor they will be working as part of the leadership team to lead and manage the service. They will also offer intervention to more complex cases within the early intervention remit and have oversight over service delivery in a group of schools/colleges.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Key responsibilities of the post holder will include:

• Day to day operational running of the MHST teams, with support from Clinical Lead/Supervisor and CAMHS management structure. This may include managerial tasks such as recruitment, managing performance, ensuring team meetings take place, and management of healthroster.
• Holding a caseload and undertaking the role of lead professional for children/young people with mild to moderate mental health problems in educational settings.
• Working as an autonomous and accountable practitioner. This involves the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of the care for the child or young person.
• Developing and disseminating packages of care which may include variety of evidenced based interventions and work with parents and teaching staff on an individual and in a group setting.
• Working collaboratively with young people and their families incorporating the use of outcome measures within their work.
• Offering specialist support, consultation and training to staff within the service and other agencies where appropriate.
• The post holder may have the opportunity to undertake a CYP IAPT supervisory course to become a supervisor for the Education Mental Health Professional (EMHP) at UCL depending upon existing qualifications and experience and course start date.