# Senior Mental Health Support Team EMHP/CWP > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/senior-mental-health-support-team-emhpcwp/3558ad56-f3bd-4d2c-a9bb-930bd0d9ce8b - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/senior-mental-health-support-team-emhpcwp/3558ad56-f3bd-4d2c-a9bb-930bd0d9ce8b.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** St George's Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Mental health professionals - **Grade:** Band 6 - **Salary:** £39,959 - £48,117 per annum - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time, Flexible working, 37.5 hours per week (9-5pm- Mon-Fri) - **Closing date:** 2026-09-18T07:00:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-09-01T08:51:57.880Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Staffordshire/Wombourne/Midlands_Partnership_University_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Mental_Health_Support_Team/Mental_Health_Support_Team-v8117549 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8117549?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.mpft.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship. If it is identified that you require sponsorship to undertake this role your application may be withdrawn The post holder will support the delivery a high quality, comprehensive mental health service for children and young people with emotional health/mental health difficulties. The role involves managing a defined caseload with a focus on working with children and young people and their families who experience a complex range of needs and difficulties. Acting as a key member of the team, the post holder will provide assessment, psychosocial, evidence-based interventions using a collaborative approach and will be skilled at risk assessment and management. They will provide supervision for other team members in an area of interest such as family work, safeguarding, SEND as agreed with the Operational Manager. They will lead on supporting the team with the whole school approach developments and evaluation and offer liaison, advice and consultation with schools and a wide range of external agencies. ### Main duties of the job - Take responsibility for the management of a complex caseload, which includes, specialist assessment (within service specification), and care planning in conjunction with service user and carer, evaluation of individual treatment plans for CYP with mental health needs. - Responsible for participating in the setting of quality standards, including the auditing, monitoring and reviewing of practice in line with current clinical guidance practice and policy. - Assess patient's individual care needs, develop, implement and evaluate programmes of care. - Deliver a range of interventions in accordance with the agreed plan of care and Pathway guidance. - Complete and contribute, where appropriate to robust risk assessments and risk management plans. Deliver and promote positive risk taking, where appropriate, to improve quality of life and maximise occupational performance/independence. - Maintain an effective reporting system by observing and reporting verbally and in writing on patient conditions. - To encourage and support service user and carer involvement and participation. - To attend and contribute to MHST business and development forums. - Utilise agreed outcome measures to review the effectiveness of interventions, as part of the care planning and evaluation process. Assist in ensuring that the aims and objectives of the service are fulfilled and to identify factors which may inhibit these from being achieved. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities This role is to work as a senior practitioner in an exciting service within Seisdon's Mental Health Support Team. We work closely as a service across all teams as we focus on expansion to cover all schools in the region by 2030. The MHST service covers the whole of Staffordshire. For further information relating to this position please refer to the attached job description and specification. ### 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. ## Person Specification ### EXPERIENCE **Essential** - Extensive post qualifying / registration experience in mental health care including mental health assessment and risk assessment - Use of therapeutic interventions within mental health settings i.e. 1:1, counselling, family therapy and group work - Experience of assessing, planning, co-ordinating and managing CYP with mental health problems in a community setting **Desirable** - Experience of working in or closely with education settings ### QUALIFICATIONS & TRAINING **Essential** - Professional clinical qualification – EMHP/CWP with significant post qualifying experience **Desirable** - Post Graduate or other approved qualification in supervision for EMHPs/CWPs ### SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE & ABILITIES **Essential** - Skilled in the assessment of clinical risk and developing and communicating appropriate risk management plan - Skills of assessing, planning and evaluating care, for CYP with mental health needs **Desirable** - Responsibility for supporting and/or supervising trainee EMHPs/CWPs or other clinical staff ## Documents - [benefits booklet (pdf, 1.1mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2957) - [seisdon senior ps/jd (pdf, 504.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10413383) ## 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.