# Senior Mental Health Team Practitioner > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/senior-mental-health-team-practitioner/86ff5be5-2c5d-4b8f-9d03-dd855198d3b9 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/senior-mental-health-team-practitioner/86ff5be5-2c5d-4b8f-9d03-dd855198d3b9.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Miranda House - **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, Compressed hours, 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-09-17T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-09-03T09:54:54.858Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/East_Yorkshire/Beverley/Humber_Teaching_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Childrens_Learning_Disabilities_Division/Childrens_Learning_Disabilities_Division-v8258949 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8258949?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.humber.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview This is a fantastic opportunity for a Senior Mental Health Team Practitioner to support the MHST Clinical/Professional Team Lead and other colleagues in providing a low-intensity psychological therapies service for children, young people, and their families in schools and colleges. - To support the MHST Clinical/Professional Team Lead in providing professional and clinical leadership within their area of responsibility. - To deliver face-to-face interventions with young people and their families in a range of community settings, including patient homes, schools, health centres, and community centres. - The successful candidate will use a combination of face-to-face, virtual, and telephone-based working - To work in partnership with education settings to complement existing provision and support Mental Health Leads in further developing and delivering their whole-school approach. - To offer consultation, advice, support, and signposting. - To deliver evidence-based interventions for mild to moderate mental health issues to children, young people, and families - To oversee the formulation and intervention plans for schools, parents, children, and young people being supported by Education Mental Health Practitioners (EMHPs) and registered practitioners, using a range of specialist psychological interventions appropriate to the service through both individual and group work. ### Main duties of the job - Work in partnership with schools/colleges, to support children, young people experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties and their families in the self-management of presenting difficulties. - Provide a range of information and support to schools for evidence based psychological, social emotional and systemic interventions, including guided self-help and signposting to other services where appropriate. - To provide professional/clinical supervision to Registered Practitioners and Assistant Practitioners along with other professional/clinical supervisors in the team. - To support the EMHPs, Registered Practitioners and Assistant Practitioners to liaise with other education, health, social care and voluntary community sector staff from a range of agencies, in the care provided to children, young people, their families and professionals. - Support EMHPs in the co-delivery of training sessions, group and individual interventions in schools. - Assess and deliver, outcome focused, evidence-based interventions to children and young people and families experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties. - To be part of a duty rota to review referrals, waiting lists and supporting all members of staff who are in practice and require additional advice. - To lead their locality in managing waiting lists, assessments and interventions. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Please see attached Job description and person specification for more information regarding job description and main responsibilities. ### 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 ### Knowledge and Experience **Essential** - Evidence of continuing professional development (CPD) relevant to the clinical area at specialist level of care - Evidence of development of specialist practice skills and able to demonstrate the impact of this on practice change/development - Evidence of promoting/supporting active user/carer involvement/participation **Desirable** - Demonstrable experience of working in the specific field where the post is held - Leadership/management experience which has had a positive impact and created change within the service delivery/practice - Ability to effectively Chair meetings ### Qualifications Education and Training **Essential** - Professional qualification and registration relevant to post (e.g. NMC, Social Worker, Therapist, AHP, CYP IAPT ) - Full understanding of relevant policy, legislation, drivers and their application to clinical /professional and service area, e.g. Mental Capacity Act, Social Inclusion - Full understanding/application of relevant clinical practice/standards/audit within identified clinical area - Demonstrable experience of mentoring pre-registration students/ Trainee’s/supervising staff etc. **Desirable** - Evidence of project work that has impacted on practice and demonstrates a higher level of communication/planning/change that impacts within own area of work/responsibility. - Evidence of CPD or experiential learning at an advanced level e.g. Post graduate/Masters level ### Skills, Competencies and Personal Qualities **Essential** - Effective inter-personal skills and experience in supervising and mentoring - Able to demonstrate effective communication skills - Work within the culture of improving working lives and working time directive - Ability to demonstrate ethical values and attitudes within a culture of equality and diversity **Desirable** - Ability to lead and motivate staff to embrace change - - Working knowledge of Trust policies and procedures in order to effectively lead and manage others ## Documents - [being humber (pdf, 1.1mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2687) - [staff benefits (pdf, 1.4mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2760) - [recruitment of ex-offenders (pdf, 336.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2269) - [application guide & interview tips (pdf, 600.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=3021) - [job description and person specification (pdf, 328.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10572399) ## 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.