Supervising Practitioner

Job summary

Ready to use your expertise to guide and support a team delivering early intervention mental health support to children and young people?

As a Supervising Practitioner, you'll be part of our Compass Bloom Mental Health Support Team, working alongside schools to deliver evidence based interventions and promote whole school approaches to mental wellbeing, while ensuring practitioners feel supported and safe in their practice.

As part of this role, you`ll undertake a postgraduate Supervising Practitioner qualification. You`ll study alongside your role, developing the knowledge, skills and confidence to provide high quality clinical supervision.

You`ll hold a small caseload and work directly with young people experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties, while providing clinical supervision, reflective spaces and day to day guidance to colleagues. You`ll play an important role in embedding good practice, supporting professional development and maintaining high standards of care.

Working closely with schools, Team Leaders and the wider Compass team, you`ll help drive quality and consistency across the service, supporting practitioners and contributing to service development.

Main duties of the job

You're passionate about improving the mental health of children and young people and enjoy supporting others to grow and succeed. You lead with integrity, build trusted relationships and remain calm when faced with challenges.

You'll bring:

• Qualified Education Mental Health Practitioner (EMHP) with post qualification experience, or a recognised core professional qualification with relevant therapeutic experience (CWP, Mental Health Nurse, etc)
• Experience of clinical supervision, mentoring or supporting colleagues
• Knowledge of evidence based interventions, CBT informed practice, safeguarding and risk management
• Excellent communication and relationship building skills, working confidently with children, young people, families, schools and partner agencies
• The ability to manage competing priorities, make sound decisions and work collaboratively
• A solution focused approach, professional integrity and commitment to continuous learning
• A full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle

Management or supervision training, postgraduate therapeutic qualifications or experience working in a skill mixed team would be welcomed, but they're not essential.

We're looking for someone who shares our values and is committed to helping children, young people and colleagues thrive.

About us

Compass is committed to safeguarding children, young people & vulnerable adults. Established for over 30 years, Compass is a national charity which works in communities across the UK providing services spanning substance misuse treatment & rehabilitation, early interventions for vulnerable young people, school-aged health programmes & associated prevention as well as treatment and health promotion initiatives.

All Compass posts are subject to appropriate level DBS checks.

We positively encourage applications from all members of the community, regardless of gender, race, faith, disability, age, or sexual orientation, & encourage applications from people who have experiences in life which enrich skills & empathy. This is part of our commitment to equality and developing a truly inclusive & representative workforce.

We are happy to discuss any reasonable adjustments you may require in the recruitment process, on commencement, or once in post.

Benefits

We offer a range of benefits including:

• 27 days holiday + bank holidays, rising to 32 days over time (pro rata)
• Life assurance at 2 x basic salary
• Competitive contributory pension scheme
• 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme and OH service
• Enhanced sick pay
• Excellent learning & development opportunities and career progression
• Annual salary review

Help us to make a positive change to the lives of children and young people!

We will be interviewing throughout the advert duration, so please apply as soon as possible!

Details

• Date posted: 01 October 2026
• Pay scheme: Other
• Salary: £39,351 to £48,108 a year
• Contract: Permanent
• Working pattern: Full-time
• Reference number: 765-2
• Job locations: Unit 8, Balfour Court, Off Hough Lane, Leyland, Lancashire, PR25 2TF, United Kingdom

Job responsibilities

UK Registration

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