MHST Supervisor

NHS Jobs; Greater London; On-site; GBP 58,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting for roles within the Schools Mental Health Transformational Team in Lambeth. The post focuses on enhancing access to child and adolescent mental health services within schools, collaborating with School Mental Health Leads to support early identification and intervention for developmental, emotional, and mental health needs.

The role includes supervision of Education Mental Health Practitioners and CAMHS Band 6 staff, contributing to a

Qualifications

• Specialist in CYP-IAPT principles and practice for EMHPs.
• Provide clinical supervision to EMHPs and Band 6 CAMHS practitioners.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Schools Mental Health Leads to support early identification of developmental, emotional and mental health difficulties in children and young people.
• Review MHST applications and facilitate appropriate step-up referrals to CAMHS or access to relevant agencies.
• Monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of work and demonstrate professional accountability.
• Contribute to embedding the MHST programme in schools and enable staff, service users and carers from diverse backgrounds to flourish.

Job description

To enhance accessibility to mental health services for children and young people in schools. To collaborate with the newly appointed Schools Mental Health Leads to support early identification of developmental, emotional and mental health difficulties in children and young people living or being educated in Lambeth. To work jointly with providers to increase their capacity to intervene following early identification through the delivery of brief evidence based interventions and through liaison, consultation, training and joint working across services. To provide clinical supervision to Education Mental Health Practitioners (EMHPs)) and/or Band 6 CAMHS practitioners working within school settings To be part of a multi-agency training team for schools. To function as a specialist in CYP-IAPT principles and practice for the EMHPs. To review applications to the MHST team and where required to facilitate appropriate step- up referrals to specialist CAMHS and/or access to other relevant agencies according to the level of need. To monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of work undertaken, and demonstrate professional accountability at all times. To agree outcomes/results with clinical/professional lead and to decide how they are best used. To collaboratively develop and embed the MHST programme in schools. To contribute to enabling other staff, service users and carers from diverse backgrounds to flourish by working to create a psychologically safe environment. To work as an autonomous professional within professional guidelines and codes of conduct, and guided by principles and policies or procedures of the service, taking responsibility for interpreting policies within defined parameters We are unable to consider applications from candidates who have applied for this position in within the last six months

£58,133 - £65,261 per annum inclusive of HCAs

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust