MHST Team Manager

LLOYD'S REGISTER INTERNATIONAL; Lancaster; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 49,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Group Personal Pension

Cycle2work

Health cash plan

Discounts & cashback

Annual leave increase over time

Job summary

Barnardo's in Lancaster is seeking a dedicated MHST Team Manager to lead and support the Mental Health Support Teams across North Lancashire. You will oversee Senior Practitioners and Education Mental Health Practitioners, coordinating their work in schools and colleges to deliver evidence-based mental health interventions.

Based at Northgate, Morecambe, this full-time role offers a hybrid working arrangement, a strong commitment to inclusion, and a salary of £44,635.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering MHST or equivalent mental health services in education.
• Ability to coordinate school-based mental health support.
• Strong partnership work with education settings and carers.

Responsibilities

• Lead and line-manage Senior Practitioners and EMHPs.
• Coordinate whole-school approach across North Lancashire.
• Deliver mental health support across schools and colleges.

Skills

Team leadership

Line management

MHST experience

Education sector

Job description

Moving Mindsets – Mental HealthSupport Teams (MHST)

ClinicalHealth Grade C

An opportunity has arisen to join the Moving Mindsets MHST in North Lancashire.

If you would like to support children and young people with their mental health in education then this role is for you!

We want to recruit an enthusiastic and committed Team Manager who canenablestaff to deliver an outstanding service to children, young people and parent-carers.

Team Managers provide line management for the Senior Practitioners and Education Mental Health Practitioners (EMHP's), leading and coordinating the whole school approach work in schools and colleges with children, young people and parent-carers, in partnership with education settings.

The successful candidate will be employed on a full-time basis to deliver mental health support across a range of educationsettings in North Lancashire. The position will be line managed and supervised within the service.You will work in schools across the North Lancashire area and your service base will be at 38 Northgate, Morecambe, Lancashire LA3 3PA

Mental Health Support Teams (MHSTs) are a national programme delivered by NHS England, NHS workforce, training and education, and NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board (NHS ICB). The programme has three main commitments:

• Delivering evidence-based interventions for children and young people with mild to moderate mental health needs
• Supporting the senior mental health lead in each education setting to introduce or develop their whole school/college approach
• Giving timely advice to school and college staff, and liaising with external specialist services, to help children and young people to get the right support and stay in education

Children's Mental Health and Wellbeing is a key component of Barnardo's Corporate Strategy and Mental Health Support Teams are part of this strategy.

Please see attached Additional Information document for full details for the role.

We welcome enquiries frompeople interested in this role and are happy to facilitate visits or online meetings prior to interviews.

For furtherinformation, please contact:

Emma Akrigg, Children's Service Manager

Email: [e-mail]

Mobile: [phone]

We appreciate our colleagues' dedication and their commitment to delivering excellence in the vital work we do, driven by their passion and commitment to Barnardo's values.

We also know that we can only realise our ambitions and achieve better outcomes for more children, thanks to the talent, hard work and creativity of our people.

We are committed to a rounded colleague experience with an approach to both pay and rewards that are fair, attractive, and progressive. This is in support of our strategic ambition to ensure Barnardo's is a place everyone can belong, grow and thrive.

The salary range advertised is in line withour pay principles, for consistency and fairness while recognising the skills and experience applicants bring to the role. Appointing salaries can be discussed further at appointment stage; we do seek to appoint within this range always exercising responsible stewardship.

Workplace Offer: What it means for you

Our hybrid working initiative is based on trust, flexibility and empowerment. We understand our workplace offer means different things to different people, and we encourage those conversations. This may mean working at one of our stores, services, working at home, in the community, at one of our Collaboration Hubs or depending on the role any combination of these. Please read through the advert carefully to understand the remits of hybrid working that will be specific to the role.

Barnardo's require colleagues to be UK residents, based in the UK and to complete their roles from within the UK (with the exception of colleagues providing Barnardo's services in Jersey and colleagues who live in the Republic of Ireland providing services in Northern Ireland)

• Barnardo's believe in creating equality of opportunity in the workplace and supporting people to manage their work-life balance; we are therefore open to offering flexible working arrangements.
• Annual Leave entitlement for full-time colleagues is 26 days per annum, increasing to 27 days per annum, after 3 years Barnardo's service, 29 days per annum, after 5 years Barnardo's service and 30 days per annum, after 7 years Barnardo's service. Those working less than full time are entitled to the same level of holiday pro rata
• The ability to buy up to another 5 days annual leave via our Buy Your Leave scheme
• A host of family friendly leave options including company Maternity Paternity and Adoption pay; together with all family additional leave options
• Service related sick pay from day 1
• Access to a Group Personal Pension with a matched 4% or 6% contribution from Barnardo's. Ability to pay via salary sacrifice to garner both tax and NI savings on your own contribution
• Death in service cover of 4x annual earnings for all staff contributing to our Group Personal Pension
• Cycle2work scheme
• Interest free season ticket loans
• Discounts and cashback from at high street shops including major supermarkets, cinemas, gyms, leisure/theme parks, holidays and much more via our Benefit Portal
• 20% discount at Barnardo's stores
• Opportunity to purchase a health cash plan to claim towards dental, glasses, therapy etc
• Free access to round the clock employee assistance program for advice and support
• Access to Barnardo's Learning and Development offer

*T&C's apply based on contract

We are committed to being an inclusive employer and cultivating a culture where everyone can belong and thrive through inclusion and connectivity. We want our workforce to be reflective of the communities we work with, and for equality, diversity and inclusion to be embedded in everything we do. We are a Disability Confident Leader, are progressing our ambition to be an anti-racist organisation with Anti-Racism Commitments and actions in place and have networks for colleagues who are disabled, LGBT+, Black and Minoritised Ethnic and Women. We particularly encourage applications from Black and Minoritised Ethnic and/or disabled candidates who are currently underrepresented in our workforce. For disabled applicants, we offer reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process.

• Reference number:23676
• Job Title:MHST Team Manager
• Location:Lancaster & Morecambe
• Locality:North Lancashire
• Contract type:Permanent
• Hours:37
• Salary:£44,635
• Closing Date:11 October 2026
• Interview Date:29.10.2026

Additional Info

• Information Sheet for Applicants Applying for Positions Working with Children and Vulnerable Adults (updated July 2021).pdf (107.00 KB)
• Barnardo's Workplace Offer Visual Summary.pdf (27.58 KB)
• Recruitment of Ex-Offenders Policy Dec 2024.pdf (164.07 KB)
• Team Manager - Children's Services - Job Description and Person Specification.pdf (249.06 KB)
• Additional Information - MHST Team Manager.pdf (0.61 MB)