Senior MH practitioner/Supervisor MHST CAMHS | Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

CNWL NHS Foundation Trust; Greater London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Greater London seeks a dedicated Senior Supervisor to lead a multidisciplinary team supporting children's mental health. This role emphasizes evidence-based interventions, clinical leadership, and collaboration with schools, ensuring high-quality support for young people facing emotional difficulties. The ideal candidate will be passionate about mental health, work autonomously, and manage a caseload of children in educational settings.

Qualifications

• Experience in working with children and young people.
• Understanding of THRIVE framework and mental health services.
• Ability to provide supervision and support to junior staff.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical leadership and support for MHST teams.
• Conduct mental health assessments and treatments.
• Ensure high-quality care with evidence-based practices.
• Promote mental health in the community and schools.

Skills

Clinical leadership

Mental health assessment

CBT informed interventions

Collaboration with families

Education

Relevant mental health qualifications

Job description

Overview

To play a senior role in our Wave 11, Wave 5 and Wave 7 MHST teams, providing clinical leadership to the MHST team, and supporting the development of the MHST alongside senior colleagues within the service.

The role will support the delivery of all interventions within the MHST teams, ensuring that a wide range of evidence-based interventions, using CBT based principles and a CBT informed framework, are used to support young people with mild to moderate mental health difficulties, and to ensure early help and access to specialist services is seamless and transparent. The post holder will need to be flexible with a clear understanding of THRIVE and how all providers and organizations build on collaborative working with children, young people and families at the heart of all we do.

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Main Responsibilities

• The post holder will be working across schools supporting trainee EMHPs in the borough of Hillingdon by providing supervision, consultation, mental health assessments and evidenced based mental health treatments to children, young people and their families.
• They will provide support to frontline children’s services in developing their capacity in early identification and intervention with children’s mental health need.
• Promoting the emotional and mental health of children, young people and their families in the community, facilitating appropriate access to specialist CAMHS and other relevant provision.
• As a senior supervisor will be working as part of the leadership team to lead and manage the service.

We are looking for a committed senior supervisor/MH Practitioner with a passion for working with children, young people and their families. You will work together with the MHST Lead in developing the Hillingdon MHST service providing supervision to junior staff, liaising and consulting with schools, ICB and other community agencies and ensuring the best possible outcomes for children who have emotional difficulties.

As one of the senior members of the team, you will work alongside senior CNWL staff and contribute to the service’s development, as we continue to strive to be an accessible, responsive and innovative service with patient care and patient experience at its heart. There will be opportunities to further develop your leadership and strategic skills with support from senior colleagues.

Key responsibilities

• Day to day operational running of the MHST teams, with support from Clinical Lead/Supervisor and CAMHS management structure. This may include managerial tasks such as recruitment, managing performance, ensuring team meetings take place, and management of healthroster.
• Holding a caseload and undertaking the role of lead professional for children/young people with mild to moderate mental health problems in educational settings.
• Working as an autonomous and accountable practitioner. This involves the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of the care for the child or young person.
• Developing and disseminating packages of care which may include variety of evidenced based interventions and work with parents and teaching staff on an individual and in a group setting.
• Working collaboratively with young people and their families incorporating the use of outcome measures within their work.
• Offering specialist support, consultation and training to staff within the service and other agencies where appropriate.
• The post holder may have the opportunity to undertake a CYP IAPT supervisory course to become a supervisor for the Education Mental Health Professional (EMHP) at UCL depending upon existing qualifications and experience and course start date.

This advert closes on Friday 26 Sep 2025