Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust
MHST Senior Mental Health Practitioner
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Job Opportunity: Mental Health Support Team (MHST) Practitioner
We are looking for a registered (BPS/BABCP) CWP or EMHP with substantial post-qualifying experience, CBT therapist with child experience or qualified healthcare professional (Qualification examples: Nurse, Social Worker, IAPT CBT Therapist or OT) to join our expanding service in Mid and East Kent (Folkestone, Canterbury and surrounding areas).
About the Role
Mental Health Support Teams (MHSTs) are a government initiative to help increase children and young people’s access to support for emotional wellbeing and mental health (please follow the link below for more information about the service).
Kent Emotional Wellbeing teams and Medway Emotional Support teams - Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust
Your role within the service will be to support the direct delivery of the MHST offer in schools as well as supporting colleagues and junior staff to undertake their roles day to day.
Part of your responsibilities will be supporting wellbeing practitioners to maintain registration through supervision.
Therefore, this role requires candidates to complete either the Senior Wellbeing Practitioner training or CYP-IAPT Supervisor (low intensity) training or equivalent.
Applicants for this post need to be eligible for these courses as an essential requirement - please see King's College London and University of Sussex websites for further information.
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Responsibilities
As part of the role the post-holder will be responsible for delivering interventions within schools and colleges and hold an individual caseload. The post-holder will ideally have clinical experience working with Children & Young People experiencing emotional wellbeing and mental health difficulties and be expected to deliver CBT interventions for anxiety, low mood, and behavioural problems individually and in groups.
Previous clinical experience will be considered alongside the expectations listed in the job description and in support, we provide informal training and wider CPD opportunities, as well a robust supervision programme to support development of low intensity CBT skills, intervention adaptation and WSA delivery.
An additional part of this role includes supervisory responsibility of junior colleagues, and if not previously completed, the service will support enrolment on a supervisor’s course (at one of our affiliated universities).
Supervisory training will enhance your skills to support EMHP and CWP junior colleagues to undertake their clinical roles and register with their professional bodies. Within your role, you will be offered additional supervision, which will support your professional development.
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About Us
We are Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust. We care for the mental health and wellbeing of people across Kent and Medway.
Our teams support children, young people and adults with a wide range of mental health needs. We also provide specialist services, including all-age eating disorder services and neurodevelopmental assessments for children and young people, such as autism and ADHD.
Because we work across the whole county and across hospital and community settings, we can make care more joined up and easier to access for the people we serve.
Our vision is simple: we are here to help communities not just live with mental illness, but live well. It’s why we’re passionate about working with communities to make mental health care better for everyone. Everything we do is guided by our values: caring, inclusive, curious and confident.
Join Us
Join us if you share our passion for better mental health care and want to be part of a team that’s working well together.
Contact
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: James Lamb-Down
- Job title: Operational Manager
- Email address: james.lamb-down1@nhs.net
- Telephone number: 07522715309
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