Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust
MHST Senior Supervisor and Locality Lead
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Senior Supervisor and Locality Leads (Psychologist, CBT Therapist, Family therapist)
We are looking for 1 Senior Supervisor and Locality Leads (Psychologist (Clinical, Educational or Counselling), BABCP accredited CBT Therapist or Family therapist) to join our Mental Health Support Team patch areas team covering the East Kent area.
About the Role
This role requires an experienced and professionally registered mental health practitioner with substantial expertise in working therapeutically with children, young people, and families.
The role also involves working closely with schools to promote early intervention, prevention, and whole-school approaches to emotional wellbeing and mental health. The successful candidate will contribute to service improvement, clinical governance, audit, and multi-agency partnership working, while providing consultation, training, and support to education staff. Strong leadership, supervision, and service development skills are essential, alongside experience using routine outcome measures and adapting interventions to meet the diverse needs of children and young people, including those with additional needs.
Responsibilities
- Provide clinical leadership, supervision, and service development within Mental Health Support Teams (MHSTs)
- Ensure the delivery of evidence-based interventions, particularly CBT-informed approaches, for mild to moderate mental health difficulties
- Oversee assessment, formulation, risk management, and intervention planning
- Support and supervise Education Mental Health Practitioners (EMHPs) and senior clinicians to maintain high standards of care
- Work closely with the Operational Manager to ensure delivery is meeting the needs of the schools in the area
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Kent Emotional Wellbeing Teams and Medway Emotional Support Teams - Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust
The postholder will provide clinical leadership, supervision, and service development within Mental Health Support Teams (MHSTs), ensuring the delivery of evidence-based interventions, particularly CBT-informed approaches, for mild to moderate mental health difficulties. They will oversee assessment, formulation, risk management, and intervention planning, while supporting and supervising Education Mental Health Practitioners (EMHPs) and senior clinicians to maintain high standards of care.
Diversity and Inclusion
We are serious about diversity and inclusion, and we are working hard to build this into our DNA. We warmly welcome applications for any of our roles from people from diverse backgrounds, and we are proactively encouraging applications from under-represented communities for our more senior roles, like this one.
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About Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust
We care for the mental health and wellbeing of people across Kent and Medway and are rated ‘Good’ by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
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.
How to Apply
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Dr Katie Gulliver
- Job title: Clinical and Strategic Lead
- Email address: kathryn.gulliver@nhs.net
- Telephone number: 07976738492
Katherine Anderson
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