London Borough of Redbridge
Senior Practitioner x4
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Redbridge Mental Health Support Team (MHST)
Redbridge MHST are aiming to recruit talented and enthusiastic Senior Practitioners to enhance our current early intervention mental health offer to schools.
What is an MHST?
MHSTs are a national initiative in response to the Government’s plans to transform children and young people’s mental health provision.
MHSTs Have Three Core Functions:
- Delivering evidence-based interventions for children and young people with mild-moderate mental health difficulties
- Supporting the senior mental health lead in the delivery of their whole school/college approach
- Giving timely advice to school and college staff and signposting to external specialist services
Redbridge MHST:
Our MHST are committed to achieving positive outcomes for children and young people in diverse and often challenging situations. We are a dynamic team with strong connections to our schools and local community who provide support across multiple levels in the borough ranging from individual intervention and whole school involvement to borough wide campaigns.
The Opportunity:
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Are you a mental health professional with a passion for offering thoughtful and creative early intervention support within educational settings?
Our MHST has been growing since 2021 and are aiming to expand to more Redbridge schools and colleges, providing opportunity to form new relationships with educational settings, as well as maintaining our established relationships with schools.
We are seeking professionals with formal CBT training who have substantial clinical experience working with children, young people and their families.
You will deliver intervention to support children, young people and their families experiencing mild to moderate mental health need and provide supervision within the wider team. This role will complement the Education Mental Health Practitioners role within the team by offering assessments and intervention to those with more complex needs within the moderate range. This will consist of both individual and group work. In addition, you will work with schools/colleges to support their whole school approach to mental health and wellbeing. You will have opportunity to join our local authority and health care partners across the borough to support change through project work and borough wide campaigns.
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Successful Applicants Will Benefit From:
- A dynamic, friendly, and supportive team who meet regularly to share practice and enable whole team development.
- Frequent and consistent supervision.
- An induction programme tailored to your needs, career development support and an outstanding, annual service CPD programme.
For further information please contact Dr Ann-Marie Cryan via email on
To apply for this post please complete the online application form and attach your CV and a Covering Letter addressing how you meet the criteria for the role as stated in the person specification.
All short-listed applicants will need to demonstrate proof of right to work in the UK.
We are committed to employment practices that promote diversity and inclusion in employment and welcome applications from qualified applicants regardless of age, disability, gender identity, sex, marriage and civil partnership status, pregnancy and maternity status, colour, race, religion, or belief.
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