Band 6 Senior Mental Health Practitioner MHST

at  Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

We are offering an exciting opportunity to join our expanding Mental Health Support Team’s within CNWL Brent and Hillingdon CAMHS. In line with 2017 Green Paper this is a role to support Education Mental Health Practitioners in schools working with Children, Young People and Families. Would suit qualified CBT Therapist or other discipline with CAMHS experience and some experience of supervising others. Applications will also be considered from Experienced CWPs / EMHPs with substantial CAMHS and Supervision Experience.
The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.
The Mental Health Practitioner will be responsible for delivering interventions within Mental Health Support Teams (MHSTs) in schools and colleges, whilst receiving clinical supervision and be expected to work in schools closely with school staff to support CYP, their families and staff to foster a whole school approach to mental well-being.

The mental health practitioner will play a key role in

• Forming strong working relations with a variety of stakeholders
• Providing consultations to education colleagues and support education setting to embed a whole school approach to wellbeing
• Developing and delivering evidence-based individual and group time limited interventions to young people within education settings
• Evidencing the outcomes of the MHST service
• Providing clinical supervision to trainee Education and Mental Health practitioners

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• Forming strong working relations with a variety of stakeholders
• Providing consultations to education colleagues and support education setting to embed a whole school approach to wellbeing
• Developing and delivering evidence-based individual and group time limited interventions to young people within education settings
• Evidencing the outcomes of the MHST service
• Providing clinical supervision to trainee Education and Mental Health practitioner