MHST Senior Clinician inPeterborough inPeterborough PUBLISHED FRI 25 OCT 2024

Are you ready for a new challenge and a real opportunity to make a difference?

Are you interested in working in early intervention services in child and adolescent mental health services?

An opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and experienced mental health professional, with a background working in child and adolescent services to join two new Peterborough MHSTs, which will be launching in January 2025.

The successful candidate will work closely with their Team and Clinical Lead, to ensure that the MHST is a success. They will join a dynamic service in a creative environment where evidence-based interventions, new ideas, ways of working and supporting children and young people are actively encouraged.

This is a unique opportunity to take on a managerial and supervisory role, whilst also engaging in important clinical work within schools and colleges.

The post would be ideally suited to a clinician looking to broaden their professional skillset, whilst being part of a new national initiative to increase the numbers of children, young people and their families supported within an early intervention mental health service.

Please note that should we receive a high number of applications, we reserve the right to close the advert earlier than advertised.

As a Senior Clinician, the successful candidate will work closely with the MHST Clinical and Team Lead and Senior Wellbeing Practitioner, to ensure success of the MHST. Main duties include:

They will support and provide a high-quality service to students (and their families) experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties.

Work closely with the team to ensure children and young people receive faster access to earlier mental health support.

This will be done through the supervision and line management of Educational Mental Health Practitioners (EMHPs) and Senior Wellbeing Practitioners and through direct delivery of evidence-based interventions to support the recovery of young people referred to the service, utilising skills and knowledge of CBT and child and adolescent mental health practice, and knowledge of whole school approaches to mental health.

This work will be in accordance with clinical governance processes and professional standards.

About us

In January 2020, Cambridgeshire Community Services (CCS) NHS Trust launched two MHSTs in Huntingdon and Cambridge. A further eight MHSTs have been launched since then, with two more planned, bringing our total to 12 MHSTs by 2025-2026. In 2023, CCS also became the provider of six existing MHSTs in Norfolk and two new MHSTs in Norfolk.

The project is a collaboration with between NHS England, Health Education England and the Department for Education, following on from the 2Green Paper Transforming children and young peoples mental health provision. This is a roll out of the work to improve access to mental health care for young people set out in the NHS Long Term Plan.

You will join a supportive service that already has 18 other MHSTs across Cambridgeshire, Peterborough and Norfolk, so a ready support system is available. The MHSTs sit within CCS NHS Trusts Emotional Health and Wellbeing Service.

The successful candidate will provide line management and clinical supervision to other members of the team, including Senior Wellbeing Practitioners and Trainee EMHPs, through the delivery CBT-informed supervision.

They will provide assessment of health, development, and biopsychosocial needs in an educational setting, and provide a risk assessment of children and/or adolescents presenting with a wide variety of mild to moderate mental health and social needs.

Work creatively with the Clinical Lead and other members of the team to create and deliver training packages for teachers, young people and parents/carers.

To provide consultation as required to other professionals (such as teachers and family workers) around mental health issues in children and young people in schools.

To offer consultations and interventions such as Single Session Therapy, CBT, solution focussed work, guided self-help and group support to children and young people within an educational setting.

To oversee the formulation of treatment and management plans for schools, parents, children and young people being supported by the EMHPs and the Senior Wellbeing Practitioners, using a range of specialist psychological interventions appropriate to the service in individual and group and group contexts.

To work with the team and stakeholders to determine how delivery of care will need to be altered in the different settings dependent on need (For example, to consider the provision required for special schools).

Please see the job description for further information. We welcome informal conversations about this vacancy.