Children and Young People's Mental Health Support Team Supervisor / Practitioner- Harlow

You will be working in a multi-disciplinary team and will be responsible for managing
and providing clinical and case management supervision to other team members.
You will also hold your own small caseload and deliver MHST interventions in
schools. Primarily the team members will include Qualified and Trainee Educational
Mental Health Practitioners, who will deliver group and individual low intensity CBT
interventions to children and young people and some support packages for
parents/caregivers. As part of this programme, you will need to be successful
in your application to attend and receive training in supervision, provided by a
University to support this area of your work. Training course is one year's
duration and requires approximately 20 days attendance at university over the
year along with course work and assignments. Additional study time and
support will be provided.
Note, successful completion of this training is a requirement for this role.
The post holder will have an active caseload of children and adolescents with mild -
moderate emotional and mental health difficulties and will use evidence-based
therapeutic models. Low intensity, early interventions will be delivered in a range of
education settings (primary, secondary, and colleges). The work will also include
training for education professionals and developing the team's ability to serve the
needs of the whole school community including children and young person's
caregivers.
You will work with CYP and families from different cultural backgrounds, using
interpreters when necessary, and should be committed to equal opportunities. You
will also work closely with colleagues and partners in the Local Authority, SET
CAMHS, education settings where interventions are being delivered and other
relevant mental health providers.
Key Responsibilities
Supervision and Management

• Provide clinical and case management supervision, including support through

observations and modelling, to team members who are undertaking EMHP
training in CBT evidence-based practice

• Support the EMHPs to develop and maintain a working relationship with

education settings

• Support the EMHPs in delivering a Whole School Approach service


• Support the EMHPs to develop their clinical progression during and after training


• Support the EMHPs in assessing, reporting and managing any client risk


• Support the EMHPs to ensure data is inputted to EPR (Iaptus) within 48 hours of

clinical contact

• As required, liaise with educational settings


• As required, liaise with training university regarding trainee EMHP progress


Mental Health Support Teams in Schools

March 2024

• As required attend any MHST partnership meetings


• As required attend any meetings representing MHST and/or Mind in West Essex

Clinical and Client Care

• Assess and develop evidence-based treatment plans to meet the mild - moderate

needs of CYP with a range of emotional and mental health difficulties

• Support children and young people, their parents/carers, families and educators

in the self-management of presenting difficulties

• Work in partnership with children, young people, their families and educators in

the development of their care plans, including specific interventions and agreeing
outcomes

• Deliver evidence-based, low intensity interventions for CYP aged 5-18 with mild -

moderate emotional and mental health difficulties

• Show evidence in a variety of forms that at all times assessment and intervention

is provided from an inclusive values base, which recognises and respects
diversity

• Undertake accurate assessments of risk to self and others and support

supervisees to do the same

• Make decisions on suitability of new referrals, adhering to the services' referral

protocols, refer unsuitable clients on to the relevant service or back to the referral
agent as necessary

• Maintain comprehensive records of all training and clinical activity in line with

both health and education service protocols and use these records and outcome
data to inform decision-making

• Ensure outcome measures (e.g. SDQ, RCADS) are routinely embedded in your

clinical work and that of those you line-manage

• Complete all requirements relating to data collection and report clinical outcomes

and service access data into the digital patient record system

• Promote the mental and emotional health of children and young people in

education settings, through clinical interventions in the care pathway

• Practice, evidence, reflect on and demonstrate an ability to manage one's own

caseload in conjunction with the requirements of the team

• Attend multi-disciplinary and multi-agency meetings relating to referrals or

children and young people in treatment, where appropriate, both for personal
educational benefit in discussion with supervisors, or to provide direct
assistance

• Show evidence of working within a collaborative approach, involving a range of

relevant others when indicated. Specifically, work in collaboration with teachers
and other educational staff, parents, children, young people and the wider
community to enhance and broaden access to mental health services

• Contribute to the development of individual or group clinical materials or training

materials and go on to develop further such materials as falls within own degree
of competence