Emotional Health and Wellbeing Practitioner Team Lead

Are you an experienced professional passionate about making a real difference to children and young people?

Join our Emotional Health and Wellbeing Practitioner team as a Team Lead and play a key role in shaping and delivering high-quality early intervention services.

Working alongside the Service Manager, you will provide operational leadership, support service development and transformation projects, and help drive positive outcomes for children, young people and their families. This is an exciting opportunity to influence service delivery, lead a skilled multi-disciplinary team, and contribute to a nationally recognised early intervention programme.

We are looking for a motivated and innovative professional who thrives in a collaborative environment where evidence-based practice, creativity and new ways of working are actively encouraged.

This role is ideal for someone seeking to broaden their leadership experience while helping to achieve KPI/targets and expand access to mental health support for young people when they need it most., The post holder will provide operational management and clinical leadership to the team whilst supporting the Service Manager in the delivery of strategic priorities, service developments and transformation projects across the service.

A key responsibility of the role will be to coordinate and oversee the development and implementation of the emerging service models, including the establishment of future Mental Health Support Teams (MHST), predominately within the Cambridgeshire area.

Alongside their Team Manager responsibilities, the post holder will maintain oversight of the MHST project programme, balancing operational service delivery with the successful development and implementation of new teams.

This role is time limited due to the changing service delivery model across the service and this team are expected to remain in place until January/February 2029-2030.

The role will support the emotional wellbeing of children and young people across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough. The Emotional Health and Wellbeing Practitioner Team (EHWP) support key professionals, including Education, Social Care and Health. The EHWP is part of the 'Getting Advice' quadrants of the iThrive model implemented across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough. The iThrive model provides an integrated approach to the delivery of person-centred and needs-led services for children, young people and families., If you receive a suspicious job offer or recruitment-related communication, do not make any payments, share personal information, or provide identity documents. We encourage you to report the matter to your local police or relevant law enforcement agency. Any concerns relating to potential recruitment fraud should also be reported to our Local Counter Fraud Specialist (LCFS) as soon as possible.

Rated 'Outstanding' by the Care Quality Commission, we are proud to provide high quality innovative services across most of the east of England that enable people to receive care closer to home and live healthier lives.

There's one reason why our services are outstanding - and that's our amazing staff who, for the seventh year running, rated us incredibly highly in the national staff survey.

If you share our passion for innovative and high-quality care delivery, then please submit your application and join us on our exciting journey as a leading-edge specialist community provider. All are welcome to apply and our promise to you is a culture which prioritises staff engagement and development.