MHST Senior Supervisor and Locality Lead

We are looking for 2 Senior Supervisor and Locality Leads (Psychologist (Clinical, Educational or Counselling), BABCP accredited CBT Therapist or Family therapist) to join our Mental Health Support Team patch areas team covering the North Kent and East Kent (Thanet & South Kent) areas., The postholder will provide clinical leadership, supervision, and service development within Mental Health Support Teams (MHSTs), ensuring the delivery of evidence-based interventions, particularly CBT-informed approaches, for mild to moderate mental health difficulties. They will oversee assessment, formulation, risk management, and intervention planning, while supporting and supervising Education Mental Health Practitioners (EMHPs) and senior clinicians to maintain high standards of care.

These roles are integral to the day to day clinical management of the locality patch areas within the service, the post holder will oversee the delivery of the clinical offer in the area monitoring quality and efficacy of the clinical interventions. The post holder will work closely with the Operational Manager to ensure delivery is meeting the needs of the schools in the area.

This role requires an experienced and professionally registered mental health practitioner with substantial expertise in working therapeutically with children, young people, and families.

The role also involves working closely with schools to promote early intervention, prevention, and whole-school approaches to emotional wellbeing and mental health. The successful candidate will contribute to service improvement, clinical governance, audit, and multi-agency partnership working, while providing consultation, training, and support to education staff. Strong leadership, supervision, and service development skills are essential, alongside experience using routine outcome measures and adapting interventions to meet the diverse needs of children and young people, including those with additional needs.

We are Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust. We care for the mental health and wellbeing of people across Kent and Medway and are rated 'Good' by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).

Our teams support children, youngpeopleand adults with a wide range of mental health needs. We also provide specialist services, including all-age eating disorder services and neurodevelopmental assessments for children and young people, such as autism and ADHD.

Because we work across the whole county and across hospital and community settings, we can make care more joined up and easier to access for the people we serve.

Our vision is simple: we are here to help communities not just live with mentalillness, butlive well.It'swhywe'repassionate about working with communities to make mental health care better for everyone. Everything we do is guided by our values: caring, inclusive,curiousand confident.

Join us if you share our passion for better mental health care and want to be part of a teamthat'sworking well together.