MHST Highly Specialist Clinician & Supervisor

The post holder will join Camden’s Mental Health Support Team (MHST) in Schools. This is a preventative and early intervention service that provides high quality support to children, young people, and families, presenting with mild – moderate mental health struggles. Support to schools includes delivering evidence-based interventions through universal (e.g. whole school approach), targeted (e.g. class or small group intervention) and individual one to one therapeutic support. It also includes providing consultation, advice and sign posting. Our work endeavours to join with schools in the promotion of a positive ethos and culture surrounding the social, emotional, and mental health of the entire school community.

MHST Highly Specialist Clinicians and Supervisors hold their own clinical caseload and undertake comprehensive clinical assessments and develop formulations to guide treatment plans that are outcome focused, and evidence-based, using appropriate therapeutic modalities. The post also involves holding a Senior Link role with a patch of schools and working jointly with MHST School Practitioners to develop and sustain working relationships with the school community by supporting the Designated Mental Health Leads as well as providing advice, sign-posting and consultation. To expand the team’s service offer the post holder will take a lead role in service development initiatives, evaluation, develop training programmes and other intervention packages in keeping with

service objectives. A key responsibility of this post is providing internal team support through individual and group supervision. The post holder will be required to hold some risk, therefore will complete comprehensive risk assessments and respond appropriately.

This is a community-based post, with most of the work taking place in school settings or other community settings. The post holder must be able be able to work collaboratively with other members of the team, staff from other teams as well as with our allied partners across education, health, social care and the charity sector.

As a highly specialist and senior member of the team, the role will involve taking up delegated managerial tasks.

The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health trust with a focus on training and education alongside a full range of mental health services and psychological therapies for children and their families, young people and adults.

We are committed to improving mental health and emotional wellbeing, believing that high quality mental health services should be available for all who need them. We bring a distinctive contribution based on the importance we attach to social experience at all stages of people’s lives, and our focus on psychological and developmental approaches to the promotion of health and the prevention and treatment of mental ill health

We contribute to the pool of ideas through our own research and develop

ment but are also committed to bringing together the best ideas of the time, old and new, from inside and out, together with the most gifted and able professionals in our fields of endeavour. We aim to share our ideas and practice through as many routes as possible.

As a Trust we aim constantly to be evolving in nature and form in relation to the environment in which we work, to ensure that our contribution remains relevant.