MHST Senior Mental Health Practitioner

As part of the role the post-holder will be responsible for delivering interventions within schools and colleges and hold an individual caseload. The post-holder will ideally have clinical experience working with Children & Young People experiencing emotional wellbeing and mental health difficulties and be expected to deliver CBT interventions for anxiety, low mood, and behavioural problems individually and in groups.

Previous clinical experience will be considered alongside the expectations listed in the job description and in support, we provide informal training and wider CPD opportunities, as well a robust supervision programme to support development of low intensity CBT skills, intervention adaptation and WSA delivery.

As mentioned, an additional part of this role includes supervisory responsibility of junior colleagues, and if not previously completed, the service will support enrolment on a supervisor's course (at one of our affiliated universities).

Supervisory training will enhance your skills to support EMHP and CWP junior colleagues to undertake their clinical roles and register with their professional bodies. Within your role, you will be offered additional supervision, which will support your professional development.

We are Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust. We care for the mental health and wellbeing of people across Kent and Medway.

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.

Training, Qualifications and Registration

Desirable: - Completed training relevent to the service (e.g. Senior Wellbeing Practitioner, Supervisor); - Completed CBT training (e.g. CYP-IAPT)

Experience

Desirable: - Experience working in schools with CYP who have emotional wellbeing needs; - Experience in supervising staff