Clinical Lead for Mental Health Support Team in Schools (MHSTs)
Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust are looking for a Clinical Lead who will provide the clinical leadership to ensure the implementation and delivery of the MHSTs in schools. This post will provide management and leadership for staff within the MHSTs. This post will work in partnership with the School Based Need Clinical Lead and will further develop the partnership working that is currently taking place between education, Local Authority, CCG and the new Alliance. This post will report to the relevant partnership meetings.
The role is 0.8 WTE (30 hours per week), ASAP start date for 3 months.
Covering Monday to Friday, 9am-5pm (can be flexible on days).
Main duties of the job
Work in partnership with Senior leaders in schools to set up and deliver the MHST with Early Intervention Clinician. Be responsible and ensure the effective co-ordination of clinical care provided within schools including consideration to safeguarding and clinical risk issues where indicated. Build relationships across services to ensure joint delivery of care. Provide clinical leadership of the team, providing supervision and caseload management to the Senior Early Intervention Clinician.
Job responsibilities
Suitable for someone who is ambitious, driven and can lead the implementation of a complex programme of work whilst effectively managing multiple stakeholders. The post holder will be committed to having a deep understanding of Surrey’s children and young peoples mental health needs to inform and strategically shape local planning across all School Based Need services.
Qualifications
- Qualified in core profession such as Mental Health Nurse (RMN), Mental Health Practitioner, Clinical Psychologist, Occupational Therapy, Child Psychotherapist, Social Work or creative therapies e.g. Art Therapy.
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Postgraduate (Masters and above) level of clinical study
Experience
- Evidence of experience in completing specialist mental health assessments and formulation
- Experience of delivering CBT based interventions
- Experience of delivering evidence-based interventions and approaches with children and young people across a variety of care settings
- Experience of working with children and young people, families, and carers within a mental health setting
- Experience of providing consultation, teaching, training
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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