Overview
As a Senior Mental Health Practitioner, you will lead clinical work and supervision within the Thought-Full Mental Health Support Team to support children and young people with mild to moderate mental health challenges. You’ll collaborate with Education professionals, advisory teachers, and multi-disciplinary teams to deliver evidence-based CBT interventions and supervise Educational Mental Health Practitioners and Children’s Wellbeing Practitioners. The role combines clinical care with training, supervision, and service development to improve access and outcomes in schools. A key hook is contributing to a growing, government-supported MHST initiative focused on whole-school mental health.
Pay / Benefits
- Annual leave: 30 days + Bank Holidays = 38 days
- Crawley weighting allowance of 561 per year
- Rewards and Benefits page (range of benefits)
Responsibilities
- Clinical work: psychological assessment, therapy, advice and consultation with a person-centered approach
- Triage and referral review: determine needs and appropriate care pathways
- Teaching, training and supervision of EMHPs and CWPs and CPD
- Research and service evaluation: collect outcome data and support service development
- Management and leadership: support clinical delivery and oversee complex issues
- General duties: safeguarding, risk assessments, codes of conduct, collaboration with professionals
Key requirements
- Experience with children and young people with mental health difficulties
- Trained in low- or high-intensity CBT
- Ability to supervise junior staff and support trainees
- Willingness and ability to travel across the county
- Ability to work in a multidisciplinary team and provide specialist mental health advice
- Commitment to evidence-based practice and continuous professional development
- Self-motivated
- Organised
- Integrity
- Low- and high-intensity CBT techniques
- Assessment, care planning and intervention for mild to moderate mental health issues
- Group work and risk assessments/risk management
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