MHST Band 8a Locality Clinical Lead

Overview

As Locality Clinical Lead, you drive evidence-based mental health support for children and families within educational settings across Southend, Castlepoint, Rochford and Canvey Island. You lead multidisciplinary work, developing early intervention and prevention strategies that improve school-based emotional wellbeing. You’ll collaborate with education partners, support service development, and use routine outcomes to measure impact. This role offers you a meaningful chance to shape community mental health services and advance your professional development.

Pay / Benefits

• development opportunities
• flexible working arrangements
• focus on staff wellbeing
• supportive team environment
• ongoing CPD
• career progression potential

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical leadership and supervision within a multidisciplinary MHST team
• Develop and deliver evidence-based interventions for children and families in schools
• Apply and evaluate routine outcome measures to monitor progress
• Support early intervention and school-wide approaches to emotional wellbeing
• Engage with education partners and multi-agency stakeholders
• Contribute to service development and cross-team collaboration
• Ensure ongoing professional development and CBT-informed practice
• Provide consultation in education settings and share best practices

Key requirements

• Current and in-date professional registration with a regulatory body (e.g. ACP, UKCP, HCPC, BABCP)
• More than 2 years post-qualification experience working therapeutically with children and families
• In-depth knowledge of evidence-based practice with children and families (including CBT)
• Experience of providing and receiving supervision (including CBT-informed practice)
• Clinical experience with routine outcome measures and their use
• Knowledge of early intervention and prevention in educational contexts
• Knowledge of evidence-based interventions for low mood, anxiety, self-harm and behaviour in youth in schools
• Experience of whole school approaches to emotional wellbeing and mental health
• Experience of consultation in education settings
• Experience of service development and multi-disciplinary/multi-agency working
• Ongoing continuing professional development in a relevant subject
• Supervisors Course (fundamental requirement)

• Strong collaboration and communication
• Enthusiasm for early intervention and prevention
• Ability to work across multi-disciplinary teams
• CBT-informed practice
• Use of routine outcome measures
• Knowledge of evidence-based interventions for common mental health issues in children in education settings

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