Job summary
The Mental Health Support Teams are part of an exciting project funded by NHS England, Health Education England and partners with the aim of improving the mental health and wellbeing of children and young people in the community in response to the government's Green Paper for Young People's Mental Health. City & Hackney have been successful in being a Wave 1, and in 2022, a wave 6 site, benefitting from significant investment in this area. 2026 has bought another wave of investment enabling further roll out. This now makes up 4 funded teams covering City & Hackney schools.
Since the beginning, MHSTs have been integrated with the existing schools service in City & Hackney, the Well-being and Mental Health in schools Service (WAMHS). WAMHS has a specific focus on developing more access to appropriate help and improving the general culture of emotional support within all primary and secondary schools including special educational provisions and PRU's. Working alongside community partners, WAMHS and MHSTs will be fully integrated with community CAMHS and educational settings.
This role will be as a Deputy Neighbourhood Team Lead for WAMHS tasked with developing and delivering a wide range of interventions, projects and system change with the aim of whole school and whole community approaches to supporting young people's mental health.
Main duties of the job
The main focus of this role is to support the Clinical Team Leads to provide day to day clinical operational management and leadership for the clinical functioning of WAMHS whilst working alongside the Clinical Team Leads and project leaders to develop and implement a wide range of interventions and projects with local schools.
In addition to leading on and directly providing comprehensive assessment, risk management and interventions for young people experiencing emotional and mental health difficulties, this post is an opportunity to work with school staff and school cultures in developing school environments that are more conducive to supporting sustainably better emotional health and wellbeing.
This Deputy Neighbourhood Team Lead role incorporates operational management, alongside the provision of specialist supervision, consultation and training to practitioners within the neighbourhood team. The post holder will have clinical lead and supervisory responsibility for the other members of WAMHS including multi-disciplinary CAMHS clinicians and Education Mental Health Practitioners, who are trainees for the first year of their employment in the project.
About us
Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.
Job description
Job responsibilities
** DETAILED JD/PS ATTACHED **
This role will help to develop and deliver a wide range of interventions, projects and system change. We aim to deliver whole school and whole community approaches to supporting young peoples mental health. The post holder will be supported to complete formal training with Kings College Londons course in supervision of EMHPs or in Transformation and Change Leadership.
In addition to providing comprehensive consultation, assessment, risk management and interventions for young people experiencing emotional and mental health difficulties, the post-holder will share the leadership for a diverse range of professionals who will work in a range of primary and secondary schools and colleges across the borough.
The post holder will also provide direct CAMHS outreach into schools and training for school staff, to support the development of whole school approaches to mental health and well-being.
Job description
Job responsibilities
** DETAILED JD/PS ATTACHED **
This role will help to develop and deliver a wide range of interventions, projects and system change. We aim to deliver whole school and whole community approaches to supporting young peoples mental health. The post holder will be supported to complete formal training with Kings College Londons course in supervision of EMHPs or in Transformation and Change Leadership.
In addition to providing comprehensive consultation, assessment, risk management and interventions for young people experiencing emotional and mental health difficulties, the post-holder will share the leadership for a diverse range of professionals who will work in a range of primary and secondary schools and colleges across the borough.
The post holder will also provide direct CAMHS outreach into schools and training for school staff, to support the development of whole school approaches to mental health and well-being.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- oQualification in appropriate mental health profession such as Nursing, Clinical or Counselling Psychology, Family Therapy, Art Therapy and registration with relevant UK governing body.
- oSpecific therapeutic modality training and qualification e.g. systemic, DBT, IPT etc.
Experience
Essential
- oPrevious experience of working in a senior post in CAMHS
- oPrevious experience of supervising clinicians and operational leadership functions
Knowledge
Essential
- oEvidence of well-developed clinical skills and knowledge in CAMHS
- oSpecialist clinical skills within in specific therapeutic modalities
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- oQualification in appropriate mental health profession such as Nursing, Clinical or Counselling Psychology, Family Therapy, Art Therapy and registration with relevant UK governing body.
- oSpecific therapeutic modality training and qualification e.g. systemic, DBT, IPT etc.
Experience
Essential
- oPrevious experience of working in a senior post in CAMHS
- oPrevious experience of supervising clinicians and operational leadership functions
Knowledge
Essential
- oEvidence of well-developed clinical skills and knowledge in CAMHS
- oSpecialist clinical skills within in specific therapeutic modalities
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
