Professional Lead CYP CBT Practitioner Mental Health Support team

Job summary

8 b Professional Lead CYP CBT PractitionerMental Health Support team (MHST)

Under the umbrella of the Rise Children and Young Peoples mental health service Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Partnership Trust are expanding our Mental Health Support Teams programme.

Do you have a passion for working with Children and Young People at an Early Intervention stage to support their emotional health and wellbeing?

We want to hear from enthusiastic, motivated, and dedicated clinicians who hold excellent clinical skills and are ready to meet the challenges of delivering the best possible services to our CYP of Coventry and Warwickshire within the MHST programme.

This is an exciting time to join the MHST programme as we expand the clinical leadership structure ensuring that the programme has stability and leadership to deliver and grow.

Your role will be critical in leading and overseeing the delivery of the provision of high-quality specialist clinical psychological interventions including multilevel psychological CBT approach within the CYP Mental Health Support Teams (MHST's).

Main duties of the job

As a highly experienced BABCP Accredited CBT therapist holding appropriate postgraduate level professional qualifications, you will lead on systematic provision of a highly specialist, multilevel psychological CBT approach within the CYP Mental Health Support Teams(MHST's). Your role will ensure that it is cost-effective, culturally appropriate and based on best clinical and professional practice and that meets Trust and Directorate objectives, national strategic, and policy guidelines, commissioner requirements and user and carer need and expectations.

The post holder will support the governance, leadership and delivery of the MHST model within identified school and colleges. This will include considering outcomes and caseload flow so as to ensure as a service we are delivering a robust and continually improving approach, in order to promote the development, welfare and secure the wellbeing of children and young people and their families. The post holder will support the team in developing whole school and college approaches to mental health.

About us

The Mental Health in Schools Team is an NHS service that has been introduced as part of the national plans to expand mental health services for children, young people and their families within the education setting.

Working across Coventry and Warwickshire, we are here to provide mental health interventions, advice, and liaison with specialist services to help children and young people get the right support. We work closely with schools to develop their 'whole school and college approach' to mental health and wellbeing.

The Mental Health in Schools Team (MHST) programme involves bringing together a new workforce to provide additional capacity to deliver evidence-based early interventions for children and young people experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties within educational settings. The area teams provide brief, evidence-based interventions at an early stage of need to children, young people and parents individually or in group settings as well as supporting the implementation of effective whole school and college approaches to mental health to improve outcomes and reduce the need for future more costly specialist RISE interventions. The current MHST clinical offer is based on cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT approaches), with CBT therapists and Educational and Mental Health Wellbeing Practitioners delivering within school and college settings.