About this role
Job summary
We are looking for 1 Senior Supervisor and Locality Leads (Psychologist (Clinical, Educational or Counselling), BABCP accredited CBT Therapist or Family therapist) to join our Mental Health Support Team patch areas team covering the East Kent area.
This role requires an experienced and professionally registered mental health practitioner with substantial expertise in working therapeutically with children, young people, and families.
The role also involves working closely with schools to promote early intervention, prevention, and whole-school approaches to emotional wellbeing and mental health. The successful candidate will contribute to service improvement, clinical governance, audit, and multi-agency partnership working, while providing consultation, training, and support to education staff. Strong leadership, supervision, and service development skills are essential, alongside experience using routine outcome measures and adapting interventions to meet the diverse needs of children and young people, including those with additional needs.
Please see our website for overview of the service.
Kent Emotional Wellbeing Teams and Medway Emotional Support Teams - Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust
Main duties of the job
The postholder will provide clinical leadership, supervision, and service development within Mental Health Support Teams (MHSTs), ensuring the delivery of evidence-based interventions, particularly CBT-informed approaches, for mild to moderate mental health difficulties. They will oversee assessment, formulation, risk management, and intervention planning, while supporting and supervising Education Mental Health Practitioners (EMHPs) and senior clinicians to maintain high standards of care.
These roles are integral to the day to day clinical management of the locality patch areas within the service, the post holder will oversee the delivery of the clinical offer in the area monitoring quality and efficacy of the clinical interventions. The post holder will work closely with the Operational Manager to ensure delivery is meeting the needs of the schools in the area.
Please see the attached Job description for detail and speak with us about how the service operates within Kent and Medway.
We are serious about diversity and inclusion, and we are working hard to build this into our DNA. We warmly welcome applications for any of our roles from people from diverse backgrounds, and we are proactively encouraging applications from under-represented communities for our more senior roles, like this one.
About us
We are Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust. We care for the mental health and wellbeing of people across Kent and Medway and are rated 'Good' by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
Our teams support children, youngpeopleand adults with a wide range of mental health needs. We also provide specialist services, including all-age eating disorder services and neurodevelopmental assessments for children and young people, such as autism and ADHD.
Because we work across the whole county and across hospital and community settings, we can make care more joined up and easier to access for the people we serve.
Our vision is simple: we are here to help communities not just live with mentalillness, butlive well.It'swhywe'repassionate about working with communities to make mental health care better for everyone. Everything we do is guided by our values: caring, inclusive,curiousand confident.
Join us if you share our passion for better mental health care and want to be part of a teamthat'sworking well together.
Job description Job responsibilities
Please see attached Job Description and contact us for discussions about these exciting roles. While the MHST programme is a national programme of work our local service is innovative and co-created and therefore job roles may differ please see Job Description, our website and give us a call or email.
The post holder must hold a full, valid, UK driving licence and have access to a car/vehicle to use for business purposes (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010).
Person Specification
Essential qualification Essential
Appropriate professional qualification to be a senior CYPMHS clinician (Psychology (HCPC) Family Therapy, BABCP CBT Child Psychotherapy) Professional training in an evidence-based therapeutic approach applicable to working with children, young people and families.
Desirable
Evidence of having completed Supervisor training course. Clear understanding of MHST programme
Experience Essential
Minimum two years post-qualification experience and Experience at Band 7 or equivalent role. High level knowledge of the theory and practice of evidence-based psychological interventions including CBT
Desirable
Experience of supervising CAMHS or MHST clinicians and trainees
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details Employer name Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust
Address North Kent and East Kent (See Advert Details)
Maidstone Studios (MHST base) Locality base to be selected on appointment.
See advert (Post code is for MHST central office)
ME14 5NZ
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.kentmedwaymentalhealth.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)