MHST Senior Clinician

This is a roll out of the work to improve access to mental health care for young people set out in the NHS Long Term Plan. You will join a supportive service that already has 18 other MHSTs across Cambridgeshire, Peterborough and Norfolk, so a ready support system is available. The MHSTs sit within CCS NHS Trusts Emotional Health and Wellbeing Service. The successful candidate will provide line management and clinical supervision to other members of the team, including Senior Wellbeing Practitioners and Trainee EMHPs, through the delivery CBT-informed supervision.
They will provide assessment of health, development, and biopsychosocial needs in an educational setting, and provide a risk assessment of children and/or adolescents presenting with a wide variety of mild to moderate mental health and social needs. Work creatively with the Clinical Lead and other members of the team to create and deliver training packages for teachers, young people and parents/carers. To provide consultation as required to other professionals (such as teachers and family workers) around mental health issues in children and young people in schools. To offer consultations and interventions such as Single Session Therapy, CBT, solution focussed work, guided self-help and group support to children and young people within an educational setting.
To oversee the formulation of treatment and management plans for schools, parents, children and young people being supported by the EMHPs and the Senior Wellbeing Practitioners, using a range of specialist psychological interventions appropriate to the service in individual and group and group contexts. To work with the team and stakeholders to determine how delivery of care will need to be altered in the different settings dependent on need (For example, to consider the provision required for special schools). Please see the job description for further information. We welcome informal conversations about this vacancy

In January 2020, Cambridgeshire Community Services (CCS) NHS Trust launched two MHSTs in Huntingdon and Cambridge. A further eight MHSTs have been launched since then, with two more planned, bringing our total to 12 MHSTs by 2025-2026. In 2023, CCS also became the provider of six existing MHSTs in Norfolk and two new MHSTs in Norfolk. The project is a collaboration with between NHS England, Health Education England and the Department for Education, following on from the 2017 Green Paper Transforming children and young peoples mental health provision.