MHST Supervising Practitioner

Due to further expansion of Bexley Mental Health Support Team we are excited to be recruiting an additional supervising practitioner to join our existing well established team.
Mental Health Support Teams are part of a National initiative aimed at improving the mental health and wellbeing of children and young people in the community. There is a specific focus on developing more access to helping and improving the general culture of emotional support within primary and secondary schools.
Bexley MHST work in collaboration with education settings supporting a whole-system approach to promoting good mental health and wellbeing. Offering evidence based early intervention, signposting and supporting a whole school approach based on education settings individual needs and working together with existing services, e.g. counselling, educational psychology, school nurses, pastoral care, educational welfare officers, public health, the local authority, including children's social care, and NHS CAMHS services to support children and young people to thrive., The MHST supervising practitioner will support the delivery & supervision of targeted CBT informed early interventions, ensuring that a wide range of evidence-based interventions are used to support young people's mental health and wellbeing. The post holder will also provide leadership within the team focused on service delivery - providing a high quality, safe and responsive mental health service to children, young people, parents/carers and professionals in accordance with Children and Young People's IAPT principles and in partnership with service users and partner agencies, working as part of a multi-agency system., The MHST supervising practitioner will support the delivery & supervision of targeted CBT informed early interventions, ensuring that a wide range of evidence-based interventions are used to support young people's mental health and wellbeing. The post holder will also provide leadership within the team focused on service delivery - providing a high quality, safe and responsive mental health service to children, young people, parents/carers and professionals in accordance with Children and Young People's IAPT principles and in partnership with service users and partner agencies, working as part of a multi-agency system.
For further enquiries please contact: Jenny Eldred, Bexley MHST Team Manager ([email protected]).
We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace that welcomes and supports individuals of all abilities. Remember, if you meet the minimum criteria for this role and you have a disability, you can be guaranteed an interview under the Disability Confident Scheme - Please ensure you select this on your application form. We would encourage you to be open about your needs so we can work with you to design a comfortable and accessible interview experience. Any information you provide regarding a disability or a need for adjustments will be treated in confidence and will only be shared with colleagues who are supporting this request.
If you require any adjustments to participate fully in the interview process, please let us know by adding the relevant details when scheduling your preferred interview date and time. Please feel free to contact the appointing manager to discuss your needs.

We seek to appoint an enthusiastic and dynamic individual who is passionate about mental health support in schools, with a demonstrated track record of CAMHS clinical and leadership experience. You will have experience of supervising clinicians and be able to evidence clinical leadership skills and abilities. You will be a CAMHS professional and registered with a professional body (i.e. nurse, social worker, OT, psychology. psychotherapy).

Working for our organisation
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes.
We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.
Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:
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