MHST Supervisor

This is an exciting opportunity for a Clinical/Educational Psychologist, with a background of working with education settings and/or experience in child and adolescent mental health, to work within a multi-disciplinary Mental Health Support in Schools Team (MHST). You will use your knowledge, skills, and experience to supervise trainee Education Mental Health Practitioners (EMHP) and contribute to the general service development and functioning. You will also work closely with families, as well as colleagues in CAMHS, the Local Authority, education settings and other local services.,

• To supervise trainee EMHP's and band 6 practitioners
• To contribute in multi-disciplinary team discussions and service development
• To be a link worker for MHST schools
• To contribute and facilitate whole school approach workshops
  
  Lambeth Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) provides multidisciplinary assessment, diagnostic, treatment, advisory and consultative service for children and adolescents with emotional and behavioural disorders, in particular those at high risk or those with more severe and persistent problems associated with psychiatric disorder. The London Borough of Lambeth has a population of 317,800 (GLA 2020). Lambeth's population is highly diverse, a characteristic visible in the breadth of ethnic and cultural traditions seen throughout the borough. It is estimated that 63% of the population describe their ethnicity as other than White British; 23% describe their ethnicity as Black (11% Black African, 7% Black Caribbean and 5% Other Black), 22% White Other and 6% as Asian. Lambeth has a child and youth population aged 0-20 of almost 70,000. Over 50% of this number are 0 to 9 years old. A high number of school pupils belong to black/minority ethnic groups (85.6%). 15.9% and 18.1%
of children and young people in primary and secondary education respectively have special education needs or disabilities, the UK average is 14.9%. In 2018/2019, 0.15% of the secondary school population were permanently excluded from local authority schools. In 2020, there were 459 children looked after by the local authority and around 230 children on a child protection plan.