Low Intensity Supervisor - Wilnecote, United Kingdom - Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
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Wilnecote, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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At MPFT we pride ourselves on staff wellbeing and development and can we offer you:

  • Our SOOTHE resources
  • supporting staff across the trust with their physical, mental and financial health. In addition to the support offered from our occupational health provider Team Prevent.
  • Counselling support and lifestyle information with advice on a variety of personal matters
- "In our Gift" providing a platform for your voice to be heard to inform change

  • The opportunity to purchase additional annual leave
  • Opportunities for flexible working (depending on the role)
  • Career development opportunities and coaching plus access to in house training programs
  • Innovative research training program entitled STARS (Supporting the advancement of Research Skills)
  • Child Care Vouchers Scheme
  • Recognition and engagement through our staff LOVE awards, LOVE long service awards and Staff Engagement Surveys
  • NHS discounts available via the Blue Card and Red Guava schemes


The post holder will act in support of the MHST Team Leader, deputising and carrying out delegated roles, duties and responsibilities as required.


You will provide formal and informal education, training and supervision to other members of the team and other disciplines if identified as a need.

The MHSTs deliver evidence based interventions, supporting emotional wellbeing, primarily in an educational setting.

Under supervision of this post and support staff will be delivering full assessments of care needs, risk assessment and evidence based interventions.


The service will be available Monday to Friday 9-5pm, though there may be times when workshops or community work are required after school, evenings or at weekends and it is essential that the post holder is flexible.

The post holder will maintain managerial responsibility for the team caseload; overseeing referrals and the allocation of clients. S/he will also manage a clinical role and/or a caseload dependent upon locality need.


The post holder will be responsible for establishing and maintaining team systems and processes for the effective operation of the team including outcome measurements, audit and annual service policy review.


The post holder will act in support with fellow Team Leaders in providing clinical leadership and advice across the MHST.

All staff are required to comply with the Trust's Values.

Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (MPFT) is an award winning organisation with over 9000 employees.

We are one of the largest integrated Health and Social Care providers, covering services across North & South Staffordshire, Shropshire, Hampshire, Buckinghamshire, Isle of Wight and Essex.


We are embedding values based and inclusive recruitment practices to ensure that all applicants, from any backgrounds, have an equal chance of success in achieving a role with us.


  • MHST's will provide mental health and emotional wellbeing support to children and young people and their families and carers through schools and colleges. Each MHST will support several schools and colleges, covering a population of around 8,000 children and young people. These posts are within the MHST based in Cannock.


MHST comprise of a Team Manager, one Senior Mental Health Support Team Practitioner, one Mental Health Support Team Practitioners (this post) and four Trainee Education Mental Health Practitioners (EMHP's) an apprentice peer support worker, administrative assistant and volunteer coordinator.

The MHST will work within education settings to provide early intervention on mild to moderate mental health issues and provide help to staff in schools and colleges.

Teams will also act as a link with local children and young people's mental health services.

In addition to clinical work, the post holders will support the EMHP's in Stafford and Cannock MHST's.

The EMHP's will work under the Senior Mental Health Support Team Practitioner's supervision, as part of a dynamic mental health team in a creative environment where evidence-based interventions, new ideas, ways of working and supporting children and young people are actively encouraged.

The Trainee EMHP's will receive their training through the University of Derby. The post holder will also work closely with the Team Manager, to ensure that the team is a success.

  • To provide evidence based CBTinformed supervision to Education Mental Health Practitioners (EMHPs).
  • Provide formal and informal education, training and supervision to other members of the team to include other services such as schools.
  • To work with a defined caseload of service users as part of a multidisciplinary team (MDT), providing assessment, care planning and care delivery for service users with mild to moderate mental health difficulties. This will include the provision of highly skilled professional care, psychological interventions, group work, clinical assessment, risk assessments / risk management, and promoting recovery and inclusion.
  • Ensure coproduct
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