Senior Clinician Mental Health Support Team - Wisbech, United Kingdom - Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust

Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust
Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust
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Wisbech, United Kingdom

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MHSTs provide mental health and emotional wellbeing support to children and young people and their families and carers through schools and colleges.

Each MHST supports a cluster of schools and colleges, covering a population of around 8,000 children and young people.

In addition to clinical work (individual, group work and consultations) and whole school approach work with the schools and colleges, the post holder will clinically supervise, and line manage the Senior Wellbeing Practitioners and line manage the four new Trainee EMHPs.

The EMHPs will work under the clinical supervision of the Senior Wellbeing Practitioners.


Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) is the main theoretical model of the MHSTs, and you will be expected to support the development of junior team members in their delivery of CBT informed guided self-help, however, diversity of clinical backgrounds is welcomed and encouraged.

The post holder will be able to employ a variety of clinical approaches when delivering interventions with their own caseload of more complex cases.

Clinical work will involve working directly with children and young people and their families (including group work), as well as work with education staff.


Main Duties and Responsibilities include:

To 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 training packages for teachers and support and awareness sessions for young people and parents/carers.

Support the team to plan and organise activities, prioritise and assist other members of the team to coordinate the care of the children and/or adolescents in the schools.

Complete psychosocial formulations to inform care planning.

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 provide consultation as required to young people around their mental health difficulties. To provide consultation as required to parents around the mental health difficulties of their primary school aged children.

To offer interventions such as CBT, solution focussed work, guided self-help and group support to children and young people within an educational setting.

To enhance emotional wellbeing and to promote or build resilience in children and young people through educational workshops, assemblies and PSHE lessons.

To deliver psycho education and support to parents/carers and teachers.

Supervise and manage other members of the team, including Senior Wellbeing Practitioners and Trainee EMHPs, through the delivery CBT-informed supervision 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).

To produce accurate records, reports and observations as required To refer on, or signpost, to appropriate specialist agencies.

To liaise closely with other professionals including colleagues in the Emotional Health and Wellbeing Service, GPs, Paediatricians, Specialist CAMHS, school counsellors, Childrens Services and other voluntary agencies.

To measure outcomes for all interventions. To contribute to team multi-disciplinary working. To support the roll out of further MHSTs within Cambridgeshire and Peterborough. Demonstrate appropriate understanding of the legal and ethical issues in providing mental health care to children and/or adolescents.

Demonstrate an understanding of the Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act and the Care Act. The post holder will also have an understanding of the Safeguarding Children and Child Protection procedures.

The post-holder will be required to work with young people whose behaviour is personally challenging and deal with frequent exposure to highly distressing or highly emotional circumstances.

To present findings and outcomes of the implementation of the MHST and support the in the continual improvement of the team, and roll out of subsequent teams.

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