Job summary
- Main area
- Clinical Team Leader
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Will require travel across Hertfordshire)
- Job ref
- 367-CYP-9801
- Employer
- Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Waverley Road St Albans AL3 5TL
- Town
- St Albans
- Salary
- £50,008 - £56,908 per annum, pro rata (Inclusive of 5% HCAS)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 07/11/2025 08:00
Employer heading
MHST Clinical Team Leader - South & West Hertfordshire
Band 7
Values Based Screener
At Hertfordshire Partnership Foundation Trust we are looking for people to join us who share our values and those of the NHS. Before your application can be considered please take part on our online values questionnaire, which you can find below. When you have finished you will be sent a 'completion code' by email, which will be valid for 6 months and required to submit your application form.
Job overview
We have an exciting opportunity for a Clinical Team Leader to work at the forefront of innovation in Children’s & Young Peoples Mental Health, to play an instrumental role in a forward-thinking expansion service & the delivery of interventions for CYP in education settings across Hertfordshire. Our priority is to increase access and availability of mild to moderate mental health difficulties and emotional wellbeing support for children and young people within educational settings.
This newly established role will require skills in leadership, assessing, planning, organising, reviewing and support in the clinical formulations of therapeutic interventions of work in the MHST teams in the county of Hertfordshire. The post holder will be involved in delivering informed processes and evidence based interventions to support the recovery of young people referred to the service. This work will be in accordance with clinical governance processes and professional standards. The post holder will utilize their skills and knowledge of CBT and child and adolescent mental health practice in order to provide clinical guidance in supervision to Senior Practitioners. The post will include being redeployed to be an Interim Team Leader of a MHST teams in wider MHST service in Hertfordshire, if and when necessary due to vacancy and/or annual leave, and in such instance to provide line management to Trainee Educational Mental Health Practitioners (EMHPs) in that allocated team.
Main duties of the job
We are looking to appoint a person with clinical expertise who has the ability to provide strong leadership, to contribute to the development and implementation of a high quality service to meet the needs of children and young people in education settings.
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 leadership and advice across the MHST Service
This is an exciting opportunity for a strong leader to further develop their skills in an area that is challenging but extremely rewarding. If you feel you have the skills and experience we are looking for then we would welcome an application from you.
The post-holder will be a mobile clinician supporting teams with delivery of clinical sessions across the South/West Hertfordshire area.
HPFT has continued to expand this service and currently holds 10 MHSTs in the county of Hertfordshire as a provider with additional expansion of the current teams underway,
HPFT are committed to progressing and supporting their staff with career development with progression opportunities and training alongside ensuring staff health, wellbeing and job satisfaction.
Working for our organisation
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of ‘Outstanding’ from the Care Quality Commission.
Our family of over 4,000 members of staff provide health and social care for people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Essex and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. Everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:
Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The purpose of the MHST team is to:
- Provide evidence-based interventions for mild to moderate mental health issues.
- Support the senior mental health lead in each education setting to introduce or develop their whole school or college approach.
- Give timely advice to school and college staff, and liaising with external specialist services, to help children and young people to get the right support and stay in education.
As a Clinical team leader your main duties and responsibilities:
- To provide triage and reviewing the initial assessments of health and psychosocial care needs of CYP in an educational setting and/or reviewing the risk assessments of children and/or adolescents presenting with a wide variety of mild to moderate mental health and social needs
- To provide consultation as required to other staff professionals in MSHT as well as to teachers and family workers around mental health issues in children and young people in schools.
- To offer interventions such as CBT, solution focused 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.
- To provide clinical supervision and line management to the team who will be using CBT based approaches in their direct work with young people.
- To produce accurate records, reports and observations as required
- To refer on, or signpost, to appropriate specialist agencies.
- To liaise closely with other professionals in Specialist CAMHS as per the new model of the CYPMHS Transformation as well as liaise with Mental Health School Leads, Children’s Services and discharge to GPs and signpost to other voluntary agencies.
- To be computer literate and have working knowledge of relevant IT software packages
- To measure outcomes for all interventions
- To have an awareness of data collection and to understand the importance of this.
- Participate fully in providing quality care in line with local and national guidelines e.g. NICE Guidance & Quality Standards relating to children and/or young people with mental health disorders and social care difficulties
- To participate in regular managerial and clinical supervision.
- To contribute to team multi-disciplinary working.
- To attend and participate in training, supervision and the appraisal process, to ensure professional development and competence.
Research and Service Evaluation - To participate in audit, evaluation and research projects as agreed with professional and line management.
- To collaborate with other team members in the design and implementation of audit and research projects.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- A registerable professional qualification in a relevant subject (e.g. psychology, social work, counselling, nursing, psychotherapy) from a UK university or OR skills-based training in counselling or delivering mental health interventions in young people to support emotional health and wellbeing up to degree or equivalent level
- Additional specialist post graduate courses relevant to providing mental health support to support emotional health and wellbeing of the child and young people and in relation to providing evidence based interventions.
Desirable criteria
- Cert or Dip in Management
- MSC or equivalent
- Mentoring and Assessing Students Qualification
Knowledge & Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working with CYP with emerging mental health needs
- Experience in the management and leadership of a clinical team
- Experience of multi-professional working/case management
- Experience of contributing to operational policy
- Understanding of educational settings
- Knowledge of social and educational contributions to MH
- Experience of community focussed care
- Experience of completing assessments
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working within an education setting
Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to lead a multi-professional team and provide ongoing operational clinical and professional supervision
- Budget and resource management
- Understanding of mental health legislation and safeguarding policy
- Able to establish and maintain effective links with statutory & non-stat agencies
Desirable criteria
- Service Development/ Leading Change
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
- Ability to work collaboratively with external agencies
- Holistic approach to service delivery
- Excellent communication- verbal and written
- Tenacious and self-motivated
- Balanced and objective
Desirable criteria
- 4-5 years of experience
Physical Requirements
Essential criteria
- Car owner
- Driver license
Desirable criteria
- Car Owner
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Helen King
- Job title
- MHST Clinical Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07974 071996
- Additional information
MHST Clinical Manager
Amy Dunne 07971 639540
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