Job summary
- Main area
- Nurse
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Bank: 3 months (ASAP start date)
- Hours
- Part time - 30 hours per week
- Job ref
- 384-SM-Clinical Lead
- Employer
- Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- Town
- Leatherhead, Surrey
- Salary
- £33.66 per hour
- Salary period
- Hourly
- Closing
- 18/03/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical Lead for Mental Health Support Team in Schools (MHSTs)
Band 8a
Job overview
Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust are looking for a Clinical Lead will provide the clinical leadership to ensure the implementation and delivery of the MHSTs in schools. This post will provide management and leadership for staff within the MHSTs.
This post will work in partnership with the School Based Need Clinical Lead and will further develop the partnership working that is currently taking place between education, Local Authority, CCG and the new Alliance. This post will report to the relevant partnership meetings.
The role is 0.8 WTE (30 hours per week), ASAP start date for 3 months.
Covering Monday to Friday, 9am-5pm (can be flexible on days).
Main duties of the job
Work in partnership with Senior leaders in schools to set up and deliver the MHST
With Early Intervention Clinician be responsible and ensure the effective co-ordination of clinical care provided within schools including consideration to safeguarding and clinical risk issues where indicated
Build relationships across services to ensure joint delivery of care
Provide clinical leadership of the team, providing supervision and caseload management to the Senior Early Intervention Clinician.
Working for our organisation
Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is the leading provider of health and social care services for people of all ages with mental ill-health and learning disabilities in Surrey and North East Hampshire. We also provide social care services for people with a learning disability in Croydon and ASD and ADHD assessment services in Hampshire.
We actively seek to engage people who use our services and our communities in improving the mental wellbeing of the local population. We work closely with other NHS and voluntary sector organisations who provide services and support people who use services and carers.
Surrey is a beautiful county lying just 30 minutes away from Central London and from the South Coast.
Our historic market towns and bustling districts are enveloped in wonderful countryside, and our excellent road and rail networks bring the rest of the country within easy reach.
For international travel, both Gatwick and Heathrow airports are nearby.
Would you like to work in an organisation that sits in the top 10 best NHS Mental Health, Learning Disability and Community Services Trusts to work for? This ranking is based on staff feedback in the 2023 NHS Staff Survey.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Suitable for someone who is ambitious, driven and can lead the implementation of a complex programme of work whilst effectively managing multiple stakeholders. The post holder will be committed to having a deep understanding of Surrey’s children and young people’s mental health needs to inform and strategically shape local planning across all School Based Need services.
Please see the full job description attached.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Qualified in core profession such as Mental Health Nurse (RMN), Mental Health Practitioner, Clinical Psychologist, Occupational Therapy, Child Psychotherapist, Social Work or creative therapies e.g. Art Therapy.
- Evidence of continuing professional development
Desirable criteria
- Postgraduate (Masters and above) level of clinical study
Experience
Essential criteria
- Evidence of experience in completing specialist mental health assessments and formulation
- Experience of delivering CBT based interventions.
- Experience of delivering evidence-based interventions and approaches with children and young people across a variety of care settings.
- Experience of working with children and young people, families, and carers within a mental health setting
- Experience of providing consultation/teaching/ training
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
- Angharad Montague
- Job title
- Service Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
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