Senior Clinician and Clinical Supervisor MHST

Job summary

To play a senior role in our established MHST teams, providing clinical leadership to the MHST team, and supporting the development of the MHST alongside senior colleagues within the service.

The role for MHST will support the delivery of all interventions within the MHST teams, ensuring that a wide range of evidence-based interventions, using CBT based principles and a CBT informed framework, are used to support young people with mild to moderate mental health difficulties, and to ensure early help and access to specialist services is seamless and transparent. The post holder will need to be flexible with a clear understanding of THRIVE and how all providers and organizations build on collaborative working with children, young people and families at the heart of all we do.

Please note this role requires travelling around the borough of Harrow to visit schools and other sites.

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Main duties of the job

Main Responsibilities

The post holder will be working across schools supporting trainee EMHPs in the borough by providing supervision, consultation, mental health assessments and evidenced based mental health treatments to children, young people and their families. They will provide support to frontline children’s services in developing their capacity in early identification and intervention with children’s mental health need. Promoting the emotional and mental health of children, young people and their families in the community, facilitating appropriate access to specialist CAMHS and other relevant provision. As a senior supervisor will be working as part of the leadership team to lead and manage the service.

Person Specification

Education and Qualifications

Essential

• Core Professional qualification eg. Psychology, Occupational Therapy, Nursing, Social work, Psychotherapy, Art Therapy, Family Therapy. Qualified teachers also considered
• Current professional registration with appropriate professional body HCPC, SSC, NMC, BACP
• Supervision training or demonstrable experience in supervising others

Desirable

• Mentorship qualification
• CYP IAPT qualification
• CBT qualification

Previous Experience

Essential

• Previous experience working with children and young people in a mental health setting
• Experience of specialist mental health assessment and therapeutic interventions with children and young people with mental health problems and their families
• Must be experienced in, and able to demonstrate ability to provide case management supervision for lower banded CAMHS workers, students and other service group/team professionals as required

Desirable

• Previous experience of working in a CAMHS setting.
• Experience of teaching and training professionals

Skills and knowledge

Essential

• Knowledge of the educational system in England
• Knowledge of legislation in relation to children and adolescents and safeguarding procedures and policies
• Knowledge of NHS, Social Care and Education structures, national policies and frameworks& evidence-based guidelines (NICE)
• High level knowledge of the theory and practice of short term and long-term clinical interventions in CAMHS
• Ability to maintain accurate, timely, concise and legible clinical records both electronically and handwritten, which adhere to the CNWL policies
• Able to talk to people about sensitive issues in a supportive manner but also challenge others appropriately, in a professional manner
• Ability to communicate clearly verbally and in writing, including reports and documentation
• To have an understanding of the 2014 Children and Families Act in regards to children and young people with special educational needs or disabilities (SEND)

Other

Essential

• Willing and able to travel around the borough to visit schools and other sites

Desirable

• Access to a car/car driver

Closing Date: 7 August 2026