Mental Health Support Team (MHST) East Suffolk – Senior Clinician: Sponsorship Available

Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust

Job summary

Ambitious, creative, clinically skilled? Passionate about mental health services for children and young people?

This is an exciting opportunity to join Suffolk’s innovative Mental Health Support Team (MHST) as a Senior Clinician. MHSTs play a key role in delivering early intervention within education settings, ensuring children and young people access appropriate mental health support more quickly.

You will provide clinical expertise and operational support, working closely with the East Area Leadership Team, to deliver a high-quality service.

The team is currently transitioning to a new Neighbourhood Team model and preparing for further expansion from January 2027. Initially, you will support this transition before helping to implement and develop the new model.

Based in the East Area, covering East Suffolk (excluding Lowestoft and Waveney), you will be part of a leadership team supporting five Neighbourhood Teams.

Applications are welcomed from a range of professional backgrounds, including nursing, social work, occupational therapy and psychology.

Interviews are anticipated to take place on the 23rd September.

Main duties of the job

You will be responsible for providing a high-quality early intervention service to children, young people (and their families) experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties. You will build relationships with and work across a range of education settings.

The role combines direct clinical assessment, formulation and intervention with day-to-day clinical leadership, oversight, outcome monitoring, audit and service improvement.

You will use your clinical skills and experience for direct delivery of evidence-based interventions, consultation to education settings and delivery of whole/school college approaches. You will utilise skills and knowledge of CBT and child and adolescent mental health practice and support service delivery through collaboration and coproduction.

You will clinically supervise and line manage Senior Education Mental Health Practitioners (EMHPs) and line manage EMHPs. You will work with the MHST East Area Leadership team to share responsibilities to support the team. Travel across the East Suffolk Area will be required.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Mental Health Nurse, Occupational Therapist, Social Worker or Degree Level Qualification or studied at equivalent level
  • Fully registered with the appropriate professional or regulatory body (e.g. HCPC, NMC) or equivalent.

Desirable

  • Higher degree or post-graduate certificate in area of clinical / therapeutic practice

Experience

Essential

  • Able to demonstrate experience at a senior clinical level including staff management and clinical supervision experience.
  • Experience with mental health risk assessment/formulation and ongoing management of mental health needs

Desirable

  • Ability to deliver other therapeutic approaches e.g. DBT, EMDR, IPT, systemic therapy

Skills

Essential

  • Competent assessment, formulation and intervention skills, relevant to profession

Knowledge

Essential

  • Build on / develop further specialist knowledge of health promotion and recovery

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Closing Date: 6 September 2026

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