Specialist Primary Mental Health Worker

Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary

Permanent | Full Time | Interviews 28th July

Join our psychology-led team delivering mental health support across Sheffield educational settings as part of the ten year health plan.

Working alongside the Healthy Minds Mental Health Support Team Lead, you will help schools develop trauma-informed, whole-school approaches to wellbeing, coordinate support for vulnerable pupils, and provide consultation, training and reflective practice for staff. You will also contribute to the offer for children and young people with mild to moderate mental health needs.

This role combines direct clinical work with system-level change, supporting the application of psychological thinking across education.

Main duties of the job

Reporting into the Clinical Lead (Healthy Minds), your responsibilities will include:

  • Supporting Senior Mental Health Leads in Sheffield educational settings to enhance their whole-school wellbeing offer

  • Provide clinical supervision and case management for Senior / Education Mental Health Practioners.

  • Develop psychologically informed care plans for vulnerable children and young people

  • Offer consultation, training, and reflective practice to school staff and MHST teams

  • Deliver direct psychological work with children and young people

  • Support service development and progress in collaboration with the Healthy Minds team

You will receive regular clinical and line management supervision from a Senior Clinical Specialist, plus access to multi-agency peer supervision, training opportunities, and the University-accredited EMHP supervision course.

Person Specification

Qualifications and Training

Essential

  • A registerable mental health qualification such as Registered Mental Health Nurse (RMN), a registerable social work qualification such as Social Worker, or a registerable psychotherapy qualification such as Art, Psychotherapist or Family Therapist
  • Accredited practitioner status with the HCPC or relevant governing body
  • Evidence of Continuing Professional Development in Psychotherapies.

Desirable

  • To be educated to MSc level or have equivalent Clinical / Managerial experience
  • Postgraduate psychotherapy qualification such as PG Dip in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, MA Art Psychotherapy, MSc Family Therapy
  • Qualification in supervision of practitioners in delivering psychotherapies

Experience

Essential

  • Significant post registration experience, within a CAMHS /Mental health settin
  • Working collaboratively with patients and their families
  • Working in a multi-disciplinary team and across multi agency partners.
  • Legal Frameworks relevant to CAMHS MH Clinical Risk

Desirable

  • Developing and delivering mental health training
  • Offering consultation and supervision / reflective practice
  • Experience of early intervention and prevention
  • Setting and auditing clinical standards
  • Utilisation of research in practice
  • Project management

Knowledge and Skills

Essential

  • Understanding of a range of psychological theory and models of care and treatment.
  • Leadership – ability to build, develop and maintain relationships Operational Management.
  • Legal Frameworks relevant to CAMHS /Mental health
  • An understanding of Safeguarding and its application in practice. Clinical Risk Assessment and Management and its application in practice.
  • Clinical Governance and its application in practice.
  • Provide leadership and monitor, co-ordinate and prioritise activities Interpret complex clinical information from a variety of sources and make clear and prompt clinical decisions.
  • Provide effective clinical supervision, teaching, training and assessing in clinical practice.
  • Demonstrate and maintain skills in basic life support.
  • Hold a current UK driving license and have access to a vehicle

Desirable

  • Developing and delivering mental health training
  • Experience of early intervention and prevention
  • Setting and auditing clinical standards
  • Utilisation of research in practice

Personal Qualities

Essential

  • Personal integrity and credibility
  • Able to work flexibly and co-operatively as part of a team Able to use own initiative and make decisions independently
  • Committed to promoting a positive image of people with mental health conditions.
  • Self-aware and committed to professional and personal development and reflective practice.
  • Able to engage with vulnerable people and work effectively in distressing and challenging circumstances
  • Frequently cope with the emotional demands of direct operational and staff management e.g. distressing life experiences, individual staff distress and staff conflicts

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: 20 July 2026

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