Supervising Practitioner

Job summary

Ready to use your expertise to guide a team in their work to build brighter futures?

This is more than a clinical role, it`s a chance to lead, mentor and shape the future of early intervention supportfor children and young people.

As a Supervising Practitioner, you`ll be part of our vibrant Mental Health Support Team working in schools to deliver evidence-based interventions, promote whole school approaches to mental wellbeing, and ensure that EMHPs and trainees feel supported, skilled and safein their practice.

You`ll hold a small caseload and work directly with young people with mild to moderate needs, while also offering clinical supervision, reflective spaces and day-to-day guidanceto your team. You`ll be a go-to clinical lead, helping embed good practice, spot risks early and build the kind of culture where practitioners can thrive.

You`ll work hand-in-hand with schools, Team Leaders and the wider Compass team to drive quality, consistency and innovation. Whether you`re shaping group interventions, training staff or liaising with senior mental health leads, your influence will be felt far beyond your own caseload.

If you want an exciting and rewarding role where you can grow others, lead with care and create system-wide impact, this is where your next step should be.

Main duties of the job

You care deeply about young people`s mental health, and you`re ready to bring your experience, empathy and leadership into a role where you can really make a difference. You`re someone who people turn to for support, direction and reassurance and you know how to hold that space with care and confidence.

You`ll bring:

• A Qualified Education Mental Health Practitioner qualification with at least 2 years` experience at your start date
• Experience supervising others or supporting colleagues in a leadership or mentorship role
• Strong knowledge of CBT-based approaches, especially in early intervention or school settings
• Clear, confident communication and the ability to work with a wide range of people – young people, families, schools, and professionals
• A solid grasp of safeguarding and risk management, and a calm, measured way of responding when things feel uncertain
• A full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle

You might also bring a Postgraduate Certificate in Supervision,training in low-intensity CBT, orexperience working in a skill-mixed team but we`re more interested in the way you think, lead and show up for othersthan in ticking every box.

If you`re someone who believes in doing the right thing, even when it`s hard and you`re excited to support others to do their best work then this could be exactly the role you`ve been looking for.

About us

Compass is committed to safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults. Established for over 30 years, Compass is a national charity which works in communities across the UK providing services spanning substance misuse treatment and rehabilitation, early interventions for vulnerable young people, school-aged health programmes and associated prevention as well as treatment and health promotion initiatives.

All Compass posts are subject to appropriate level DBS checks.

We positively encourage applications from all members of the community, regardless of gender, race, faith, disability, age, or sexual orientation, and encourage applications from people who have experiences in life which enrich skills and empathy. This is part of our commitment to equality and developing a truly inclusive and representative workforce.

We are happy to discuss any reasonable adjustments individuals may require in the recruitment process, on commencement, or once in post.

Benefits

We offer a range of benefits including:

• 27 days holiday + bank holidays, rising to 32 days over time (pro rata)
• Life assurance at 2 x basic salary
• Competitive contributory pension scheme
• 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme and OH service
• Enhanced sick pay
• Excellent learning & development opportunities and career progression
• Annual performance/salary review

Interview date: 10/03/2026

Closing date: 25/02/2026

Job description

Job responsibilities

Ready to use your expertise to guide a team in their work to build brighter futures?

This is more than a clinical role, it`s a chance to lead, mentor and shape the future of early intervention supportfor children and young people.

As a Supervising Practitioner, you`ll be part of our vibrant Mental Health Support Team working in schools to deliver evidence-based interventions, promote whole school approaches to mental wellbeing, and ensure that EMHPs and trainees feel supported, skilled and safein their practice.

You`ll hold a small caseload and work directly with young people with mild to moderate needs, while also offering clinical supervision, reflective spaces and day-to-day guidanceto your team. You`ll be a go-to clinical lead, helping embed good practice, spot risks early and build the kind of culture where practitioners can thrive.

You`ll work hand-in-hand with schools, Team Leaders and the wider Compass team to drive quality, consistency and innovation. Whether you`re shaping group interventions, training staff or liaising with senior mental health leads, your influence will be felt far beyond your own caseload.

If you want an exciting and rewarding role where you can grow others, lead with care and create system-wide impact, this is where your next step should be.

Main duties of the job

You care deeply about young people`s mental health, and you`re ready to bring your experience, empathy and leadership into a role where you can really make a difference. You`re someone who people turn to for support, direction and reassurance and you know how to hold that space with care and confidence.

You`ll bring:

• A Qualified Education Mental Health Practitioner qualification with at least 2 years` experience at your start date
• Experience supervising others or supporting colleagues in a leadership or mentorship role
• Strong knowledge of CBT-based approaches, especially in early intervention or school settings
• Clear, confident communicationand the ability to work with a wide range of people young people, families, schools, and professionals
• A solid grasp of safeguarding and risk management, and a calm, measured way of responding when things feel uncertain
• A full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle

You might also bring aPostgraduate Certificate in Supervision,training in low-intensity CBT, orexperience working in a skill-mixed teambut we`re more interested in theway you think, lead and show up for othersthan in ticking every box.

If you`re someone who believes in doing the right thing, even when it`s hard and you`re excited to support others to do their best work then this could be exactly the role you`ve been looking for.

Qualifications/Experience

Essential

• Core professional and/or clinical qualification (e.g. EMHP, PMHW, nursing with specialism in mental health or learning disability nursing, Occupational Therapy, Social Work) and must be committed to maintaining registration if applicable
• Post Graduate Certificate in Supervision (EMHP supervisor course) or Two years post qualification experience of working therapeutically with children and young people and willingness to undertake a PG Certificate in Supervision.

Desirable

• Evidence of continued professional development
• Management / supervision training
• Therapeutic post graduate qualification or equivalent experience ideally in low intensity CBT.
• Post Graduate qualification in a relevant discipline
• Mentorship qualification

Experience

Essential

• Two years post qualification experience of working therapeutically with children and young people e.g., as an EMHP/CYP-IAPT practitioner
• Experience of line management and/or delivery of clinical supervision
• Experience of delivering CBT informed supervision, ideally of practice related to education settings
• Experience of working in a community and/or educational
• Experience of effective engagement with CYPF
• Risk assessment and management in the delivery of clinical services (including safeguarding)

Desirable

• Experience of leadership within Children and Young People clinical service areas
• Experience of providing mentorship
• Experience of organising team duties
• Experience of inducting staff members
• Experience of working in a community and/or educational environment
• Experience of working in a skill mix team

Additional Criteria

Essential

• Leadership and the ability to delegate and supervise staff
• Ability to analyse, evaluate and rationalise data and enable progressive models of delivery and intervention
• Recognition and escalation of risk, contributing to control measures
• Planning workload, time management
• Work under pressure and able to manage changing priorities
• Understand need for evidence and statistical data collection, and achieving targets
• IT skills
• Team player and a dynamic personality
• Multi-agency/disciplinary working
• Excellent communication skills and ability to form positive working relationships with a range of stakeholders.
• Innovative practice and ability to influence others
• Positive attitude; flexible and adaptable; solution focused; and tenacious.
• Has a strong degree of personal integrity
• Ability to work all year round
• Due to the nature of the role there is a need to travel to individual schools, which will require a driving license and access to a vehicle
• Ongoing commitment to maintain registration in core profession

Desirable

• Ability to analyse, evaluate and rationalise data and enable progressive models of delivery and intervention

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.

UK Registration

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

Employer details

Compass

Address

Birmingham

Birmingham

B23 6AA

Employer\’s website

https://www.compass-uk.org/