MHST Senior Supervisor and Locality Lead | NELFT NHS Foundation Trust

Band 8a – MHST Senior Supervisor and Locality Lead (Substantive Post)

We are looking for a Clinical/Counselling/Educational Psychologist or BABCP accredited CBT therapist to oversee the Medway & Swale MHST teams and work closely with other Clinical Leads and Operational colleagues to support clinical delivery across the Locality area and the service as a whole.

The post holder will oversee the clinical offer in the area, including relationships and partner working in schools, oversee and support both CBT group skills supervision and individual supervision for Trainees and qualified staff.

Mental Health Support Teams (MHSTs) are a new government initiative to increase children and young people’s access to support for emotional wellbeing and mental health. MHSTs are part of the national Children and Young People’s Increasing Access to Psychological Therapies (CYP-IAPT) programme.

Key Functions of MHSTs

• Targeted Intervention
• Whole School Approach
• Consultation and Liaison

The local MHST services are called Emotional Wellbeing Teams Kent and Emotional Support teams Medway.

Responsibilities

The post holder will support the clinical development and service delivery of the MHSTs in Kent & Medway. Responsibilities include:

• Supporting the delivery of evidence-based CBT interventions in schools/colleges.
• Providing supervision to practitioners in the team.
• Supporting schools to develop a whole school approach to emotional wellbeing and mental health using a range of evidence-based theoretical approaches (e.g. systemic and attachment theory).
• Probationary period unless internal; internal exempt.
• Induction of up to two weeks with mandatory training and systems training.

Qualifications & Experience

• Substantial experience working therapeutically with children and families with mental health needs.
• In depth knowledge and experience of evidence-based practice with children and families (including CBT).
• Experience of providing supervision (including of CBT-informed practice).
• Clinical experience and in-depth understanding of effective use of routine outcome measures.
• Enthusiasm for early intervention and prevention including low intensity support in an education context.
• Knowledge of evidence-based interventions for low mood, self‑harm, anxiety and common behaviour difficulties in young children in education settings.
• Knowledge and understanding of whole school approaches to emotional wellbeing and mental health.
• Experience of providing consultation in education settings.
• Experience of service development and multi-disciplinary and multi-agency working.
• Professional registration in the named discipline (as stated above).

Applications for this role should be written by the applicant. If artificial intelligence (AI) programmes are used then the application may be rejected.

This advert closes on Thursday 20 Nov 2025.