Supervising Practitioner in Banks

This Supervising Practitioner post sits in the Compass Bloom Mental Health Support Team, working alongside schools to deliver early intervention support for children and young people. The role pairs a small caseload of young people with mild to moderate mental health difficulties with clinical supervision and day-to-day guidance for colleagues. A postgraduate Supervising Practitioner qualification is studied alongside the job, and travel to schools needs a driving licence and access to a vehicle. An EMHP or equivalent core qualification is essential.

What the job involves

• Provide clinical supervision, reflective spaces and day-to-day guidance to colleagues
• Make sure practitioners feel supported and safe in their practice
• Hold a small caseload, working directly with young people with mild to moderate mental health difficulties
• Deliver evidence-based interventions and whole-school approaches to mental wellbeing with schools
• Embed good practice, support professional development and maintain high standards of care
• Help drive quality and consistency across the service and contribute to service development
• Work with schools, Team Leaders and the wider Compass team
• Travel to individual schools
• Complete a postgraduate Supervising Practitioner qualification alongside the role

What’s required

Qualifications

• EMHP qualification, or a recognised core professional qualification with therapeutic experience (such as CWP or mental health nurse)
• PG Certificate in Supervision (EMHP supervisor course), or two years' post-qualification therapeutic experience with children and young people and willingness to undertake one

Registration & licences

• Maintain registration in core profession throughout employment

Experience

• Two years' post-qualification experience working therapeutically as an EMHP
• Line management and/or delivery of clinical supervision, including CBT-informed supervision (ideally in education settings)
• Work in a community and/or educational setting, and effective engagement with children, young people and families
• Risk assessment and management in clinical services, including safeguarding and escalation of risk

Skills & knowledge

• Knowledge of evidence-based interventions, CBT-informed practice and safeguarding
• Excellent communication and relationship-building with children, young people, families, schools and partner agencies
• Leadership, delegating and supervising staff, and influencing others through innovative practice
• Analysing data and evidence, meeting targets and enabling progressive delivery models
• Planning workload, managing changing priorities and working under pressure
• Multi-agency and multidisciplinary working, with IT skills

Checks & eligibility

• Appropriate level DBS check
• Full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle for travel to schools

Other

• Strong personal integrity and a solution-focused, flexible, tenacious approach

Nice to have

• Evidence of continued professional development
• Management or supervision training
• Therapeutic postgraduate qualification or equivalent experience, ideally in low-intensity CBT
• Postgraduate qualification in a relevant discipline
• Mentorship qualification
• Leadership within children and young people clinical services
• Experience of mentoring, organising team duties or inducting staff
• Experience of working in a skill-mix team

What’s offered

• 27 days' holiday plus bank holidays, rising to 32 days over time (pro rata)
• Life assurance at 2 times basic salary
• Contributory pension scheme
• 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme and occupational health service
• Enhanced sick pay
• Learning and development opportunities and career progression
• Annual salary review