Mhst Clinical Lead

**Part time**: 2.5 days/18.75 hours per week - Maternity Cover

The Mental Health in Schools Teams are part of an exciting trailblazer project funded by NHS England, Health Education England & partners with the aim to improve the mental health & wellbeing of children & young people in the community in response to the government’s Green Paper for Transforming children & young people’s mental health. Alongside this Greenwich has an established Early Intervention Team providing consultation & intervention into schools.

The Clinical Lead will focus on providing clinical oversight & leadership for the MHST team supporting the Team Manager to continue service development. The team requires ongoing development & specific work to ensure robust integration across the school’s pathway. The role will be working alongside community partners & developing relationships between the MHST & educational settings. The role will ensure efficient & effective delivery of the MHST, providing high quality, safe & responsive specialist mental health services to children, young people, parents/carers & professionals in accordance with Children & Young People’s IAPT principles, in partnership with service users & partner agencies, as part of a multi-agency system. The post holder will have clinical oversight for clinicians within the MHST & will work as part of the senior’s team supporting & deputising for the team manager to set up/clarify new pathways.

The MHSTs will partner with their education settings to design a bespoke offer, based on the school’s individual needs and will work with the mental health services that are already in place, such as counselling, educational psychology, school nurses, pastoral care, educational welfare officers, VCSEs, the local authority, including children’s social care, and NHS Children and Young People Mental Health Services (CYPMHS).

Greenwich MHST was established in 2019, the service is designed to help meet the mental health needs of children and young people in education settings, the site was successful in achieving funding to expand the current team. The team is made up of Lead Practitioners, Senior Practitioners, Education Mental Health Practitioners (EMHPs) & Trainee EMHP’s. The team is based across education settings, Greenwich CAMHS and remote working. We are an additional resource within a whole-system approach to promote resilience and wellbeing, support early intervention, enable appropriate signposting and deliver evidence-based support, care and interventions.

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:
We’re Kind

We’re Fair

We Listen

We Care

**Please see attached Job Description for further information**:
**KEY TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES**:
To be trained and confident in the use of CYP IAPT principles, evidence based interventions and routine outcome measures.

To provide specialist mental health advice, consultation and signposting using an outcome based triage model, to schools.

To provide consultation to schools.

Develop working relationships with the relevant services and agencies to raise awareness of the MHST team.

Promote a positive image of Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust by participating in service promotion and information events. Contribute to meetings / conferences, newsletters and journals when required.

Collect data required for management information.

Support the manager with the recruitment of new staff where appropriate.

Support the Lead Practitioners with the allocation of referrals.

To actively promote the whole school based approach to developing and maintaining emotional health and we