Mhst Lead

Senior Clinical Supervisor / Service Lead MHST (Mental Health Support Team), Band 8a, Harrow

The Mental Health in Schools Team (MHST) is an exciting opportunity to deliver evidence-based early interventions for children and young people, working across both educational settings and healthcare sectors.

The postholder will work as a specialist member of the clinical multi-disciplinary team in providing the highest quality clinical care and treatment for young people, their families and/or carers within the school’s project areas. They will work closely with other team members from a variety of clinical and service backgrounds to provide a psychological perspective to cases as well as ensuring the effective delivery of the Mental Health in Schools project. The postholder will be expected to travel and work from various locations as required and will work closely with the Schools Service Manager and other Clinical Leads for the MHSTs in Brent, Harrow and Hillingdon.

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The Senior Clinical Supervisor / Service Lead MHST will provide the clinical and managerial leadership to ensure the implementation and delivery of the MHSTs in selected schools within the borough. This post will provide management and leadership for staff within the MHSTs.

This post will work in partnership with the Early Interventions Service Manager and will further develop the partnership working that is currently taking place between education, the Local Authority and the ICB. This post will report to the relevant partnership meetings.

**Key elements of the role include**:

- Work in partnership with Senior leaders in schools to establish and deliver the MHST
- With Senior MHST Practitioner and Clinical Supervisor be responsible and ensure the effective co-ordination of clinical care provided within schools including consideration to safeguarding and clinical risk issues where indicated
- Build relationships across local services to ensure joint delivery of care
- Provide clinical leadership of the team, providing supervision and caseload management to the Senior MHST Practitioner and Clinical Supervisor.

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**For further details / informal visits contact**: Jade Rolls Early Interventions Service Manager

PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES
1. Lead on the service design and implementation of the educational mental health support teams in schools across the agreed locality bases
2. Be a source of child mental health knowledge and expertise and be able to provide direct support and guidance to the Senior Early Intervention Clinician and Educational Mental Health Practitioners in their day to day management of young people that may present with psychological and mental health problems.
3. To maintain a high clinical profile, being highly visible, accessible and approachable to staff, children and young people, stakeholders and the public to ensure that open and honest communication channels are created and sustained
4. To ensure the provision of highly specialised and consistent clinical care packages; including minimisation of risk of harm across the service, maintaining an overview of the standards of care being delivered and instigating remedial action if necessary and in accordance with current legislation and Trust policy and procedur
5. Take a strategic lead in developing the team taking a whole school perspective and planning ahead in order to future-proof capacity and effectivenes
6. To monitor all clinical incidents within defined area, observing for trends and need for service or staff development and working with senior leads to inform strategy and service development improvements
7. Effectively manage the performance of staff ensuring that policies and procedures are followed and best practice is maintaine
8. To work with relevant senior leads in assessing the clinical skills required to deliver a safe and high quality service, identifying gaps and supporting developing programmes to address these issue
9. To act as a coach; mentor and resource to staff. To guide and support developmental projects and advise on further resources as appropriate
10. To ensure the delivery of the service within a safeguarding children framework
11. To actively involve young people and their families in the delivery of care
12. To be a ‘champion’ of multidisciplinary and multi-agency working, ensuring strong working relationships with partner agencies
13. To work in partnership with the key stakeholders, and undertake a defined role, in the development of improved pathways of care for young people, supporting choice and flexibility and identif