Job Description

A permanent part-time Team Lead and Supervisor post (0.6 WTE) is available in Islington's School Wellbeing Service (MHST).



This is an exciting opportunity to jointly lead one of the teams within Islington's School Wellbeing Service (SWS). The SWS is part of the national Mental Health Support Teams (MHST) initiative, aiming to improve access to help, and the general culture of emotional support within primary and secondary schools. The service is delivered as a partnership between Whittington Health and LB Islington.



We are recruiting a proactive, creative and skilled colleague to join our thriving team. The successful applicant will be passionate about mental

health in schools, widening access to services and enjoy inter-agency working.



The successful applicant will join one of our two locality teams in the School Wellbeing Service. The teams deliver preventative and early

intervention mental health work to all the borough's mainstream schools. This work includes workshops, groups and individual interventions with

CYP and school staff, as well as whole-school approaches to mental health. Each team is led by joint team leads from CAMHS and Educational

Psychology, with six School Wellbeing Practitioners in each team and three senior clinicians. The SWPs and senior clinicians are

supervised and managed by the team leads.



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The post holder will be the joint (with the educational psychologist in the team) lead clinician in the south locality team of the School Wellbeing

Service - Islington's MHSTs. They will line manage and supervise the School Wellbeing Practitioners (Islington's Education Mental Health

Practitioners) in the teams, having responsibility for their professional development and training, and establishing and maintaining team and

individual caseloads. They will co-lead the team with the EP and work closely with the other team leads, team co-ordinators, Service Manager,

Project Manager and education and local authority partners.



This is a great time to join our service. We are a strong, well established friendly team with professionals from a wide range of therapeutic backgrounds and experiences. We are excited about developing the MHST in Islington so that more children and families can receive this vital support at an earlier stage in their schools.



We are committed to supporting staff development and offer additional training opportunities and reflective spaces to support your wellbeing and further promote your development as a clinician while working with us.



The community served is multi-ethnic and culturally diverse and we welcome applicants who are skilled at working with the richness and complexity of our multicultural context. We are keen to recruit applicants that reflect the local community and support them to remain in post.



We offer an exciting and dynamic environment where your ideas and career development will be valued. You will be supported directly by senior colleagues and we will develop the service together.



We are looking for a highly skilled senior clinician who has experience in leading on and delivering CAMHS work in education settings. The

successful candidate will also have experience of delivering, teaching and supervising evidence-based practice for children and young people's

mental health and will be skilled in CBT.

Main responsibilities include:

1. SWS Team lead role - the post holder will be the joint lead clinician in our south locality team working with the educational psychologist

in the team. The role involves working closely with the EP/joint team lead, the team manager, project manager, central CAMHS team managers and head of multi-agency CAMHS and with education and local authority partners.

2. Line management and supervision of School Wellbeing Practitioners (SWPs) - The post holder will provide weekly supervision on the delivery of evidence-based interventions for anxiety, low mood and behaviour difficulties, and education-specific

interventions. In addition to supervision, they will assist with SWP assessments and support interventions where appropriate. Experience with CBT interventions is essential and knowledge of the guided self-help interventions that the SWPs will offer is important.

3. Responsibility for the programme of induction and local training of the SWPs and other clinicians.

4. Co-ordinating and managing the referral routes for SWP direct clinical work and for managing the SWP caseloads.

5. Supporting the co-ordination, development, delivery and evaluation of the indirect workload of the SWPs, including workshops and

trainings.

6. Working with schools to set up and review input from the SWS to the school.

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