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Mental Health Support Teams are a new type of service designed to help with early intervention and treatment of emotional wellbeing presentations in Children and young people in education settings.

In 2017, the Government published its Green Paper for Transforming children and young people’s mental health, which detailed proposals for expanding access to mental health care for children and young people, building on the national NHS transformation programme which was already underway.

The proposals were focused on providing additional support through schools and colleges and reducing waiting times for treatment.

These core commitments are delivered through a joint and collaborative programme led by the Department of Health and Social Care, Department for Education and NHS England and NHS Improvement, with support from Health Education England and Public Health England and the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities.

Mid & South Essex MHST are seeking a creative, innovative, and dedicated Clinical and Strategic Lead, who can hold not only the local picture but the national agenda in mind when guiding the expansion of our service from a clinical perspective. Participation and co-production are integral to our service development and when talking with Young People about how MHST’s will look locally.

The post-holder will work closely with the Assistant Director and Head of Service they will collectively be accountable for the delivery and development of these services.

The post holder will promote and develop effective relationships with key partners, especially Education, the local authority, commissioners, Child Wellbeing Services and other agencies. The role will also require the review and development of the evidence based interventions the service provides as well as developing new lines of research evaluation to ensure the service is meeting the local need and in line with national agenda's.

We hope to showcase the positive work Mid & South Essex MHST are producing in national MHST arenas and this post will be pivotal to achieving this.

Details of qualifications and experience required for this post are detailed in the person specifications that accompany this advert for more information please contact:

Jodie Bing, Assistant Director MHST Kent & Essex

[email protected]

COVID-19 Vaccination

We continue to encourage all staff to ensure that they have been double vaccinated and received their booster. We recognise that taking the vaccine provides the best defence against COVID 19 for our patients, our staff and their families.

Probationary Period

This post will be subject to a probationary period. Internal applicants are exempt from the probationary period (unless you are an internal applicant currently part way through a probationary period or currently a bank member of staff).

Starting with NELFT

NELFT place a great deal of importance on new starters being properly welcomed and inducted into the Trust. All new starters will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and will undertake a comprehensive induction of up to two weeks which will include mandatory training, systems training and the allocation of equipment. As part of the process new starters will have the opportunity to also meet the executive team, senior managers and attend a number of drop in sessions focusing in engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes. The induction will be held at our head office in Rainham, Essex.

High Cost Area Supplement – London

This post also attracts payment for High Cost Area Supplement of 5% of the basic salary (minimum payment of £1,192 and a maximum payment of £2,011 per annum pro rata).

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To promote and develop effective relationships with key partners, especially the local authority, commissioners, schools, and other agencies.

To provide a service that can measure outcomes as well as all activity; and implement and evaluate clear, achievable, and measurable objectives for the service.

The post-holder will:

• Be a post-graduate qualified psychological practitioner (e.g. clinical psychologist, family therapist, child, and adolescent psychotherapist).
• Have extensive clinical and operational leadership experience and will support their teams, acting as an effective team member whilst working on their own initiative.
• Supervise pre-registration students/trainees and post-graduate qualified staff.
• Have a commitment to collaborative working and actively supporting and liaising with other health and social professionals and agencies.
• Develop, refine, and implement an overarching clinical strategic vision for Mid & South Essex MHSTs.
• Provide clinical leadership working closely with the Assistant Director working clinically within Essex.
• To liaise and build strong working relationships with commissioners in collaboration with the Assistant Director

The launch of MHST’s began in 2019 and since then services have grown across the country. In Mid & South Essex, we began our journey in 2019 when we were awarded 3 sites nationally and we been expanding ever since. We currently have 11 teams at present and have a further 2 planned. Our aim is to reach over 50% of schools by the completion of the national programme. The coverage in Mid & South Essex will be above the national average and will be key to early intervention and support for Young People experiencing emotional wellbeing difficulties.

MHSTs have three core functions:

• to deliver evidence-based interventions for mild-to-moderate mental health issues;
• support the senior mental health lead (where established) in each school or college to introduce or develop whole school or college approach and;
• give timely advise to school and college staff, and liaise with external specialist service to help children and young people to get the right support and stay in education.

Further details of the role and responsibilities of the clinical and strategic lead can be found in the job description.