Team Lead MHST
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 04/09/2026
- Closes
- 20/09/2026
Sponsorship verdict
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“Please note visa sponsorship for this role is unfortunately not available. Ensure you hold valid right to work in the UK and will not require sponsorship if successful.”Quoted verbatim from the source advert
Role summary
This role is for an experienced mental health professional to lead a Mental Health Support Team (MHST) within educational settings. You will provide clinical, operational, and professional leadership, ensuring safe and effective services for children and young people. The role involves supervising and developing practitioners, promoting professional development, and collaborating with schools and partner agencies. You will also ensure high standards of clinical practice, safeguarding, and risk management, contributing to service development and quality improvement.
Essential criteria
- Ability to travel across the county to meet the needs of the service.
- Relevant professional qualification and current registration with appropriate professional body
- Significant post-registration experience working within mental health services, including experience within Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) or services supporting children and young people.
- Experience of working collaboratively with education, health, social care and other partner agencies.
- Strong clinical assessment, formulation and intervention skills in relation to children and young people's emotional wellbeing and mental health.
- Ability to confidently assess, manage and oversee clinical risk, while supporting others to make safe and effective decisions.
- Sound knowledge of safeguarding children and young people, including relevant legislation, policy and best practice.
- Experience of delivering consultation, training and advice to professionals, parents and carers.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working/knowledge of working with educational settings
- Experience of managing change and of service development
- Essentail
- Experience of working in a multi-agency setting
- Experience of leading, managing and developing staff, including providing supervision, support and performance management.
- Ability to travel across the county to meet the needs of the service.
- Relevant professional qualification and current registration with appropriate professional body
- Significant post-registration experience working within mental health services, including experience within Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) or services supporting children and young people.
- Experience of working collaboratively with education, health, social care and other partner agencies.
- Strong clinical assessment, formulation and intervention skills in relation to children and young people's emotional wellbeing and mental health.
- Ability to confidently assess, manage and oversee clinical risk, while supporting others to make safe and effective decisions.
- Sound knowledge of safeguarding children and young people, including relevant legislation, policy and best practice.
- Experience of delivering consultation, training and advice to professionals, parents and carers.
- Experience of working/knowledge of working with educational settings
- Experience of managing change and of service development
- Essentail
- Experience of working in a multi-agency setting
- Experience of leading, managing and developing staff, including providing supervision, support and performance management.
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 7 at £46,148 – £52,809 a year, across England.
This advert: £49,387 – £56,515 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Dorset HealthCare University NHS Foundation Trust
Team Lead MHST
The closing date is 20 September 2026
Job summary
Are you a confident and experienced mental health professional with a passion for leadership and improving outcomes for children, young people and families?
Dorset HealthCare University NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an exceptional Team Lead for our Mental Health Support Teams (MHST). This is an exciting opportunity to lead and develop an innovative service delivering early intervention and mental health support within educational settings.
We are looking for an inspiring leader with experience of managing and developing staff within children's services. You will provide visible leadership, professional confidence, creating a culture of high support and high challenge where colleagues are empowered to deliver excellent care and achieve positive outcomes.
As Team Lead, you will be committed to delivering a high-quality, timely, child and family-focused service that is compassionate, responsive and evidence based.
You will be confident in assessing and managing risk, supporting others to make sound clinical decisions, and ensuring safeguarding is embedded throughout practice. Working closely with schools, families and partner agencies, you will strengthen pathways, promote emotional wellbeing and drive service improvement.
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