MHST Senior Practitioner/Supervisor
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 21/09/2026
- Closes
- 01/10/2026
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Role summary
This role involves leading and coordinating evidence-based interventions within Mental Health Support Teams (MHSTs) in schools and colleges across the South Area of Hertfordshire. The post holder will provide supervision, guidance, and operational support to ensure high-quality service delivery, fostering a positive team culture. It requires a flexible, motivated, and experienced practitioner with a passion for supporting children, young people, and their families. The role also includes elements of operational management in support of the Team Leader.
Essential criteria
- Full, enhanced and current satisfactory DBS disclosure for the role
- Ability and willingness to work outside office hours when required by the role.
- Physical Skills
- Computer literate in the use of Microsoft office software and ability to enter clinical notes on the electronic patient record system.
- Car driver with the ability to travel to meet the requirements of the post (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010 which prevents you from driving)
- Analytical Skills
- Ability to integrate and analyse information gathered from triage calls and assessments, to create comprehensive psychological formulations and care plans to meet the needs of children and young people.
- Training & Qualifications
- Core postgraduate qualification in the provision of low intensity CBT, e.g., -Postgraduate Diploma Educational Mental Health Practitioner (EMHP programme) -Or Postgraduate Certificate/Diploma in Child and Young Persons Psychological Wellbeing Practice (CWP) - Or an accredited CBT qualification
- Psychological Therapies or CYP IAPT postgraduate supervision qualification. *Please note if you do not have a supervision qualification, you will be expected to undertake a 1-year postgraduate certificate supervision training.
- Documented evidence of continued professional development.
- Appropriate UK professional registration
Desirable criteria
- Senior Wellbeing Practitioner postgraduate training.
- Skills, Knowledge & Ability
- Knowledge of legislation related to children and young people's mental health and social care e.g. Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act, Care Act, Child Protection and Safeguarding of Vulnerable Children etc.
- Knowledge of the core EMHP functions
- Ability to deliver care with respect, dignity and compassion which is recovery focused.
- Ability and confidence to manage own caseload, work autonomously in the community and use own initiative.
- Ability to deal sensitively with stressful situations including; staff and organisational problems; child abuse; family breakdown; mental ill health and risk of self-harm.
- Ability and skills to teach and train others using multi-media materials suitable for presentation within public, professional and academic settings.
- Knowledge of recent developments and research in mental health/learning disability provision for young people, including government initiatives.
- Significant post qualification experience delivering EMHP or CWP guided self-help interventions; Senior Wellbeing Practitioner or CBT interventions.
- Experience of completing triage calls and initial assessments with children and young people presenting with mild to moderate mental health difficulties.
- Experience working with parents (parent led interventions) and involving parents in assessments and where appropriate interventions with young people.
- Experience and knowledge of implementing safeguarding procedures for children and adults.
- Experience of completing comprehensive risk assessments and managing risks, including implementing safety plans with children and young people.
- Experience and knowledge of working in a multi- ethnic community in a culturally sensitive manner.
- Experience of working with and making adjustments for SEND and neurodivergent children and young people
- Experience of providing case management and clinical skills supervision to trainee and/or qualified practitioners. If not, a willingness to complete a postgraduate certificate in supervision.
- Experience of supporting children and young people in an educational setting.
- Communication Skills
- Ability to communicate complex and sensitive information clearly, both verbally and in writing, to service users, families, carers, and professionals.
- Ability to communicate sensitive information to children and young people, carers and colleagues in a way that addresses psychological resistance.
- Ability to contain and have difficult conversations with service users, colleagues, supervisees and other staff.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non- professional groups.
- Ability to communicate in a respectful, culturally sensitive manner to service users, families, carers and colleagues
- Ability to fluently speak another language
- Mental Effort
- Good time management and prioritisation skills including the ability to manage and plan own diary to accommodate assigned tasks.
- Emotional Effort
- Ability to personally manage a sensitive, traumatic and potentially emotionally distressing caseload including disclosures of risk to self, abuse and safeguarding disclosures.
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 6 at £37,338 – £44,962 a year, across England.
This advert: £41,957 – £50,387 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
MHST Senior Practitioner/Supervisor
The closing date is 01 October 2026
Job summary
Please be advised, this vacancy will have an office base in Watford, however you will be required to travel across the South Area (Three Rivers, Watford and Hertsmere).
As part of Hertfordshire CYPMHS transformation, our priority is simple: to increase access and availability of mental health and wellbeing support for children and young people.
Driven by this goal and in line with NHS long term plans, we have an excitingopportunity for a supervisor to work at the forefront of innovation in Children's and Young Peoples Mental Health and to play an instrumental role in a forward-thinking service delivering interventions into schools and other settings in Hertfordshire.
We are seeking a flexible, motivated, enthusiastic and experienced practitioner with the genuine passion and skills to support both children and young people, parent/carers and the wider workforce. This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced practitioner looking to develop their leadership and supervisory skills and as such duties will include elements of operational management in support of the Team Leader.
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