Senior Mental Health Practitioner -Hillingdon CAMHS MHST
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 17/09/2026
- Closes
- 30/09/2026
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Role summary
This role is for a Senior Mental Health Practitioner within a Mental Health Support Team (MHST) in Hillingdon. The post holder will provide short-term, evidence-based interventions to children and young people with mild to moderate mental health difficulties in educational settings. Key responsibilities include delivering interventions, supporting schools with a whole-school approach to wellbeing, and supervising junior staff. The role involves working with diverse cultural backgrounds and ages, ensuring equal opportunities.
Essential criteria
- Relevant professional qualification in either: a. Degree level Mental Health Nursing, Social Work, Occupational Therapy or equivalent substantial
- HEE Postgraduate Diploma in Education Mental Health Practice or Postgraduate Diploma in Psychological Wellbeing Practice for children and young people
- Extensive post qualified as a CWP or EMH
- Registered with a relevant professional body
- Additional qualifications or training in child and adolescent mental health gained through accredited courses workshops, study and in house training programmes. CBT training (e.g. CYP-IAPT)
- Experience/ Knowledge
- Substantial consolidated experience working in child and adolescent mental health.
- Extensive experience of delivering evidenced-based CBT interventions for mild to moderate mental health issues such as anxiety, low mood and behavioural problems to CYP both individually and in groups
- Experience either working as a member of a multidisciplinary team or multi-agency working
- Good understanding of the range of child and adolescent mental health services
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to children and adolescents and safeguarding procedures and policies.
- Knowledge and experience in mental health promotion work.
- Technical Job Related Skills
- Good communication, assessment, planning and recording skills
- Ability to deliver interventions which address the assessed needs
- Ability to work co-operatively with other disciplines.
- Knowledge of risk management and ability to monitor and assess risk and act accordingly to ensure safety
- Ability to evaluate interventions and practice for service improvement.
- Personal Job Related Skills
- Ability to relate to young people and families
- Broad understanding of equal opportunities and an ability to work in an anti-discriminating way
- Enthusiasm, flexibility and willingness to cope with the demands of what can be a stressful job.
- Ability to relate to professional staff from different agencies often at senior levels
- To work as part of a team and to be self-motivated
- To work under pressure and to achieve deadlines
- Understanding of issues of confidentiality and information sharing
- To be able to travel efficiently throughout the area
- To have a wider knowledge about the Health Act and changes to NHS Commissioning
- Relevant professional qualification in either: a. Degree level Mental Health Nursing, Social Work, Occupational Therapy or equivalent substantial
- HEE Postgraduate Diploma in Education Mental Health Practice or Postgraduate Diploma in Psychological Wellbeing Practice for children and young people
- Extensive post qualified as a CWP or EMH
- Registered with a relevant professional body
- Additional qualifications or training in child and adolescent mental health gained through accredited courses workshops, study and in house training programmes. CBT training (e.g. CYP-IAPT)
- Experience/ Knowledge
- Substantial consolidated experience working in child and adolescent mental health.
- Extensive experience of delivering evidenced-based CBT interventions for mild to moderate mental health issues such as anxiety, low mood and behavioural problems to CYP both individually and in groups
- Experience either working as a member of a multidisciplinary team or multi-agency working
- Good understanding of the range of child and adolescent mental health services
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to children and adolescents and safeguarding procedures and policies.
- Knowledge and experience in mental health promotion work.
- Technical Job Related Skills
- Good communication, assessment, planning and recording skills
- Ability to deliver interventions which address the assessed needs
- Ability to work co-operatively with other disciplines.
- Knowledge of risk management and ability to monitor and assess risk and act accordingly to ensure safety
- Ability to evaluate interventions and practice for service improvement.
- Personal Job Related Skills
- Ability to relate
Desirable criteria
- Formal CBT training or Post Graduate accredited training in CBT
- Accredited courses / workshops in CYP-IAPT principles
- Previous Experience and knowledge Essential
- Substantial consolidated experience working in child and adolescent mental health.
- Experience either working as a member of a multidisciplinary team or multi-agency working.
- Good understanding of the range of child and adolescent mental health services and conditions
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to children and adolescents and safeguarding procedures and policies
- Knowledge and experience in mental health promotion work
- Experience of working with schools to support CYP emotional wellbeing needs
- Experience running therapy groups and/or training events
- Other Essential
- Able to travel to meet the requirements of the post
- Team player
- Excellent time management and organisational skills
- Access to car or other motor vehicle for use for work purposes.
- Clinical Skills Essential
- Ability to carry out 1:1 therapeutic mental health interventions with children and young people
- Ability to conduct mental health assessments of children and young people
- Ability to work within educational settings to increase mental health awareness within the staff group
- Experience delivering trainings and psycho-educational workshops about mental health issues
- Experience of providing mental health consultation and signposting to education staff and other professionals.
- Knowledge Essential
- Understanding how the Mental Capacity Act and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards impacts on their work and the people they are working with
- Understanding the concept of quality and their role in improving safety, clinical outcomes and the patient experience
- Job description
- Job responsibilities
- The key roles and responsibilities of the Senior Mental Health Practitioner will include:
- Forming strong working relations with a variety of stakeholders
- Working in partnership with schools/colleges and other educational settings.
- Provide training to team members and other professionals/trainees
- Supervising junior staff in the team.
- Providing consultations to education colleagues and support education settings to embed a whole school approach to wellbeing
- Developing and delivering evidence-based individual and group time limited interventions to young people within education settings in accordance with Children and Young People's IAPT principles
- Holding a caseload of CYP with mild-moderate mental health difficulties
- Completion of thorough assessments, risk assessments, care planning and reviews.
- Ensuring that there is accurate and timely documentation to a high standard, and that Routine Outcome Measures are completed.
- Evidencing the outcomes of the MHST service and feeding back this data to key stakeholders
- Providing clinical supervision to Education Mental Health Practitioners and day to day clinical and supervisory support for the Trainee Education Mental Health Practitioners.
- Contributing to group supervision spaces within the team.
- Working as part of a senior team, supporting the Senior Clinical Supervisors and Service Development Leads to expand the service within the Harrow area and improve the quality of the service.
- Supporting and developing the interventions that can be delivered as part of the MHST within the education setting, including SEN settings.
- Appropriately raise and report safeguarding concerns where identified and to support colleagues with this process.
- Patient Safety
- Safeguarding people by recognising and responding when an adult or child might be at risk from abuse but also recognising their own limits and asking for help and escalate concerns when necessary
- Escalating safety concerns and by doing so acting as effective advocates for those who use our services
- Being open and transparent about your own practice
- Identifying areas where improvements in safety or quality can be made. Report to the Team Mana
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Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
Senior Mental Health Practitioner -Hillingdon CAMHS MHST
The closing date is 30 September 2026
Job summary
This is a role within the Green Paper for Transforming children and young people's mental health programme. The post holder will work within a Mental Health Support Team providing short-term evidence-based interventions to children and young people with mild to moderate anxiety and depression and/or behavioural difficulties and their parent(s)/carer(s).
The post holder will work with children, young people and parents with different cultural backgrounds and ages, using interpreters when necessary and should be committed to equal opportunities.
Main duties of the job
The MHST works with Young people with mild to moderate mental health presentations attending school/education setting in the Hillingdon area.
The purpose of the team is to
- Provide evidence-based interventions for mild to moderate mental health issues.
- Support the senior mental health lead in each education setting to introduce or develop their whole school or college approach.
- Give timely advice to school and college staff, and liaising with external specialist services, to help children and young people to get the right support and stay in education.
Young people have access to the MHST through their education setting. School sta
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