MHST Senior Practitioner for Whole School Approach
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 21/08/2026
- Closes
- 07/09/2026
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Role summary
This role is for a Senior Practitioner within the Mental Health Support Teams (MHSTs) focusing on a Whole School Approach in East Hertfordshire. The post holder will deliver evidence-based interventions to young people in educational settings, provide clinical supervision to EMHPs, and support schools in embedding a whole-school approach to mental wellbeing. It requires flexibility, dynamism, and a passion for working with children and young people, with a commitment to travel within Hertfordshire.
Essential criteria
- A professional qualification with professional registration in a relevant subject (e.g. CBT, psychology, social work, mental health nursing) at degree level or equivalent. Or core post graduate training in provision of low intensity CBT, e.g. Postgraduate Diploma for Educational Mental Health Practitioner (EMHP programme)
- Appropriate UK professional registration
Desirable criteria
- Accredited CBT qualification
- Documented evidence of continued professional development.
- Post-graduate training in mental health
- Mentor / Practice Educator / Supervision training
- Postgraduate Diploma for Senior Wellbeing Practitioner (SWP programme)
- Significant post qualification experience of working in a range of settings relevant to the post.
- Significant experience of assessing people in a variety of settings who have a mental health presentation.
- Experience of working with young people presenting with emotional/psychological difficulties and challenging behaviour.
- Experience and knowledge of implementing safeguarding procedures for children and adults.
- Experience and knowledge of working in a multi-ethnic community.
- Experience of teaching and training in practice
- Experience of peer supervision, supervising colleagues in the multi-disciplinary team and consultation in other agency settings.
- Experience of supporting young people in an educational setting
- Knowledge of legislation related to children and/or adolescent'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 recent developments in mental health/learning disability provision for young people including government initiatives.
- Knowledge of current developments in research and its application with regards to children and young people's mental wellbeing
- Facilitating clinical supervision
- Ability to teach and train others using multi-media materials suitable for presentation within public, professional and academic settings.
- Skills and Aptitude
- Deliver care with respect, dignity, compassion and recovery focused.
- Clinical skills to assess young people in a variety of settings who have an acute mental health presentation.
- Comprehensive risk assessment skills.
- Specific clinical skills applicable in a community or educational setting e.g. brief therapy, cognitive therapy, and anxiety management, de-escalation.
- Confidence to work autonomously in the community and use own initiative, and make decisions in complex situations.
- Ability to deal sensitively with stressful situation including; staff and organisational problems; child abuse; family breakdown; mental ill health and risk of self-harm.
- Delivering a range of evidence based early intervention techniques for relevant service user group.
- Communication Skills
- Able to communicate effectively, orally and in writing at an age-appropriate level - complex, highly technical, and/or clinically sensitive information to service users, their families, carers and professionals within and outside the NHS.
- Ability to communicate sensitive information to children and/or adolescents, carers and colleagues in a way that addresses psychological resistance.
- Ability to work flexibly across service boundaries.
- Skills in liaising with other agencies and providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
- Ability to contain and work with organisational stress and ability to hold the stress of others.
- Respectful approach to service users, families, carers, colleagues
- Analytical Skills
- Ability to maintain high standards of record keeping, including data entry and recording.
- Ability to assess and manage risks.
- Diversity
- A commitment to work in ways which support equality and diversity and treat everyone with appropriate dignity and respect
- Other
- Car driver (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010 which prevents you from driving)
- Disclosure and Barring approval (formally CRB check).
- Able to travel independently across the Trust.
- Ability and willingness to work outside office hours when required by the role.
- Training & Qualifications
- A professional qualification with professional registration in a relevant subject (e.g. CBT, psychology, social work, mental health nursing) at degree level or equivalent. Or core p
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Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
MHST Senior Practitioner for Whole School Approach
The closing date is 07 September 2026
Job summary
Please be advised, the base location of this role is subject to change.
As part of Hertfordshire CAMHS transformation, our priority is simple: to increase access and availability of mental health and wellbeing support for children and young people. We are recruiting a Whole School Apporach Senior Practitioner to cover the East Herts MHST.
Driven by this goal and in line with NHS long term plans, we have exciting new opportunities for Supervisors 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.
This role is a chance to make a difference in young lives, and as such duties will include elements of whole school approach management, delivery and individual clinical activity.
Main duties of the job
As a Senior Practitioner, solely focused on Whole School Approach, you will have a unique opportunity to be part of a dynamic mental health service in a creative environment where evidence-based interventions, new ideas, ways of working and supporting children and young people are actively encouraged.
This approach requires flexibility,
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