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Specialist Educational Mental Health Team Lead
The closing date is 24 October 2025
Specialist Education Mental Health Team Leader to work in the Mental Health Support Team (Reflexions)
Band 7 37.5hrs working across Black Country - base locality to be determined and agreed
We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced accredited mental health practitioner to be part of the Children and Young People's Mental Health Support Teams across the Black Country.
Main duties of the job
This team provides the opportunity to further develop work within the field of young people's mental health and wellbeing with a focus on development of whole school approaches to mental health and wellbeing and the development of the think family approaches within the schools environment.
The mental health support teams provide CBT, guided self-help, parenting and whole school approaches but also offers support to young people through partnership working with external agencies.
About us
The post holder will be knowledgeable and experienced in staff related matters such as sickness management, supervision, performance related issues and staff wellbeing as well as having a good understanding of mental health problems in children and young people as carrying out mental health assessments including risk assessments where required would also form part of the role. The postholder will also need to be the link worker between the team and the CAMHS services to ensure that children and young people receive the most appropriate care and interventions as well as being experienced in multi-agency working. Support, advice and consultation to families/carers and other professionals involved in the life of the child/young person will also need to be provided.
The post holder will work in partnership with the Locality Clinical Leads and will further develop the partnership working that is currently taking place between Education, Local Authority, CCG and the Child & Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) and therefore excellent communication skills are essential.
Job responsibilities
Applicants should be experienced in children and young persons mental health at a senior level with the required leadership and clinical skills to support the Mental Health Support Team. Experience of recent working with schools and delivering mental health promotional collaborative work in such an arena is beneficial in order to be able to fulfill the role.
This post is subject to an enhanced childrens and adults barred list Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Check.
For further details please contact:
Zoe Gilbert, Service Manager on z.gilbert@nhs.net or 07795014296.
Person Specification
Criteria
* oCore profession (HCPC, Social Care, Nursing or recognised degree level or broad based health and social care qualification which will require completion of The British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP) Knowledge Skills and attributes).
* oPost graduate (Masters and above) level study.
* oManagement of staff experience including supervision and sickness/performance montioring.
* oExperience of specialist mental health assessment and therapeutic interventions with children and young people with mental health problems.
* oExperience of working with a wide variety of child mental health problems, across the whole age range, reflecting all levels of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems and verbal and physical abuse.
* Able to travel across the Black Country easily.
* oQualification and registration in CBT.
* oCYPIAPT Supervisor training for high intensity CBT required or willing to undertake.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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