Contract Type: Fixed Term until March 2025
Working Hours: 37 hours a week, Monday – Friday
Worker Type: Hybrid Worker
Salary: Starting Salary is £43,421 (Level one), - £46,464 (level four) per annum (pro rata for part time)
Location: Southglade Access Centre, Southglade Road, Nottingham, NG5 5GU
We’ve got an exciting opportunity available for talented individuals to join our workforce - perhaps this is the opportunity you’ve been looking for? Read on to find out more…
Working for Nottingham City Council has great benefits. As well as competitive pay, great leave entitlement and access to a generous pension scheme, we strive to create an innovative, inclusive and progressive work culture where everyone is supported to do and be their very best.
In return, we are looking for people like you - people who are innovative, driven and committed to serving and improving Nottingham. So, if you are passionate about making a difference to the lives of those who live and work in our city, we want to hear from you.
* You can read more about the different benefits offered to colleagues working for Nottingham City Council .
About the role
We invite you to consider being involved in this exciting opportunity to be a part of delivering the governments vision and commitment of having integrated mental health teams in schools as set out in the NHS Long Term Plan. Building on existing 'whole school approaches’ to mental health and wellbeing, Nottingham City has developed 5 operational Mental Health Support Teams (MHSTs) who work alongside 90 primary and secondary schools, Colleges and Alternative Provisions to increase access to mental health interventions and provide early intervention in relation to Emotional Wellbeing and Mental health for children and young people up to the age of 18. Our MHSTs support children and young people with emerging or mild-moderate mental health difficulties by delivering targeted evidence-based interventions in schools. The MHSTs also work together with their schools to co-produce and deliver whole school approach work and offer ongoing professional consultation and advice to School Professionals.
We are looking to recruit an MHST Supervisor to join the team. As a Supervisor, you will be responsible for management and supervision of the Educational Mental Health Practitioners); providing consultation, advice, and training to other professionals; as well as delivering interventions directly to CYP and their families. We are looking for measured, inspiring, motivated, dynamic, experienced, forward thinking practitioners who are flexible and able to work effectively with partners in education, multi-agency partners, children, young people and their families.
About you
The ideal candidate will have:
1. 3-5 years experience of working with CYP and their families offering assessment and support for mental health difficulties.
2. Relevant qualification in nursing, social care, psychology or equivalent such as CYPIAPT trained.
3. Training in the supervision of Children and Young Peoples’ Improving Access to Psychological Therapies is desirable.
The post holder will be have skills enabling them to offer mental health assessments of young people, deliver therapeutic interventions, identify and manage mental health and safeguarding risks, coordinate appropriate support available and ensure up to date written care plans are in place.
Provide clinical and case management supervision to team members in both groups and one to one.
Liaise with and provide consultancy and support to the MHST and CAMHS Citywide teams and other agencies including education providers for the Trailblazer in managing the needs of clients with enduring mental health needs.
A DBS enhanced check for a regulated activity is required for this post.
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At Nottingham City Council we believe that work is what you do, not where you do it. We offer different working arrangements, depending on the role, including hybrid working. Further information on Worker Types and what these mean in terms of how and where you work can be found on the for applicants page.
For informal enquiries please contact Charly Baldwin or Corina Benjamin, by email at
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