Main area Mental Health Support Teams Grade NHS AfC: Band 5 Contract 8 months (Fixed term 8 months) Hours
* Full time
* Flexible working
37.5 hours per week (Flexible working options available) Job ref 274-11978-SP-B
Employer Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Johnson Community Hospital or Beaconsfield Resource Centre Town Spalding Salary £32,073 - £39,043 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 03/06/2026 23:59 Interview date 10/06/2026
Education Mental Health/Childrens Wellbeing/Low Intensity Practitioner
NHS AfC: Band 5
Job overview
We currently have an exciting opportunity to join our Mental Health Support Team in the Spalding and Grantham area as a qualified Education Mental Health Practitioner/Children's Wellbeing Practitioner/any other Low Intensity Practitioner at Band 5 (Agenda for Change). This is a diverse role, and an opportunity to make a real difference in outcomes for children, young people, and families by offering early support and intervention.
Please note this role will be split between the two teams and is for 8 months fixed term.
The Mental Health Support Teams (MHSTs) support children and young people aged 5-18 within school and college settings who are presenting with mental health or emotional wellbeing problems which are of a low to moderate level of complexity and/or intensity.
You will support several allocated education settings offering support to children and young people and their families. A key part of the role is around implementing Public Health England’s Whole School Approach, part of which will be to deliver training, workshops and assemblies to the wider educational communities and promote awareness of mental health within the educational settings. You must be able to travel sometimes across county and within the outer areas of Spalding.
For more information, please contact Sam White sam.white19@nhs.net
Main duties of the job
As an MHST practitioner you will manage a caseload of young people, providing interventions for mild-moderate mental health needs using Low-Intensity CBT and other evidence based interventions. You will also lead in implementing the Whole School Approach within your allocated settings by providing regular consultation, advice and training to professionals.
You will receive regular managerial and clinical supervision and clinical skills to support you throughout this role. There will be opportunity to access internal training as well as identification of other development needs via your appraisal.
This is advertised as full-time post operating Monday to Friday 9am-5pm, however other working patterns can be considered and base can be negotiated as long as service need is supported.
Working for our organisation
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,900 staff, and serving a population of over 768,400, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.
We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.
Whether you’re taking the first exciting steps in your career, itching for a new challenge or searching for a better place to raise a family, Lincolnshire has a range of rewarding health and social care careers in a county that’s friendly, fascinating, affordable and brimming with everything you need to live a happy life.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to Job Description and Person Specification for full details of duties.
You will work as an autonomous and responsible practitioner as their training affords and with appropriate supervision, and engage in;
* Delivering Low-intensity CBT and other evidence-based interventions for children and young people in education setting with mild to moderate mental health problems
* Helping children and young people within these settings who present with more severe problems to rapidly access more specialist services
* Supporting and facilitating staff in education settings to identify and where appropriate manage issues related to mental health and wellbeing
* Working with and within education environments to afford better access to specialist mental health services
* And to use the acquired skills, knowledge and abilities to deliver a service based within education settings that builds on and reinforces but does not replace those initiatives that already exist within these environments.
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Person specification
Qualifications
* Successful completion of the HEE commissioned 1yr ‘Education Mental Health Practitioner’ course OR
* Other low intensity-CBT qualification i.e. Children’s Wellbeing Practitioner qualification, Enhanced Evidence Based Practitioner, Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner
* Registered with the BABCP or BPS (as applicable)
* Teaching qualification
* Youth Mental Health First Aid trained
Experience
* Experience of delivering low intensity CBT interventions to children and young people
* Experience of working with children and their families in a healthcare setting
* Experience of delivering whole school approach work
* Experience of working and liaising with a wide variety of agencies and stakeholders
* Experience of working with children and young people who have social, emotional and/or behavioural difficulties
* Experience of working with anxiety disorders
* Experience of working with affective (mood) disorders
* Experience of the delivery of other therapeutic interventions to children, young people or their families
* Experience of monitoring and recording outcome measures for children’s emotional wellbeing
* Experience of navigating complex social systems and environments, who may have conflicting priorities or agendas
* Experience of working with looked after children
* Experience of working with other vulnerable groups
Skills
* Ability to carry out 1:1 therapeutic mental health interventions with children
* Ability to carry out 1:1 therapeutic mental health interventions with families
* Ability to conduct group therapeutic interventions with children and their families
* Ability to conduct group parenting programmes
* Ability to work within educational settings to increase mental health awareness within the staff group
* Ability to conduct mental health assessments of children and young people
* Ability to make an assessment of risk and to record and communicate appropriately
* Ability take appropriate action to mitigate or manage risk
* Ability to teach others about mental health issues
Special Requirements
* Have confidence to be an effective advocate for children/young people with emotional and mental health difficulties to continuously update knowledge skills and challenge practice
* To be able to adopt flexible working practices and undertake a full range of duties.
* To be able to adapt positively to possible changes in modes of service delivery.
* Has the ability to demonstrate a high level of commitment, innovation and initiative
* Ability to travel independently across the county between bases and schools
As an ethical recruiter we will not pursue applications from red list countries as defined by the World Health Organisation. In order to pursue and apply for this role you must have UK NHS experience.
We reserve the right to withdraw or close a vacancy at any time. We will give priority to employees who are at risk.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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