Main area Mental Health Support Teams Grade NHS AfC: Band 5 Contract Permanent Hours
* Full time
* Flexible working
37.5 hours per week (Flexible working options available) Job ref 274-11982-SP-B
Employer Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Gainsborough Health Clinic - areas of work to be discussed Town Gainsborough Salary £32,073 - £39,043 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 14/06/2026 23:59 Interview date 25/06/2026
Low Intensity/Education Mental Health Practitioner/CWP
NHS AfC: Band 5
Job overview
Lincoln, Louth, and Gainsborough have an exciting opportunity within our Mental Health Support Teams (MHST), based in the Gainsborough Team and supporting NHS and Education-approved sites across these areas.
You must have the appropriate qualifications and be affiliated with BPS or BABCP. This is not a trainee role. We are looking for an experienced and supportive colleague to join our team. You will have access to clinical skills, supervision, and peer support. We provide support across schools and educational sites in Lincoln, Louth, and Gainsborough, so access to a car or transportation is necessary.
The role involves delivering evidence-based interventions for children and young people in educational settings with mild to moderate mental health issues, helping those with more severe problems access specialist services quickly, supporting staff in education settings to identify and manage mental health and wellbeing issues, working within education environments to improve access to specialist mental health services, and using your skills and knowledge to deliver a service that complements existing initiatives within these environments.
The Mental Health Support Teams are jointly delivered by NHS and Department of Education and are sited. They aim to provide CBT informed early interventions for mild to moderate mental health and emotional wellbeing issues.
Main duties of the job
You will be responsible for providing training and support to staff in the designated school or college setting, and assisting schools in adopting a comprehensive approach to promoting good mental health and positive emotional wellbeing.
Mental Health Support Teams will serve as a link with CAMHS, and CBT supervision will be offered to the MHSTs by the CBT Therapist and Supervisor, as well as other CBT-trained CAMHS professionals as appropriate.
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.
You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of ‘outstanding’ for well-led and ‘good’ overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive.
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. Visit beinlincolnshire.com to find out more.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for complete details regarding this post.
When completing your application, please demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.
We can also offer you many staff benefits to help support you which include:
* Early access to Psychological Therapies and Physiotherapy
* Competitive annual leave allowance
* Car leasing scheme
* Free eye tests
* Money saving options through our salary sacrifice scheme
* Discounts on major high street retailers and restaurants
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
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 to take appropriate action to mitigate or manage risk
* Ability to teach others about mental health issues
Experience
* Experience of delivering low intensity CBT interventions
* 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
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
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
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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