CYP Mental Health Support Team Senior Clinical Supervisor/Practitioner

Job summary
The Service:

Following on from the governments green paper Dec 2017 Transforming children and young peoples mental health provision. Mind in West Essex is part of a national Trailblazer programme.

Our Children and Young Peoples (CYP) Mental Health Support Teams are working with children and young people who are experiencing mild to moderate mental health issues. This includes working with parents/caregivers of Primary School age pupils and working with Secondary schools and colleges to develop the support they offer the whole school community. It aims to strengthen the links between education, health services and families in Harlow, Epping Forest and Uttlesford. The Service offers CPD with Bespoke training

The role:

You will be working as a Senior Clinical Supervisor in our Mental Health Support Team and will be responsible for providing clinical skills and case management supervision to trainee and qualified EMHP staff and trainee and qualified MHST Supervisors and qualified Senior Wellbeing practitioners (SWP).

You will hold overall responsibility for co-ordinating the MHST Supervisors and ensuring maintenance and development of our supervision strategy within the team. You may also be required to cover some line management if required. Additionally, you will hold your own small caseload and deliver MHST interventions.

Main duties of the job
You will hold overall responsibility for co-ordinating the MHST Supervisors and ensuring maintenance and development of our supervision strategy within the team.

You may also be required to cover some line management if required.Additionally, you will hold your own small caseload and deliver MHST interventions.

The team includes Qualified and Trainee EMHPs and Supervisors, who deliver group and individual low intensity CBT interventions to children and young people and some support packages for parents/caregivers.

The post holder will provide clinical supervision to trainee and qualified EMHPs and trainee and qualified supervisors and manage an active caseload of children and adolescents with mild moderate emotional and mental health difficulties and will use evidence-based therapeutic models.

Low intensity, early interventions will be delivered in a range of education settings (primary, secondary, and colleges).

The work will also include training for education professionals and developing the teams ability to serve the needs of the whole school community including children and young persons caregivers.

You will work with CYP and families from different cultural backgrounds, using interpreters when necessary, and should be committed to equal opportunities.

You will also work closely with colleagues and partners in the Local Authority, SET CAMHS, education settings where interventions are being delivered and other relevant mental health providers.

About us
Mind in West Essex is a local, independent mental health charity. We affiliate to Mind (the National Association for Mental Health) a charity with which we share common values and principles.

Our vision is for West Essex to be a place where people talk openly and positively about mental health, and where everyone gets the support and respect needed to live well.

We embrace diversity and understand that being an inclusive organisation, recognising different perspectives, will enable us to provide excellent services. We are committed to ensuring all our employees are treated fairly and equitably at work and promoting equity in physical and mental health for all.

Details
Date posted: 28 September 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 7
Salary: £49,389 to £56,506 a year
plus HCAS fringe where applicable. (depending upon experience)
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time
Reference number: B0415-26-0020
Job locations: Mind Sanctuary, Prentice Place, Potter Street, Harlow, Essex, CM17 9BG, United Kingdom; Mind In West Essex, 45 Stortford Road, DUNMOW, Essex, CM6 1DQ, United Kingdom

Job description
Job responsibilities
Responsible for: Co-ordinating clinical supervision for the West Essex teams including supervision of Supervisors. Provide clinical and Case management Supervision of Trainee and Qualified Educational Mental Health Practitioners (EMHPs) and MHST Supervisors. Oversee arrangements for meta supervision and supervision groups. Hold own small clinical caseload and be directly involved in delivering a range of low intensity therapeutic interventions as part of the MHST service.

The role:

You will be working as a Senior Clinical Supervisor in our Mental Health Support Team and will be responsible for providing clinical skills and case management supervision to trainee and qualified EMHP staff and trainee and qualified MHST Supervisors and qualified Senior Wellbeing practitioners (SWP). You will hold overall responsibility for co-ordinating the MHST Supervisors and ensuring maintenance and development of our supervision strategy within the team. You may also be required to cover some line management if required. Additionally, you will hold your own small caseload and deliver MHST interventions.

The team includes Qualified and Trainee Educational Mental Health Practitioners and Supervisors, who deliver group and individual low intensity CBT interventions to children and young people and some support packages for parents/caregivers.

The post holder will provide clinical supervision to trainee and qualified EMHPs and trainee and qualified supervisors and manage an active caseload of children and adolescents with mild moderate emotional and mental health difficulties and will use evidence-based therapeutic models. Low intensity, early interventions will be delivered in a range of education settings (primary, secondary, and colleges). The work will also include training for education professionals and developing the teams ability to serve the needs of the whole school community including children and young persons caregivers.

You will work with CYP and families from different cultural backgrounds, using interpreters when necessary, and should be committed to equal opportunities. You will also work closely with colleagues and partners in the Local Authority, SET CAMHS, education settings where interventions are being delivered and other relevant mental health providers.

Key Task Areas and Responsibilities:

• Provide clinical and case management supervision, including support through observations and modelling, to team members who are undertaking EMHP or Supervisor training as well as working with qualified practitioners.
• Co-ordinate the Team of supervisors across the team to maintain our structure of Case Management Supervision, Clinical Skills Supervision and Meta supervision.
• Hold a small clinical caseload offering evidence based clinical interventions to Children and young people and their families.
• Provide line management of staff as required
• Support the EMHPs, Supervisors and SWPs to develop and maintain a working relationship with education settings
• Support the EMHPs, Supervisors and SWPs in delivering a Whole School Approach service
• Support the EMHPs Supervisors and SWPs to develop their clinical progression during and after training
• Support the EMHPs, Supervisors and SWPs in assessing, reporting and managing any client risk
• Support the EMHPs, Supervisors and SWPs to ensure data is inputted to EPR (Iaptus) within 48 hours of clinical contact
• As required, liaise with educational settings
• As required, liaise with training university regarding trainee EMHP, Supervisor progress
• As required attend any MHST partnership meetings
• As required attend any meetings representing MHST and/or Mind in West Essex
• Monitor and audit staff registration
• Support staff in undertaking relevant cpd to maintain registration and continue to develop clinically
• Keep up to date with requirements of relevant governing bodies, for example, BABCP and BPS
• Ensure Governing bodies codes of conduct are followed
• Contract clinical supervision and review regularly
• Address any inequalities, problem solve and maintain a boundaried supervisory relationship

Clinical and Client Care

• Assess and develop evidence-based treatment plans to meet the mild - moderate needs of CYP with a range of emotional and mental health difficulties covered by MHST.
• Support children and young people, their parents/carers, families and educators in the self-management of presenting difficulties.
• Work in partnership with children, young people, their families and educators in the development of their careplans, including specific interventions and agreeing outcomes
• Deliver evidence-based, low intensity interventions for CYP aged 5-18 with mild moderate emotional and mental health difficulties
• Provide assessment and intervention from an inclusive values base, which recognises and respects culture, individual strengths, differences and diversity
• Undertake risk and safeguarding assessments
• Determine suitability of new referrals, adhering to the services referral protocols
• Support education staff in making care pathway decisions based on suitability, evidence-based recommendations and NICE guidance
• Maintain comprehensive records of all training and clinical activity in line with both health and education service protocols and use these records and outcome data to inform decision-making
• Ensure outcome measures (e.g. SDQ, RCADS) are routinely embedded in your clinical work and that of those you line-manage
• Complete all requirements relating to data collection and report clinical outcomes and service access data into the digital patient record system
• Promote the mental and emotional health of children and young people in education settings, through clinical interventions in the care pathway
• Demonstrate an ability to manage own caseload in conjunction with the requirements of the team
• Attend multi-disciplinary and multi-agency meetings relating to referrals or children and young people in treatment, where appropriate, both for personal educational benefit in discussion with supervisors, or to provide direct assistance
• Show evidence of working within a collaborative approach, involving a range of relevant others when indicated. Specifically, work in collaboration with teachers and other educational staff, parents, children, young people and the wider community to enhance and broaden access to mental health services
• Contribute to the development of individual or group clinical materials or training materials and go on to develop further such materials as falls within own degree of competence
• Maintain registration with BABCP, BPS or Core professional governing body
• Keep professional skills up to date through cpd, reflective logs, direct observation and submission of live video
• Support senior colleagues in triage
• Support senior colleagues in multi agency meetings
• Ensure engagement with community care partners

Teaching Training and Supervision

• To provide advice, consultation and training to staff working within the network of schools and across a range of professions, agencies and settings, where appropriate
• To receive and actively engage in regular clinical and case management supervision
• Supervise and support cases presenting with safeguarding and risk, in line with local and national procedure
• Provide quality assurance for the data submitted by team members that you line-manage
• Monitor and track progress against access targets for your caseload and that of the team members you line-manage and develop plans to reach access targets
• Within education settings actively promote the whole school based approach to developing and maintaining emotional health and well being
• Audit case notes, letters, to ensure a quality standard is met
• Prepare and develop Team teaching sessions and CPD events
• Shape the service through participation in working groups

Professional

• Ensure the maintenance of standards of own professional practice according to Mind in West Essex policies and procedures
• Demonstrate cultural competence and operate at all times from an inclusive base which recognises and values diversity
• Ensure that confidentiality is always protected
• Develop a local knowledge of the locality and its services and facilities, particularly in relation to mental health issues
• Develop and maintain an up to date awareness of the entire Mind in West Essex offer
• Ensure that any risks or issues related to the safety and wellbeing of anyone the post-holder comes into contact with during their professional duties are communicated and shared with appropriate parties in order to maintain individual safety and the public interest
• Ensure clear objectives are identified, discussed and reviewed with supervisor and senior colleagues on a regular basis as part of continuing professional development
• Participate in individual appraisal and respond to agreed objectives
• Keep all records up to date in relation to Continuous Professional Development and the requirements of the post and ensure personal development plans maintains up to date specialist knowledge of latest theoretical and service delivery models/developments
• Attend relevant educational opportunities in line with identified professional objectives
• Ensure adherence to organisational policies and procedures and that interventions are developed and delivered in accordance with NICE guidelines and clinical standards
• Attend, and when required facilitate meta-supervision
• Attend internal supervisor forums

Expectations

• To keep abreast of internal and external developments and respond accordingly.
• To undertake other duties that may be necessary as directed by the Manager, that are compatible with nature and grade of post.
• To adhere to relevant legal and statutory requirements including the Data Protection Act (always ensuring an appropriate level of confidentiality), Health and Safety at Work Act (always ensuring H&S of own and others) and any other relevant/charity law.

Person Specification
Experience
Essential

• Knowledge of delivering Low Intensity/Psycho-educational interventions to individuals and groups of CYP, educational staff and/or parents/caregivers
• Understanding of child development and psychosocial influences
• Experience of using Microsoft Office package
• 2 years experience of working as a Band 6 in therapeutic services
• Post qualification experience of supervising clinical staff
• Direct clinical experience (autonomously providing assessment, developing treatment plans and delivering evidence-based therapeutic interventions) with CYP aged 5-18 with mental health difficulties
• Knowledge and direct clinical experience of adapting interventions and delivering them to CYP
• Experience of routine clinical outcome monitoring
• Experience of working in a multi-professional mental health team/environment or MHST
• Experience of clinical risk assessment
• Experience of providing clinical supervision and case management
• Experience of supervising safeguarding cases
• Experience of working in education settings of working in a multi-agency
• Experience of delivering Low Intensity/Psycho-educational interventions to groups of CYP, educational staff and/or parents/caregivers
• Experience of engaging a range of stakeholders (young people, families, mental health providers, schools, Local Authority staff etc.)
• Experience of involving parents/caregivers in the wellbeing of CYP
• Experience of using EPR systems (IAPTUS) To maintain high standards of clinical record keeping including electronic data entry and recording and report writing
• Competent in clinical cbt practice and interventions with young people
• Excellent communication skills
• Organisational skills and excellent time management
• Valid UK driving licence and/or access to transport to visit various sites and educational settings throughout the day on a daily basis (some occasional travel across West Essex and Hertfordshire).
• No criminal record that prevents work with our client group or which would harm our reputation, an enhanced DBS will be required
• Ability to work as part of a team and to work on your own initiative.

Desirable

• Experience of working in a multi-agency setting
• Experience of delivering line management
• Experience of working within the third/voluntary/charity sector
• Excellent organisational/project management skills
• Ability to develop and deliver effective presentations and promotional talks
• Ability to communicate effectively and clearly to a range of individuals and audiences
• Relationship building and motivational skills
• Ability to implement monitoring/evaluation procedure and produce accurate/informative reports
• The ability to work as part of a team and contribute to bringing the team on board with the task in hand

Qualifications
Essential

• Successful completion of a graduate training (e.g. nursing, social work, occupational therapy, MHST PG Dip Supervisor,PG Dip Senior Wellbeing Practitioner, accredited CBT Therapist.
• The post holder will be a registered mental health professional with current registration/accreditation with an appropriate professional body (BABCP, HCPC, NMC, BACP, UKCP, BPS)

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.

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details
Employer name: Mind in West Essex
Address: Mind Sanctuary, Prentice Place, Potter Street, Harlow, Essex, CM17 9BG, United Kingdom
Employer's website: Apply through our website

Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact: CYP MHST Clinical Lead, Ian Walker, View email address on meeveem.com

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.
Applicants must have current UK professional registration.