MHST Team Lead | NELFT NHS Foundation Trust

Posting date:	19 November 2025
Salary:	Not specified
Additional salary information:	£47,810 - £54,710 per annum
Hours:	Part time
Closing date:	19 December 2025
Location:	Maidstone, ME14 5NZ
Company:	North East London NHS Foundation Trust
Job type:	Permanent
Job reference:	7620065/395-KM366-25

Summary

Team Lead Post

NEWLY CREATED POST FOR SERVICE EXPANSION

Job Overview

Our service is expanding further, and we are delighted to be recruiting for a team lead for our West Kent area. This role is an excitingmixed operational and clinical role and we are looking for a candidate with experience in Children and Young Peoples Mental Healthwithaspiration to progress in their career and to work in a fast paced innovative service. Please contact us for more details about the role. Candidates need to be qualified clinicians with core professional registrations (NMC, OT, Social Work, Clinical/Counselling Psychology, BABCP CBT).

Mental Health Support Teams (MHSTs) are a new government initiative to help increase children and young people’s access to support for emotional wellbeing and mental health. MHSTs are part of the national Children and Young People’s Increasing Access to Psychological Therapies (CYP-IAPT) programme.

MHSTs are a resource in addition to the already existing support in any particular education setting. MHSTs have three main functions:

1. Targeted Intervention

2. Whole School Approach

3. Consultation and Liaison

Our local MHST services are called Emotional Wellbeing Teams Kent and Emotional Support teams Medway. To find out more about us please see our website:https://www.nelft.nhs.uk/kent-and-medway-mental-health-support-teams

Applicants will need to meet the job description requirements and be able to demonstrate a passion for early intervention mental health and emotional wellbeing support. As stated above these roles are mixed operational and clinical and we are looking for candidates that can strike a balance between the two perspectives. Please contact us for more details.

This role will be based in:

West Kent



Our Values 2025 - 2030
Working with our colleagues, patients and carers we have co-produced three new values that we aim to embed within our culture here at NELFT.
They are:
We are kind. We are respectful. We work together with our communities.
These three values help us to strive to provide the best care by the best people.


Starting with NELFT

NELFT place a great deal of importance on new starters being properly welcomed and inducted into the Trust. All new starters will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and will undertake a comprehensive induction of up to two weeks which will include mandatory training, systems training and the allocation of equipment. As part of the process new starters will have the opportunity to also meet the executive team, senior managers, and attend a number of drop-in sessions focusing on engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes. The induction will be held at our head office in Rainham, Essex.


Probationary Period

This post will be subject to a probationary period.
1. To provide an efficient, effective, comprehensive and specialist MHST experience for children and adolescents with emotional and mental health problems, their carers/parents and families
2. To contribute to multi-disciplinary assessment and treatment of children and adolescents with emotional and mental health problems, their carers/parent and families
3. To undertake a range of generic clinical work, guided self help, targeted group work and workshops under Whole School Approach.
4. To provide consultation on MHST cases to EMHP’s/CWP’s and lead by example in promoting the NELFT 5p’s
5. To contribute to audit and research.
6. To monitor and guide the team in ensuring we meet safety benchmarks set by NELFT and the CQC, as well as ensuring delivery of interventions are carried out in line with NICE, guidance with Routine Outcome measures to monitor efficacy of intervention.
7. To support Operational Leads with day to day running of the service including monitoring governance and compliance.
8. Act up in the absence of the Operational manager for short period

Certificates of Sponsorship

Although we are a registered sponsor organisation, we are unable to offer sponsorship for all job roles. Please check your eligibility under the UKVI points-based system. When calculating the basic salary for sponsorship, HCAS (High-Cost Area Supplement) is not included to ensure fairness and consistency within our Trust

Use Of AI

Please see attached document regarding acceptable use of AI during the recruitment process


This advert closes on Wednesday 3 Dec 2025