MHST Team Lead & Supervisor | South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 24 November 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £56,276 - £63,176 per annum inclusive of HCAs |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 24 December 2025 |
| Location: | London, SE6 4JF |
| Company: | South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7601541/334-CLI-7601541 |
Summary
This is an exciting opportunity for a Clinical or Educational Psychologist, Arts, Occupational or Systemic Therapist with a background of working with education settings and/or experience in child and adolescent mental health, to work within a growing multi-disciplinary Mental Health Support in Schools Team (MHST). You will use your knowledge, skills, and experience to supervise trainee and qualified Education Mental Health Practitioners (EMHP) and contribute to the general service development and functioning.
You will also work closely with families, as well as colleagues in CAMHS, the Local Authority, education settings and other local services.
You will be required to undertake, complete and pass the supervisors course at Kings (KCL) and will need to complete an application for the course alongside this job application. The course is based at Kings College London, based online or at the Denmark Hill campus and will commence in 2025.
• Lead one of four established Mental Health Support Teams in Lewisham.
• To supervise trainee and qualified EMHP’s and band 6 practitioners
• To contribute in multi-disciplinary team discussions and service development
• To be a link worker for MHST schools
• To contribute and facilitate whole school approach workshops
We are an early intervention service supporting mild to moderate mental health needs in 60 primary and secondary schools across Lewisham. Our service will be expanding to more schools in 2026. The team currently consists of a 2 Clinical Leads, 4 Team Leads . As a Team Lead you would oversee the work of senior wellbeing and link practitioners, 4Education Mental Health Practitioners and trainees
About our locations:
Our main office is at Kaleidoscope, and we also work across several MHST schools in Lewisham. We offer flexibility and home working.
• To enhance accessibility to mental health services for children and young people in schools.
• To collaborate with the newly appointed Schools Mental Health Leads to support early identification of developmental, emotional and mental health difficulties in children and young people living or being educated in Lambeth.
• To work jointly with providers to increase their capacity to intervene following early identification through the delivery of brief evidence based interventions and through liaison, consultation, training and joint working across services.
• To provide clinical supervision to Education Mental Health Practitioners (EMHPs)) and/or Band 6 CAMHS practitioners working within school settings
• To be part of a multi-agency training team for schools.
• To function as a specialist in CYP-IAPT principles and practice for the EMHP’s.
• To review applications to the MHST team and where required to facilitate appropriate step- up referrals to specialist CAMHS and/or access to other relevant agencies according to the level of need.
• To monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of work undertaken, and demonstrate professional accountability at all times.
• To agree outcomes/results with clinical/professional lead and to decide how they are best used.
• To collaboratively develop and embed the MHST programme in schools.
• To contribute to enabling other staff, service users and carers from diverse backgrounds to flourish by working to create a psychologically safe environment.
• To work as an autonomous professional within professional guidelines and codes of conduct, and guided by principles and policies or procedures of the service, taking responsibility for interpreting policies within defined parameters
This advert closes on Monday 8 Dec 2025