Job summary
- Main area
- EMHP/CWP
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 448-CCYP-7434052
- Employer
- Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Peterborough and East Cambs (2 positions)
- Town
- Peterborough
- Salary
- £38,682 - £46,580 per annum, pro-rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 14/09/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 01/10/2025
Employer heading
MHST Senior Wellbeing Practitioner
Band 6
Driven by our Trust values: Honesty, Empathy, Ambition, Respect; the Trust's vision is to provide high quality care to the diverse communities we serve to make their lives better.
We are passionate about creating an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity. Our cultural diversity, long term conditions and disabilities, and LGBTQIA+ staff networks are a key part of this commitment, creating positive change and helping build an inclusive culture across the Trust.
Different ideas, experiences and backgrounds make us stronger and more creative and applications from all walks of life are welcomed - our processes ensure that all applicants are treated fairly at every stage of the recruitment process.
Options for flexible working are considered for all roles within CCS, including job share opportunities, compressed hours, annualised hours, tailored working patterns and more. If you are interested in flexible working, please talk to the recruiting manager for this vacancy.
Please note, the selection processes at Cambridgeshire Community Services are in place to ensure we recruit candidates with the right values and skills. Please be advised that the use of AI in applications are monitored, we remain watchful of candidates who misuse these tools to generate an application that doesn’t accurately reflect their skills.
Job overview
Are you an experienced Mental Health Practitioner with a background in working within a Mental Health Support Team (MHST) environment, looking to progress in your career into a senior role within an MHST?
We have two vacancies available and would welcome your application!
With the launch of two further Mental Health Support Teams (MHST) in Peterborough and East Cambridgeshire in line with the NHS Long Term Plan, we are looking to recruit two more Senior Wellbeing Practitioners.
If you have any further enquiries, please do get in touch, we would look forward to speaking with you.
NB: There is the expectation that candidates will be registered (or in the process of registering) with the BPS or the BABCP.
Should we receive a high number of applications we reserve the right to close this vacancy at any point after 5th September 2025.
Main duties of the job
As a Senior Wellbeing Practitioner, the successful candidate will work closely with the MHST Clinical and Team Lead and Senior Clinicians, to ensure success of the MHST.
Main duties include: Delivering evidence-based intervention for children and young people and their families in education setting with mild to moderate mental health problems. Provide case management and clinical supervision to EMHPs and Trainee EMHPs under the direction of the Senior Clinicians and both Clinical Leads
Offer evidence-based practice in guided self-help, CBT, child and adolescent mental health practice and Whole School Approaches to mental health
Clinically develop the provision of group work for children/young people and training for teaching staff, to include training and mentoring EMHP colleagues in order to improve the quality of the group work and training that we deliver
They will join a dynamic mental health team in a creative environment where evidence-based interventions, new ideas, ways of working and supporting children and young people are actively encouraged.
Furthermore, during the first year in post, the post holders will be attending the University of East Anglia’s Supervisor course (likely to be a mixture of online and in person delivery).
Working for our organisation
Rated ‘Outstanding’ by the Care Quality Commission, we are proud to provide high quality innovative services across most of the east of England that enable people to receive care closer to home and live healthier lives.
There’s one reason why our services are outstanding – and that’s our amazing staff - who, for the eighth year running, rated us incredibly highly in the national staff survey.
If you share our passion for innovative and high-quality care delivery, then please submit your application and join us on our exciting journey as a leading-edge specialist community provider. All are welcome to apply and our promise to you is a culture which prioritises staff engagement and development.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
In January 2020, Cambridgeshire Community Services (CCS) NHS Trust launched two MHST’s in Huntingdon and Cambridge. A further ten MHST’s have been launched since then, with two more planned, bringing our total to 14 MHST’s by 2026. By 2030, all schools across England and Wales will have access to a MHST, as set out in the NHS Long Term Plan, therefore the successful candidates will be part of an exciting, expanding early intervention service.
The project is a collaboration with between NHS England, Health Education England and the Department for Education, following on from the 2017 Green Paper Transforming children and young people’s mental health provision. This is a roll out of the work to improve access to mental health care for young people.
You will join a supportive service that will have 25 MHST's across Cambridgeshire, Peterborough and Norfolk, so a ready support system is available. The MHST’s sit within CCS NHS Trusts Emotional Health and Wellbeing Service.
The successful candidate will provide case management and clinical supervision to Trainee EMHPs (EMHPs once qualified) under the direction of the Senior Clinicians and Clinical Lead.
They will manage a caseload and the provision of mental health care services to children and young people with mild to moderate mental health problems in education settings. They will also provide assessment and formulation of mental health difficulties in children and young people
Furthermore, the successful candidate will offer evidence-based practice in guided self-help, CBT, child and adolescent mental health practice and Whole School Approaches to mental health.
They will also clinically develop the provision of group work for children/young people and training for teaching staff, to include training and mentoring EMHP colleagues in order to improve the quality of the group work and training that we deliver.
Please see the job description for further information. We welcome informal conversations about this vacancy.
Person specification
Qualifications & Training
Essential criteria
- Qualified EMHP or CWP or core professional qualification relevant to mental health training
- 2 years+ experience as a Band 5 EMHP or CWP
Desirable criteria
- Registered Practitioner
- Further CBT training
- Supervision qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Understanding of common mental health problems in CYP
- Ability to carry out risk assessments/formulations of mental health
- Experience of working in schools /colleges
- 2 years plus experience of working as a EMHP/CWP
Desirable criteria
- Experience of delivering training
- Experience working in schools
- Experience of leadership or mentoring
Knowledge & Skills
Essential criteria
- Computer literate
- Excellent communication skills
- Risk assessment knowledge and skills
- Competent and effective psychological treatment skills
- Has a good understanding of safeguarding
Desirable criteria
- Sound knowledge of national legislation
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr. Sara Katsukunya
- Job title
- EHWS Clinical Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07944276002
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