Job summary
- Main area
- MHST
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent: 80% of the annual leave will need to be taken within school holidays as we are a school based service.
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 380-CED034
- Employer
- Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- The Courtyard
- Town
- Gillingham
- Salary
- £49,387 - £56,515 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 30/07/2026 23:59
Employer heading
MHST Team Lead
Band 7
We are the Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust. We offer a range of ongoing benefits to our valued workforce. From an active health and wellbeing programme to regular recognition events, we work hard to provide varied benefits that make a difference to your work-life balance.
Here are some clips of our Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust staff, speaking about their role and why they enjoy working for us
Would you like to work flexibly? In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you.
Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.
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Job overview
Our service is expanding further, and we are delighted to be recruiting for a team lead for our Medway & Swale area. This is an exciting mixed operational and clinical role, and we are looking for a candidate with experience in Children and Young People's Mental Health, with an aspiration to progress in their career and to work in a fast-paced, innovative service.
Please get in touch with 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:
- Targeted Intervention
- Whole School Approach
- 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:
Main duties of the job
You will need to meet the job description requirements and be able to demonstrate a passion for early intervention, mental health and emotional well-being support. As stated above, these roles are mixed operational and clinical, and we are looking for candidates who can strike a balance between the two perspectives. Please get in touch with us for more details.
This role will be covering Medway & Swale.
- 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.
- To contribute to multi-disciplinary assessment and treatment of children and adolescents with emotional and mental health problems, their carers/parent and families.
- To undertake a range of generic clinical work, guided self-help, targeted group work and workshops under Whole School Approach.
- To provide consultation on MHST cases to EMHP’s/CWP’s and lead by example.
- To contribute to audit and research.
- To monitor and guide the team in ensuring we meet safety benchmarks set by KMMH and the CQC, as well as ensuring delivery of interventions is carried out in line with NICE guidance, with Routine Outcome measures to monitor efficacy of intervention.
- To support Operational Leads with the day-to-day running of the service, including monitoring governance and compliance.
- Act up in the absence of the Operational manager for a short period.
Working for our organisation
We are Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust. We care for the mental health and wellbeing of people across Kent and Medway and are rated ‘Good’ by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
Our teams support children, young people and adults with a wide range of mental health needs. We also provide specialist services, including all-age eating disorder services and neurodevelopmental assessments for children and young people, such as autism and ADHD.
Because we work across the whole county and across hospital and community settings, we can make care more joined up and easier to access for the people we serve.
Our vision is simple: we are here to help communities not just live with mental illness, but live well. It’s why we’re passionate about working with communities to make mental health care better for everyone. Everything we do is guided by our values: caring, inclusive, curious and confident.
Join us if you share our passion for better mental health care and want to be part of a team that’s working well together.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
We are serious about diversity and inclusion, and we are working hard to build this into our DNA. We warmly welcome applications for any of our roles from people from diverse backgrounds, and we are proactively encouraging applications from under-represented communities for our more senior roles, like this one.
Please refer to the attached job description for full details and main responsibilities of the role.
The post holder must hold a full, valid, UK driving licence and have access to a car/vehicle to use for business purposes (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010).
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Relevant graduate qualification with recognised professional body
- A minimum of a second-class Bachelor’s degree from a UK university or an overseas qualification of an equivalent standard in a relevant academic subject (e.g. Psychology, Education, Childhood development, Social Work etc)
Desirable criteria
- A minimum of a second-class Bachelor’s degree from a UK university or an overseas qualification of an equivalent standard in a relevant academic subject (e.g. Psychology, Education, Childhood development, Social Work etc)
Experience
Essential criteria
- Substantial Band 6 experience within a CYP Mental Health setting or equivalent
- Experience in offering CBT therapeutic Interventions within a CYP Mental Health Setting with children and young people with mental health difficulties.
Desirable criteria
- CAMHS or other relevant mental health experience
- Experience in NHS or equivalent service
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of MHST legislation in relation to children and adolescents and safeguarding procedures and policies
- Knowledge of risk management, ability to monitor and assess risk and act accordingly to ensure safety.
Desirable criteria
- To guide the team to ensure safety benchmarks are met regarding delivery of interventions in line with NICE guidance and the use of ROMS
Skills
Essential criteria
- Demonstrate the ability to communicate clearly and effectively within a team
Desirable criteria
- Demonstrate the importance of good record keeping and working in line with local policies, procedures, and guidelines.
Supervision responsbilities
Essential criteria
- Extensive experience of providing clinical and managerial supervision
Desirable criteria
- CYP-IAPT Supervision course
- Managerial or leadership training
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
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
- Inderjit Randhawa
- Job title
- Operational Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07976 735752
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