Lewisham CAMHS Mental Health Support Team (MSHT) is a new early intervention service designed to help meet the mental health needs of children and young people (CYP) in education settings. The Lewisham MHST is due to expand with a fourth team in January 2025. The successful candidate will be based in two of these teams comprising of Education Wellbeing Practitioners (EWPs), Senior Wellbeing Practitioners, CAMHS practitioners and Team leaders who coordinate this work.
We are looking for educational psychologists or clinical/counselling psychologists with HCPC registration and experience working with schools. Your main duties will involve: Supporting mild to moderate SEMH needs and approaches to supporting improved outcomes, including for children and young people with an additional SEND. Developing and delivering evidence-based practice and guidance around the Whole School Approach to mental health and wellbeing. Conducting psychological assessments, including through consultation, and appropriate selection of assessment tools, interpreting and integrating complex data that requires analysis, interpretation and comparison, drawn from several sources. Communicating skilfully and sensitively complex and sensitive information with children and young people, families/carers, school staff, other agencies and colleagues, overcoming barriers to communication including sensory and emotional difficulties, cultural differences and hostility to or rejection of information. Planning and scheduling a range of activities with schools, families and children and young people, including consultation, intervention and workshops. Enabling children, young people and families/carers to share their views and for these views to shape planned support.
We aspire to bring education, health and families together, working collaboratively to support the mental health and wellbeing of children and young people based on their own life experiences and the uniqueness of their school community, whether they are thriving, coping or would benefit from getting help.
Our service is underpinned by principles from the MHST Manual (NHS England, 2019) and Children and Young People - Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (CYP-IAPT): Value and facilitate authentic participation of young people, parents, carers and communities at all levels of the service. Provide evidence-based practice and are flexible and adaptive to changes in evidence. Are committed to raising awareness of mental health issues in children and young people, and are active in decreasing stigma around mental ill-health. Demonstrate that they are accountable by adopting the rigorous monitoring of the clinical outcomes of the service. Actively work to improve access and engagement with services.
Key Responsibilities: KR 1 Clinical and Client Care
Enhance accessibility to mental health services for children and young people in Lewisham schools. Provide high-quality consultation to school staff, parents, other professionals and where appropriate children and young people, focused on mental health and wellbeing. Identify and address systemic barriers to change related to mental health and wellbeing in schools. Provide assessments, formulations and interventions for children, young people and families in the MHST. Provide training and coaching to school staff to support children and young people with a range of mental health needs, including developing their whole school approach to mental health and wellbeing. Support and empower children, young people and families to make informed choices about intervention. Support children and young people experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties and their families in the self-management of presenting difficulties. Work in partnership with families to provide culturally appropriate psychological interventions. Assess and monitor risk and draw up appropriate risk management plans. Use routine outcome measures. Develop and help deliver workshops, groups and other psychologically informed activities for children, young people and families in schools. KR 2 Contributing to team or service clinical functioning
Contribute to the effective working of the team or service and to a psychologically informed framework for the service. Contribute to the team or service’s delivery of accessible and acceptable services to diverse local communities. Be proactive in challenging discrimination and support the development of culturally competent services. Advise other members of the service on both specialist psychological care and universal approaches for all children and young people. Utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence-based practice in individual work and work with other team members. Work in partnership with schools and colleges to develop and deliver activities related to their whole school approach to mental health and wellbeing. Contribute to enabling other staff, service users and carers from diverse backgrounds to flourish by creating a psychologically safe environment. Liaise with referrers, educational psychologists and other professionals to contribute to support plans for children and young people. Liaise with multi-agency teams to support schools in developing and delivering their whole school approach to mental health and wellbeing. KR 3 Policy and service development
Implement policies and procedures in own area of work, and propose improvements or beneficial changes. Contribute to service development through undertaking and participating in appropriate projects related to the MHST Team. Contribute to the consultation and engagement of children, young people, families and school communities in planning and delivering services which meet the needs of local communities. Contribute to service evaluation appropriately. Support cross-agency initiatives to improve outcomes for children and young people with SEND. KR 4 Care or management of resources
Take care of, and use carefully, the Trust’s equipment and physical resources. Ensure that the post-holder has sufficient resources by estimating future needs and requesting or ordering supplies as needed. KR 5 Management and supervision
Be responsible for supervision of junior colleagues if required, under supervision from a more senior psychologist. Act as care co-ordinator taking responsibility for the oversight of cases within the MHST, when required. Contribute to group supervision within the MHST. Support EWPs and other MHST team members in the assessment and formulation of cases. Manage relationships with stakeholders, including school senior mental health leads, head teachers, educational psychologists outside of the MHST and other agencies. KR 6 Teaching and Training
Undertake teaching and training within the MHST. Develop and deliver training for schools, universal and targeted services. Contribute to the development of the knowledge and skills base within the MHST service by maintaining an active awareness of current developments and by implementing knowledge gained in training to practice. Disseminate research and service evaluation findings through presentations and published articles. KR 7 Record-keeping and Information Governance
Ensure that all information generated by own work is recorded as required by Trust policies and local procedures. Maintain the highest standards of clinical record keeping and report writing, according to professional and Trust guidelines, including electronic data entry. KR 8 Research and development
Undertake regular complex service evaluation, audits or research relevant to service needs.
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We are looking for educational psychologists or clinical/counselling psychologists with HCPC registration and experience working with schools. Your main duties will involve: Supporting mild to moderate SEMH needs and approaches to supporting improved outcomes, including for children and young people with an additional SEND. Developing and delivering evidence-based practice and guidance around the Whole School Approach to mental health and wellbeing. Conducting psychological assessments, including through consultation, and appropriate selection of assessment tools, interpreting and integrating complex data that requires analysis, interpretation and comparison, drawn from several sources. Communicating skilfully and sensitively complex and sensitive information with children and young people, families/carers, school staff, other agencies and colleagues, overcoming barriers to communication including sensory and emotional difficulties, cultural differences and hostility to or rejection of information. Planning and scheduling a range of activities with schools, families and children and young people, including consultation, intervention and workshops. Enabling children, young people and families/carers to share their views and for these views to shape planned support.
We aspire to bring education, health and families together, working collaboratively to support the mental health and wellbeing of children and young people based on their own life experiences and the uniqueness of their school community, whether they are thriving, coping or would benefit from getting help.
Our service is underpinned by principles from the MHST Manual (NHS England, 2019) and Children and Young People - Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (CYP-IAPT): Value and facilitate authentic participation of young people, parents, carers and communities at all levels of the service. Provide evidence-based practice and are flexible and adaptive to changes in evidence. Are committed to raising awareness of mental health issues in children and young people, and are active in decreasing stigma around mental ill-health. Demonstrate that they are accountable by adopting the rigorous monitoring of the clinical outcomes of the service. Actively work to improve access and engagement with services.
Key Responsibilities: KR 1 Clinical and Client Care
Enhance accessibility to mental health services for children and young people in Lewisham schools. Provide high-quality consultation to school staff, parents, other professionals and where appropriate children and young people, focused on mental health and wellbeing. Identify and address systemic barriers to change related to mental health and wellbeing in schools. Provide assessments, formulations and interventions for children, young people and families in the MHST. Provide training and coaching to school staff to support children and young people with a range of mental health needs, including developing their whole school approach to mental health and wellbeing. Support and empower children, young people and families to make informed choices about intervention. Support children and young people experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties and their families in the self-management of presenting difficulties. Work in partnership with families to provide culturally appropriate psychological interventions. Assess and monitor risk and draw up appropriate risk management plans. Use routine outcome measures. Develop and help deliver workshops, groups and other psychologically informed activities for children, young people and families in schools. KR 2 Contributing to team or service clinical functioning
Contribute to the effective working of the team or service and to a psychologically informed framework for the service. Contribute to the team or service’s delivery of accessible and acceptable services to diverse local communities. Be proactive in challenging discrimination and support the development of culturally competent services. Advise other members of the service on both specialist psychological care and universal approaches for all children and young people. Utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence-based practice in individual work and work with other team members. Work in partnership with schools and colleges to develop and deliver activities related to their whole school approach to mental health and wellbeing. Contribute to enabling other staff, service users and carers from diverse backgrounds to flourish by creating a psychologically safe environment. Liaise with referrers, educational psychologists and other professionals to contribute to support plans for children and young people. Liaise with multi-agency teams to support schools in developing and delivering their whole school approach to mental health and wellbeing. KR 3 Policy and service development
Implement policies and procedures in own area of work, and propose improvements or beneficial changes. Contribute to service development through undertaking and participating in appropriate projects related to the MHST Team. Contribute to the consultation and engagement of children, young people, families and school communities in planning and delivering services which meet the needs of local communities. Contribute to service evaluation appropriately. Support cross-agency initiatives to improve outcomes for children and young people with SEND. KR 4 Care or management of resources
Take care of, and use carefully, the Trust’s equipment and physical resources. Ensure that the post-holder has sufficient resources by estimating future needs and requesting or ordering supplies as needed. KR 5 Management and supervision
Be responsible for supervision of junior colleagues if required, under supervision from a more senior psychologist. Act as care co-ordinator taking responsibility for the oversight of cases within the MHST, when required. Contribute to group supervision within the MHST. Support EWPs and other MHST team members in the assessment and formulation of cases. Manage relationships with stakeholders, including school senior mental health leads, head teachers, educational psychologists outside of the MHST and other agencies. KR 6 Teaching and Training
Undertake teaching and training within the MHST. Develop and deliver training for schools, universal and targeted services. Contribute to the development of the knowledge and skills base within the MHST service by maintaining an active awareness of current developments and by implementing knowledge gained in training to practice. Disseminate research and service evaluation findings through presentations and published articles. KR 7 Record-keeping and Information Governance
Ensure that all information generated by own work is recorded as required by Trust policies and local procedures. Maintain the highest standards of clinical record keeping and report writing, according to professional and Trust guidelines, including electronic data entry. KR 8 Research and development
Undertake regular complex service evaluation, audits or research relevant to service needs.
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