Position Overview & Specifications
This is an exciting opportunity to work with an innovative psychology led multi-agency team to provide mental health support to children and young people in and around their educational setting in line with the government green paper and NHSE long term plan.
The Senior School Link will hold regular review meetings with the Senior Mental Health Lead in school to support them to further develop their whole school emotional wellbeing and trauma informed offer; providing school based care plans to support the most vulnerable children and young people; coordinating and supporting direct work with children and young people with the EMHPs; offering consultation, training, reflective practice to school staff and MHST staff and EMHP case management supervision.
Regular line management and clinical supervision from an experienced Clinical Psychologist will be available alongside peer supervision with multi-agency colleagues. Post holders will be expected to attend a one year post graduate course in EMHP supervision course with the University of Sheffield and further training will be available.
The post will best fit someone interested in community-based work, who is able to apply their psychological knowledge to an educational context and who can manage to be both responsive and innovative alongside being clear about service boundaries and evidence based, theory led practice.