MHST Team Leader | North London NHS Foundation Trust


Company:	Camden And Islington NHS Foundation Trust
Salary:	£55,524 - £62,652 Per annum, inclusive of Outer London HCAS
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	Haringey, N15 3TH
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	6 Oct 2026
Closing date:	5 Nov 2026

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Summary

The MHST Team Lead will have several key roles within the team. They will offer supervision to trainee and qualified Education Mental Health Practitioners or Children’s Wellbeing Practitioners, who are part of workforce within CAMHS to deliver early intervention work, and some aspects of clinical service delivery, including direct psychological interventions and consultation to schools. Alongside supervision, the post holder’s caseload will include children and adolescents with mild moderate emotional and mental health difficulties and will deliver evidence-based 1:1 and group interventions. The post holder will develop relationships with designated mental health Leads in schools to help them develop approaches for mental health and wellbeing, while also being responsible for the operational oversight of a smaller sub-team within the MHST. The post holder will be joining three other MHST Team Leaders with lots of opportunities for peer support and career development, and working within a large multi-disciplinary team.

Applicants must have a core profession in relevant field such as Psychology, Mental Health Nurse, Social worker, Therapist and must be registered with UK relevant professional body. Training will be provided for applicants without formal supervision training. BABCP registered Senior Wellbeing Practitioners (SWP) with relevant clinical and supervisory experience will also be considered.

1. To provide specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the team.

2. To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client’s mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client’s problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.

3. To be responsible for implementing a range of psychotherapeutic interventions for individuals, carers, families, and groups, including adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining several provisional hypotheses.

4. To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients’ formulation, understanding around their presentation, and support plan.

5. To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and where appropriate to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management

6. To provide consistent and effective clinical supervision for the team.

7. To have operational oversight of a smaller sub-team within the MHST.

The duties and responsibilities described in this Job Description are intended to be indicative but not exhaustive of the responsibilities of the postholder.

North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT)is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.

Our Five-Year Strategy:

1. We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.

2. With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all

3. We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.

4. We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.

In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.

1. To provide specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation, and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client’s care, when and where appropriate.

4. To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options considering both theoretical and therapeutic models.

6. To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients’ formulation, understanding around their presentation, and support plan.

7. To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and where appropriate to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management

8. To provide consistent and effective clinical supervision for the team.

9. To have operational oversight of a smaller sub-team within the MHST.

10. To report to Team Manager about effectiveness of the team and problem solve any routine challenges.

The duties and responsibilities described in this Job Description are intended to be indicative but not exhaustive of the responsibilities of the postholder.

This advert closes on Sunday 18 Oct 2026

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