Practice Lead - Mental Health Support Team


Company:	NHS Jobs
Salary:	£44,554.35 to £51,980.08 a year
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	Bromley, BR1 1JA
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	8 Oct 2026
Closing date:	23 Oct 2026

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Summary

To contribute to the development of early intervention and prevention service in Bromley for children and young people. The post represents an opportunity for a qualified and experienced Educator and qualified Therapeutic Practitioner, with leadership and management experience in education settings, who is committed to the principle of the whole school approach to wellbeing to further their career. The post holder will be responsible for oversight of Bromley Ys Mental Health Support Team offer to schools that promotes and supports a whole school approach in supporting the whole school community, for; children and young people, parents and carers and school staff and adopting evidence -based approaches that compliments and supports the pastoral care offer, and ethos in each school. They will also be responsible for leading on the development of the graduated response for Emotionally Based School Avoidance (EBSA), which will involve working with available resources and education partners to support children, parents/carers and schools. The post holder will work closely with the MHST Specialist Lead, MHST Practice Leads and Bromley Y Clinical Director to develop and continually improve the mental health and wellbeing offer to school communities, contributing to service development in our preventative early support offer in order to reduce wait times and ensure children receive timely suitable therapeutic and systemic support. The post holder will deputise where required for the MHST Specialist Lead at network and partnership meetings. The post-holder will also work alongside MHST Practice Leads to ensure contact by staff is maintained with the individual whilst they receive the agreed intervention provided by Bromley Y. The post-holder will work with schools, organisations and other charities and staff to ensure that young people from diverse backgrounds receive a service and should be committed to diversity and ensuring access to services for all. Some of the work will be carried out digitally from home with the opportunity to see some children and young people at Ethelbert Road. The majority of the work will be in schools, but may also include the community to support Bromley children in gaining access to appropriate activities, resources and interventions. The post holder must be prepared to be flexible in their working arrangements to ensure that and all children and young people can access support at a time which suits their needs. This may entail some evening sessions and Saturday working. In addition to prioritising safeguarding and overseeing the assessment and management of risk the post-holder will support and line manage qualified and trainee staff.

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