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We have an exciting opportunity for a highly experienced psychological professional lead to join our service within Kent and Medway Mental Health Support Teams (MHSTs). 

Mental Health Support Teams (MHSTs) are a government initiative to help increase children and young people’s access to support for emotional wellbeing and mental health. 

MHSTs are a resource in addition to the already existing support in any education setting. MHSTs have three main functions:

1. Targeted Interventions

2. Whole School Approach

3. 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: https://www.nelft.nhs.uk/kent-and-medway-mental-health-support-teams.

This role is an exciting opportunity to lead on the MHST programme across Kent and Medway with responsibility for clinical and strategic oversight of MHSTs in the context of the Kent and Medway ICB footprint.  The service is committed to ensuring that the clinical offer is evidence based, innovative and co-produced.  Please see the website for examples of our work. You can also contact Dr Virginia Lumsden (current clinical and strategic lead) [email protected] to find out more.

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 The post-holder will be expected to:

1.  Set, implement and evaluate clear, achievable and measurable clinical objectives for the Kent EWTs and Medway ESTs with the senior clinical and operational leadership team. 

2.      To assist with the effective management of operational services and resources within the designated service areas, including budgets, and staffing.

3.      To initiate and implement programmes to achieve strategic and clinical changes and improvement to services and systems.

4.      To deputise when required in the Assistant Director’s absence and delegate appropriately to clinical and administration staff.

5.      To have organisational knowledge relating to NELFT protocols and procedures particularly safeguarding.

6. To ensure effective risk management at team level by incident reporting, assessing and controlling risk and ensuring residual risks are added to the NELFT register.

7.      To ensure that there is a research culture within Kent EWTs and Medway ESTs. To co-ordinate the implementation of Research & Development activity within the service, ensuring that all R&D activity is monitored and reported in accordance with the NELFT R&D governance guidelines. This may include securing externally funded or multi-disciplinary research.

8.      To provide strategic and clinical leadership and to liaise with commissioners at CCG 

9.   To provide clinical quality control and to ensure adherence and competence to evidence- -based approaches.

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Probationary Period

This post will be subject to a probationary period. Internal applicants are exempt from the probationary period (unless you are an internal applicant currently part way through a probationary period or currently a bank member of staff).

Starting with NELFT

NELFT place a great deal of importance on new starters being properly welcomed and inducted into the Trust.  All new starters will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and will undertake a comprehensive induction of up to two weeks which will include mandatory training, systems training and the allocation of equipment.  As part of the process new starters will have the opportunity to also meet the executive team, senior managers and attend a number of drop in sessions focussing in engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes.  The induction will be held at our head office in Rainham, Essex.