Lead with purpose. Inspire others. Shape the future of children's mental health.
Are you an experienced mental health clinician looking to take the next step in your leadership journey?
Our Mental Health Support Team (MHST) Team Leader role offers an exciting opportunity to combine your clinical knowledge with operational leadership, supporting a skilled multidisciplinary workforce to deliver high-quality services across schools and education settings. Working alongside a supportive leadership team, you will play a key role in developing staff, driving service improvement, building strong partnerships and ensuring children and young people receive the right support at the right time.
If you're passionate about leading people, influencing change and making a lasting difference to children's mental health services, we'd love to hear from you.
The Mental Health Support Teams (MHST’s) are part of an exciting trailblazer project funded by NHS England, Health Education England & partners with the aim to improve the mental health & wellbeing of children & young people in the community.
- Responsibility for the day-to-day operational management of the identified team, including patients, team activity, performance, safety & quality and staffing matters.
- To contribute to the delivery of the transformational change programme for the Children's Directorate, particularly through the development of a more integrated, multi-professional workforce.
- To support the delivery of child & family focused services, against agreed performance and quality targets and within budget, whilst delivering agreed cost improvements.
- Management of staff
- Contribute to effective partnership working with key external services, such as social care, the acute sector and key third sector organisations, to enable the delivery of shared outcomes.
- Provide day to day supervision and support for the defined team.
- Work closely with team leads across MHST to ensure delivery of the service vision.
Candidate Information Pack Dec 24
At Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust (CWPT), we deliver a wide range of physical, mental health, learning disability and autism services, and are proud to serve communities across Coventry, Warwickshire and beyond.
We put ‘people at our heart’; this ethos is at the centre of everything we do and how we do it. We care for our staff and colleagues as much as they care for others and offer a wide range of benefits and development opportunities.
These include:
- generous annual leave entitlement which increases during your time with us
- excellent learning and development opportunities, including apprenticeship frameworks, distance learning, internal training, coaching and mentoring, and much more
- salary sacrifice schemes for lease car/ vehicle, Cycle to Work, home and electronics, gym membership and more
- discounts with a range of retailers, restaurants and entertainment venues through our Employee Assistance Programme and NHS discount schemes
- wellbeing support, including an in-house counselling service, external helpline and more
- staff networks and support groups
We’re always on the lookout for people who share our passion for improving the lives and wellbeing of people in our community, as well as our values of compassion, collaboration, excellence, integrity and respect.
For more information on this role please see the attached support information. This will give you a better overview of the job role and requirements.
