Supervising Practitioner

Compass are delighted to offer a flexible approach to the posts advertised; whilst it is important to recognise that our work with children, young people and families is largely on site we can provide hybrid, part-time and term time only opportunities for the right candidates.

Compass is delighted to have been selected as the new provider of Mental Health Support Teams in education settings in Birmingham North (Great Barr) working in partnership to meet the emotional health and wellbeing needs of children and young people across the North of the City. We will be working in partnership with health, care and education in the local area from September 2023.

If you have the passion and drive to deliver evidence-based early interventions for children and young people, working across both educational settings and the community read on….

This role is a real opportunity to help shape the services we provide with children, young people, families and educational settings and to develop your career in mental health support to children, young people and families.

Compass Birmingham MHST is an early intervention mental health and emotional wellbeing service. The service delivers evidenced based interventions for children and young people with mild to moderate mental health needs.

It is part of the MHST Trailblazer Programme, which has been commissioned following the ‘Transforming Children and Young People’s Mental Health Care Provision: A Green Paper’ (2017).  

The role will work alongside new and existing colleagues to further develop MHST’s in Birmingham with a focus on building partnerships with education settings and to drive the implementation of highly effective and CYPF focussed mental health and wellbeing services in line with the national MHST operating framework; managing supervising and innovating with practitioners and colleagues in the service.

You will need to demonstrate in your application that you have a nationally recognised qualification meeting the requirements of the MHST training examples include EMHP, CWP, mental health nurse, psychotherapy or social work qualification which must be registered with the appropriate governing body, e.g. BABCP or NMC or an equivalent and two years’ experience working to support the emotional health, wellbeing or pastoral needs of children and young people.

Candidates will either have a Post Graduate qualification in supervision and/or management or ability and willingness to undertake further training.

Applicants must have excellent communication skills and be able to network with other agencies as central to the role.

You must possess a full driving licence and have access to a vehicle. An enhanced level DBS check is required for this role.