Supervising Practitioner

Ready to use your skills to guide and support others while making a real difference to children and young people’s mental health?

As a Supervising Practitioner, in our amazing North & West Birmingham Mental Health Support Team (MHST) you’ll play a key role in improving the emotional wellbeing of children and young people with mild to moderate needs. Working closely with schools, you’ll deliver evidence-based interventions, provide consultation and training, and support link meetings and audits that strengthen whole-school approaches to mental health.

You’ll also provide supervision, reflective spaces, and day-to-day guidance for Educational Mental Health Practitioners (EMHPs) and trainees, helping them to feel skilled, supported and safe in their practice. Your role will be central in creating a culture of reflective practice, ensuring safe and effective care, and driving quality across the team.

You’ll hold a small caseload yourself, ensuring you stay connected to direct practice, while also influencing wider systems through collaboration with Team Leaders, senior mental health leads, and the wider Compass team. Whether shaping interventions, embedding good practice, or building staff confidence, your guidance will have a lasting impact across schools and communities.

If you believe every child should feel safe, supported and able to thrive, and you are ready to stand alongside the people making that happen, then we’d love to hear from you.

You care deeply about children and young people’s mental health, and you’re ready to bring your knowledge, empathy and guidance into a role where you can truly make a difference. You’re someone who colleagues trust for support, direction and reassurance – and you hold that space with care and confidence.

To thrive in this role, you’ll bring:
• A core qualification in mental health, nursing, social work, education mental health practice or a related field
• Registration with a relevant professional body if required
• At least two years’ experience delivering therapeutic interventions or mental health support for children and young people
• Knowledge of CBT-informed or other evidence-based approaches to supporting young people
• Experience in providing supportive clinical supervision or mentoring others
• Confidence in safeguarding, risk assessment and working across agencies
• Clear, confident communication and the ability to work with a wide range of people including families, schools and professionals
• A full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle (or equivalent)

It would also be great if you bring a postgraduate qualification in supervision or low-intensity CBT, or experience in skill-mixed teams – but we’re more interested in the way you think, lead and show up for others than in ticking every box.

If you’re ready to support others to do their best work and make a lasting impact, we’d love to hear from you.

Compass is committed to safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults. Established for over 30 years, Compass is a national charity which works in communities across the UK providing services spanning substance misuse treatment and rehabilitation, early interventions for vulnerable young people, school-aged health programmes and associated prevention as well as treatment and health promotion initiatives.

All Compass posts are subject to appropriate level DBS checks.

We positively encourage applications from all members of the community, regardless of gender, race, faith, disability, age, or sexual orientation, and encourage applications from people who have experiences in life which enrich skills and empathy. This is part of our commitment to equality and developing a truly inclusive and representative workforce.

We are happy to discuss any reasonable adjustments individuals may require in the recruitment process, on commencement, or once in post.

Benefits

We offer a range of benefits including:

• 27 days holiday + bank holidays, rising to 32 days over time (pro rata)
• Life assurance at 2 x basic salary
• Competitive contributory pension scheme
• 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme and OH service
• Enhanced sick pay
• Excellent learning & development opportunities and career progression
• Annual performance/salary review

Help us to make a positive change to the lives of children and young people!