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Trainee Supervising Practitioner

Trainee Supervising Practitioner

Compass • Birmingham, United Kingdom
28 days ago
Job type
  • Full-time
Job description
Job Summary
Are you ready to take the next step in your mental health career and become a future leader in children and young people's services? If you're passionate about empowering young people to thrive and want to grow your practice in a truly supportive environment, this is your opportunity to shine.

As a Trainee Supervising Practitioner, you will be part of our amazing Mental Health Support Team (MHST), an innovative programme transforming how young people access early mental health support. Our MHSTs focus on prevention, early intervention and removing barriers that delay help and frustrate families.

In this role, you will work closely with a wide range of professionals to ensure children and young people get the right support at the right time. You will develop your skills in CBT-informed supervision, supported by experienced clinicians and a dynamic, values-driven team committed to creativity, inclusion and continuous learning.

We don't believe in one-size-fits-all services. Our support is shaped by local voices, blending evidence-based practice with innovation and real-world need.

You will begin on a Band E salary, moving to Band F once your training course starts.

This is more than a training role. It is a chance to lead, grow and make a real difference. If that sounds like your next move, we would love to hear from you.

Main Duties of the Job
You're ready to commit to a demanding but deeply rewarding opportunity, combining postgraduate study with real-world clinical experience. You're passionate about early intervention and ready to grow into a role that shapes the future of mental health support for children and young people.

To succeed in this role, you will need:
  • To be a Qualified Education Mental Health Practitioner with at least 1 year experience at your start date
  • Evidence of continued professional development
  • A Postgraduate Certificate in Supervision (or willingness to complete it during the role)
  • Two years post-qualification experience working therapeutically with children and young people
  • Experience of line management and/or delivering clinical supervision
  • CBT-informed supervision experience, ideally within education settings
  • Experience in community and/or educational environments
  • Strong safeguarding and risk management skills
  • Excellent leadership, communication, and time management abilities
  • Flexibility to work year-round as part of a dynamic, responsive team
  • A full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle

Desirable attributes include postgraduate therapeutic qualifications, mentorship experience, and prior leadership within children and young people's services. Experience inducting staff or contributing to skill-mix teams is also beneficial, but not essential.

About Us
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
  • 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 salary review

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

Closing Date: 12.08.2026

Person Specification

Qualifications
Essential
  • Qualified Education Mental Health Practitioner (EMHP) with post qualification experience
  • Evidence of continued professional development
  • Willingness to complete post Graduate Certificate in Supervision at University as required

Desirable
  • Therapeutic post graduate qualification (preferably in CBT)
  • Post Graduate qualification in a relevant discipline

Experience
Essential
  • 1 years post qualification experience of working therapeutically with children and young people
  • Experience of working in a community and/or educational environment
  • Evidence of clinical development
  • Collaborative working
  • Experience of effective engagement with families and carers
  • Experience of working in a multi- disciplinary team.

Desirable
  • Experience of providing mentorship
  • Experience of delivering CBT informed supervision, ideally of practice related to education settings

Additional Criteria
Essential
  • Recognition and escalation of risk, contributing to control measures
  • Planning workload, time management
  • Work under pressure and able to manage changing priorities
  • Understand need for evidence and statistical data collection, and achieving targets
  • IT skills
  • Team player and dynamic personality
  • Multiagency/disciplinary working
  • Excellent communication skills and able to relate to children and young people
  • Innovate practice and ability to influence and motivate others
  • Ability to analyse, evaluate and rationalise data and enable progressive models of delivery and intervention
  • Visionary approach to managing change and transition
  • Positive attitude; flexible and adaptable whilst being solution focussed and tenacious
  • Has a strong degree of personal integrity
  • Leadership and the ability to delegate and supervise staff
  • Able to work all year round and flexibly as part of a team to best meet business need
  • Possession of full UK driving licence and access to vehicle
  • Ongoing commitment to maintain registration in core profession.

Desirable
  • Leadership and the ability to delegate and supervise staff

Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
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