Mental Health Support Teams (MHST)

Who are we?

Mental Health Support Teams (MHSTs) are an expanding service designed to help meet the mental health needs of children and young people in selected education settings i.e. Schools and Colleges or who are not on roll with an education setting.MHSTs are in addition to existing services such as Kooth Online Counselling Service, Healthy Minds Lincolnshire and Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS).

Teams are made up of professionals called Clinical Lead Practitioners and Education Mental Health Practitioners (EMHPs). These are workers who have had specialised training to support young people presenting with a wide range of mental health issues. They work closely with schools and colleges and other children and young people's services.

There are currently four MHSTs working in Lincolnshire and these are based in selected education settings in Lincoln, Gainsborough (and the surrounding area), Boston and Skegness (and the surrounding area). 

Thanks to Wave 7 funding, there will be a fully operational MHST in Spalding and the surrounding area from September 2023. The Wave 8 expansion will see teams starting to support children and young people in Grantham and Sleaford (and the surrounding area) from January 2024.