Job summary
- Main area
- Allied Health Professions/Nursing
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Compressed hours
- Job ref
- 319-7188511IO
- Employer
- Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Blyth Health Centre
- Town
- Blyth
- Salary
- £46,148 - £52,809 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 26/05/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Primary Mental Health Worker Team Lead
NHS AfC: Band 7
Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022). Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this is…the Northumbria Way!
What the Northumbria Way means for you:
- Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
- Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
- A range of flexible working opportunities
- Generous annual leave and pension scheme
- Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
- Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
- On-site nursery places via salary sacrifice
- Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank
We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts – rated ‘outstanding’ overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.
We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise – a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people’s lives, such as education, employment and the economy.
If Northumbria Healthcare sounds like somewhere you could belong we would love to hear from you. Visit our website to catch up on our latest news.
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Job overview
To work with service senior leads and partner agencies to support the delivery of emotional and mental health support for children and young people in Northumberland and support the service leads in the successful deployment of future MHST roll-outs ensuring the fidelity of the model. This will include line management and clinical supervision of clinicians in the Primary Mental Health Work Service and Mental Health Support Teams (MHST) in schools ensuring quality and patient safety is paramount to service provision. The post holder will identify any gaps in service provision and to help to develop services to meet the needs of this client group.
The role also includes holding a clinical case load providing direct care to the client group.
The post holder will role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.
The post holder will work with the service leads to ensure financial efficiency and effective use of resources available.
Main duties of the job
To contribute to the development of provision at the interface of child and adolescent mental health services and schools and colleges in the trailblazer areas and liaising with other early help and prevention agencies across the boroughs within Northumberland.
To increase awareness of the needs of this client group at primary care level through the sharing of clinical knowledge and expertise using a model of consultation/liaison/teaching and training/research and development with primary care colleagues. This will also include awareness of the 3 core functions of the Mental Health Support Teams - the provision of 1:1 evidenced based interventions, consultation/ advise and signposting role and delivery of the whole schools approaches with school settings in the trailblazer areas.
To support schools and colleges and primary care colleagues in their clinical work with children and young people where they are considering making a referral into the specialist ‘getting more help’ services, the ‘getting help’ Primary Mental Health Work and the Mental Health Support Teams in trailblazer schools for further mental health assessment.
To assess current services available for children and families within Northumberland and work with partner agencies in relation to service development.
To supervise and line manage clinical staff and to work closely with senior leads in relation to service monitoring, evaluating and improvement.
Working for our organisation
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality – opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To contribute to the of provision at the interface of child and adolescent mental health services, and schools and colleges in the trailblazer areas, and liaising with other early help and prevention agencies across the boroughs within Northumberland. To participate in service planning, development and improvement within the area of child and adolescent mental health and monitor impact of provision to inform workforce plans.
To hold a caseload to support children and young people who are experiencing difficulties that align with current service support offers and to supervise clinicians within the team who also hold an active caseload.
To maintain clinical and case management responsibilities for clinicians within the team and communicated clearly and effectively with senior leads when required. Line management responsibilities will also be required.
The role includes supporting the wider system around a child/young person by way of consultation models and delivery of teaching and training. The post holder will be overseeing this element of delivery, monitoring impact and ensuring service improvement plans are implemented to ensure the needs of service users, families and professionals continues to be met.
There is a requirement to work as part of a team and to communicate clearly and in a timely way to others as well as being able to use initiative and manage a range of responsibilities independently.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- • Degree or equivalent level of relevant experience
- • Requirement for post holder to hold a core professional qualification and professional registration/ i.e. 1st level nurse, doctorate in clinical psychology, qualified social worker, counselling, Occupational therapy
- • Professional registration with a professional body eg NMC, HCPC, BABCP, Social Work England .
- • Post registration training in Child & Adolescent Mental Health
- • Registered mentor if a registered Nurse or a willingness to complete this training, experience of delivery clinical supervision / CBT supervision or a qualification in supervision
- .• A recognised teaching and training qualification or experience of delivering teaching
Desirable criteria
- • Additional post registration qualification in a specific therapeutic modality including aBABCP accredited CBT therapist / or other Psychological interventions including EMDR, CBT,Family Interventions, CAT, DBT
- • CYIAPT qualifications / modalities
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Suzanne Wile
- Job title
- Primary Mental Health Team Senior Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07720143906
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