Primary Mental Health Worker Team Lead

at  Northumbria Healthcare NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

• To line manage and clinically supervise the clinicians in the PMHW and Mental Health Support Teams (MHST) in schools ensuring quality and patient safety is paramount to service provision.
• Support the service lead in the successful deployment of future MHST roll-outs ensuring the fidelity of the model
• To work with the service lead to ensure financial efficiency and effective use of resources available.
• To hold a clinical case load providing direct care to the client group.
• To identify any gaps in service provision and to help to develop services to meet the needs of this client group.
• To contribute to the development of provision at the interface of child and adolescent mental health services and schools and colleges and liaising with other early help agencies across the County .
• To increase the awareness of the needs of this client group at primary care level, sharing clinical knowledge and expertise using a model of consultation/liaison/teaching and training/research and development with primary care colleagues. To promote 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 primary care colleagues in their work with children and young people considering making a referral into the relevant mental health services and the mental health support teams for further mental health assessment.
• To assess current services available for children and families .
  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, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.
  Northumbria Healthcare Foundation Trust currently has a vacancy for 2 Band 7 Primary Mental Health Work positions. These posts have become available due to the increased investment from Northumberland ICB to develop early intervention children’s mental health provision across the County.
  The posts will provide a locality leadership and management role within the County wide Primary Mental Health work Service and the Be You mental health support teams in schools overseeing the 3 core functions of the programme. This has created opportunities to strengthen the core offers of the Primary Mental Health Work Service to provide a broader reach of targeted supported. This will support those children and young people with moderate mental health needs, within the ‘getting help sector ‘of the Thrive model of delivery
  We are looking for enthusiastic and motivated senior clinicians to join this dynamic and innovative early intervention and prevention service. The successful candidates will work within this supportive team to provide leadership support and develop and oversee a locality-based model across the Northumberland County. As a band 7 you will be expected to role model compassionate and inclusive leadership to maintain the collective leadership culture within the service. You will work with the current band 7 Senior clinicians / team leads and Band 8a Senior Leads to ensure the efficient and effective use of resources is available to deliver the services strategic and operational plan. This will include an awareness of finances, staffing, information technology, data collection to continuously improve clinical procedures and processes. Your skills should reflect an ability to line manage and provide clinical and case management supervision to clinicians within the team, and offer support to the Be You team development. This role will also provide support with individual and team continuous professional development, using the Trusts appraisal systems ongoing service development review processes. Leadership skills will also be required to maintain positive partnership working with service leads across a range of universal, targeted and specialist services, to contribute to the development of effective interface and clinical pathways. The role will also involve some holding a clinical case load providing direct care to young people and co-ordinating and evaluating the delivery of consultation models, liaison with multi agency colleagues and teaching and training to increase capacity of universal services. We will ensure we consider suitable arrangements are made to your work and home base to guarantee suitable travel expenses are provided to support in this role

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