Primary Mental Health Worker Team Lead

· 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 .

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, 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., 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.
Applicants who are members of the Armed Forces, and those who have a disability that requires support in the work place (two ticks pledge) and who meet the essential criteria will be interviewed under the Trust's interview guarantee scheme.
We recognise the positive value of diversity and inclusion and are committed to a workforce that is diverse, equal and inclusive. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME people are currently under-represented in our workforce as well as other under-represented groups such as LGBT+ and disabled candidates. We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, a Stonewall Diversity Champion, we have a Gold award from the Defense Recognition Scheme, and we are delighted to support Apprenticeships, Age Posi+ive and are a mindful employer.
If you require any reasonable adjustments to attend interview please make the recruitment team aware as soon as possible by calling our HR Recruitment Team on option 2.
Applicants who meet the Fit and Proper Person Requirements (FPPR) will require additional pre-employment checks in line with CQC and NHS England statutory guidance.
Make sure to read the 'applicant guidance notes' before submitting your application and make sure you know everything there is to know before joining our fantastic trust!
Please note that it is a requirement of this Trust that all successful applicants pay for their own DBS certification if a DBS check is required for the post. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first monthly pay.

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.
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Whilst Northumbria Healthcare are an innovative organisation, currently we do not support the use of Third Party Artificial Intelligence (AI) used throughout the Recruitment & Selection process. If AI is used, at any stage of the process, your application may be withdrawn.