Northumbria Healthcare Foundation Trust currently has a vacancy for 1 Band 7 Primary Mental Health Work position.
The post 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 support. 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 candidate will work within this supportive team to provide leadership support and develop and oversee a locality-based model across 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.
Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.
Main duties of the job
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, and 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 Trust's appraisal systems and 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 holding a clinical case load providing direct care to young people and coordinating and evaluating the delivery of consultation models, liaison with multi-agency colleagues, and teaching and training to increase the 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.
About us
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.
Job description
Job responsibilities
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/advice 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.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
* Degree or equivalent level of relevant experience
* Core professional qualification eg 1st level nurse, doctorate in psychology, qualified social worker/OT, counselling.
* Professional registration with a professional body eg NMC, HCPC, BABCP, Social Work England
* Specialist post registration qualification in Child & Adolescent Mental Health or equivalent i.e. CAMHS Degree/CYPIAPT therapeutic modalities
* A recognised teaching and training qualification or experience of delivering training.
* 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.
Desirable
* Additional post registration qualification in a specific therapeutic modality including a BABCP accredited CBT therapist or other Psychological interventions including EMDR, CBT, Family Interventions, CAT, DBT.
Experience and knowledge
Essential
* Significant experience of working within child and adolescent mental health services or experience working with children and young people with emotional and behavioral difficulties.
* Experience of Service Development and delivery including multi-agency operational systems, referral protocols and assessment processing.
* Experience of participating in and delivering clinical supervision.
* Experience of working with children and adolescents in a variety of settings.
Desirable
* Experience of delivering CBT-informed supervision or supervising CYPMHS clinicians and trainees.
* Experience of, or training in, psychological therapies.
Other
Essential
* It is an essential requirement of the role that the post holder has a valid driving licence and is either a car owner and able to use the car for work purposes, or has a Trust personal lease vehicle which may be used for the role. However, the Trust would consider making reasonable adjustments to the role, if necessary, to enable a disabled person to undertake the role.
Employer details
Employer name
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Ponteland Primary Care Centre
Ponteland Primary Care Centre, Medowfield Industrial Estate
Ponteland
NE20 9SD
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