Job summary
To work as a senior member in an exciting service which has been set up since 2021 and is expanding across Northamptonshire; the Mental Health Support Team (MHST). MHST's are working within schools, ensuring children and young people receive faster access to earlier mental health support. You will be a team lead across our 10 existing teams and CWP Pathway, managing the teams operationally and supporting the MHST/CWP Clinical and Team Lead. The teams are made up of Assistant EMHPs, Trainee and qualified Educations Mental Health Practitioners (EMHPs), Mental Health Practitioners/supervisors, CBT therapists and administrative colleagues. You will be expected to offer management supervision to staff, be involved with the collating and analysing of data and reports as required and deputise operationally for the MHST/CWP Clinical & Team Lead. The MHST Clinical & Team Lead has the operational and clinical oversight of the service and is the post this role would directly report to.
Main duties of the job
In this role you will support the teams to provide a high-quality service to children and young people (and their families) experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties. This will be done through the supervision of staff and implementation of service improvement, supporting participation and co-production work with children and young people and supporting the organisation of the Whole School Approach work. You will be expected to utilise your knowledge of participation, co-production work, Whole School Approach and CaMHS services to develop the service. This work will be in accordance with clinical governance processes and professional standards. The Team Lead will be responsible for the development of the day-to-day management of the teams. The teams operate Monday-Friday 9am- 5pm, excluding Bank Holidays.
The Team Lead will work with the MHST/CWP Clinical and Team Lead and other senior colleagues, ensuring delivery of a high quality, effective and efficient Early Intervention Service. To support the development and implementation of integrated pathways alongside colleagues within NHFT and external partners to support a seamless service delivery built around children and young people. Meeting key performance indicators and quality schedules and to provide operational support to the MHST/CWP Clinical and Team Lead.
For the full list of main duties, please refer to job description
About us
NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.
NHFT promotes a culture of learning to improve the care and safety of our patients and staff, which focuses on people who enable our Trust to be 'outstanding' by supporting opportunity, innovation, development and growth.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For further information on the advertised role, please refer to the job description located under the Supporting Documents heading. The full person specification can be accessed under the About You Section of the document.
Person Specification
qualifications and training
Essential
1. experience and or qualification managing teams/services ( prev role experience, leadership courses, management courses/quaifications)
2. appropriate experience managing staff
3. supervisor experience
4. HR process experience; managing sickness/conduct etc
Desirable
5. experience of co-production/participation
6. supervisor qualification
7. experience in data collection and interpretation
8. understanding of ROMs
9. SystmOne experience and knowledge
experinece
Essential
10. working in children's services/transferable exp
11. working in mental health services
Desirable
12. working in NHS
13. working in mulit-disciplinary team
14. experience of CYP IAPT
skills and abilities
Essential
15. ability to have difficult conversations/manage conflict
16. ability to performance manage staff
17. skill to signpost re safeguarding appropriately
18. ability to evidence CPD
19. Knowledge of legislation related to children and/or adolescent's mental health and social care Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act, Care Act, Child Protection and Safeguarding of Vulnerable Children etc.
20. Ability to work autonomously in a community setting, making appropriate decisions
Desirable
21. ability to manage commissioning processes
22. ability to understand differing needs of children and families