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 childrens 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.