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About
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is an award winning NHS Foundation Trust which provides hospital and community health services in North Tyneside, and hospital, community health and adult social care services in Northumberland.
Primary Mental Health Worker Team Lead
Closed for applications on: 5-Sept-2024 10:38
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 5-Sept-2024 10:38
Key details
Location
- Site
- Ponteland primary care centre
- Address
- Ponteland primary care centre Medaowfiled industrial estate
- Town
- Ponteland
- Postcode
- NE20 9SD
- Major / Minor Region
- Tyne and Wear
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent: 37.5
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
Salary
- Salary
- £46,148 - £52,809 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (NHS AfC: Band 7)
Specialty
- Main area
- children's mental health
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.
If Northumbria Healthcare sounds like somewhere you could belong we would love to hear from you. Visit our website to catch up on our latest news.
Whilst Northumbria Healthcare are a highly innovative organisation, the use of Third Party Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents a risk to the integrity of our Recruitment & Selection processes. If you use AI, and it poses a risk to the integrity your individual recruitment process, we may withdraw your application at any stage of the process.
Job overview
· 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.
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· 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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
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.
Applicant requirements
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Professional qualification/ Registration i.e. 1st level nurse, psychology/ doctorate, qualified social worker BSC Hons SW, DIPSW
- Specialist post registration qualification in Child & Adolescent Mental Health or equivalent i.e. CAMHS Degree/CYPIAPT therapeutic modalities
- A recognised teaching and training qualification.
- Registered mentor if Nurse registered or a willingness to complete this when appointed
Desirable criteria
- Additional post registration qualification in a specific therapeutic modality
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Rhian Davies
- Job title
- Senior PMHW Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07580309558
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