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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.
Senior Mental Health Whole School Approach Lead Co-Ordinator
Accepting applications until: 27-May-2025 23:59
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 27-May-2025 23:59
Key details
Location
- Site
- Blyth Health Centre
- Address
- Thoroton Street
- Town
- Blyth Northumberland
- Postcode
- NE24 1DX
- Major / Minor Region
- Tyne and Wear
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time
- Flexible working
Salary
- Salary
- £46,148 - £52,809 pro rata per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (NHS AfC: Band 7)
Specialty
- Main area
- Child 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
Northumbria Healthcare Foundation Trusts' Primary Mental Health Work Service is excited to announce a vacancy for a Senior Mental Health Whole School approach Lead Co-Ordinator.
We are looking for enthusiastic and motivated candidates to join our service.
This vacancy is a permanent 30 hours per week Band 7 position within the Be You Mental Health Support Team.
The team delivers into Hexham, Blyth, Ashington, Bedlington, Alnwick, Coquet, Cramlington and Seaton Valley partnership of schools. This role will support Designated Senior Mental Health Leads in trailblazer schools.
It is an essential requirement of the role that the post holder has a valid driving license 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.
This post holder will work with the Be You clinical leadership team to provide a strategic, co-ordination lead role overseeing the whole school approach . This will involve delivery and evaluation of strategic and operational plans.
The role will work flexibly across a range of education providers to support pupils, staff and parents/carers.
Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy early if a suitable number of applications are received.
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To act as professional, strategic and co-ordination lead for the delivery of the whole school approach function of the Mental Health Support Teams (MHSTs) delivery model, supporting Designated Senior Mental Health Leads.
To work flexibly across a range of education providers which includes primary, secondary, specialist and further education settings and support them to implement changes that positively impact on education provisions including pupils, staff and parents/carers.
To provide coaching, supervision and continuous professional development for Senior Mental Health Leads in schools and members of the MHSTs in Northumberland.
To coordinate the completion and review of whole school audits and use this to support the development of action plans.
To continuously review and improve established data systems and support with the collation of data returns for national and local reporting purposes.
To contribute to the delivery and evaluation of annual strategic and operational plans within the MHSTs.
To work with the Primary Mental Health Team Senior Leads to ensure financial efficiency and effective use of resources available.
Line management and supervision will be provided by the Senior clinical leads with close working relationships with our educational psychology colleagues supporting in the delivery of the Be You offer.
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 Upon Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality – opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? 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, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To contribute to the development of provision at the interface of child and adolescent mental health services and schools and colleges.
To increase awareness of the needs of pupils in education settings through the sharing of whole schools’ knowledge and expertise using a model of consultation/liaison/teaching and training/research and development with educational colleagues.
To chair a network group for the Senior mental health leads in schools (SMHLs), to share best practice, discuss challenges and facilitate peer support.
To ensure timely communication of policy/service and best practice updates to key school staff.
Plan and deliver, with colleagues, an annual conference for Senior Mental Health Leads reflecting up to date evidence, key drivers influencing practice and identified professional development topics.
To develop policies and standard operating procedures for the MHST relating to the implementation of whole school approaches and contracting with settings. This will include supporting settings in relation to policy implementation.
Work in partnership with relevant parties to co-ordinate the implementation of the generic training offer for all SMHLs ensuring optimum take up, with minimum impact on schools through a considered approach to staff absence in core hours. Undertake an ongoing review of skills, knowledge and confidence across the SMHLs, identify any gaps and source further training requirements subject to need, in order to ensure all SMHLs have the skills and knowledge to ensure the success of the initiative.
Duties will also include the coordination of whole school audits, reviewing data systems for reporting purposes. Coaching, supervision and continuous professional development will also be provided to Senior Mental Health Leads and the Be You team.
Applicant requirements
Person specification
Qualifications / Professional Registration
Essential criteria
- First degree
- Masters level qualification or equivalent experience within an educational setting
- Primary or Secondary Teaching Qualification with Qualified Teaching Status
- Specialist post qualifying training in child and adolescent mental health or equivalent such as a qualification. Department of Education approved Senior Mental Health Lead Training completion
Desirable criteria
- Demonstrable ongoing CPD such as SENCo Qualification
- A relevant qualification relating to the understanding and management of behaviour e.g. accredited counselling or therapeutic qualifications
- Additional qualifications in SEND and/or mental health
- Additional qualifications in leadership and management
Experience and knowledge
Essential criteria
- Extensive experience of supporting schools and colleges to develop their approaches to supporting children’s emotional wellbeing and mental health
- Experience of leading on service development planning and delivering on objectives
- Experience of working in partnership with schools, health and other stakeholders across and between organisations including external partners and service users
- Experience of providing supervision and coaching to educational and MHST staff
- Experience of project management using project management methods
- Knowledge of or experience in coaching and mentoring practices and tools
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of or experience in coaching and mentoring practices and tools
- Knowledge of or experience in Quality improvement tools, techniques and methods
Other requirements
Essential criteria
- It is an essential requirement of the role that the post holder has a valid driving license 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
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Rhian Davies
- Job title
- Senior PMHW Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 075803309558
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