About this role
Job summary
Northumbria Healthcare Foundation Trust currently has a vacancy for a Band 7 Primary Mental Health Team Lead position. The post will provide a locality leadership and management role within the county wide Primary Mental Health Work offer, and the Be You Mental Health Support Teams in Northumberland. 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 a enthusiastic and motivated senior clinician 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 the Northumberland County. This includes working collaboratively with our partner agencies in Northumberland across the emotional and mental health pathway, local authority, social care and education.
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 team leads and senior leads for the service 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 wider and ongoing service 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.
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 Primary Mental Health Team and Mental Health Support Teams (MHST) 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 MHSTs - the provision of 1:1 evidenced based interventions, consultation/ advise and signposting role and delivery of the whole schools approaches.
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. Hold a current registration with a professional body/organisation eg NMC, HCPC, BABCP,Social Work England . Post registration training in Child & Adolescent Mental Health 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 Appropriate leadership and/or supervision qualification
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, or training in, psychological therapies Knowledge of or experience in coaching and mentoring practices and tools Knowledge of or experience in Quality Improvement tools, techniques and methods.
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
Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details Employer name Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Address Blyth Health Centre
Thoroton Street
Blyth
NE24 1DX
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.northumbria.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)