Primary Mental Health Team Lead

Job overview

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.

Detailed job description and main 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.